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Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds (2024)
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Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., & Morlon, H. (2024). Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds. Current Biology, 34(3), 661-669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.055

According to classic models of lineage diversification and adaptive radiation, phenotypic evolution should accelerate in the context of ecological opportunity and slow down when niches become saturated. However, only weak support for these ideas has... Read More about Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds.

Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies (2024)
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Leighton, G. M., Drury, J. P., Small, J., & Miller, E. T. (2024). Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44613-0

Dominance hierarchies often form between species, especially at common feeding locations. Yet, relative to work focused on the factors that maintain stable dominance hierarchies within species, large-scale analyses of interspecific dominance hierarch... Read More about Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies.

Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion (2023)
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Grether, G. F., Finneran, A. E., & Drury, J. P. (2023). Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion. Ecology Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14350

Understanding species distributions and predicting future range shifts requires considering all relevant abiotic factors and biotic interactions. Resource competition has received the most attention, but reproductive interference is another widesprea... Read More about Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion.

A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia) (2023)
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Patterson, C. W., Bonillas-Monge, E., Brennan, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Tucker, R., …Drury, J. (2023). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia). Journal of Heredity, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad070

Smoky rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina titia Drury, 1773) are one of the most commonly encountered odonates along streams and rivers on both slopes of Central America and the Atlantic drainages in the US and southern Canada. Owing to their highly vari... Read More about A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia).

Competitive displacement and agonistic character displacement, or the ghost of interference competition (2023)
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McEachin, S., Drury, J. P., & Grether, G. F. (2023). Competitive displacement and agonistic character displacement, or the ghost of interference competition. The American Naturalist, https://doi.org/10.1086/728671

Interference competition can drive species apart in habitat use through competitive displacement in ecological time and agonistic character displacement (ACD) over evolutionary time. As predicted by ACD theory, sympatric species of rubyspot damselfli... Read More about Competitive displacement and agonistic character displacement, or the ghost of interference competition.

Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa (2023)
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Keith, S. A., Drury, J. P., McGill, B. J., & Grether, G. F. (2023). Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.007

We explore how integrating behavioural ecology and macroecology can provide fundamental new insight into both fields, with particular relevance for understanding ecological responses to rapid environmental change. We outline the field of macrobehavio... Read More about Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa.

Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions (2023)
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Patterson, C. W., & Drury, J. P. (2023). Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions. Biological Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12993

Novel biotic interactions in shifting communities play a key role in determining the ability of species' ranges to track suitable habitat. To date, the impact of biotic interactions on range dynamics have predominantly been studied in the context of... Read More about Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions.

Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines (2023)
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Nesbit, D., Cowen, M., Grether, G., & Drury, J. (2023). Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines. Ecography, 2023(6), Article e06573. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06573

As species’ ranges shift in response to human-induced global changes, species interactions are expected to play a large role in shaping the resultant range dynamics and, subsequently, the composition of modified species assemblages. Most research on... Read More about Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines.

Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata) (2022)
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Standring, S., Sánchez-Herrera, M., Guillermo-Ferreira, R., Ware, J. L., Vega-Sánchez, Y. M., Clement, R., …Bybee, S. (2022). Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata). Diversity, 14(9), Article 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090757

The damselflies Hetaerininae, a subfamily of Calopterygidae, comprise four genera distributed from North to South America: Hetaerina, Mnesarete, Ormenophlebia and Bryoplathanon. While several studies have focused on the intriguing behavioral and morp... Read More about Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata).

Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species (2021)
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McEachin, S., Drury, J., Anderson, C., & Grether, G. (2022). Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species. Behavioral Ecology, 33(1), 126-136. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab115

Interspecific territoriality has complex ecological and evolutionary consequences. Species that interact aggressively often exhibit spatial or temporal shifts in activity that reduce the frequency of costly encounters. We analyzed data collected over... Read More about Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species.

Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds (2021)
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Drury, J., Clavel, J., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Tobias, J., & Morlon, H. (2021). Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds. PLoS Biology, 19(8), Article e3001270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001270

The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most striking patterns in nature yet its implications for morphological evolution are poorly understood. In particular, it has been proposed that an increased intensity of species interactions in tropi... Read More about Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds.

The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities (2021)
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Baker, E., Drury, J., Judge, J., Roy, D., Smith, G., & Stephens, P. (2021). The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.351

Citizen science schemes enable ecological data collection over very large spatial and temporal scales, producing datasets of high value for both pure and applied research. However, the accuracy of citizen science data is often questioned, owing to is... Read More about The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities.

Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds (2020)
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Cowen, M., Drury, J., & Grether, G. (2020). Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, 74(9), 2134-2148. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14068

Behavioral interference between species can influence a wide range of ecological and evolutionary processes. Here we test foundational hypotheses regarding the origins and maintenance of interspecific territoriality, and evaluate the role of interspe... Read More about Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds.

Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds (2020)
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Drury, J., Cowen, M., & Grether, G. (2020). Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(23), 12923-12930. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921380117

Historically, aggressive territorial interactions between members of different species have been dismissed as relatively rare occurrences and unimportant selective forces. We conducted the largest-ever comparative study of interspecific territorial b... Read More about Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds.

Predicting evolutionary responses to interspecific interference in the wild (2019)
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Grether, G., Drury, J., Okamoto, K., McEachin, S., & Anderson, C. (2020). Predicting evolutionary responses to interspecific interference in the wild. Ecology Letters, 23(2), 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13395

Many interspecifically territorial species interfere with each other reproductively, and in some cases, aggression toward heterospecifics may be an adaptive response to interspecific mate competition. This hypothesis was recently formalized in an ago... Read More about Predicting evolutionary responses to interspecific interference in the wild.

Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions (2019)
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Harmon, L., Andreazzi, C., Débarre, F., Drury, J., Goldberg, E., Martins, A., …Matthews, B. (2019). Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(8), 769-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13477

Species interactions lie at the heart of many theories of macroevolution, from adaptive radiation to the Red Queen. Although some theories describe the imprint that interactions will have over long time scales, we are still missing a comprehensive un... Read More about Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions.

A general explanation for the persistence of reproductive interference (2019)
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Drury, J., Anderson, C., Cabezas Castillo, M., Fisher, J., McEachin, S., & Grether, G. (2019). A general explanation for the persistence of reproductive interference. The American Naturalist, 194(2), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.1086/704102

Reproductive interference is widespread, despite the theoretical expectation that it should be eliminated by reproductive character displacement (RCD). A possible explanation is that females of sympatric species are too similar phenotypically for mal... Read More about A general explanation for the persistence of reproductive interference.

Continent-scale phenotype mapping using photographs from citizen scientists (2019)
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Drury, J., Barnes, M., Finneran, A., Harris, M., & Grether, G. (2019). Continent-scale phenotype mapping using photographs from citizen scientists. Ecography, 42(8), 1436-1445. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04469

Field investigations of phenotypic variation in free‐living organisms are often limited in scope owing to time and funding constraints. By collaborating with online communities of amateur naturalists, investigators can greatly increase the amount and... Read More about Continent-scale phenotype mapping using photographs from citizen scientists.

Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds (2018)
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Drury, J., Tobias, J., Burns, K., Mason, N., Schultz, A., & Morlon, H. (2018). Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds. PLoS Biology, 16(1), Article e2003563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003563

Competition between closely related species has long been viewed as a powerful selective force that drives trait diversification, thereby generating phenotypic diversity over macroevolutionary timescales. However, although the impact of interspecific... Read More about Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds.

An assessment of phylogenetic tools for analyzing the interplay between interspecific interactions and phenotypic evolution (2017)
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Drury, J., Grether, G., Garland Jr., T., & Morlon, H. (2018). An assessment of phylogenetic tools for analyzing the interplay between interspecific interactions and phenotypic evolution. Systematic Biology, 67(3), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syx079

Much ecological and evolutionary theory predicts that interspecific interactions often drive phenotypic diversification and that species phenotypes in turn influence species interactions. Several phylogenetic comparative methods have been developed t... Read More about An assessment of phylogenetic tools for analyzing the interplay between interspecific interactions and phenotypic evolution.

Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior (2017)
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Putman, B., Drury, J., Blumstein, D., & Pauly, G. (2017). Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior. PLoS ONE, 12(8), Article e0182146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182146

Animals often view humans as predators, leading to alterations in their behavior. Even nuanced aspects of human activity like clothing color affect animal behavior, but we lack an understanding of when and where such effects will occur. The species c... Read More about Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior.

Estimating the effect of competition on trait evolution using maximum likelihood inference (2016)
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Drury, J., Clavel, J., Manceau, M., & Morlon, H. (2016). Estimating the effect of competition on trait evolution using maximum likelihood inference. Systematic Biology, 65(4), 700-710. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw020

Many classical ecological and evolutionary theoretical frameworks posit that competition between species is an important selective force. For example, in adaptive radiations, resource competition between evolving lineages plays a role in driving phen... Read More about Estimating the effect of competition on trait evolution using maximum likelihood inference.

RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees (2016)
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Morlon, H., Lewitus, E., Condamine, F., Manceau, M., Clavel, J., & Drury, J. (2016). RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(5), 589-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12526

A number of approaches for studying macroevolution using phylogenetic trees have been developed in the last few years. Here, we present RPANDA, an R package that implements model‐free and model‐based phylogenetic comparative methods for macroevolutio... Read More about RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees.

The ecological and evolutionary stability of interspecific territoriality (2016)
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Losin, N., Drury, J., Peiman, K., Storch, C., & Grether, G. (2016). The ecological and evolutionary stability of interspecific territoriality. Ecology Letters, 19(3), 260-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12561

Interspecific territoriality may play an important role in structuring ecological communities, but the causes of this widespread form of interference competition remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the phenotypic, ecological and phylogenet... Read More about The ecological and evolutionary stability of interspecific territoriality.

Reproductive interference explains persistence of aggression between species (2015)
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Drury, J., Okamoto, K., Anderson, C., & Grether, G. (2015). Reproductive interference explains persistence of aggression between species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1804), Article 20142256. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2256

Interspecific territoriality occurs when individuals of different species fight over space, and may arise spontaneously when populations of closely related territorial species first come into contact. But defence of space is costly, and unless the be... Read More about Reproductive interference explains persistence of aggression between species.

Interspecific aggression, not interspecific mating, drives character displacement in the wing coloration of male rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina) (2014)
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Drury, J., & Grether, G. (2014). Interspecific aggression, not interspecific mating, drives character displacement in the wing coloration of male rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1796), Article 20141737. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1737

Traits that mediate intraspecific social interactions may overlap in closely related sympatric species, resulting in costly between-species interactions. Such interactions have principally interested investigators studying the evolution of reproducti... Read More about Interspecific aggression, not interspecific mating, drives character displacement in the wing coloration of male rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina).