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-- 🔥 Craig, E.*, M. Szojka*, R. M. Germain†, L. G. Shoemaker†. Sink populations decouple species occupancy and persistence across a productivity gradient. Revisions requested by Ecology. * = equal contribution; † = co-senior - Preprint Waters, M. T., R. M. Germain. A test of persistence reveals ecological causes and evolutionary consequences for population differentiation. In revision after review from Proc B. 🔥 Slimon, K., M. C. Szojka, R. M. Germain. Environmental variability and the evolution of bet hedging strategies. Minor revisions requested at Ecology - Preprint (w nice formatting!) Bontrager, M., C. D. Muir, C. R. Mahony, D. E. Gamble, R. M. Germain, A. L. Hargreaves, E. J. Kleynhans, K. A. Thompson, A. L. Angert. Climate warming weakens local adaptation. Pre-print Szojka, M. C., L. Shoemaker, R. M. Germain. Species occupancy is a poor predictor of habitat suitability across spatial scales. Revisions requested by Science. Clark AT, S Shoemaker, J-F Arnoldi, G Barabas, R Germain, O Godoy, L Hallett, C Karako, S Saavedra, S Schreiber. A practical guide to ecological coexistence. In review at Annual Reviews in Ecology and Evolution. -- Sakarchi, J., R. M. Germain. MacArthur’s consumer-resource model: a Rosetta Stone for competitive interactions. Accepted, the American Naturalist for special issue. Germain, R. M., B. Matthews, L. Harmon. 2024. Niche theory as an underutilized resource for the study of adaptive radiations. Cold Spring Harbour Volume. Szojka, M. C., R. M. Germain. 2024. Dispersing across habitat boundaries: uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat. Ecosphere. 🔥 Subramanian, A., R. M. Germain. 2024. Landscape use by animals is rewired by wildfire. PlosONE. Straus, S., Forbes, F., Little, C.J., Germain, R.M., Main, D.A., O’Connor, M.I., Thompson, P.L., Ford, A.T., Gravel, D., Guzman, L.M. 2024. Macroecological constraints on species' 'movement profiles': body size does not explain it all. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: 227-243. Zelnik, Y., M. Barbier, D. W. Shanafelt, M. Loreau, and R. M. Germain. 2024. Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns. Oikos: e10514 - recommended by PCI Rolland, J. + 16 co-authors. paper. 2023. Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1181-1193. Sakarchi, J., R. M. Germain. 2023. The evolution of competitive ability. The American Naturalist 201: 1-15. Germain, R. M., M. Urquhart-Cronish, N. T. Jones, M. M. Mayfield, M. Raymundo. 2022. The strength and direction of local (mal)adaptation depends on neighbour density and the environment. Journal of Ecology 110: 514-525. W. J-A Ou*, Henriques, G. J. B.*, A. Senthilnathan, P-J Ke, T. N. Grainger†, and R. M. Germain†. 2022. Writing accessible theory in ecology and evolution: insights from Cognitive Load Theory. BioScience 72: 300-313. * = equal contribution, † = co-senior Grainger, T.*, M. Barbour, K. Coblentz, J. DeLong, N. Goel, N. Jones, P-J. Ke, J. Levine, M. O’Connor, S. Otto, J. Sakarchi, A. Senthilnathan, M. Szojka, R. Germain. 2022. An empiricist's guide to using ecological theory. The American Naturalist 199. *corresponding authors Germain, R. M., Hart, S., Turcotte, M. M., Otto, S. P., Sakarchi, J., Rolland, J., Usui, T., Angert, A. L., Schluter, D., Bassar, R., Waters, M. T., Henao Diaz, F., Siepielski, A. M. 2021. On the origin of coexisting species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 284-293. Gomez-Llano, M., R. M. Germain, D. Kyogoku, M. McPeek, and A. Siepielski. 2021. When ecology fails: how reproductive interactions promote coexistence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 610-622. 🔥 Mackay, K.*, K. Nikiforuk*, M. Szojka, C. J. Little, J. R. Fleri, R. M. Germain. 2021. Animals connect plant species and resources in a fragmented meta-ecosystem. Landscape Ecology 36: 1621-1629. 🌱🐇🐆 *contributed equally Van Allen, B., N. T. Jones, K. Carscadden, B. Gilbert, R. M. Germain*. 2021. Maternal effects and the outcome of interspecific competition. Ecology & Evolution 11: 7544-7556. *corresponding author Germain, R. M., D. S. Srivastava, A. Angert. 2020. Evolution of an inferior competitor increases resistance to biological invasion. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 419-425. 🔥 Blackford, C., R. M. Germain, B. Gilbert. 2020. Species differences in phenology shape coexistence. The American Naturalist 195. Hargreaves, A. L., R. M. Germain, M. Bontrager, J. Persi, A. L. Angert. 2020. Local adaptation to biotic interactions: a meta-analysis across latitudes. The American Naturalist 195. Gonzalez, A., R. M. Germain, D. S. Srivastava, E. Filotas, L. E. Dee, D. Gravel, M. I. O’Connor, P. L. Thompson, J. Cowles, F. Isbell, S. Kéfi, J. Montoya, Y. Zelnick, M. Loreau. 2020. Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters 23: 757-776. Germain, R. M., N. T. Jones, T. N. Grainger. 2019. Cryptic dispersal networks shape biodiversity in an invaded landscape. Ecology 100. Guzman, L. M., R. M. Germain, C. Forbes, S. Straus, M. I. O’Connor, D. Gravel, D. Srivastava, P. L. Thompson. 2018. A multi-trophic extension to metacommunity ecology. Ecology Letters 22:19-33. F1000 recommended! Germain, R. M., M. M. Mayfield, B. Gilbert. 2018. The ‘filtering’ metaphor revisited: competition and environment jointly structure invasibility and coexistence. Biology Letters 14:1-4. Germain, R. M., T. N. Grainger, N. T. Jones, and B. Gilbert. 2018. Maternal provisioning is structured by species’ competitive neighborhoods. Oikos 128:45-53. Germain, R. M., J. Williams, D. Schluter, and A. Angert. 2018. Moving character displacement beyond characters using contemporary coexistence theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:74-84 Germain, R. M., S. Y. Strauss, and B. Gilbert. 2017. Experimental dispersal reveals characteristic scales of biodiversity in a natural landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:4447-4452 Grainger, T. N., R. M. Germain, N. T. Jones, and B. Gilbert. 2017. Predation modifies regional constraints on species distributions in an insect metacommunity. Ecology 98:851-860 Germain, R. M., J. T. Weir, and B. Gilbert. 2016. Species coexistence: macroevolutionary patterns and the contingency of historical interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B 283:20160047 Jones, N. T., R. M. Germain, T. N. Grainger, A. Hall, L. Baldwin, and B. Gilbert. 2015. Dispersal mode mediates the effect of patch size and patch connectivity on metacommunity diversity. Journal of Ecology 103:935-944 Germain, R. M. and B. Gilbert. 2014. Hidden responses to environmental variation: maternal effects reveal species niche dimensions. Ecology Letters 17:662-669 Germain, R. M., J. Johnson, S. Schneider, K. Cottenie, Elizabeth A. Gillis, and A. S. MacDougall. 2013. Spatial variability in plant predation determines the strength of stochastic community assembly. American Naturalist 182:169-179 Germain, R. M., C. M. Caruso, and H. Maherali. 2013. Mechanisms and consequences of water stress-induced parental effects in an invasive annual grass. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174:886-895 Book reviews in the Quarterly Review of Biology: Metacommunity Ecology (link), Coexistence in Ecology: A Mechanistic Perspective |
Lab news Congrats to Tess on starting her lab in Guelph! She is currently recruiting: https://tessgrainger.ca/ Congrats to Aishwarya and Graydon for finding exciting MSc positions for the fall 🔥 Blog post out on engaging with theory as an empiricist & podcast ft. Tess link tbd Congrats to Will for becoming a BIOS2 fellow & being awarded a UBC fellowship to support his PhD! Congrats to Tess for winning early career awards from ASN and CSEE! Congrats to Jawad on being awarded a Sigma Xi grant! We welcome Jess and Will to the lab as new grads! Chelsea is starting a lab at SFU Jan 2021 and is recruiting! Email her to apply! Megan masterfully defended her thesis and is off to U Wyoming for a PhD in the Shoemaker lab Congrats to Chelsea on winning a best paper award from the ESA!!!!! Congrats to Mia on being recognized by a President's Excellence Award from UBC Blog post out on fruits & working groups Congrats to Megan on her 1st paper from BSc accepted & awardee of a BRITE internship! ☀️ Thanks to UBC for grant $ so Chelsea and I can hang out w Adam Ford at UBC-O Mia, Jawad, and Rachel will be giving talks at the ASN meeting - come find us! Congrats to Megan for being awarded research grant $ by the CNPS! Congrats to Chelsea for her winning lightning ⚡ talk at PD Research Day Congrats to Jawad on his viral baked goods phylogeny! - link Congrats to Mia for winning best poster at the Eco-Evo Retreat! New semester, new people! We welcome Mia Waters and Chelsea Little to the lab (09/19) August: Megan will be presenting a poster at CSEE; Rachel's ESA talk is Thurs at 11ish (COS 71) Our UBC-funded working group tasked with merging species coexistence and evolutionary theory meets this week! (05/19) RMG spent a few days with the Fukami lab at Stanford + hike of Jasper Ridge (02/19) Our working group merging evolutionary theory with species coexistence was funded! (12/18) RMG had a great time visiting the Fox lab at U Calgary end of November! Our Ecology Letters paper on trophic metacommunities was recommended by Faculty 1000 Excited to welcome our first official student lab members! Megan is doing an MSc on metacommunities, Kelley the evolution of dispersal in isolated habitat as a BSc research project Rachel will be at ESA New Orleans and Evolution Montpellier. Prospective students, get in touch! Our PNAS paper was selected for the ESA's 2018 George Mercer award! Stay tuned for follow-up research Rachel will be at the upcoming ASN meeting, talk C116 Jan. 8 at 11:20am, a mix of old and new data Grads & postdocs - we are recruiting! Click here for details. |
