Benjamin Freeman

Sep 4, 2024 | nature.com | Anna L. Hargreaves |John Ensing |Jérôme Burkiewicz |Joëlle Lafond |M. Brooke Byerley-Best |Ella Martin | +13 more

AbstractUrbanization is creating a new global biome, in which cities and suburbs around the world often resemble each other more than the local natural areas they replaced. But while urbanization can profoundly affect ecology at local scales, we know little about whether it disrupts large-scale ecological patterns. Here we test whether urbanization disrupts a macroecological pattern central to ecological and evolutionary theory: the increase in seed predation intensity from high to low latitudes.

Jul 31, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Benjamin Freeman |Eliot T. Miller |Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Supporting Information Filename Description ele14487-sup-0001-supinfoS1.docxWord 2007 document , 546.3 KB Data S1. REFERENCES & (2015) Enigmatic declines in bird numbers in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador may be a consequence of climate change. PeerJ, 3, e1177. & (2015) Ongoing changes in the avifauna of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica: twenty-three years of Christmas bird counts. Biological Conservation, 188, 11–21.

Jul 25, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Farshad Shirani |Benjamin Freeman

AbstractWhether interspecific competition is a major contributing factor in setting species' range limits has been debated for a long time. Evolutionary models have helped propose a possible mechanism: interspecific competition interacts with the disruptive effects of gene flow along an environmental gradient to halt range expansion of species when they meet and compete with each other. However, the stability of such range limits has not previously been well-addressed.

Apr 12, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Maggie Macpherson |Kevin R. Burgio |Benjamin Freeman |Matthew DeSaix

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Jan 26, 2023 | science.org | Aereas Aung |James Albert |David M. Lapola |Benjamin Freeman

LATEST NEWS AbstractXing et al. (1) create new variables and fit models to argue against the hypothesis that interspecific competition shapes species’ elevational ranges. However, their key newly created variable is best interpreted as a proxy for the important variable of the interspecific competition hypothesis. Thus, their reanalysis uncovers the patterns we already described that are consistent with the interspecific competition hypothesis.