by admin | May 9, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecography in 1995, Carsten Rahbek critically examined the evidence for what was then believed to be a general pattern: species richness reduces with increasing altitude. Rahbek showed that through a process of “citation inbreeding”... by admin | May 1, 2020 | Evolution
In 1983, following up on a little-known paper published by Karl Pearson eighty years earlier, Russell Lande and Stevan Arnold, developed statistical methods to measure selection based only on changes in population phenotypic traits within a generation. Thirty-six... by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Science in 1990, Mary Power showed, through experiments conducted in a Northern Californian river, that fish have large effects on river food webs. Power’s results provided support, from a river community, for the Hairston-Smith-Slobokin... by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1973, Michael Rosenzweig presented the results on one of the first habitat selection experiments in the field. Rosenzweig’s results indicated that differences in habitat preferences allow a pair of desert rodents to coexist.... by admin | Mar 15, 2020 | Ecology, Evolution
In a paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in 2010, Mark Vellend proposed a new conceptual framework for Community Ecology, drawing inspiration from Population Genetics. Vellend proposed that, like in the case of genetic variation in populations,...