Why do invasive species wreak such havoc? Gefen et al. suggest it is a feature, not a bug: ecosystem disruption, even when not directly beneficial, facilitates the invasive species’ success.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740876

#InvasiveSpecies #EcosystemDisturbance #EEB

Wilson Rankin et al. report the first quantification of nest material kleptoparasitism in a group of native Hawaiian birds of ecological and conservation interest and find strong support for the height overlap hypothesis.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740144

#Kleptoparasitism #HeightOverlapHypothesis #EEB

Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739750

#DemographicDisturbance #LifeHistoryEvolution #EEB

Yu et al. propose a measure for stochastic game dynamic: the likelihood ratio of the probability density of phenotypic frequency under selection versus neutral conditions.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739954

#DirectionalSelection #PhenotypeFrequency #EEB

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740125

#ThermalTolerance #Macroevolution #EEB

Caro et al. investigate cognition and metacognition in wild great tit parents deciding which chick to feed. They found that parents change their minds frequently, and the decision time varies with decision complexity and urgency.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738498

#Cognition #Metacognition #EEB

The manifold hypothesis posits that many high-dimensional datasets actually lie near a low-dimensional manifold. Boyko and Rabosky consider phylogenetic comparative methods, which typically assume a flat, euclidean, morphospace.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740145

#Macroevolution #EvolutionaryDivergence #EEB

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Do subordinate ant workers really forgo reproduction? Shit et al. showed that in a clonal ant species, isolated subordinates can match dominants in fecundity with no apparent cost to longevity.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739956

#Fecundity #Longevity #EusocialInsects #EEB