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Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Publications 2017

  • Muths E., Chambert T., Schmidt BR., Miller DAW., Hossack BR., Joly P., Grolet O., Green DM., Pilliod DS., Cheylan M., Fisher RN., McCaffery RM., Adams MJ., Palen WJ., Arntzen JW., Garwood J., Fellers G., Thirion J-M., Besnard A., Grant EHC. (2017). Heterogeneous responses of temperate-zone amphibian populations to climate change complicates conservation planning. Scientific Reports, 7(1):17102. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17105-7
  • Wagner A. (2017). Information theory, evolutionary innovations and evolvability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735):0416. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0416
  • Geijzendorffer IR., Van Teeffelen AJA., Allison H., Braun D., Horgan K., Iturrate-Garcia M., Santos MJ., Pellissier L., Prieur-Richard A-H., Quatrini S., Sakai S., Zuppinger-Dingley D. (2017). How can global conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services guide local conservation actions? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29:145-150. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.011
  • Fronhofer EA., Altermatt F. (2017). Classical metapopulation dynamics and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in dendritic networks. Ecography, 40(12):1455-1466. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02761
  • Fronhofer E., Gut S., Altermatt F. (2017). Evolution of density-dependent movement during experimental range expansions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(12):2165-2176. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13182
  • Simmons LW., Lüpold S., Fitzpatrick JL. (2017). Evolutionary trade-off between secondary sexual traits and ejaculates. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(12):964-976. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.011
  • Manser A., Lindholm AK., Weissing FJ. (2017). The evolution of costly mate choice against segregation distorters. Evolution, 71(12):2817-2828. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13376
  • Astegiano J., Altermatt F., Massol F. (2017). Disentangling the co-structure of multilayer interaction networks: degree distribution and module composition in two-layer bipartit networks. Scientific Reports, 7:15465. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15811-w
  • Giometto A., Altermatt F., Rinaldo A. (2017). Demographic stochasticity and resource autocorrelation control biological invasions in heterogeneous landscapes. Oikos, 126(11):1554-1563. DOI: 10.1111/oik.04330
  • Deiner K., Bik HM., Mächler E., Seymour M., Lacoursière-Roussel A., Altermatt F., Creer S., Bista I., Lodge DM., de Vere N., Pfrender ME., Bernatchez L. (2017). Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities. Molecular Ecology, 26(21):5872-5895. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14350
  • Cayuela H., Joly P., Schmidt BR., Pichenot J., Bonnaire E., Priol P., Peyronel O., Laville M., Besnard A. (2017). Life history tactics shape amphibians’ demographic responses to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Global Change Biology, 23(11):4620-4638. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13672
  • Hochberg ME., Marquet PA., Boyd R., Wagner A. (2017). Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735):0414. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0414
  • van Gestel J., Tarnita CE. (2017). On the origin of biological construction, with a focus on multicellularity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(42):11018-11026. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704631114
  • Gienapp P., Fior S., Guillaume F., Lasky JR., Sork VL., Csilléry K. (2017). Genomic Quantitative Genetics to Study Evolution in the Wild. Trends in Ecology & Evolution:Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.004
  • Galetti M., Moleón M., Jordano P., Pires MM., Guimarães PR., Pape T., Nichols E., Hansen D., Olesen JM., Munk M., de Mattos JS., Schweiger AH., Owen-Smith N., Johnson CN., Marquis RJ., Svenning J-C. (2017). Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinctions. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 93(2):845-862. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12374
  • Gall G., Strandburg-Peshkin A., Clutton-Brock TH., Manser MB. (2017). As dusk falls: collective decisions about the return to sleeping sites in meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 132:91-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.001
  • Braga Goncalves I., Spence-Jones HC., Bennett NC., Heistermann M., Ganswindt A., Dubuc C., Gaynor D., Manser MB., Clutton-Brock TH. (2017). The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, (284):1863. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1248
  • Valenzuela-Sanchez A., Schmidt BR., Uribe-Rivera DE., Costas F., Cunningham AA., Soto-Azat C. (2017). Cryptic disease-induced mortality may cause host extinction in an apparently stable host–parasite system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 284:1176. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1176
  • Clutton-Brock T., Braga Goncalves I., Spence-Jones HC., Bennett NC., Heistermann M., Ganswindt A., Dubuc C., Gaynor D., Manser MB., Clutton-Brock Tim (2017). The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, (284):1863. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1248
  • Schmidt BR., Meier A., Sutherland C., Royle JA. (2017). Spatial capture–recapture analysis of artificial cover board survey data reveals small scale spatial variation in slow-worm Anguis fragilis density. Royal Society Open Science, 4:170374. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170374
  • Engesser S., Ridley AR., Townsend SW. (2017). Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’. Animal Cognition, 20(5):953-960. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-017-1114-6
  • Hatakeyama M., Aluri S., Balachadran MT., Sivarajan SR., Patrignani A., Grüter S., Poveda L., Shimizu-Inatsugi R., Baeten J., Francoijs K-J., Nataraja KN., Reddy YAN., Phadnis S., Ravikumar RL., Schlapbach R., Sreeman SM., Shimizu KK. (2017). Multiple hybrid de novo genome assembly of finger millet, an orphan allotetraploid crop. DNA Research:Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsx036
  • Deschepper P., Brys R., Fortuna MA., Jacquemyn H. (2017). Analysis of spatial genetic variation reveals genetic divergence among populations of Primula veris associated to contrasting habitats. Scientific Reports, 7(1):8847. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09154-9
  • Hosseini S-R., Wagner A. (2017). Constraint and Contingency Pervade the Emergence of Novel Phenotypes in Complex Metabolic Systems. Biophysical Journal, 113(3):690-701. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.06.034
  • Turner DC. (2017). A review of over three decades of research on cat-human andhuman-cat interactions and relationships. Behavioural Processes, 141:297-304. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.01.008
  • Werner P., Schmidt BR., Lötters S. (2017). Microhabitat use within a contact zone of parapatric land salamanders in the Swiss Alps. Amphibia - Reptilia, 38(3):307-314. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00003110
  • Harvey E., Gounand I., Little CJ., Fronhofer EA., Altermatt F. (2017). Upstream trophic structure modulates downstream community dynamics via resource subsidies. Ecology and Evolution, 7(15):5724-5731. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3144
  • Chebib J., Guillaume F. (2017). What affects the predictability of evolutionary constraints using a G-matrix? The relative effects of modular pleiotropy and mutational correlation. Evolution, 71(10):2298-2312. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13320
  • Schmid M., Guillaume F. (2017). The role of phenotypic plasticity on population differentiation. Heredity, 119(4):214-225. DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2017.36
  • Geiger CC., Bregnard C., Maluenda E., Voordouw MJ., Schmidt BR. (2017). Antifungal treatment of wild amphibian populations caused a transient reduction in the prevalence of the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Scientific Reports, 7(1):5956. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05798-9
  • Gounand I., Harvey E., Ganesanandamoorthy P., Altermatt F. (2017). Subsidies mediate interactions between communities across space. Oikos, 126(7):972-979. DOI: 10.1111/oik.03922
  • Origgi FC., Schmidt BR., Lohmann P., Otten P., Akdesir E., Gaschen V., Aguilar-Bultet L., Wahli T., Sattler U., Stoffel MH. (2017). Ranid herpesvirus 3 and proliferative dermatitis in free-ranging wild common frogs (Rana temporaria). Veterinary Pathology, 54(4):686-694. DOI: 10.1177/0300985817705176
  • Manser A., Lindholm AK., Simmons LW., Firman RC. (2017). Sperm competition suppresses gene drive among experimentally evolving populations of house mice. Molecular Ecology, 26(20):5784-5792. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14215
  • Takada Y., Murase K., Shimosato-Asano H., Sato T., Nakanishi H., Suwabe K., Shimizu KK., Lim YP., Takayama S., Suzuki G., Watanabe M. (2017). Duplicated pollen–pistil recognition loci control intraspecific unilateral incompatibility in Brassica rapa. Nature Plants, (3):17096. DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2017.96
  • Lüpold S., Jin L., Liao WB (2017). Population density and structure drive differential investment in pre- and postmating sexual traits in frogs. Evolution, 71(6):1686-1699. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13246
  • Radzvilavicius AL., Kokko H., Christie JR. (2017). Mitigating Mitochondrial Genome Erosion Without Recombination. Genetics, 207(3):1079-1088. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.117.300273
  • Bratulic S., Toll-Riera M., Wagner A. (2017). Mistranslation can enhance fitness through purging of deleterious mutations. Nature Communications, 8:15410. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15410
  • Stephenson JF., Young KA., Fox J., Jokela J., Cable J., Perkins SE. (2017). Host heterogeneity affects both parasite transmission to and fitness on subsequent hosts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 372(1719):0093. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0093
  • Pennekamp F., Griffiths JI., Fronhofer EA., Garnier A., Seymour M., Altermatt F., Petchey OL. (2017). Dynamic species classification of microorganisms across time, abiotic and biotic envirnments – A sliding window approach. PLoS ONE:1-22. DOI: 10.1371/journal.plos.0176682
  • Medina I., Langmore NE., Lanfear R., Kokko H. (2017). The evolution of clutch size in hosts of avian brood parasites. The American Naturalist, 190(5):112-123. DOI: 10.1086/693778
  • Massol F., Altermatt F., Gounand I., Gravel D., Leibold MA., Mouquet N. (2017). How life-history traits affect ecosystem properties: effects of dispersal in meta-ecosystems. Oikos, 126(4):532-546. DOI: 10.1111/oik.03893
  • Naisbett-Jones LC., Putman NF., Stephenson JF., Ladak S., Young KA. (2017). A Magnetic Map Leads Juvenile European Eels to the Gulf Stream. Current Biology, 27(8):1236-1240. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.015
  • Alther R., Fišer C., Altermatt F. (2017). Description of a widely distributed but overlooked amphipod species in the European Alps. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 179(4):751-766. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12477
  • Harvey E., Gounand I., Ward CL., Altermatt F. (2017). Bridging ecology and conservation: from ecological networks to ecosystem function. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(2):371-379. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12769
  • Graw B., Manser MB. (2017). Life history patterns and biology of the slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) in the Kalahari Desert. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(2):332-338t. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw178
  • Fronhofer EA., Nitsche N., Altermatt F. (2017). Information use shapes the dynamics of range expansions into environmental gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26(4):400-411. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12547
  • O'Brien MJ., Pugnaire FI., Armas C., Rodríguez-Echeverría S., Schöb C. (2017). The shift from plant-plant facilitation to competition under severe water deficit is spatially explicit. Ecology and Evolution, 7(7):2441-2448. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2875
  • Maestro-López M., Olombrada M., García-Ortega L., Serrano-González D., Lacadena J., Oñaderra M., Gavilanes JG., Martínez-del-Pozo Á. (2017). Minimized natural versions of fungal ribotoxins show improved active site plasticity. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 619:45-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.03.002
  • Schmidt BR., Bozzuto C., Lötters S., Steinfartz S. (2017). Dynamics of host populations affected by the emerging fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Royal Society Open Science, 4(3):160801. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160801
  • Moretti M., Dias ATC., de Bello F., Altermatt F., Chown SL., Azcarate FM., Bell JR., Fournier B., Hedde M., Hortal J., Ibanez S., Öckinger E., Sousa JP., Ellers J., Berg MP. (2017). Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits. Functional Ecology, 31(3):558-567. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12776
  • Fortuna MA., Zaman L., Ofria C., Wagner A. (2017). The genotype-phenotype map of an evolving digital organism. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(2):e1005414. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005414
  • Olombrada M., Lázaro-Gorines R., López-Rodríguez J., Martínez-del-Pozo Á., Oñaderra M., Maestro-López M., Lacadena J., Gavilanes J., García-Ortega L. (2017). Fungal Ribotoxins: A Review of Potential Biotechnological Applications. Toxins, 9(2):71. DOI: 10.3390/toxins9020071
  • O'Brien MJ., Engelbrecht BMJ., Joswig J., Pereyra G., Schuldt B., Jansen S., Kattge J., Landhäusser SM., Levick SR., Preisler Y., Väänänen P., Macinnis-Ng C. (2017). A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones. Journal of Applied Ecology:1-44. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12874
  • Booksmythe I., Mautz B., Davis J., Nakagawa S., Jennions MD. (2017). Facultative adjustment of the offspring sex ratio and male attractiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(1):108-134. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12220
  • Matthies D. (2017). Interactions between a root hemiparasite and 27 different hosts: Growth, biomass allocation and plant architecture. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 24:118-137. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2016.12.006
  • O'Brien MJ., Ong R., Reynolds G. (2017). Intra-annual plasticity of growth mediates drought resilience over multiple years in tropical seedling communities. Global Change Biology, 23(10):4235-4244. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13658
  • Lenstra JA., Tigchelaar J., Biebach I., Consortium E., Hallsson JH., Kantanen J., Nielsen VH., Pompanon F., Naderi S., Rezaei HR., Saether N., Ertugrul O., Grossen C., Camenisch G., Vos-Loohuis M., van Straten M., de Poel EA., Windig J., Oldenbroek K. (2017). Microsatellite diversity of the Nordic type of goats in relation to breed conservation: how relevant is pure ancestry? Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics = Zeitschrift für Tierzüchtung und Züchtungsbiologie, 134(1):78-84. DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12226
  • Losapio G., Schöb C. (2017). Resistance of plant-plant networks to biodiversity loss and secondary extinctions following simulated environmental changes. Functional Ecology:Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.35q01
  • Kokko H., Schindler S., Sprouffske K. (2017). Searching for a Cancer-Proof Organism: It’s the Journey That Teaches You About the Destination. In: Ujvari, B. ; Roche, B. ; Thomas, F. . Ecology and Evolution of Cancer. London: Academic Press, 247-254. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804310-3.00022-3
  • Vörös J., Márton O., Schmidt BR., Gál JT., Jelić D. (2017). Surveying Europe’s only cave-dwelling chordate species (proteus anguinus) using environmental dNA. PLoS ONE, 12(1):e0170945. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170945
  • Aguilar-Rodríguez J., Payne JL., Wagner A. (2017). A thousand empirical adaptive landscapes and their navigability. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(2):0045. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0045
  • Izuno A., Kitayama K., Onoda Y., Tsujii Y., Hatakeyama M., Nagano AJ., Honjo MN., Shimizu-Inatsugi R., Kudoh H., Shimizu KK., Isagi Y. (2017). The population genomic signature of environmental association and gene flow in an ecologically divergent tree species Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae). Molecular Ecology, 26(6):1515-1532. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14016
  • Fischer MC., Rellstab C., Leuzinger M., Roumet M., Gugerli F., Shimizu KK., Holderegger R., Widmer A. (2017). Estimating genomic diversity and population differentiation – an empirical comparison of microsatellite and SNP variation in Arabidopsis halleri. BMC Genomics, 18(1):69. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.11jp5
  • Gallien L., Altermatt F., Wiemers M., Schweiger O., Zimmermann NE. (2017). Invasive plants threaten the least mobile butterflies in Switzerland. Diversity and Distributions, 23(2):185-195. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12513
  • Harrison N., Lopes PC., König B. (2017). Oxytocin administration during early pair formation delays communal nursing in female house mice. Animal Behaviour, 123:61-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.030
  • Ang CC., O’Brien MJ., Ng KKS., Lee PC., Hector A., Schmid B., Shimizu KK. (2017). Genetic diversity of two tropical tree species of the Dipterocarpaceae following logging and restoration in Borneo: high genetic diversity in plots with high species diversity. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 9(5-6):459-469. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2016.1270363
  • Rime T., Niklaus PA. (2017). Spatio-temporal dynamics of soil CH4 uptake after application of N fertilizer with and without the nitrification inhibitor 3,4- dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 104:218-225. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.11.001
  • Khelifa R., Theischinger G., Endersby I. (2017). A century on from The Biology of Dragonflies by Tillyard 1917: What have we learned since then? Austral Entomology, 56(2):138-147. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12254
  • Cotto O., Wessely J., Georges D., Klonner G., Schmid M., Dullinger S., Thuiller W., Guillaume F. (2017). A dynamic eco-evolutionary model predicts slow response of alpine plants to climate warming. Nature Communications, 8:15399. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15399
  • Schmid B., Baruffol M., Wang Z., Niklaus PA. (2017). A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10(1):91-110. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw107
  • Gehr B., Hofer EJ., Muff S., Ryser A., Vimercati E., Vogt K., Keller LF. (2017). A landscape of coexistence for a large predator in a human dominated landscape. Oikos, 126(10):1389-1399. DOI: 10.1111/oik.04182
  • Naglis S. (2017). A new species of Systenus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from Croatia. Alpine Entomology, 1:39-41. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.1.20462
  • Saavedra S., Rohr RP., Bascompte J., Godoy O., Kraft NJB., Levine JM. (2017). A structural approach for understanding multispecies coexistence. Ecological Monographs, 87(3):470-486. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1263
  • Wang P., Limpens J., Mommer L., van Ruijven J., Nauta AL., Berendse F., Schaepman-Strub G., Blok D., Maximov TC., Heijmans MMPD. (2017). Above and belowground responses of four tundra plant functional types to deep soil heating and surface soil fertilization. Journal of Ecology, 105(4):947-957. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12718
  • Wyman MT., Rivers PR., Muller C., Toni P., Manser MB. (2017). Adult meerkats modify close call rate in the presence of pups. Current Zoology, 63(3):349-355. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zox029
  • Roy HE., Hesketh H., Purse BV., Eilenberg J., Santini A., Scalera R., Stentiford GD., Adriaens T., Bacela-Spychalska K., Bass D., Beckmann KM. Bessell P., Bojko J., Booy O., Cardoso AC., Essl F., Groom Q., Harrower C., Kleespies R., Martinou AF., van Oers MM., Peeler EJ., Pergl J., Rabitsch W., Roques A., Schaffner F., Schindler S., Schmidt BR., Schönrogge K., Smith J., Solarz W., Stewart A., Stroo A., Tricarico E., Turvey KMA., Vannini A., Vilà M., Woodward S., Amtoft Wynns A., Dunn AM. (2017). Alien pathogens on the horizon: opportunities for predicting their threat to wildlife. Conservation Letters, 10(4):477-484. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12297
  • Xu Y-H., Huang J-H., Brandl H. (2017). An optimised sequential extraction scheme for the evaluation of vanadium mobility in soils. Journal of Environmental Sciences (China), 53:173-183. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.02.019
  • Sommer S., van Benthem KJ., Fontaneto D., Ozgul A. (2017). Are generic early-warning signals reliable indicators of population collapse in rotifers? Hydrobiologia, 796(1):111-120. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-016-2948-7
  • Giesen A., Blanckenhorn WU., Schäfer MA. (2017). Behavioural mechanisms of reproductive isolation between two hybridizing dung fly species. Animal Behaviour, 132:155-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.008
  • Levine JM., Bascompte J., Adler PB., Allesina S. (2017). Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities. Nature, 546:56-64. DOI: 10.1038/nature22898
  • Weisser WW., Roscher C., Meyer ST., Ebeling A., Luo G., Allan E., Beßler H., Barnard RL., Buchmann N., Buscot F., Engels C., Fischer C., Fischer M., Gessler A., Gleixner G., Halle S., Hildebrandt A., Hillebrand H., de Kroon H., Lange M., Leimer S., Le Roux X., Milcu A., Mommer L., Niklaus PA., Oelmann Y., Proulx R., Roy J., Scherber C., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Wagg C., Schmid B., et al. (2017). Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions. Basic and Applied Ecology, 23:1-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.06.002
  • Oehri J., Schmid B., Schaepman-Strub G., Niklaus PA. (2017). Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(38):10160-10165. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703928114
  • Schmid B., Niklaus PA. (2017). Biodiversity: Complementary canopies. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(4):0104. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0104
  • Ma K., He J-S., Bruelheide H., Klein A-M., Liu X., Schmid B. (2017). Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in Chinese subtropical forests. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10(1):1-3. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw129
  • Clements CF., Blanchard JL., Nash KL., Hindell MA., Ozgul A. (2017). Body size shifts and early warning signals precede the historic collapse of whale stocks. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(7):0188. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0188
  • Collier K., Townsend SW., Manser MB. (2017). Call concatenation in wild meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 134:257-269. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.014
  • Kokko H., Chaturvedi A., Croll D., Fischer MC., Guillaume F., Karrenberg S., Kerr B., Rolshausen G., Stapley J. (2017). Can evolution supply what ecology demands? Trends in Ecology & Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(3):187-197. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.005
  • Niklaus PA., Baruffol M., He J-S., Ma K., Schmid B. (2017). Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity-productivity relationships through increased complementarity? Ecology, 98(4):1104-1116. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1748
  • Soleymani A., Pennekamp F., Dodge S., Weibel R. (2017). Characterizing change points and continuous transitions in movement behaviours using wavelet decomposition. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(9):1113-1123. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12755
  • Evans SR., Gustafsson L. (2017). Climate change upends selection on ornamentation in a wild bird. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1:0039. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0039
  • Hakuba MZ., Folini D., Wild M., Long CN., Schaepman-Strub G., Stephens GL. (2017). Cloud effects on atmospheric solar absorption in light of most recent surface and satellite measurements. In: AIP Conference, New York, 2017 - 2017, 090003. DOI: 10.1063/1.4975543
  • Behr DM., Ozgul A., Cozzi G. (2017). Combining human acceptance and habitat suitability in a unified socio-ecological suitability model: a case study of the wolf in Switzerland. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(6):1919-1929. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12880
  • Baruah G., Molau U., Bai Y., Alatalo JM. (2017). Community and species-specific responses of plant traits to 23 years of experimental warming across subarctic tundra plant communities. Scientific Reports, 7(1):2571. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02595-2
  • van Moorsel SJ., Hahl T., Wagg C., De Deyn GB., Flynn DFB., Zuppinger-Dingley D., Schmid B. (2017). Community evolution increases plant productivity at low diversity. Ecology Letters, 21(1):128-137. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12879
  • Kasper C., Kölliker M., Postma E., Taborsky B. (2017). Consistent cooperation in a cichlid fish is caused by maternal and developmental effects rather than heritable genetic variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, (284):20170369. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0369
  • Dennenmoser S., Sedlazeck FJ., Iwaszkiewicz E., Li X-Y., Altmüller J., Nolte AW. (2017). Copy number increases of transposable elements and protein-coding genes in an invasive fish of hybrid origin. Molecular Ecology, 26(18):4712-4724. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14134
  • Hirao AS., Onda Y., Shimizu-Inatsugi R., Sese J., Shimizu KK., Kenta T. (2017). Cost-Effective Discovery of Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Populations of an Allopolyploid Species Using Pool-Seq. American Journal of Molecular Biology, 07(04):1031-1046. DOI: 10.10.4236/ajmb.2017.74012
  • Rohner PT., Blanckenhorn WU., Schäfer MA. (2017). Critical weight mediates sex-specific body size plasticity and sexual dimorphism in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae). Evolution & Development, 19(3):147-156. DOI: 10.1111/ede.12223
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