title: Evolution in a Community Context: On Integrating Ecological Interactions and Macroevolution.
abstract: Despite a conceptual understanding that evolution and species interactions are inextricably linked, it remains challenging to study ecological and evolutionary dynamics together over long temporal scales. In this review, we argue that, despite inherent challenges associated with reconstructing historical processes, the interplay of ecology and evolution is central to our understanding of macroevolution and community coexistence, and cannot be safely ignored in community and comparative phylogenetic studies. We highlight new research avenues that foster greater consideration of both ecological and evolutionary dynamics as processes that occur along branches of phylogenetic trees. By promoting new ways forward using this perspective, we hope to inspire further integration that creatively co-utilizes phylogenies and ecological data to study eco-evolutionary dynamics over time and space.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA. Electronic address: marjorie.gail@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marjorie G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Institute and Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
authors.forename: Catherine E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.affiliation: Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, 525 S. Beaver Street, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Best
authors.affiliation: Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
authors.forename: Luke J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Harmon
authors.affiliation: Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Blake
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Matthews
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: adaptive radiation; community assembly; community phylogenetics; comparative phylogenetic methods; eco-evolutionary dynamics; ecological speciation; macroevolution; species interactions; trait evolution