Instead, parasitoid mating systems have typically been studied by evolutionary ecologists in the context of how population structure influences sex allocation strategies, producing a prodigious body of work (Hamilton, 1967, 1979; Charnov, 1982; King, 1996; Godfray, 1994; most recently summarised by West, 2009).
Researchers led by evolutionary ecologists Esben Olsen and Ulf Dieckmann of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, and fisheries scientists from Canada's Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center examined data on the size, age, and sexual maturity of 10,778 female cod caught off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador between 1977 and 2002.
The first investigation into metal tolerance present in plant species was by evolutionary ecologists studying primary successionary species that can colonize areas of newly created metaliferous soils such as mine spoils [ 2].
Yet our understanding of these diseases has largely been shaped by evolutionary ecologists such as May and Anderson (1983).
In this respect, invasive crop weeds, which evolve rapidly in response to crop cultivation and the associated selection pressures, have recently attracted the attention of evolutionary ecologists in applied crop-weed management (Neve et al. 2009; Ridley and Ellstrand 2010).
But a new analysis of fisheries literature and catch data by evolutionary ecologist Jeffrey Hutchings of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contradicts this idea.
A team of researchers led by evolutionary ecologist Derek Dunn of the University of Reading, U.K., thought a group of parasitic wasps might explain why.
Historically, evolutionary ecologists interested in life history evolution have considered that natural selection favors such life history phenotypes that maximize the fitness of individuals sharing a genotype.
Some dormancy in the wild is the rule for monocarpic plants; it has long been interpreted as an evolutionary 'bet-hedging' strategy by plant evolutionary ecologists (Venable 2007).
This is a valuable concept that is in widespread use by researchers, especially evolutionary ecologists, who are trying to understand the causes of intraspecific phenotypic variation.
Marta Barluenga is an evolutionary ecologist interested in speciation and the origin of adaptive radiations.
