For colonization success, should hosts 🌱 and microbes 🦠 travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Excited to share a new paper with Jerry Yu and @mfrederickson.bsky.social in which we test how microbial partners alter plant performance upon natural introductions: tinyurl.com/8u4268n6

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way?

Experimental co-introduction of duckweeds (Lemna japonica) and their microbiome in a common pond.

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Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community

Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...

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A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

Very pleased to share this new paper from our lab, led by Jessica Barton! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... With co-authors Ivy Widick, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Courtenay Strong, and @majarzyna.bsky.social. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). #Macrosystems #NSFfunded #UMSLBiology

An Ecological Dipole in North American Mast‐Eating Small Mammal Dynamics

Ecological dipoles are patterns in plant and animal indices of opposite extremes, and many ecological dipoles may exist. We discovered a novel ecological dipole in seed-eating small mammals in North ...

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Five of us are headed to CSEE next week - come hang out with us!

New paper out in Evolution Letters! @evolletters.bsky.social We explore the legacy of past warming at the rear edge of Campanula americana. Spoiler alert: we did not find higher drift load as often expected at the rear edge, but strong local adaptation! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎

Jitka Polechová@polejit.bsky.social · 2y ago

Preprint finally out! I show that eco-evo feedback can drive a tipping point where genetic drift overwhelms adaptation. This can result in a contraction of a species' range border or range fragmentation. Fragmentation is abrupt and arises readily under rapid temporal change. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Second preprint from my PhD! Using our whole lake transplant experiment in Alaska 🏔️ we test for assortative mating following secondary contact among divergent stickleback populations 🐟 and found the opposite of what we expected… 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It might be #SCEECSEE20 anniversary, but it's also St. John's, NL 10th anniversary! We had rain, fog, a Newfoundlander dog at the mixer, a baby on a SWEEET panel, row houses, icebergs, gannets, screech ins, and more. It was a time! Photo credit to folks on that other app using the conf. hashtag.

CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

New preprint! Here, we use a multi-year survey of >4,200 random plots across ~1100 km of Pacific coast to show that habitat patch availability (suitability, size, connectivity, temporal stability) declines towards and beyond the range limit of a coastal dune endemic: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

I am happy to share my first publication is out in the scientific world. Based on my undergraduate honours biology thesis research at Queen’s University (2024), we explore how urbanization and host-plant gardens impact the occupation of its specialist herbivores. You can check it out here! 🌿🐛

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · last yr.

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv by @graydongillies.bsky.social, @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social & C.G.Eckert reports that Common #milkweed gardens increase occupancy by #MonarchButterflies & other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre doi.org/10.1111/icad.70033

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Check out our paper here! 🐛

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · last yr.

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv by @graydongillies.bsky.social, @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social & C.G.Eckert reports that Common #milkweed gardens increase occupancy by #MonarchButterflies & other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre doi.org/10.1111/icad.70033

Published now with @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social! We investigated how urbanization might inhibit species interactions between common milkweed and specialized herbivores, and how milkweed in garden habitat might ameliorate these negative effects. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Common milkweed gardens increase occupancy by monarch butterflies and other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre

We surveyed 119 stands of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) across an urbanisation gradient to investigate how restored garden habitat might ameliorate the negative effects of urbanisation on spec...

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I'm very proud to receive the 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Vegetation Section at #ESA2025 with an amazing group of colleagues, for our paper on Community #MastSeeding. 🥳 Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Award info: esa.org/vegetation/a...

Jalene LaMontagne@jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lots! Recently, our @uslter.bsky.social Synthesis Working Group published a synthesis paper in an #EcologyLetters Very Long-Term Data special issue! We explored a new area of research, looking at Community-Level synchrony in woody plant reproduction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#ESA2025! We would love to fill this up with signatures. Let's show support to the folks at NSF. Find it Wednesday morning at the spot below, and it'll be at the NSF funding session at 10-11:30am.

Dr. Bala Chaudhary@balachaudhary.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey #ESA2025! Help us spread some love to the wonderful program officers and staff at NSF! Located in the exhibit hall near coffee/booth 316!

If you’re at ESA @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 2025 in Baltimore, come check out my talk about population dynamics and the geographic range limits of a coastal dune plant! Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:45am in Hilton 5!

I'm giving a talk on Monday at #ESA2025, in the OOS about #phenology "Beyond Budburst" (3:30-5:00pm), organized by Luke McCormack & Christy Rollinson. There's a great list of speakers. I'm presenting at 4:30pm. Room: Hilton Key 8 🚨 NOTE: Individual talk times within the session were updated today!

Undertook a side-quest during fieldwork to search out an alpine sorrel population in the Lewis Hills on the west coast of Newfoundland! One of the coolest and most beautiful overnight trips I’ve ever done.

Short media release about our latest paper in the Queen’s Gazette! 🌱 www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...

Rethinking conservation in a changing climate | Queen's Gazette

Queen’s researchers show what determines where species live, which could change how we protect them as the climate warms.

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This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦

Katherine Hébert@katherinehebert.bsky.social · last yr.

A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention: pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/

Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion 🔗 buff.ly/Dhmwwng @rolandkays.com

Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40326375/

So excited that one of my MSc chapters is out now! We used a large-scale, multi-year survey to empirically test the metapopulation hypothesis for range limits: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/9)

Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit

The metapopulation hypothesis for species range limits posits that a range limit may be imposed by subtle variation in rates of either patch colonisation or extinction. Using a multi-year survey acro...

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Yesterday, I presented a poster at MUN’s Biology Symposium, where I chatted about our approach to understanding density-dependent fitness towards elevational range limits. I had a ton of fun, many valuable chats about field methods, and am grateful to have been awarded best poster presentation!

New Blog post alert 🚨 The photo that got away: Camera traps may monitor less space than we think 📸 🌎 🧪 Read Brendan Carswell's full post here 👇 buff.ly/R9j5xvi

I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon

Biologists increasingly rely on computer code to collect and analyze their data, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work...

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A tiny Florida native sundew for your viewing pleasure. Our native carnivorous plants hold a very special place in my heart ❤️