The experimental evolution of specialists, generalists, and the maintenance of diversity

By R. Kassen. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Moving from pattern to process: Coexistence mechanisms under intermediate disturbance regimes (2004, methodology): “This approach has already been successfully employed in the study of the IDH (Buckling et al. 2000), in studies of community assembly (e.g. Drake et al. 1996; Weatherby et al. 1998), and in the study of experimental evolution (e.g. Kassen 2002; Elena & Lenski 2003).”
Measuring community responses to large‐scale disturbance in conservation biogeography (2009, background): “Moreover, these strategies are expected to be unequal in variable environments: specialist species are expected to be more at risk when environment is disturbed in space and/or time (Levins, 1968; Kassen, 2002; Marvier et al ., 2004).”
Selection experiments and the study of phenotypic plasticity 1 (2002, neutral): “…& Wistrand, 1978; Oakeshott, 1979; Mackay, 1980; Haley & Birley, 1983; Garcı́a-Dorado et al., 1991; Bell, 1997b; Goho & Bell, 2000; Fry, 2001; see review by Kassen, 2002) or the effects of environmental heterogeneity on trait evolution (e.g. Wallace, 1982; Goodnight, 1985; Ehiobu & Goddard, 1989).”
Melanin-based colorations signal strategies to cope with poor and rich environments (2008, background): “Heterogeneity can also promote the evolution of phenotypic plasticity where individuals match their phenotype with the environment (Kassen 2002).”
Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? (2011, background): “Versatile generalists (ie those that exhibit reversible phenotypic responses to the prevailing environmental conditions) might be expected to evolve in fine-grained environments, whereas plastic generalists (ie those that exhibit adjustable responses early in development, but fixed phenotypes therea”
Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients (2012, background): “…has been inferred indirectly from species distributions and environmental data (Thuiller et al., 2004), from direct measurements of species performance in multiple environments (Kassen, 2002) or from detailed measurements of species diets, such as variance in prey size (Bolnick et al., 2003).”
Evolution of Ecological Niche Breadth (2017, background): “Beginning with the classic models of Levins (1968), these studies have primarily explored how spatial and environmental heterogeneity drives niche breadth evolution and are supported by experimental evolution studies (Kassen 2002).”
Evolution in Littorina: ecology matters (2003, background): “Levene, 1953; Dempster, 1955; Maynard Smith and Hoekstra, 1980) and laboratory experiments (Kassen, 2002) support increased variation within and among populations, as well as increased species diversity, with increasing habitat heterogeneity.”
A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators (2012, background): “Specialization is influenced by numerous evolutionary and ecological processes (Kassen 2002; Poisot, Thrall &Hochberg 2012; Poisot et al. 2011b), and considerable research has shown how specificity is important in understanding species biology, behaviour, dynamics (Wilson & Hassell 1997), distributi”
Defining and measuring ecological specialization (2010, background): “For instance, specialization is inferred indirectly from species distributions and envi- ronmental data (Calenge & Basille 2008), or from direct measures of species performances in multiple environments (Kassen 2002).”