Matthew L. Forister

TL;DR: The collection of case studies suggests that individual specialization is a widespread but underappreciated phenomenon that poses many important but unanswered questions.

TL;DR: Wagner et al. as discussed by the authors found that more than half of all amphibians are imperiled and more than 80% of all vertebrate species are in danger of extinction over the next few decades.

TL;DR: A global dataset is used to investigate host range for over 7,500 insect herbivore species covering a wide taxonomic breadth and interacting with more than 2,000 species of plants in 165 families to ask whether relatively specialized and generalized herbivores represent a dichotomy rather than a continuum from few to many host families and species attacked and whether diet breadth changes with increasing plant species richness toward the tropics.

TL;DR: The interacting negative effects of human-induced changes on both the climate and habitat available to butterfly species in California reveal the decline of ruderal, disturbance-associated species, and indicates that the traditional focus of conservation efforts should be broadened to include entire faunas when estimating and predicting the effects of pervasive stressors.

TL;DR: It is found that the alpine-adapted butterflies in the genus Lycaeides are the product of hybrid speciation, and adaptive traits may allow for persistence in the environmentally extreme alpine habitat and reproductively isolate these populations from their parental species.