Andrew P. Beckerman

Vertebrates do not display consistent declines in abundance or stability with contemporary range or realized climate niche centrality

This study finds no consistent decline in vertebrate abundance or stability with distance from range or climate niche centres, challenging assumptions in ecological models.

Temporal resolution reshapes dynamics of inferred community structure and extinction selectivity across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

This study shows that high temporal resolution reveals abrupt ecological changes and shifts in extinction selectivity during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which coarse resolution obscures.

Adaptation to free-living drives loss of beneficial endosymbiosis through metabolic trade-offs

The paper shows that adaptation to free-living conditions in algal endosymbionts leads to loss of host benefits, driven by metabolic trade-offs, with nitrogen availability as a key factor.

No global collapse of food webs across the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction

This study reconstructs marine food webs across the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction to show that trophic collapse was not global and was influenced by environmental factors and species traits.

Intracellular niche specialisation drives evolutionary entrapment of endosymbiotic algae

This study shows that endosymbiotic algae evolve traits specialized for intracellular niches, reducing their fitness in extracellular environments, thereby stabilizing endosymbiosis through evolutionary entrapment.

Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs

This study shows response diversity drives community stability in food webs, with food web structure playing a secondary role.

Reintroductions backfire by destabilising food webs and triggering further extinction cascades

This study shows reintroductions can destabilize food webs and trigger extinction cascades, often undetected because success is measured only by reintroduced species survival.

Metabolomic profiling of glyphosate resistance evolution in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

This study uses metabolomic profiling to analyze glyphosate resistance evolution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, revealing metabolic changes and fitness trade-offs associated with resistance.

Biodiversity temporal trends are reshaping food web structure and redundancy in riverine ecosystems

The paper analyzes biodiversity and food web time series from riverine fish communities to show how biodiversity loss affects food web structure and redundancy.

EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks

The paper introduces a Julia package for simulating temporal dynamics of ecological networks with diverse interaction types and environmental drivers.

Evidence for a trade-off between glyphosate resistance and anti-grazer defence in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

This study investigates whether glyphosate resistance in green algae incurs a trade-off with anti-grazer defense, finding context-dependent extrinsic costs.

Glyphosate resistance evolution to lethal and sublethal doses in chemostat populations of model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

This study evaluates glyphosate resistance evolution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under lethal and sublethal doses, finding resistance from standing genetic variation but limited fitness cost trade-offs.