www.burgess-shale.rom.on.ca

This visually stunning online exhibition, addresses aspects of history, research, education, outreach and visitor access to one of the most famous paleontological sites in the world, the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park (British Columbia, Canada). Of particular interest is an animated tour of the Cambrian seas through a virtual submarine and a comprehensive fossil gallery, with high resolution images of spectacularly well-preserved marine animals and algae, and breathless digital reconstructions. A must-see for anyone interested in discovering what life on earth may have been like more than half a billion years ago, and an excellent primer for those who wish to visit the Burgess Shale in person. The Virtual Museum of Canada's Burgess Shale exhibit was created by the Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada.  Lesson plans for teachers related to this website can also be found on the Virtual Museum of Canada Teacher's Centre.

O’Connor, M.I., B. Gilbert and C.J. Brown. 2011. Theoretical predictions for how temperature affects the dynamics of interacting herbivores and plants. American Naturalist 178: 626-638.

Gilbert, B. (2011), Joint consequences of dispersal and niche overlap on local diversity and resource use. Journal of Ecology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01908.x

Manu Esteve, a former postdoc with EEB's Prof. Deborah McLennan has created a short video regarding his field work that he conducted during his stay at the University of Toronto.

Kim, J.-W., Grant, J.W.A. & Brown, G.E. 2011. Do juvenile Atlantic
salmon (Salmo salar) use chemosensory cues to detect and avoid risky
habitats in the wild? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences. 68(4): 655-662.

Cutter, A.D. & J.Y. Choi. 2010. Natural selection shapes nucleotide polymorphism across the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae. Genome Research. 20: 1103-1111.

Wang, G.-X., S. Ren, Y. Ren, H. Ai & A.D. Cutter. 2010. Extremely high molecular diversity within the East Asian nematode Caenorhabditis sp. 5. Molecular Ecology. 19: 5022-5029.

Prasad, A., M. Croydon-Sugarman, R.L. Murray & A.D. Cutter. 2011. Temperature-dependent fecundity associates with latitude in Caenorhabditis briggsae. Evolution. 65: 52-63.

Melles, S.J., M.-J. Fortin, K. Lindsay, D. Badzinski. 2011. Expanding
northward: Influence of climate change, forest connectivity, and
population processes on a threatened species’ range shift. Global
Change Biology, 17, 17-31.

Dale, M.R.T. and M.-J. Fortin. 2010. From graphs to spatial graphs.
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 41, 21-38.

Manel S., S. Joost, B.K. Epperson, R. Holderegger, A. Storfer, M.S.
Rosenberg, K. Scribner, A. Bonin and M.-J. Fortin. 2010. Perspectives
on the use of landscape genetics to detect genetic adaptive variation
in the field. Molecular Ecology, 19: 3760-3772.

Eugenia Y. Y. Lo, Saša Stefanović & Timothy A. Dickinson. 2010. Reconstructing reticulation history in a phylogenetic framework and the potential of allopatric speciation driven by polyploidy in an agamic complex in Crataegus (Rosaceae). Evolution 64: 3593-3608.

Andrew Drake, and Nicholas Mandrak. 2010. Least-cost transportation networks predict spatial interaction of invasion vectors. Ecological Applications. 20: 2286-2299.

Jae-Woo Kim, Jacquelyn L.A. Wood, James W.A. Grant & Grant E. Brown. 2011. Acute and chronic increases in predation risk affect the territorial behaviour of juvenile Atlantic salmon in the wild. Animal Behaviour. 81(1): 93-99.

Becks, L. & Agrawal, A. F. 2010. Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments. Nature. 468: 89-92.

This news has also been featured in:

New York Times
 
The Scientist

Scientific American
 

E. Glen Weyla, Megan E. Frederickson, Douglas W. Yuc and Naomi E. Piercea. 2010.  Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism.  PNAS Early Edition.

U of T story:
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/mutualism

Harvard story:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/08/i%E2%80%99ll-get-mine-jack/

Jessica Forrest & Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3101-3112.

Ruppert, J.L.W., M.-J. Fortin, G.A. Rose and R. Devillers.
Environmental mediation of Atlantic cod on fish community composition:
an application of multivariate regression tree analysis to exploited
marine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 411:189-201.

Legendre, P. and M.-J. Fortin. 2010. Comparison of the Mantel test and
alternative approaches for detecting complex multivariate
relationships in the spatial analysis of genetic data. Molecular
Ecology Resources, 10: 831-844.

Spear, S. Balkenhol N., Fortin M.-J., McRae B. and Scribner K. 2010.
Use of resistance surfaces for landscape genetic studies:
Considerations for parameterization and analysis. Molecular Ecology,
19: 3576-3591.

Anderson et al., Determinants of Divergent Adaptation and Dobzhansky-Muller Interaction in Experimental Yeast Populations, Current Biology (2010).

Shannon J. McCauley & Locke Rowe. 2010. Notonecta exhibit threat-sensitive, predator-induced dispersal.  Biology Letters 6: 449-452.

John H. McAndrews & C.L. Turton. 2010. Fungal spores record Iroquoian and Canadian agriculture in 2nd millennium A.D. sediment of Crawford Lack, Ontario, Canada. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

F. McCarthy, S. Tiffin, A. Sarvix, John McAndrews & S. Blasco. 2010.
Early Holocene brackish closed basin conditions in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada: microfossil (thecamoebian and pollen) evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology.

Martin Smith & Jean-Bernard Caron. 2010. Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature. 465: 469-472.

The article is also featured in the following media sources: Nature's News and Views section; on CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" and on the Discovery Channel's "Daily Planet".

Asher D. Cutter, Weiang Yan, Nadia Tsvetkov, Supreet Sunil & M.A. Felix.
2010. Molecular population genetics and phenotypic sensitivity to ethanol for a globally diverse sample of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae. Molecular Ecology. 19: 798-809.

Nathan Muchhala & James D. Thomson. 2010.  Fur versus feathers: Pollen delivery by bats and hummingbirds and consequences for pollen production.  American Naturalist. 175: 717-726.

This article also received attention in Science's ScienceNOW section:
"Why are bat flowers oversexed?"

Shannon J. McCauley.  2010.  Body size and social dominance influence 
breeding dispersal in male Pachydiplax longipennis (Odonata).
Ecological Entomology 35: 377-385.

Dmitriew, C., M. Blows and L. Rowe. 2010. Ontogenetic patterns in genetic variance depend on environmental conditions. American Naturalist. 175:640-649

The article has also received attention in Nature's "Research Highlights" section. Evolutionary biology: Good times and bad.

McCarthy, F. and J.H. McAndrews. 2010. Early Holocene drought in the Laurentide Great Lakes basin caused hydrologic closure of Georgian Bay. Journal of Paleolimnology 43.