From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansion doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Biophysics #Ecology #Evolution
Excited to share our new paper: Predictions from evolutionary theory for urban environments. We brought together empiricists and mathematical theorists to find common ground on where and how we can work together to better understand urban evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Urbanization drives rapid and extreme environmental change, profoundly shaping the ecology and evolution of populations. In this Perspective, we call for the integration and development of evolutiona...
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The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! We use Modern Coexistence Theory and Metabolic Theory to get general predictions for the effect of temperature on competition. Led by brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social and @joeybernhardt.bsky.social, with Po-Ju Ke, Patrick Thompson and Mary O'Connor
Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to [email protected] by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social
Been waiting for someone to write a paper on expectations of how warming impacts Lotka-Volterra-type competition! A great example of how revisiting a classic derivation (consumer resource -> Lotka-Volterra competition) with slight modifications can yield interesting findings. Excited to read it :D .
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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...
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....
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:
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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 🧬🧪 🌎
Tess Grainger
Joe Brennan
Tess Grainger
S Otto
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...
Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment
Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...
Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.
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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...
