Kenneth J. Feeley

Nov 14, 2024 | nature.com | James Stroud |Michael Yuan |Kenneth J. Feeley |Sean T. Giery

AbstractEcological character displacement, whereby shifts in resource use in the presence of competing species leads to adaptive evolutionary divergence, is widely considered an important process in community assembly and adaptive radiation. However, most evidence for character displacement has been inferred from macro-scale geographic or phylogenetic patterns; direct tests of the underlying hypothesis of divergent natural selection driving character displacement in the wild are rare.

Oct 23, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth J. Feeley |James Snyder |Holly A. Belles

1 Introduction Big Cypress National Preserve (BCNP) protects nearly 300,000 ha of pine forests, hardwood hammock forests, cypress swamps, swamp prairies, and mangroves/estuaries in southwest Florida, USA (Gunderson and Loope 1982). Combined, these natural habitats support more than 800 native plant species (> 140 plant families), including nearly 100 rare and endangered species (Black and Black 1980; Muss, Austin, and Snyder 2003).

Jul 9, 2024 | nature.com | Aida Cuni-Sanchez |Emanuel H. Martin |Eustrate Uzabaho |Robert Bitariho |Francesco Rovero |Douglas Sheil | +2 more

AbstractThermophilization is the directional change in species community composition towards greater relative abundances of species associated with warmer environments. This process is well-documented in temperate and Neotropical plant communities, but it is uncertain whether this phenomenon occurs elsewhere in the tropics.

Jul 2, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Robert K. Colwell |Kenneth J. Feeley

1 INTRODUCTION Nearly 40 years ago, Peters and Darling (1985) predicted both latitudinal and elevational range shifts driven by contemporary warming, in the same way that the geographic ranges of many species were already known to have shifted under warming or cooling paleoclimates (Davis, 1983).

Mar 10, 2024 | nature.com | Florian Wittmann |Rafael Assis |Aline Lopes |Rafael P. Salomão |Olaf Bánki |Carlos A. Peres | +68 more

AbstractAmazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin.