Over the past century, the generalized Lotka–Volterra (GLV) model has grown from a mathematical curiosity to a cornerstone of theoretical ecology. Here we celebrate the enduring legacy of Lotka and Vo...

Community ecology has developed a rich and increasingly diverse body of theory, but its rapid expansion has outpaced efforts to compare and synthesize competing frameworks. As a result, semantic ambig...

Abstract. Pleiotropy, the phenomenon where a single mutation influences multiple phenotypic traits, creates genetic correlations that can constrain evoluti

Habitat loss can disrupt mutualistic interactions that sustain biodiversity. This study shows that larger habitat islands support more persistent plant-frugivore and plant-pollinator assemblages, link...

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The feedback between competition and evolution is central to hypotheses about the origin and maintenance of species diversity. Yet, whether competition-induced evolution is sufficiently rapid, consist...

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2026 ESA Annual Meeting

2026 ESA Annual Meeting

2026 ESA Annual Meeting

2026 ESA Annual Meeting

1. Community assembly graphs (CAGs) summarize which species combinations can coexist and how single-species invasions drive transitions between them, encoding the pathways, alternative endpoints, and...

How species number, synchrony, species life strategies, and environmental conditions interact and contribute to community stability is still unclear. We compiled a worldwide dataset of time series fr...

Community disassembly examines how extinctions reshape ecological communities. Here, we introduce the community disassembly graph, which uses invasion growth rates (IGRs) to identify extinction-drive....

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

A recurring lesson from random ecological models is that coexistence is hard to come by: in the Generalized Lotka-Volterra (GLV) model with pairwise interactions, the probability that randomly sampled...

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

Disturbances can occur as short-lived pulses (e.g., storms) or sustained presses (e.g., chronic drought). Much work in ecology has developed methods to help predict how natural populations respond to...

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evol-mut-circle is an international group of scientists, philosophers, and historians interested in research on the role of mutation in evolution, particularly as a dispositional factor. The group …

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...

The extent to which human adaptations have persisted throughout history despite strong eroding demographic events such as admixture, genetic drift,...

Abstract. Genome analyses reveal that gene duplication in eukaryotes is pervasive, providing a primary source for the emergence of new genes. Nevertheless,

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...