A new explanation for unexpected evolution in body size

Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population

(2017) Timothée Bonnet et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Persistent directional selection on body size and a resolution to the paradox of stasis

(2015) Njal Rollinson et al.   EVOLUTION

Linking macrotrends and microrates: Re-evaluating microevolutionary support for Cope's rule

(2015) Kiyoko M. Gotanda et al.   EVOLUTION

Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence

(2014) Juha Merilä et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Delayed phenology and reduced fitness associated with climate change in a wild hibernator

(2012) Jeffrey E. Lane et al.   NATURE

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations

(2010) M. B. MORRISSEY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

(2010) Arpat Ozgul et al.   NATURE

Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2010) Tim Clutton-Brock et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution

(2009) Jarrod D. Hadfield et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

New Answers for Old Questions: The Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics of Wild Animal Populations

(2008) Loeske E.B. Kruuk et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics