Cooperation maximizes biodiversity | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition
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This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇

Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Catherine L. Peichel, Åke Brännström, Daniel I. Bolnick, Ulf Dieckmann, and Rebecca J. Safran. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spr...

Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?

Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social
and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids

Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

In community ecology, this is called the "Appendix XVII of a Peter Abrams paper" effect

Kayak trip with the lab in Deep Cove BC

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...

I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

MacArthur’s Consumer-Resource Model: A Rosetta Stone for Competitive Interactions | The American Naturalist Abstract Recent developments in competition theory—namely, modern coexistence theory (MCT)—have aided empiricists in formulating tests of species persistence, coexistence, and evolution from simple to...

New special feature available ahead of print! Jawad Sakarchi & Rachel M. Germain break down MacArthur’s consumer resource model with insights on the mechanistic understanding and biological intuition of how competition and coexistence operate.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Today, I am excited to share our new paper in The American Naturalist’s (@asn-amnat.bsky.social) special feature: Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology.

Check out “MacArthur’s Consumer Resource Model: A ‘Rosetta Stone’ of Competitive Interactions.” doi.org/10.1086/733516

DM for a copy!