News

New paper accepted:

Reproductive biology of Gazella arabica: predictors of offspring weight and short- and long-term offspring survival. Current Zoology, in press.

The group welcomes two new MSc students, Kate Ryan and Neve Read, who will work on diet and parasitism in response to pollution.

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New paper accepted:

Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects. Nature Ecology & Evolution, in press.

New paper accepted:

Variability in maternal provisioning and offspring quality in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki, Poeciliidae). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, in press.

Now out in final form:

Resource competition explains rare cannibalism in the wild in livebearing fishes. Ecology and Evolution 12(5): e8872.

New paper accepted:

Resource competition explains rare cannibalism in the wild in livebearing fishes. Ecology and Evolution, in press.

Now out in final form:

Two ecological gradients drive phenotypic differentiation of a cave fish over few hundred meters. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 825-838.

New paper accepted:

Two ecological gradients drive phenotypic differentiation of a cave fish over few hundred meters. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press.

Now out in final form:

Off to new shores: climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.). Ecology and Evolution 11(24): 18369-18400.

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Natural history and trophic ecology of three populations of the Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. Environmental Biology of Fishes 104(11): 1461-1474.

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New paper accepted:

Invasive fish retain plasticity of naturally selected, but diverge in sexually selected traits. Science of the Total Environment, in press.

New paper accepted:

Off to new shores: climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.). Ecology and Evolution, in press.

New paper accepted:

Natural history and trophic ecology of three populations of the Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, in press.

Congratulations to Francesco Santi, Emily Vella and Katie Jeffress for getting their paper on the impact of oil pollution in guppies published:

Phenotypic responses to oil pollution in a poeciliid fish. Environmental Pollution 290: 118023.

Now out in final form:

Comparative gut-content analysis of invasive mosquitofish from Italy and Spain. Ecology and Evolution 11: 4379-4398.

Congratulations to Katherine Jeffress and Luke Collins, who both successfully completed their MSc by Research degrees this month! Well done!

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Now out in final form:

Consuming costly prey: optimal foraging and the role of compensatory growth. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 603387.

Now out in final form:

Aspects of the life history of the Tamesí molly, Poecilia latipunctata, from two populations in the Río Tamesí drainage in northeastern México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 92: e923107.

Congratulations to Sara Pirroni for getting her first PhD chapter accepted for publication:

Comparative gut-content analysis of invasive mosquitofish from Italy and Spain. Ecology and Evolution - in press.

New paper accepted:

Consuming costly prey: optimal foraging and the role of compensatory growth. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - in press.

Congratulations to Luke Collins and Katie Jeffress for successfully completing and submitting their MSc by Research thesis.

Congratulations to Rich Beason for having his third PhD output published:

Tidying up the cluttered understorey: Foraging strategy mediates bat activity responses to invasive rhododendron. Forest Ecology and Management 475: 118392.

Now out in final form:

Sulphide-toxic habitats are not refuges from parasite infections in an extremophile fish.  Acta Oecologica 106: 103602.

Now out in final form:

Water pollution affects fish community structure and alters evolutionary trajectories of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Science of the Total Environment 730: 138912.

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New paper accepted:

Aspects of the life history of the Tamesí molly, Poecilia latipunctata, from two populations in the Río Tamesí drainage in northeastern México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad - in press.

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Congratulations to Francesco Santi for having his third PhD thesis chapter out in print: 

A century later: adaptive plasticity and rapid evolution contribute to geographic variation in invasive mosquitofish. Science of the Total Environment 726: 137908.

New paper accepted:

Water pollution affects fish community structure and alters evolutionary trajectories of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Science of the Total Environment - in press.

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Congratulations to Dr. Francesco Santi who passed his (social distancing-style) Viva with minor corrections yesterday - Well done!

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Now out in print:

Multiple traits and multifarious environments: integrated divergence of morphology and life history. Oikos 129(4): 480-492.

Congratulations to Francesco Santi for having his third PhD thesis chapter accepted for publication: 

A century later: adaptive plasticity and rapid evolution contribute to geographic variation in invasive mosquitofish. Science of the Total Environment - in press

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Congratulations to Rich Beason for having his second PhD output fully published: 

Temporal Pass Plots: an intuitive method for visualising activity patterns of bats and other vocalising animals. Ecological Indicators 113: 106202

We contributed to the Oikos Blog by summarizing our recent article and describing the hazards of fieldwork: Disentangling the divergence of morphology and life history.

Congratulations to Francesco Santi for having his second thesis chapter out in final form: 

Phenotypic differentiation in a heterogeneous environment: morphological and life-history responses to ecological gradients in a livebearing fish. Journal of Zoology 310(1): 10-23.

Congratulations to Francesco Santi for having his first thesis chapter out in final form: 

Geographical and temporal variation of multiple paternity in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki, Gambusia affinis). Molecular Ecology 28(24): 5315–5329.

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New paper accepted:

Multiple traits and multifarious environments: integrated divergence of morphology and life history. Oikos – in press.

Congratulations to Emily Vella who successfully completed her Masters by Research, well done! 

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Congratulations to Dr. Rich Beason who passed his Viva yesterday! Well done, and it has been a pleasure serving as one of your supervisors.

Congratulations to Francesco Santi for having his first paper fully published:

Life histories of guppies (Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1869; Poeciliidae) from the Pitch Lake in Trinidad. Caribbean Journal of Science 49(2-3): 255-262.