This long preclinical phase suggests a typically slow evolutionary progression toward the malignant phenotype; how ecological factors drive this selective process is not known.
Until such data are available for more species, firm conclusions regarding the degree to which such ecological factors drive agonistic and cooperative relationships among female primates, as well as other group-living species, will remain largely elusive.
These effects fall under the umbrella of interactions between ecology and evolution, wherein ecological change drives evolutionary change and evolutionary change can feed back to influence ecological change, i.e., 'eco-evolutionary dynamics' (Fussmann et al. 2007; Kinnison and Hairston 2007; Palkovacs and Post 2009; Pelletier et al. 2009).
Meteorological and ecological shifts driven by climate change are creating a slow and often unpredictable bloom of novel public health challenges across the United States.
The domain-specific hypothesis posits that sociality only bolsters cognition associated with social challenges and contends that ecological complexity drives the evolution of nonsocial cognition.
Our results illustrate that dipterans have broadly evolved the use of a habitat selection behaviour that treats more strongly polarized light sources as indicative higher-quality habitats, making them broadly susceptible to ecological traps driven by polarized light pollution.
The willingness of professional sports leagues to testify about climate change before a Congressional committee reflects an evolving cultural shift in behalf of ecological stewardship, driven in part by the venue greening happening throughout all professional sports leagues (and at many colleges too).
Ecological succession drives large-scale changes in ecosystem composition over time, but the mechanisms whereby climatic change might alter succession remain unresolved.
These results provide evidence that Macaronesian greenfinches experienced an unknown but significant differentiation process in the past with ecological interactions driven by competition with sympatric chaffinches.
However, the model also provides indications of a general nature about the linkages between competitive abilities and the observed beta-diversity in ecological systems driven by cloning, seed dispersal and density-independent mortality.
