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Ecological fitting by phenotypically flexible genotypes: implications for species associations, community assembly and evolution by Agosta, Salvatore J, Klemens, Jeffrey A

“…Ecological fitting is the process whereby organisms colonize and persist in novel environments, use novel resources or form novel associations with other…”
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Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting by Araujo, Sabrina B L, Braga, Mariana Pires, Brooks, Daniel R, Agosta, Salvatore J, Hoberg, Eric P, von Hartenthal, Francisco W, Boeger, Walter A

“…Despite the fact that parasites are highly specialized with respect to their hosts, empirical evidence demonstrates that host switching rather than…”
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How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease by Agosta, Salvatore J., Janz, Niklas, Brooks, Daniel R.

“…The parasite paradox arises from the dual observations that parasites (broadly construed, including phytophagous insects) are resource specialists with…”
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Growth and development of an invasive forest insect under current and future projected temperature regimes by Walter, Jonathan A., Thompson, Lily M., Powers, Sean D., Parry, Dylan, Agosta, Salvatore J., Grayson, Kristine L.

“…Temperature and its impact on fitness are fundamental for understanding range shifts and population dynamics under climate change. Geographic climate…”
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Upper thermal limits differ among and within component species in a tritrophic host-parasitoid-hyperparasitoid system by Agosta, Salvatore J, Joshi, Kanchan A, Kester, Karen M

“…Understanding how climate change affects host-parasite systems and predicting the consequences for ecosystems, economies, and human health has emerged as an…”
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Mammalian Metabolic Allometry: Do Intraspecific Variation, Phylogeny, and Regression Models Matter? by Sieg, Annette E., O’Connor, Michael P., McNair, James N., Grant, Bruce W., Agosta, Salvatore J., Dunham, Arthur E.

“…Power scaling relationships between body mass and organismal traits are fundamental to biology. Compilations of mammalian masses and basal metabolic rates date…”
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Budget-limited thermal biology: Design, construction and performance of a large, walk-in style temperature-controlled chamber by Martinez, Eloy, Agosta, Salvatore J.

“…We describe a partial redesign of the conventional air-conditioning system and apply it to the construction of a relatively large (1.87m3 air mass), walk-in…”
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A macrophysiological analysis of energetic constraints on geographic range size in mammals by Agosta, Salvatore J, Bernardo, Joseph, Ceballos, Gerardo, Steele, Michael A

“…Physiological processes are essential for understanding the distribution and abundance of organisms, and recently, with widespread attention to climate change,…”
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Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal by Bartlow, Andrew W., Agosta, Salvatore J.

“…ABSTRACT Phoresy is a type of interaction in which one species, the phoront, uses another species, the dispersal host, for transportation to new habitats or…”
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Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology by O'Connor, Michael P., Kemp, Stanley J., Agosta, Salvatore J., Hansen, Frank, Sieg, Annette E., Wallace, Bryan P., McNair, James N., Dunham, Arthur E.

“…The recently proposed metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) claims to provide a mechanistic explanation for long known allometric relationships between mass and…”
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Children of time: the extended synthesis and major metaphors of evolution by Brooks, Daniel R., Agosta, Salvatore J.

“…It is time for an expansion and enrichment of evolutionary theory. The "back to the future" proposal contained herein is based on three postulates: 1)…”
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Ontogenetic variation in metabolic rate-temperature relationships during larval development by Powers, Sean D, Grayson, Kristine L, Martinez, Eloy, Agosta, Salvatore J

“…Predictive models of ectotherm responses to environmental change often rely on thermal performance data from the literature. For insects, the majority of these…”
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Climate‐related variation of metabolic rate across the distribution of a broadly tolerant invasive forest pest by Powers, Sean D., Thompson, Lily M., Parry, Dylan, Grayson, Kristine L., Martinez, Eloy, Agosta, Salvatore J.

“…Aim Metabolic rate is a widely studied physiological species trait related to energetics, climate, and geographical distributions. Hypotheses have been…”
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Responses of seedling growth and survival to post‐germination cotyledon removal: An investigation among seven oak species by Yi, Xianfeng, Bartlow, Andrew W., Curtis, Rachel, Agosta, Salvatore J., Steele, Michael A., Heard, Matthew

“…Rodents regularly rely on emerged epicotyls to locate and remove cotyledons still containing valuable nutrients. However, the extent to which acorn…”
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On ecological fitting, plant-insect associations, herbivore host shifts, and host plant selection by Agosta, Salvatoe J.

“…“Pests soon colonize plants that are cultivated extensively, plant species recruit different pest species in different regions, and associations of insects…”
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New macroecological insights into functional constraints on mammalian geographical range size by Agosta, Salvatore J., Bernardo, Joseph

“…Understanding the determinants of variation in the extent of species distributions is a fundamental goal of ecology. The diversity of geographical range sizes…”
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Multi level ecological fitting: indirect life cycles are not a barrier to host switching and invasion by Malcicka, Miriama, Agosta, Salvatore J, Harvey, Jeffrey A

“…Many invasive species are able to escape from coevolved enemies and thus enjoy a competitive advantage over native species. However, during the invasion phase,…”
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Climate‐related geographical variation in performance traits across the invasion front of a widespread non‐native insect by Thompson, Lily M., Powers, Sean D., Appolon, Ashley, Hafker, Petra, Milner, Lelia, Parry, Dylan, Agosta, Salvatore J., Grayson, Kristine L.

“…Aim Invasive species are ideal systems for testing geographical differences in performance traits and measuring evolutionary responses as a species spreads…”
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Phylogeny, Regression, and the Allometry of Physiological Traits by O’Connor, Michael P., Agosta, Salvatore J., Hansen, Frank, Kemp, Stanley J., Sieg, Annette E., McNair, James N., Dunham, Arthur E.

“…Physiological and ecological allometries often pose linear regression problems characterized by (1) noncausal, phylogenetically autocorrelated independent (x)…”
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Ecological super‐spreaders drive host–range oscillations: Omicron and risk space for emerging infectious disease by Boeger, Walter A., Brooks, Daniel R., Trivellone, Valeria, Agosta, Salvatore J., Hoberg, Eric P.

“…The unusual genetic diversity of the Omicron strain has led to speculation about its origin. The mathematical modelling platform developed for the Stockholm…”
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