Author(s): Sinno S; MacInnis G; Lessard JP; Ziter CD;

Urbanization is a leading threat to biodiversity, but scientifically informed management of urban ecosystems can mitigate negative impacts. For wild bees, which are declining worldwide, careful consideration of flower choice in public and private green spaces could help preserve their diversity. While floral density and species richness are both linked to ...

Article GUID: 39609370

Author(s): Chaikin S; Riva F; Marshall KE; Lessard JP; Belmaker J;

Climate change is driving the global redistribution of species. A common assumption is that rapid range shifts occur in tandem with overall stable or positive abundance trends throughout the range and thus these species may be considered as climate change 'winners'. However, although establishing the link between range shift velocities and populat ...

Article GUID: 38459374

Author(s): Savary P; Lessard JP; Peres-Neto PR;

Dispersal has a key role in shaping spatial patterns of biodiversity, yet its spatial heterogeneity is often overlooked in biodiversity analyses and management strategies. Properly parameterised heterogeneous dispersal networks capture the complex interplay between landscape structure and species-specific dispersal capacities. However, this heterogeneity ...

Article GUID: 37891075

Author(s): Usui T; Lerner D; Eckert I; Angert AL; Garroway CJ; Hargreaves A; Lancaster LT; Lessard JP; Riva F; Schmidt C; van der Burg K; Marshall KE;

Phenotypic plasticity enables rapid responses to environmental change, and could facilitate range shifts in response to climate change. What drives the evolution of plasticity at range edges, and the capacity of range-edge individuals to be plastic, remain unclear. Here, we propose that accuratel ...

Article GUID: 37183152

Author(s): Gibb H; Bishop TR; Leahy L; Parr CL; Lessard JP; Sanders NJ; Shik JZ; Ibarra-Isassi J; Narendra A; Dunn RR; Wright IJ;

Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from decades of work that largely focussed on plants. However, a key question is whether plant ecological strategies resemb ...

Article GUID: 37056633

Author(s): Schmidt C; Muñoz G; Lancaster LT; Lessard JP; Marske KA; Marshall KE; Garroway CJ;

Global biodiversity is organised into biogeographic regions that comprise distinct biotas. The contemporary factors maintaining differences in species composition between regions are poorly understood. Given evidence that populations with sufficient genetic variation can adapt to fill new habitats, it is surprising that more homogenisation of species asse ...

Article GUID: 35753949

Author(s): Wellenreuther M; Dudaniec RY; Neu A; Lessard JP; Bridle J; Carbonell JA; Diamond SE; Marshall KE; Parmesan C; Singer MC; Swaegers J; Thomas CD; Lancaster LT;

Evolutionary change impacts the rate at which insect pests, pollinators, or disease vectors expand or contract their geographic ranges. Although evolutionary changes, and their ecological feedbacks, strongly affect these risks and associated ecological and economic consequences, they are often un ...

Article GUID: 35644339

Author(s): La Richelière F; Muñoz G; Guénard B; Dunn RR; Economo EP; Powell S; Sanders NJ; Weiser MD; Abouheif E; Lessard JP;

Biologists have long been fascinated by the processes that give rise to phenotypic complexity of organisms, yet whether there exist geographical hotspots of phenotypic complexity remains poorly explored. Phenotypic complexity can be readily observed in ant colonies, which are superorganisms with ...

Article GUID: 35135345

Author(s): Brassard F, Francoeur A, Lessard JP

1. The morphology of organisms relates to most aspects of their life history and autecology. As such, elucidating the drivers of morphological variation along environmental gradients might give insight into processes limiting species distributions. In eusocial organisms, the concept of morphology is more complex than in solitary organisms. Eusocial insect ...

Article GUID: 32858759

Author(s): Favret C, Moisan-De Serres J, Larrivée M, Lessard JP

Biodivers Data J. 2020;8:e49450 Authors: Favret C, Moisan-De Serres J, Larrivée M, Lessard JP

Article GUID: 32174757

Author(s): DeBellis T, Kembel SW, Lessard JP

PeerJ. 2019;7:e7295 Authors: DeBellis T, Kembel SW, Lessard JP

Article GUID: 31392089