#AGW
#ecosystems
#biodiversity

More frequent and intense, extreme events threaten the survival of animals and plants. But when stress thresholds aren't exceeded, they seem to accelerate #adaptation and short-term #evolution.

And long-term? Under which conditions?.

OA review & research program:

Currently, the most compelling evolutionary insights have come from long-term selection studies that were serendipitously interrupted by an extreme event. To advance our understanding of how extreme events drive evolution, proactive strategies are now essential.

Under #climate change, extreme weather events are liable to become more frequent and intense.

@simonbaeckens.bsky.social & Colin Donihue review the evidence for impacts on #evolution such events can have and how we can study them in the future.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Day one at UCLouvain, day one of the Animal Evolutionary Ecology Lab! Eager to get started!

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The talented Jindong Zhang analyzed 74,000+ papers, revealing how #biomimetic research relies on a narrow slice of biodiversity—missing out on nature’s untapped genius. In our paper, we call for broader, species-level, and comparative approaches!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A lizard in sight whets the appetite? 🦎 Read how conspecifics influence island and mainland lizards’ foraging decisions in @UAFunMorph's new paper by Ioanna Gavriilidi! Link to the full article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPDn1LenM...

Another PhD chapter published for Ioanna Gavriilidi @uafunmorph.bsky.social, now in @jzoology.bsky.social! She finds that island-dwelling lizards tend to rely less on chemosensory cues compared to their mainland counterparts. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Earth & Life Institute at UCLouvain (🇧🇪) as an Assistant Professor of Animal Evolutionary Ecology this September. Watch this space for upcoming opportunities for PhDs and postdocs!

Thinking about Elisabeth Vrba on this International Day of Women in Science. Sad to lose another one of the 'Three Musketeers' of evolutionary biology.