A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity. Urgent conservation action is needed as island plants face extinction ...
The authors suggest that the divergence of Drosophila occupying distinct habitats in Evolution Canyon represents an early stage in ecological speciation in which divergent natural selection drives the ...
In particular, very high diversity can only be observed for linear tradeoffs. Recently, ecological interactions, such as competition, have received a lot of attention as potentially very strong ...
Despite its minimalism, ITEEM reproduces in a single framework several phenomena of eco-evolutionary dynamics that previously were addressed with a range of distinct models or not at all, namely ...