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Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics (2023)
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Cutts, V., Hanz, D. M., Barajas-Barbosa, M. P., Schrodt, F., Steinbauer, M. J., Beierkuhnlein, C., …Algar, A. C. (2023). Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics. Ecology Letters, 26(4), 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14169

Current models of island biogeography treat endemic and non-endemic species as if they were functionally equivalent, focussing primarily on species richness. Thus, the functional composition of island biotas in relation to island biogeographical vari... Read More about Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics.

Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters (2020)
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Rodríguez Valido, C. A., Johnson, M. F., Dugdale, S. J., Cutts, V., Fell, H. G., Higgins, E. A., …Algar, A. C. (2021). Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters. Ecohydrology, 14(1), Article e2258. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2258

Climate change and invasive species are among the biggest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem function. Although the individual impacts of climate change and invasive species are commonly assessed, we know far less about how a changing clima... Read More about Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters.

Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69 (2020)
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Munro, A. D., Smallman-Raynor, M., & Algar, A. C. (2021). Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69. Social Science and Medicine, 288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113295

Metapopulation dynamics play a critical role in driving endemic persistence and transmission of childhood infections. The endemic threshold concept, also referred to as critical community size (CCS), is a key example and is defined as the minimumpopu... Read More about Long-Term Changes in Endemic Threshold Populations for Pertussis in England and Wales: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69.

Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales (2020)
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Donihue, C. M., Kowaleski, A. M., Losos, J. B., Algar, A. C., Baeckens, S., Buchkowski, R. W., …Herrel, A. (2020). Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(19), 10429-10434. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000801117

Extreme climate events such as droughts, cold snaps, and hurricanes can be powerful agents of natural selection, producing acute selective pressures very different from the everyday pressures acting on organisms. However, it remains unknown whether t... Read More about Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales.

The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands (2019)
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Cutts, V., Katal, N., Löwer, C., Algar, A. C., Steinbauer, M. J., Irl, S. D., …Field, R. (2019). The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands. Frontiers of Biogeography, 11(4), Article e43737. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG43737

Topography influences evolutionary and ecological processes by isolating populations and by enhancing habitat diversity. While the effects of large-scale topography on patterns of species richness and endemism are increasingly well documented, the di... Read More about The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands.

Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans (2019)
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Roggatz, C. C., Fletcher, N., Benoit, D. M., Algar, A. C., Doroff, A., Wright, B., …Hardege, J. D. (2019). Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans. Nature Climate Change, 9(11), 840-844. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0589-3

Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are largely absorbed by the ocean, decreasing surface water pH1. In combination with increasing ocean temperatures, these changes have been identified as a major sustainability threat to future marine life2. Interact... Read More about Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans.

A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient (2018)
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Tarr, S., Meiri, S., Hicks, J. J., & Algar, A. C. (2019). A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient. Ecography, 42(4), 706-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03593

© 2018 The Authors The magnitude and direction of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies greatly across the animal kingdom, reflecting differential selection pressures on the reproductive and/or ecological roles of males and females. If the selection pr... Read More about A biogeographic reversal in sexual size dimorphism along a continental temperature gradient.

Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests (2018)
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Algar, A. C., Morley, K., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(12), 1412-1425. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12811

AIM: Rising global temperatures are predicted to increase ectotherms’ body temperatures, benefitting some species but threatening others. Biophysical models predict a key role for shade in buffering these effects, but the difficulty of measuring shad... Read More about Remote sensing restores predictability of ectotherm body temperature in the world’s forests.

Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards (2018)
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Velasco, J. A., Villalobos, F., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Algar, A. C., Flores-Villela, O., Köhler, G., …Martínez-Meyer, E. (2018). Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(3), 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx160

Understanding the climatic and historical factors shaping species richness is a major goal of ecology and biogeography. Consensus on how climate affects species richness is still lacking, but four potential and non-exclusive explanations have emerged... Read More about Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards.

Papua New Guinea terrestrial vertebrate richness: elevation matters most for all except reptiles (2017)
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Tallowin, O. J., Allison, A., Algar, A. C., Kraus, F., & Meiri, S. (2017). Papua New Guinea terrestrial vertebrate richness: elevation matters most for all except reptiles. Journal of Biogeography, 44(8), 1734-1744. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12949

Aims To examine species richness patterns in Papua New Guinea’s terrestrial vertebrates and test for geographical congruence between the four classes, and between lizard and snake subgroups. To assess the environmental correlates of Papua New Guinean... Read More about Papua New Guinea terrestrial vertebrate richness: elevation matters most for all except reptiles.

Sex-specific responses of phenotypic diversity to environmental variation (2015)
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Algar, A. C., & López-Darias, M. (2016). Sex-specific responses of phenotypic diversity to environmental variation. Ecography, 39(8), 715-725. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01696

Identifying the factors generating ecomorphological diversity within species can provide a window into the nascent stages of ecological radiation. Sexual dimorphism is an obvious axis of intraspecific morphological diversity that could affect how env... Read More about Sex-specific responses of phenotypic diversity to environmental variation.

Climatic niche attributes and diversification in Anolis lizards (2015)
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Velasco, J. A., Martínez-Meyer, E., Flores-Villela, O., García, A., Algar, A. C., Köhler, G., & Daza, J. M. (2016). Climatic niche attributes and diversification in Anolis lizards. Journal of Biogeography, 43(1), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12627

Aim The aim of this study was to test the link between climatic niche dynamics and species diversification in Anolis on islands and on the mainland. We tested the hypotheses that lineages in warmer climates and with narrow climate niches diversifi... Read More about Climatic niche attributes and diversification in Anolis lizards.

Area, climate heterogeneity, and the response of climate niches to ecological opportunity in island radiations of Anolis lizards (2015)
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Algar, A. C., & Mahler, D. L. (2016). Area, climate heterogeneity, and the response of climate niches to ecological opportunity in island radiations of Anolis lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), 781-791. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12327

Aim Rates of climate niche evolution underlie numerous fundamental ecological processes and patterns. However, while climate niche conservatism varies markedly among regions and clades, the source of this variation remains poorly understood. We te... Read More about Area, climate heterogeneity, and the response of climate niches to ecological opportunity in island radiations of Anolis lizards.

Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards (2014)
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Muñoz, M. M., Wegener, J. E., & Algar, A. C. (2014). Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards. American Naturalist, 184(5), https://doi.org/10.1086/678084

Bergmann’s rule—the tendency for body size to increase in colder environments—remains controversial today, despite 150 years of research. Considerable debate has revolved around whether the rule applies within or among species. However, this debate h... Read More about Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards.

Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards (2014)
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Muñoz, M. M., Stimola, M. A., Algar, A. C., Cosover, A., Rodriguez, A. J., Landestoy, M. A., …Losos, J. B. (2014). Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1778), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2433

Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to novel thermal habitats may occur either through behavioural adjus... Read More about Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards.

The island–mainland species turnover relationship (2012)
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Stuart, Y. E., Losos, J. B., & Algar, A. C. (2012). The island–mainland species turnover relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1744), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0816

Many oceanic islands are notable for their high endemism, suggesting that islands may promote unique assembly processes. However, mainland assemblages sometimes harbour comparable levels of endemism, suggesting that island biotas may not be as unique... Read More about The island–mainland species turnover relationship.