L. D. Chick

In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in response to urban evolution in an acorn-dwelling ant

This study uses a reciprocal transplant experiment to show local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in urban and rural acorn-dwelling ants, with stronger rural adaptation signals.

Evolution, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline

The study shows that evolutionary differentiation, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the divergence in thermal tolerance of acorn ants across urban and rural environments.