Warp-speed adaptation to novel hosts after 300 generations of enforced dietary specialisation in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Thank you to Paul Eady for providing C. maculatus to initiate our laboratory population and advice on rearing them. The study was funded by the University of Aberdeen core teaching funds (honours project budget to TP), and by a doctoral training grant to AL from the BBSRC-EastBio doctoral training partnershipPeer reviewedPublisher PD

Host use diversification during range shifts shapes global variation in Lepidopteran dietary breadth

Acknowledgements I thank M. C. Singer for helpful discussions and comments. I thank I. Kitching for permissions to use the Lepidopteran host plant database curated by the Natural History Museum London. I also thank the authors of refs. 19,20 for making their range shift data publicly available, and to all contributors to and curators of the open access databases used in this study. Data availability: All data used in this study is freely publicly available from the cited sources17,19,20. Reuse of the HOSTS dataset is conditional upon permission from the curators.Peer reviewedPostprin

Molecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages

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Increased duration of extreme thermal events negatively affects cold acclimation ability in a high-latitude, freshwater ectotherm (Ischnura elegans; Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We wish to thank the owners of the Midmar Stillwater Fishery for permission to sample larvae from their trout ponds. Thanks also to S. Areshi and R. Fitt for assistance in the field. This project was funded by the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences, as part of their Ecology and Conservation MSc programme thesis project budget.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Maladaptive plasticity facilitates evolution of thermal tolerance during an experimental range shift

Availability of data and materials All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its Additional file 2]. Acknowledgements Thank you to P. Eady for providing C. maculatus to initiate our laboratory population and advice on rearing them. Thank you to Max Schmid for commenting on an earlier version of the ms. Funding This research was funded by a doctoral training grant from the BBSRC-EastBio doctoral training partnership. The funding bodies played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants

Data availability: The global dataset of gplant thermal tolerances generated for and analysed within this study is appended to Supplementary Information (SI Dataset). Acknowledgments: We thank Mark Adams for providing code to optimise spatial distance kernels, and Jake Alexander, Per-Ola Karis, members of the BES Macroecology SIG, and members of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research (Research Area 8) for helpful discussions.Peer reviewedPostprin

Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana

Acknowledgments We would like to thank the numerous undergraduate researchers involved with this project for their invaluable assistance in lizard rearing and data collection. We also thank D. Haisten, A. Runemark, Y. Takahashi, and M. Verzijden for insightful comments on the manuscript. This project was funded by National Science Foundation DEBOS-15973 to A.G.M. and B.R.S.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Life history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change

University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences provided funds to support this study in the form of a MSc project allowance to G.M. and a start-up grant to L.T.L. R.N.F.’s salary is funded by a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) PhD-ship awarded to the University of Aberdeen.Peer reviewedPostprin

Evolving social dynamics prime thermal tolerance during a poleward range shift

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Odonata community structure and patterns of land use in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region (Ghana)

The authors are grateful to Worldwide Dragonfly Association (WDA) for providing fund for this study. Special thanks to Tropical Biology Association (www.tropical-biology.org) for their advice and mentoring. My heartfelt appreciation to Viola Clausnitzer and Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra for providing us with the identification hand books and for their immense contribution, mentoring, advice and guidance for the species identifications and towards the successful completion of the study. We are greatly indebted to Robb Fitt for his assistance throughout the data analysis at University of Aberdeen. Finally, to Daniel Acquah-Lamptey, George Ashiagbor, Paul Tehoda, Sulemana Bawa and Emmanuel Amoah, for their role in field data gathering.Peer reviewedPostprin