Bill Shipley

TL;DR: It is suggested that an evolutionary trade-off with increasing investment in chemical defences in species adapted to different levels of habitat fertility does not exist in this group of Asteraceae.

TL;DR: The results both confirm the generality of the original model but also highlight the importance of taking into account neutral processes during assembly of a plant community, and properly defining the species pool.

TL;DR: The analyses show that an antagonistic interaction between ectoparasites and food abundance sets tissue development and oxygen carrying capacity of blood at fledging, and that identical paths link these variables to physiological performance and recruitment, and suggest that metabolic capacity at fledged may be important in determining subsequent recruitment and unmasks subtle fitness costs of an ectoparsite.

TL;DR: It is shown that no extant theory for the LES is supported, but that some leaf venation networks likely play a role in driving the pattern and a roadmap is provided for the measurements that could generate further insight into this fundamental ecological pattern.

TL;DR: A new statistical test is described (‘d-sep test’) that allows one to test, and potentially falsify, alternative multivariate orderings of cause-and-effect in the context of allometry.