Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology

1 1859 AND IN THE BEGINNING.. 2 1894 MEASURING SELECTION IN NATURE 3 1920 A THEORY OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT POPULATION GROWTH IS FORMULATED 4 1928 SELECTION IN AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS 5 1930 THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF NATURAL SELECTION 6 1930 EVOLUTION OF MIMICRY 7 1930 FLUCTUATION IN NUMBERS AND GENOTYPES 8 1934 COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION 9 1940 THE COMMON GARDEN EXPERIMENT 10 1943 SEASONAL CHANGES OF GENE REGIONS IN NATURAL POPULATIONS 11 1947 THE ROLE OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AS AN AGENT FOR ADAPTATION TO VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS IS PROPOSED 12 1947 MEASURING SELECTION AND DRIFT IN A NATURAL POPULATION 13 1954 COLE'S PARADOX 14 1954 LACK'S PRINCIPLE 15 1956 CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT 16 1958 NICHE PARTITIONING BY WARBLER BIRDS 17 1961 POPULATION REGULATION AND GENETIC FEEDBACKS 18 1962 ECOLOGICAL MEASURES OF FITNESS 19 1962 GROUP SELECTION 20 1964 COMMUNITY EVOLUTION 21 1964 KIN SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 22 1965 EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN PLANTS 23 1965 FITNESS ESTIMATION 24 1966 THE CONCEPT OF ENERGETIC TRADE-OFFS 25 1966 EVOLUTION OF DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS 26 1966 OPTIMAL FORAGING BASED ON TIME AND ENERGY 27 1966 EVOLUTION OF A PLANT ANIMAL MUTUALISM 28 1967 EVOLUTION FOLLOWING COLONIZATION 29 1968 COLE'S PARADOX RESOLVED BY ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION 30 1968 EVOLUTION IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS 31 1969 THE POLYGYNY THRESHOLD MODEL 32 1970 REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT AND THE LIFE HISTORY SCHEDULE 33 1970 THE PRICE EQUATION 34 1971 POPULATION GENETIC THEORY OF DENSITY-DEPEDENT NATURAL SELECTION 35 1971 THE EVOLUTION OF HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE 36 1973 THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS 37 1973 THE EVOLUTION OF MELANISM 38 1975 SEX AND EVOLUTION 39 1975 GENETICS OF MIMICRY 40 1976 EVOLUTION OF RESOURCE PARTITIONING 41 1977 LIFE HISTORY THEORY CHALLANGED 42 1977 NATURAL SELECTION FAVORS REDUCED VARIANCE IN FITNESS 43 1978 MAINTENANCE OF PROTEIN POLYMORPHISMS IN A VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT 44 1979 A CRITIQUE OF THE ADAPTATIONIST PROGRAM 45 1980 EVOLUTION OF PHILOPATRY 46 1981 TESTING DENSITY-DEPENDENT NAURAL SELECTION 47 1981 EVOLUTION OF POPULATION STABILITY: THEORY 48 1982 LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION IN NATURE 49 1982 EVOLUTION OF VIRULENCE 50 1984 EVOLUTION OF AGE-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF SURVIVAL AND FECUNDITY 51 1985 EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY THEORY 52 1985 COEVOLUTION OF BACTERIA AND PHAGE 53 1986 EVOLUTION OF DARWIN'S FINCHES 54 1986 EVOLUTION ACROSS THREE TROPHIC LEVELS 55 1988 EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY 56 1990 A PREDATOR-PREY ARMS RACE 57 1990 REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT AND THE BALANCE BETWEEN EGG NUMBER AND EGG SIZE 58 1991 EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION 59 1994 EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE ROLE OF NATURAL SELECTION IN THE PROCESS OF CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT 60 1994 THE GEOGRAPHIC MOSAIC THEORY OF COEVOLUTION 61 1996 COMMUNITY EVOLUTION DUE TO INDIRECT EFFECTS 62 1996 TESTS OF ADAPTIVE PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN PLANTS 63 1997 EVOLUTION OF SPECIES'RANGE - THEORY 64 2000 EVOLUTION OF POPULATION STABILITY: EXPERIMENTS 65 2004 COEVOLUTION OVER SPACE AND TIME