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Virtual Issue: Celebrating Darwin: evolutionary biology in the Journal of Animal Ecology

Edited by Tim Coulson
January 2009

The Journal of Animal Ecology has a long tradition of publishing research in evolutionary ecology. Over the years papers published in the journal have provided many key insights into the modus operandi of evolution in animal species. To celebrate the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth we have compiled a virtual issue of some of the exciting works showing the links between ecology and evolution and which have made a major impact on the way we think.

Location-specific sympatric morphological divergence as a possible response to species interactions in West Virginia Plethodon salamander communities
Dean C Adans, Mary E West, Michael L Collyer

Maternal effects mediated by maternal age: from life-histories to population dynamics
Tim Benton, J J H St Clair, S J Plaistow

Age-dependent horn growth and survival in wild sheep
Fanie Pelletier, Patrick Bergeron, Christophe Bonenfant, Mathieu Garel

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?
Andrew Cockburn, Rachel A Sims, Helen L Osmond, David J Green, Michael C Double, Raoul A Mulder

Laboratory evolution of population stability in Drosophila: Constancy and Persistence do not necessarily coevolve
Amitabh Joshi, Sutirth Dey, N G Prasad, Mallikarjun Shakarad

Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback
Niels J Dingemanse, Jonathan Wright, Anahita J N Kazem, Dawn K Thomas, Rachael Hickling, Nick Dawnay

Maternal condition influences phenotypic selection on offspring
Monica Gagliano, Mark I McCormick

Sympatry with the devil - Reproductive interference could hamper species coexistence
Axel Hochkirch, Julia Groning, Amelie Bucker

Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats
Sarah Hodge, A Manica, T P Flower, T H Clutton-Brock

Structural change in an exploited fish community: a consequence of differential fishing effects on species with contrasting life histories
Simon Jennings, Simon. P. R. Greenstreet, John. D. Reynolds

Family effects on early survival and variance in long-term reproductive success of female cheetahs
Nathalie Pettorelli, Sarah M Durant

Evolutionary responses to harvesting in ungulates
G Proaktor, T Coulson, E J Milner-Gulland

Why do female lizards lay their eggs in communal nests?
Richard Shine, Rajkumar S Radder

On being the right size: food-limited feedback on optimal body size
A.R.E. Sinclair, John P Parks

The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities
Mark C Urban

Trade-off between reciprocal mutualists: local resource availability oriented interaction in fig/fig wasp mutualism
Rui-Wu Wang, Lei Shi, Shi Meng Ai, Qi Zheng

Climate effects on offspring sex ratio in a viviparous lizard
Erik Wapstra, David L Sinn, Jean Joss, Tobias Uller, Katrina Mazurek, Richard Shine, Mats Olsson

Adaptation to the new land or effect of global warming? - An age-structured model for rapid voltinism change in an alien lepidopteran pest
Takehiko Yamanaka, Sadahiro Tatsuki, Masakazu Shimada

An Experimental-Study of Co-Evolution between the Cuckoo, Cuculus-Canorus, and Its Hosts .1. Host Egg Discrimination
Davies, N.B. & Brooke, M.D.

An Experimental-Study of Co-Evolution between the Cuckoo, Cuculus-Canorus, and Its Hosts .2. Host Egg Markings, Chick Discrimination and General Discussion
Davies, N.B. & Brooke, M.D.

The Importance of Being Large - the Relationship between Size and Fitness in Females of the Parasitoid Aphaereta-Minuta (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Visser, M.E.