An emerging synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology

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Phylogenies and Community Ecology

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Are There General Laws in Ecology?

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The geographic mosaic of coevolution

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WHEN IS IT COEVOLUTION?

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Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Floridian Oak Communities

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Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process

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Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens: Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics

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The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation

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Community Assembly Through Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Spiders

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Mutualism, Facilitation, and the Structure of Ecological Communities

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PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE OF FLORIDIAN PLANT COMMUNITIES DEPENDS ON TAXONOMIC AND SPATIAL SCALE

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How much variance can be explained by ecologists and evolutionary biologists?

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Linking genetic change to community evolution: insights from studies of bacteria and bacteriophage

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Competition and the Structure of Ecological Communities

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THE PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE OF A NEOTROPICAL FOREST TREE COMMUNITY

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The pace of modern life II: From rates of contemporary microevolution to pattern and process

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SELECTION OF BENEVOLENCE IN A HOST–PARASITE SYSTEM

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Tangled trees : phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution

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PLANT GENOTYPE AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACT TO SHAPE A DIVERSE ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY ON EVENING PRIMROSE (OENOTHERA BIENNIS)

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Adaptation, Niche Conservatism, and Convergence: Comparative Studies of Leaf Evolution in the California Chaparral

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Genetically based trait in a dominant tree affects ecosystem processes

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Additive and interactive effects of plant genotypic diversity on arthropod communities and plant fitness

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Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid

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Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community

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PHYLOGENETIC CLUSTERING AND OVERDISPERSION IN BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES

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The pace of modern life II: from rates of contemporary microevolution to pattern and process

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Effects of genetic impoverishment on plant community diversity

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PREY ADAPTATION AS A CAUSE OF PREDATOR‐PREY CYCLES

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Phylogeny, ecology, and behavior: A research program in comparative biology

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Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution

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60 million years of co-divergence in the fig–wasp symbiosis

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Toward a more trait‐centered approach to diffuse (co)evolution

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PHYLODIVERSITY-DEPENDENT SEEDLING MORTALITY, SIZE STRUCTURE, AND DISEASE IN A BORNEAN RAIN FOREST

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PHYLOGENETIC DISPERSION OF HOST USE IN A TROPICAL INSECT HERBIVORE COMMUNITY

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Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities

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Genetic Variation Among Plants and Insect Community Structure: Willows and Sawflies

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Reciprocal Natural Selection on Host‐Parasite Phenotypes

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Experimental evidence of a tripartite mutualism: bacteria protect ant fungus gardens from specialized parasites

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SIMULTANEOUS EFFECTS OF PHYLOGENETIC NICHE CONSERVATISM AND COMPETITION ON AVIAN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE

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The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution.

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Genetic Identity of Populus tremuloides Litter Influences Decomposition and Nutrient Release in a Mixed Forest Stand

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN COMPETITIVE COMMUNITIES

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Cospeciation of chemoautotrophic bacteria and deep sea clams

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Importance of species interactions to community heritability: a genetic basis to trophic‐level interactions

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COMMUNITY HERITABILITY MEASURES THE EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES OF INDIRECT GENETIC EFFECTS ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE

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Phylogenetic Analysis of Trophic Associations

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BUILDING A REGIONAL SPECIES POOL: DIVERSIFICATION OF THEENALLAGMADAMSELFLIES IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

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PHYLOGENESIS OF INSECT/PLANT INTERACTIONS: HAVEPHYLLOBROTICALEAF BEETLES (CHRYSOMELIDAE) AND THE LAMIALES DIVERSIFIED IN PARALLEL?

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Diffuse Selection on Resistance to Deer Herbivory in the Ivyleaf Morning Glory, Ipomoea hederacea

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Genetic analysis of coevolution between plants and their natural enemies

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A phylogenetic approach to community assembly from a local species pool

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EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF NATIVE PLANTS TO NOVEL COMMUNITY MEMBERS

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Toward community genetics.

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Relationships between ecological interaction modifications and diffuse coevolution: similarities, differences, and causal links

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Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice

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ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE EQUIVALENCY VERSUS CONSERVATISM: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO NICHE EVOLUTION

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The modularity of pollination networks

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The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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Ecological consequences of genetic diversity

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