In a paper published in PNAS in 1999, Douglas Schemske and Toby Bradshaw showed, through field crosses of a bee-pollinated and a hummingbird-pollinated monkeyflower (Mimulus) plant, that genes of large effect on pollinator preference have had a role in floral evolution and premating reproductive...
Ecology
Revisiting Bshary & Grutter 2006
In a paper published in Nature in 2006, Redouan Bshary and Alexandra Grutter provided experimental evidence for, both, image scoring by clients and increased cooperation by cleaners in the presence of image-scoring clients in a cleaner fish mutualism, suggesting that the mutualism is a case of...
Revisiting Winemiller 1990
In a paper published in Ecological Monographs in 1990, Kirk Winemiller described and compared four aquatic food webs from Costa Rica and Venezuela, and related their properties to properties of the biotic communities and the physical environment. Winemiller's study was one of the first to put food...
Revisiting Johnson 1993
In a paper published in Ecological Applications in 1993, Nancy Collins Johnson showed, experimentally, that fertilization of soil leads to the selection of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) fungi that are inferior mutualists. Johnson found that fertilization, both, alters the species composition of AM...
Revisiting Wilcove 1985
In a paper published in Ecology in 1985, David Wilcove provided experimental evidence in support of the idea that nest predation could be the cause for the decline of migratory songbirds in small woodlots in North America. Using fresh quail eggs places in artificial nests, Wilcove showed that...
Revisiting Whittaker et al. 2001
In a paper published in the Journal of Biogeography in 2001, Robert Whittaker, Katherine Willis and Richard Field attempted to develop a "general, hierarchical theory of species diversity" that overcame what they saw as weaknesses of diversity theory at the time: failures to distinguish different...
Revisiting Roughgarden 1972
In a paper published in The American Naturalist in 1972, Joan Roughgarden presented a model to predict the course of evolution in a population containing individuals of different types of ecological specialization and put it to test using field data on a species of Anolis lizard collected by Tom...
Revisiting Magurran and Henderson 2003
In a paper published in Nature in 2003, Anne Magurran and Peter Henderson used a long-term dataset on estuarine fish to throw light on a puzzling pattern - a greater number of rare species than predicted by theory in large community assemblages. Magurran and Henderson showed this paradox can be...
Revisiting Haddad et al. 2003
In a paper published in Ecology in 2003, Nick Haddad, David Bowne, Alan Cunningham, Brent Danielson, Douglas Levey, Sarah Sargent and Tim Spira, synthesized findings from a large-scale experiment to show that corridors aided movement between habitat patches, although the strength of the effect...
Revisiting Gillespie 2004
In a paper published in Science in 2004, Rosemary Gillespie demonstrated that both dispersal and in situ speciation contribute to accumulation of species numbers of Tetragnathid spiders on Hawaiian islands. Moreover, accumulation, whether through dispersal or speciation, happens in a way that no...