Review
Biology
Jeremy Van Cleve
Summary: Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) analysis is a useful tool in understanding evolutionary patterns. This paper reviews the history of ESS and highlights the link between ESS analysis and invasion fitness. By using invasion fitness, ESS analysis can measure kin selection, group selection, and the evolution of linked modifier genes in response to variable environments. The demographic and genetic parameters play a crucial role in determining the ESSs in these examples.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jing Tian, Dong Wang, Liang Chen, Zhongkui Zhu, Changqing Shen
Summary: This article proposes a novel method for fault diagnosis, which achieves stable and accurate diagnosis results in different working conditions by dynamically adjusting the importance of marginal and conditional distributions. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and usability of the proposed method.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Nandita R. Garud, Philipp W. Messer, Dmitri A. Petrov
Summary: The debate over whether hard sweeps or soft sweeps dominate adaptation has continued, with the authors proposing that soft sweeps are prevalent in North American Drosophila melanogaster. Another study by Harris et al. has raised doubts about the reliability of soft sweeps detected, instead suggesting that hard sweeps may be more likely. However, upon reanalysis, the authors confirm that soft sweeps are the dominant mode of adaptation in North American Drosophila melanogaster.
Article
Ecology
Donovan A. Bell, Ryan P. Kovach, Zachary L. Robinson, Andrew R. Whiteley, Thomas E. Reed
Summary: The interaction between natural selection and population dynamics is essential for evolutionary-ecology and biological responses to human-induced changes. Hard selection and soft selection explain how natural selection influences population dynamics differently in various ecological contexts. These distinctions are often overlooked in ecology, despite their significant implications for conservation efforts in a rapidly changing world.
Article
Ecology
Eniko Szep, Himani Sachdeva, Nicholas H. Barton
Summary: This article analyzes conditions for local adaptation in a metapopulation with infinitely many islands, under a model of hard selection. It shows that the conditions for local adaptation are more restrictive for traits with more polygenic loci in rare habitats. Demographic stochasticity is highlighted as exacerbating the decline of maladapted populations, leading to population collapse in the rare habitat at significantly lower migration rates than predicted by deterministic arguments.
Review
Biology
Ian C. W. Hardy, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
Summary: The concept of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) was first used to understand sex ratio bias in biology, and later applied to explore contests over essential and indivisible resources. ESS models have played a significant role in animal behavior research and have firmly integrated game-theoretic thinking into the field of behavioral ecology. Among researchers studying parasitoids, those investigating the evolution of sex ratios were the first to extensively utilize the game-theoretic approach. Subsequent interest in parasitoid host defense and fighting behavior expanded the use of these study species to explore contests and their relationship to life-history evolution and pest control applications. This article aims to introduce the importance of the game-theoretic approach in studying contests, which are prevalent across a wide range of animal taxa, and to review recent studies of parasitoid contests, including those that consider the context of social evolution and the performance of parasitoids as biological control agents. The authors argue that game-theoretic models are highly testable and applicable, and will continue to be valuable tools in studying parasitoid biology.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Ecology
Timotheus van der Niet, Paul A. Egan, Philipp M. Schlueter
Summary: The global decline in insect diversity poses a threat to pollination services, which could potentially impact crop production and food security. This article argues that while the issue is often approached from an ecological perspective, considering evolutionary principles provides a new perspective. By applying evolutionary principles that wild plant species have used to overcome "pollination crises," technological advances can be used to adapt crop flowers for optimal pollination by local wild pollinators. This synergistic approach involving evolutionary research, genetic engineering, and agro-ecological science offers a promising solution to the potential pollination crisis, alongside strategies focused on pollinator conservation.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Xiaoyu Wang, San Ming Wang
Summary: The DNA damage repair (DDR) system plays a vital role in maintaining genome stability and survival. Evolution may contribute to maintaining the functional integrity of the DDR system. However, studies on the laboratory mouse C57BL/6 J showed that DDR genes were not under positive selection across 30 generations, suggesting that DDR system in rodents could be evolutionarily stable.
Article
Robotics
Jing Liang, Kasun Weerakoon, Tianrui Guan, Nare Karapetyan, Dinesh Manocha
Summary: We propose a novel outdoor navigation algorithm that generates stable and efficient robot actions to reach a goal. Our approach, based on the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm, achieves multiple capabilities for outdoor local navigation tasks, such as reducing drifting, maintaining stability on bumpy terrains, avoiding steep hills, and preventing collisions. By training with rich features from a Lidar sensor in a high-fidelity Unity simulator, our method mitigates the gap between simulation and the real world. Evaluation results demonstrate significant improvements in stability, drifting reduction, and elevation changes compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Zhibin Pan, Shiqi Hu, Xiuquan Wu, Ping Wang
Summary: This study introduces a novel adaptive center pixel selection (ACPS) strategy to improve the robustness and discrimination capability of Local Binary Pattern(LBP) in texture classification. By applying interpolation method and edge detection, ACPS helps recover lost texture information and accurately extract complicated texture microstructures, leading to significantly improved texture classification performance on various texture databases.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Review
Ecology
Susana M. Wadgymar, Megan L. DeMarche, Emily B. Josephs, Seema N. Sheth, Jill T. Anderson
Summary: Divergent selection across the landscape can drive the evolution of local adaptation in populations adapting to different environments, but the mechanisms behind this process are not well understood. Despite the wide observation of local adaptation in various taxa, there is a lack of experimental confirmation on the factors promoting local adaptation and the phenotypic targets involved.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Jozsef Garay, Tamas F. Mori
Summary: In this study, we investigate matrix games with two types of players: one following a mixed evolutionarily stable strategy and another one always playing a best reply against its opponent's previous action. We find that under certain conditions, the best reply player can replace the mixed ESS player. This study extends the classical assumption of well-mixed interaction in evolutionary matrix game theory.
BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Yanyi Nie, Wenyao Li, Liming Pan, Wei Wang, Tao Lin
Summary: Recent studies have shown that human activities characteristics have significant impacts on information spreading. This paper proposes a destination selection strategy, revealing that individuals preferring to move to neighbors with higher information prevalence can bring more extensive information coverage.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Xiangyu Hu, Siren Lan, Xiqiang Song, Fusun Yang, Zhe Zhang, Donghui Peng, Mingxun Ren
Summary: Ecotypes are the result of ecological differentiation at the early stages of speciation, demonstrating local adaptation in plants. The genetic structure and leaf color of two sympatric ecotypes, red and green, in Phalaenopsis pulcherrima show differences, indicating partial reproductive isolation.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Shining Chen, Ziye Chen, Zexu Hu, Senlong Yu, Jialiang Zhou, Hengxue Xiang, Meifang Zhu
Summary: This research successfully prepared a phase change material with high thermal stability and proved its potential application in temperature regulating fibers for high-temperature melt-spinning. Additionally, temperature regulating fibers based on polycaprolactam with excellent temperature regulation functions were prepared.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Alessandro Fisogni, Francois Massol, Natasha de Manincor, Marino Quaranta, Gherardo Bogo, Laura Bortolotti, Marta Galloni
Summary: Conservation actions have positively affected the plant-pollinator network by increasing overall network generalization, distributing interactions more evenly, and significantly altering module composition. D. albus remains a module hub, while plant and pollinator species targeted by conservation measures become key players in connecting different modules, resulting in increased flower visitation.
ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Virginie Ravigne, Nathalie Becker, Francois Massol, Erwan Guichoux, Christophe Boury, Frederic Mahe, Benoit Facon
Summary: One promising approach to balance crop production and ecosystem preservation is through the manipulation of beneficial biotic interactions, particularly between insects and microbes. This study investigated the contributions of fly phylogeny, fly specialization, and fly sampling environment to the composition and structure of bacterial gut microbiota in fruit flies. The results showed that fly identity and sampling environment were strong determinants of microbial profiles, while fly specialization had little impact. These findings suggest that fruit flies exert important control over their gut microbiota through vertical transmission and environmental filtering.
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Natasha de Manincor, Benjamin Andreu, Bruno Buatois, Hineiti Lou Chao, Nina Hautekeete, Francois Massol, Yves Piquot, Bertrand Schatz, Eric Schmitt, Mathilde Dufay
Summary: Our study compared the floral scents of four generalist plant species along an environmental gradient in six calcareous grasslands, using VOC analysis in both field and greenhouse conditions to explore geographical variation. We found differences in VOC composition among species and populations, with a significant effect of pollinator communities on scent emission, indicating stability in compounds attractive to specific pollinators. Genetic-based geographical variation was observed in some cases, but phenotypic plasticity also played a role, highlighting the importance of studying floral volatiles in natural populations.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Maria R. Felipe-Lucia, Angela M. Guerrero, Steven M. Alexander, Jaime Ashander, Jacopo A. Baggio, Michele L. Barnes, Orjan Bodin, Aletta Bonn, Marie-Josee Fortin, Rachel S. Friedman, Jessica A. Gephart, Kate J. Helmstedt, Aislyn A. Keyes, Kailin Kroetz, Francois Massol, Michael J. O. Pocock, Jesse Sayles, Ross M. Thompson, Spencer A. Wood, Laura E. Dee
Summary: This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of using social-ecological networks (SENs) in ecosystem service research, and proposes a typology to represent ecosystem services in SENs. The typology provides guidance for improving research design and addressing a wider range of questions regarding human-nature interdependencies.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ruben Van De Walle, Francois Massol, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Dries Bonte
Summary: Disturbance, in the form of sand dynamics, is believed to increase the probability of establishing invasive species in coastal dunes. This study found that marram grass configuration, which is influenced by local sand dynamics, can serve as a reliable indicator of disturbance. The results also showed that Senecio inaequidens is capable of handling higher levels of sand burial and has a higher establishment probability under low marram grass cover. Additionally, soil modifications caused by Senecio plants may enhance marram grass growth.
Article
Ecology
Kenneth A. Schmidt, Francois Massol, Jakub Szymkowiak
Summary: Shannon's information theory has two meanings: reduction of uncertainty and the element of surprise. By considering the dual nature of information/heterogeneity, this study bridges behavioral ecology with landscape, population, community, and evolutionary ecology. It explores the relationship between variance and heterogeneity in resource distributions within landscapes and how this heterogeneity affects individuals' ability to gather information and utilize resources. The study also highlights the ecological role of heterogeneity in enhancing decision-making and how landscape heterogeneity can mitigate negative consequences of global change, particularly in small populations.
Review
Environmental Sciences
David Renault, Manon C. M. Hess, Julie Braschi, Ross N. Cuthbert, Marta G. Sperandii, Manuele Bazzichetto, Olivier Chabrerie, Gabrielle Thiebaut, Elise Buisson, Frederic Grandjean, Anne-Kristel Bittebiere, Maud Mouchet, Francois Massol
Summary: This study investigates the effects of invasive species on native communities and recipient ecosystems using functional diversity indices, showing that functional diversity of the recipient community may strongly vary at the onset of the invasion process and stabilize at intermediate and high levels of invasion. However, there is still a lack of research on functional changes during the lag phase of an invasion.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Charlotte Genestet, Guislaine Refregier, Elisabeth Hodille, Rima Zein-Eddine, Adrien Le Meur, Fiona Hak, Alexia Barbry, Emilie Westeel, Jean-Luc Berland, Astrid Engelmann, Isabelle Verdier, Gerard Lina, Florence Ader, Stephane Dray, Laurent Jacob, Francois Massol, Samuel Venner, Oana Dumitrescu
Summary: This study found that the genetic features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates were associated with tuberculosis severity. Patients with moderate/severe tuberculosis carried mutations in genes associated with regulatory mechanisms. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of tuberculosis and provide a new approach to predict pulmonary tuberculosis severity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Alessandro Fisogni, Nina Hautekeete, Yves Piquot, Marion Brun, Cedric Vanappelghem, Marc Ohlmann, Magalie Franchomme, Christelle Hinnewinkel, Francois Massol
Summary: Urbanization can have a significant impact on the structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks, particularly in terms of abundance, composition, and phenology. This study explores how urbanization alters the structure of plant-pollinator networks by examining 12 sites along an urbanization gradient in Northern France. The findings suggest that the advancement of flowering phenology in more urbanized areas leads to changes in plant-pollinator network structure.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Ella Z. Daly, Olivier Chabrerie, Francois Massol, Benoit Facon, Manon C. M. Hess, Aurelie Tasiemski, Frederic Grandjean, Matthieu Chauvat, Frederique Viard, Estelle Forey, Laurent Folcher, Elise Buisson, Thomas Boivin, Sylvie Baltora-Rosset, Romain Ulmer, Patricia Gibert, Gabrielle Thiebaut, Jelena H. Pantel, Tina Heger, David M. Richardson, David Renault
Summary: With the increasing level of biological invasions in the Anthropocene, there is still significant debate and lack of clarity on the determinants of success, impact, and sustaining mechanisms of introduced species. Empirical studies show divergent impacts and effects of biotic and abiotic factors, hindering the creation of a unified theory. The proposed synthesis categorizes invasion hypotheses along a timeline, providing a framework to navigate the theories and select appropriate concepts based on the stage of invasion.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Arthur Fauviau, Mathilde Baude, Nicolas Bazin, William Fiordaliso, Alessandro Fisogni, Laura Fortel, Joseph Garrigue, Benoit Geslin, Jeremie Goulnik, Laurent Guilbaud, Nina Hautekeete, Charlene Heiniger, Michael Kuhlmann, Olivier Lambert, Dominique Langlois, Violette Le Feon, Carlos Lopez Vaamonde, Gregory Maillet, Francois Massol, Nadia Michel, Alice Michelot-Antalik, Denis Michez, Hugues Mouret, Yves Piquot, Simon G. Potts, Stuart Roberts, Lise Ropars, Lucie Schurr, Colin Van Reeth, Irene Villalta, Vincent Zaninotto, Isabelle Dajoz, Mickael Henry
Summary: Urban expansion has negative impacts on the diversity of wild bees, but some wild bee species can thrive in cities.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Vincent Calcagno, Patrice David, Philippe Jarne, Francois Massol
Summary: The complexity of food webs is influenced by environmental variables, but it is unclear how food-chain length is affected by the adaptive evolution of species. In this study, we modeled the evolution of species colonization rates and found that longer food-chains can persist when colonization rates can evolve. Extinction, perturbation, and habitat loss all impact the evolutionarily stable colonization rates, with weaker trade-offs leading to longer chains.
Article
Ecology
Ruben Van De Walle, Garben Logghe, Nina Haas, Francois Massol, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Dries Bonte
Summary: This study validates the prediction of trophic interactions based on body size ratios in a terrestrial arthropod community and suggests that predator hunting strategy and prey taxonomy can explain additional variation. Feeding trials provide insights into the multiple traits underlying real-life trophic interactions among arthropods.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Agronomy
Maxime Dubart, Pascal Alonso, Didac Barroso-Bergada, Nathalie Becker, Kevin Bethune, David A. Bohan, Christophe Boury, Marine Cambon, Elsa Canard, Emilie Chancerel, Julien Chiquet, Patrice David, Natasha de Manincor, Sophie Donnet, Anne Duputie, Benoit Facon, Erwan Guichoux, Tam Le Minh, Sebastian Ortiz-Martinez, Lucie Piouceau, Ambre Sacco-Martret de Preville, Manuel Plantegenest, Celine Poux, Virginie Ravigne, Stephane Robin, Marine Trillat, Corinne Vacher, Christian Verniere, Francois Massol
Summary: Biomonitoring ecosystems is crucial for assessing risks and managing ecosystems efficiently. With high-throughput sequencing methods, it is possible to obtain information about entire ecological communities and closely monitor the risk of collapse of entire food webs due to external stressors. However, next-generation biomonitoring still faces challenges in terms of methodology and implementation.
FUTURE OF AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES, PT III
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Alessandro Fisogni, Gherardo Bogo, Francois Massol, Laura Bortolotti, Marta Galloni
Summary: Research shows significant differences in flower-visiting behaviors between cuckoo bumblebees and free-living bumblebees, with cuckoo males visiting more flowers for longer periods. These behavioral differences may be related to foraging needs, colony development stages, and mating periods.
BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
(2021)
