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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Here is a short thread summarising our new paper: "From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions" with @efronhofer.bsky.social now available @royalsocietypublishing.org

Emanuel Fronhofer@efronhofer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper: "From #proteins to species #ranges: a framework for understanding #thermal #adaptation during range expansions" led by @saismit.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @isemevol.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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...

From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansion doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Biophysics #Ecology #Evolution

Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes

Abstract. Spatial network structure impacts the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions. Previous work on host–parasite systems has sh

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Jhelam N. Deshpande@djhelam1.bsky.social · last yr.

Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems. @efronhofer.bsky.social

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I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.

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Excited to share our new preprint! Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges: doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142 #ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling

From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions

Species distributions are governed by both ecological and evolutionary processes. Traditionally, ecological factors have been the primary focus of species distribution studies, but recent work emphasi...

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Hello! I'm Saismit, a Cornell EEB PhD student exploring rapid eco-evolutionary feedbacks through theory. Excited to connect with fellow researchers! 🌍🧪 🦠 #WomenInSTEM #evosky, #evolution, #evobio, #phylo, #popgen, #ecoevo #molevol, #popgen #complexity #PhDSky #pydata #rstats

Landscape structure drives eco-evolution in host-parasite systems. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563775v1

Landscape structure drives eco-evolution in host-parasite systems. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563775v1

As all biological and many artificial systems, hosts and their parasites are most often spatially st

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