L. De Meester

Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters

The paper examines local adaptation to salinity in Daphnia magna across two saline habitat clusters, finding regional and fine-scale adaptation differences.

Intraspecific genetic variation is critical to robust toxicological predictions of aquatic contaminants

The paper shows that intraspecific genetic variation significantly affects toxicity responses to microcystins in Daphnia magna, highlighting the need for diverse genotypes in environmental risk assessments.

Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans

The paper compares spatial and environmental drivers of metacommunity structure and landscape genetic structure in zooplankton across soda pans, finding parallels and divergences in their influences.

Disentangling metacommunity processes using multiple metrics in space and time

The paper develops a Virtual ecologist approach to evaluate metacommunity assembly processes using spatial and temporal community structure statistics and random forests.

The Internal Structure of Metacommunities

The paper introduces a new framework to analyze the internal structure of metacommunities by examining how different species and sites contribute to metacommunity attributes, using synthetic data and Joint Species Distribution Models.

A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

This paper presents a new metacommunity framework that links local and regional ecological dynamics through three key processes and demonstrates how existing theories are connected by these processes.

Quantifying eco-evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems

The paper modifies existing metrics to partition ecological and evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems and applies them to empirical examples.

Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world

The paper examines how evolutionary changes in trait distributions affect ecosystem tipping points and their interaction with ecological shifts.

Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution

The paper shows that regional neutrality in ecological systems can arise from local adaptive evolution, leading to niche convergence despite strong local niche differentiation.

Evolution at two time frames: polymorphisms from an ancient singular divergence event fuel contemporary parallel evolution

The paper shows that ancient genetic variation from a single divergence event enables rapid parallel evolution in beetle ecotypes through repeated selection after admixture.