American Society of Naturalists

Read about “Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities” by Carlos A. Serván, José A. Capitán, Zachary R. Miller, and Stefano Allesina (Feb 2025)

Read about “Shifting Precipitation Regimes Influence Optimal Germination Strategies and Population Dynamics in Bet-hedging Desert Annuals” By William S. Cuello, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Jennifer R. Gremer, Pete C. Trimmer, D. Lawrence Venable, Andrew Sih (January 2025)

Read about “Partial Migration, Oversummering, and Intermittent Breeding by Shorebirds” by Ronald C. Ydenberg (Apr 2025)

Read about “Availability of juvenile refuge habitats explains the dynamics and size structure of cannibalistic fish populations” by Wojciech Uszko, Tobias van Kooten, and Pär Byström (Apr 2025)

Read about “Variability in precipitation weakens sexual selection for nuptial gifts in spiders” by Camila Pavón-Peláez, Vinicius S. R. Diniz, Williams Paredes-Munguía, Renato A. Teixeira, Luiz E. Costa-Schmidt, Adalberto J. Santos, Bruno A. Buzatto, and Maria J. Albo (Nov 2024)

Read about “Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities” by Michelle L. Gaynor, Nicholas Kortessis, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, and José Miguel Ponciano (Apr 2025)

Read about “Fight not flight: parasites drive the bacterial evolution of resistance” by Michael Blazanin, Jeremy Moore, Sydney Olsen, Michael Travisano (Feb 2025)

Read about “Fluctuation-dependent coexistence of stage-structured species” by Chhaya M. Werner, Lauren M. Hallett, and Lauren G. Shoemaker (Mar 2025)

Mechanisms of coexistence are often un-intuitive; Werner et al. explore species interactions across different environmental scenarios to bridge theoretical and empirical approaches to coexistence

Read about “Females with Attractive Mates Gain Environmental Benefits That Increase Lifetime and Multigenerational Fitness” by Douglas G. Barron, Hubert Schwabl, Patrick A. Carter, Daniel T. Baldassarre, Willow R. Lindsay, Jordan Karubian, and Michael S. Webster (Mar 2025)

A decade-long study by Barron et al. shows that female birds with attractive mates have lower breeding costs, so make more young across their long lives. Their attractive sons also produce more grand-offspring. Male environment, not genes, drives these multigenerational benefits.

Read about “Toward a More Dynamic Metabolic Theory of Ecology to Predict Climate Change Effects on Biological Systems” by Keila A. Stark, Tom Clegg, Joey R. Bernhardt, Tess N. Grainger, Christopher P. Kempes, Van Savage, Mary I. O’Connor, and Samraat Pawar (Mar 2025)

The metabolic theory of ecology explains macroecological patterns in biological rates and states from individuals to ecosystems through fundamental constraints on metabolism. In order to apply it to climate change questions, some of its original assumptions need to be revisited.