New paper coauthored with Ailene MacPherson showing how escape from pathogens can provide a selection pressure favouring seed masting.

Using mathematical models from the disease ecology literature, we show how pathogen escape may provide an additional ‘economy of scale’ selecting for seed masting via the removal of pathogens from the system in non-mast years through density-dependent dynamics. Read the full paper online now in Current Biology. I think this is one of my favourite recent papers!

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