Greta Bocedi

Pest evolution amplifies projected crop losses under climate change

This study shows that pest evolution under climate change increases crop damage potential more than warming alone, with significant implications for future food security.

The flaws of fitness functions in changing environments

The paper shows that composite fitness functions are flawed in variable environments by ignoring the distinct environmental dependence of underlying life-history processes, using empirical data from seed beetles.

Chromosome-scale genome assembly and linkage map for Silene uniflora reveal the recombination landscape in a rapidly evolving plant species

Landscape context drives within-species variation in dispersal kernels and limits transferability

The paper simulates dispersal patterns across different landscapes to show that dispersal kernels vary with habitat configuration and are not transferable across environments.

Inferring the distributions of fitness effects and proportions of strongly deleterious mutations

The paper evaluates a method for inferring the distribution of fitness effects by adding a parameter to account for strongly deleterious mutations, showing it can improve model fit but may introduce biases.