J. Bascompte

Coevolution increases robustness to extinctions in mutualistic but not antagonistic communities

This study shows coevolution enhances robustness in mutualistic communities but reduces it in antagonistic ones, due to changes in interaction density.

Habitat restoration and the recovery of metacommunities

This study develops metacommunity models to show how landscape fragmentation and interaction types affect community recovery during habitat restoration, emphasizing the need for spatial planning.

Genome-wide association study highlights escape from aphids by delayed growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

This study identifies a growth-related gene in Arabidopsis thaliana associated with reduced aphid abundance through delayed growth and flowering.

Effects of habitat destruction on coevolving metacommunities

This study investigates how habitat destruction affects coevolutionary dynamics in metacommunities and shows that coevolution can mitigate negative effects in mutualistic networks but has unpredictable impacts on antagonistic communities.

The role of indirect effects in coevolution as mutualism transitions into antagonism

This study shows that as mutualistic networks shift to antagonistic, indirect effects weaken, leading to less trait integration and faster adaptation in communities.

Antagonistic plants preferentially target arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that are highly connected to mutualistic plants

The paper investigates how antagonistic plants interact with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a tripartite network, finding that antagonists preferentially target highly connected mutualistic fungi.

The joint role of coevolutionary selection and network structure in shaping trait complementarity in mutualisms.

This study simulates coevolution in different network topologies to show how mutualistic selection strength and network structure jointly influence trait complementarity in mutualisms.

Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge

The paper quantifies how much indigenous medicinal plant knowledge is lost with language extinction, finding over 75% of knowledge is unique to individual languages.

Genetic diversity increases food-web persistence in the face of climate warming

The paper shows that plant genetic diversity enhances food-web persistence under warming by increasing species growth rates through allelic variation in defense genes.

Loss of consumers constrains phenotypic evolution in the resulting food web

The paper shows that simpler food webs constrain phenotypic evolution by reducing selection pressures on herbivore traits.

Invariance in ecological pattern

This paper explains ecological patterns like the log series and lognormal distributions using the concept of invariance, showing how these patterns emerge from invariant processes in ecological systems.

Facilitation between plants shapes pollination networks

The paper shows that plant facilitation affects pollinator communities and changes the structure and robustness of plant-pollinator networks.