Craig W Benkman

Summary

Affiliation: New Mexico State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The influence of a competitor on the geographic mosaic of coevolution between crossbills and lodgepole pine
    C W Benkman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 55:282-94. 2001
  2. ncbi Divergent selection drives the adaptive radiation of crossbills
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 57:1176-81. 2003
  3. ncbi Reciprocal selection causes a coevolutionary arms race between crossbills and lodgepole pine
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
    Am Nat 162:182-94. 2003
  4. ncbi Coevolution between Hispaniolan crossbills and pine: does more time allow for greater phenotypic escalation at lower latitude?
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 61:2142-53. 2007
  5. ncbi Interactions among moths, crossbills, squirrels, and lodgepole pine in a geographic selection mosaic
    Adam M Siepielski
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 58:95-101. 2004
  6. ncbi A coevolutionary arms race causes ecological speciation in crossbills
    Julie W Smith
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
    Am Nat 169:455-65. 2007
  7. ncbi Survival and population size of a resident bird species are declining as temperature increases
    Leonard Santisteban
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
    J Anim Ecol 81:352-63. 2012
  8. ncbi Patterns of genetic variation in the adaptive radiation of New World crossbills (Aves: Loxia)
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Mol Ecol 15:1873-87. 2006
  9. ncbi Can selection by an ectoparasite drive a population of red crossbills from its adaptive peak?
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
    Evolution 59:2025-32. 2005
  10. ncbi Diversifying coevolution between crossbills and black spruce on Newfoundland
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003-8001, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 56:1663-72. 2002

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi The influence of a competitor on the geographic mosaic of coevolution between crossbills and lodgepole pine
    C W Benkman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 55:282-94. 2001
    ..e., coevolutionary hotspots) but not where red squirrels are present (i.e., coevolutionary cold-spots)...
  2. ncbi Divergent selection drives the adaptive radiation of crossbills
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 57:1176-81. 2003
    ..This work strongly supports a key tenet of the ecological theory of adaptive radiations; namely, divergent selection for utilizing alternative resources is the ultimate cause of adaptive radiations...
  3. ncbi Reciprocal selection causes a coevolutionary arms race between crossbills and lodgepole pine
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
    Am Nat 162:182-94. 2003
    ..These results show that crossbills and lodgepole pine exhibit reciprocal adaptations in response to reciprocal selection, and they provide insight into the traits mediating and responding to selection in a coevolutionary arms race...
  4. ncbi Coevolution between Hispaniolan crossbills and pine: does more time allow for greater phenotypic escalation at lower latitude?
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Evolution 61:2142-53. 2007
    ....
  5. ncbi Interactions among moths, crossbills, squirrels, and lodgepole pine in a geographic selection mosaic
    Adam M Siepielski
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 58:95-101. 2004
    ..These results demonstrate the importance of considering the evolutionary consequences of community context in locally evolved (coevolved) traits and interactions...
  6. ncbi A coevolutionary arms race causes ecological speciation in crossbills
    Julie W Smith
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
    Am Nat 169:455-65. 2007
    ..These extremely high levels of reproductive isolation indicate that the divergent selection resulting from the coevolutionary arms race between crossbills and lodgepole pine is causing the South Hills crossbill to speciate...
  7. ncbi Survival and population size of a resident bird species are declining as temperature increases
    Leonard Santisteban
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
    J Anim Ecol 81:352-63. 2012
    ....
  8. ncbi Patterns of genetic variation in the adaptive radiation of New World crossbills (Aves: Loxia)
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 8001, USA
    Mol Ecol 15:1873-87. 2006
    ....
  9. ncbi Can selection by an ectoparasite drive a population of red crossbills from its adaptive peak?
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
    Evolution 59:2025-32. 2005
    ..This selection may also explain why the degree of sexual size dimorphism has decreased by nearly 50% since 1998...
  10. ncbi Diversifying coevolution between crossbills and black spruce on Newfoundland
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003-8001, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 56:1663-72. 2002
    ....
  11. ncbi The geographic selection mosaic for ponderosa pine and crossbills: a tale of two squirrels
    Thomas L Parchman
    Department of Biology, MSC 3AF, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
    Evolution 62:348-60. 2008
    ....
  12. ncbi Assortative flocking in crossbills and implications for ecological speciation
    Julie W Smith
    Department of Biology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:4223-9. 2012
    ..These patterns of association therefore provide a mechanism by which increasing divergent selection can lead to increasing reproductive isolation...
  13. ncbi Extreme environmental variation sharpens selection that drives the evolution of a mutualism
    Adam M Siepielski
    Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 274:1799-805. 2007
    ..Infrequent events can thus be essential to both adaptive evolution and the evolutionary dynamics of species interactions...
  14. ncbi The local introduction of strongly interacting species and the loss of geographic variation in species and species interactions
    Craig W Benkman
    Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
    Mol Ecol 17:395-404. 2008
    ..Such introductions have eliminated incipient species of crossbills (Loxia spp.) co-evolving in arms races with conifers and will likely have considerable impacts on community structure and ecosystem processes...
  15. ncbi A seed predator drives the evolution of a seed dispersal mutualism
    Adam M Siepielski
    Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 275:1917-25. 2008
    ..Given that adaptive evolution in response to antagonists frequently impedes one kind of mutualistic interaction, the evolution of alternative mutualistic interactions may be a common by-product...