by admin | Jul 29, 2018 | Evolution
In a paper published in the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics in 1987, John Avise, Jonathan Arnold, Martin Ball, Eldredge Bermingham, Trip Lamb, Joseph Neigel, Carol. A. Reeb and Nancy C. Saunders highlighted the value of mitochondrial DNA in bringing... by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Evolution
In a paper published in PNAS in 1975, David Sloan Wilson showed that group selection can evolve in a population if it is made up of clusters of individuals that regularly interact (e.g. predation, mating, competition), and the clusters are connected through dispersal.... by admin | May 20, 2018 | Evolution
In a paper published in Nature in 2000, Joan Strassmann, Yong Zhu and David Queller showed, using a mixing experiment and analysing microsatellite markers, that different clones of Dictyostelium discoideum from a field population readily form multi-clonal slugs and... by admin | May 4, 2018 | Ecology
In a paper published in the journal Oikos in 1994, Clive Jones, John Lawton and Moshe Shachak introduced the term “Ecosystem Engineer” into the ecological lexicon and laid out a research agenda to explore, identify and quantify ecosystem engineering... by admin | Mar 12, 2018 | Conservation, Ecology, Evolution
In a paper published in Ecology in 1969, Daniel Simberloff and E.O. Wilson reported the findings of a “defaunation experiment” they conducted on mangrove islands in the Florida Keys, to test the Theory of Island Biogeography proposed by Robert MacArthur...