{"id":1234,"date":"2009-06-01T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2009-06-01T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:19:11","slug":"a-battle-of-the-sexes-hummingbird-competition-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/06\/01\/a-battle-of-the-sexes-hummingbird-competition-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"A battle of the sexes: Hummingbird competition and evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The intersection of evolution and ecology has risen to become a prominent subfield in both disciplines in recent years, with scientists exploring more and more how interactions among organisms can shape evolution at the population and even species level.\u00a0 In the May issue of the journal Ecology, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.amherst.edu\/~ejtemeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethan Temeles<\/a> of Amherst College explores a fascinating relationship between the males and females of one species of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">hummingbird.\u00a0 The long, curved bills of the females are suited for feeding on\u00a0 long, curved flowers; the short, straight <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">bills of the males are good for short, straight flowers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/action\/showLargeCover?issue=40027739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright img-fluid\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/literatum2\/content\/esa\/journals\/covergifs\/ecol\/2009\/00129658-90.5\/cover_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"184\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Check out this Field Talk podcast, in which Temeles explains why competition \u2013in short, bullying by the larger males \u2014 has led to morphological and functional divergence of the female feeding apparatus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.jtitle=Ecology&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1890%2F08-0695.1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fresearchblogging.org&amp;rft.atitle=Effect+of+flower+shape+and+size+on+foraging+performance+and+trade-offs+in+a+tropical+hummingbird&amp;rft.issn=0012-9658&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.volume=90&amp;rft.issue=5&amp;rft.spage=1147&amp;rft.epage=1161&amp;rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esajournals.org%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1890%2F08-0695.1&amp;rft.au=Temeles%2C+E.&amp;rft.au=Koulouris%2C+C.&amp;rft.au=Sander%2C+S.&amp;rft.au=Kress%2C+W.&amp;rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1;bpr3.tags=Biology%2CEcology%2C+Evolutionary+Biology%2C+Behavior\">Temeles, E., Koulouris, C., Sander, S., &amp; Kress, W. (2009). Effect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Ecology, 90<\/span> (5), 1147-1161 DOI: <a rev=\"review\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1890\/08-0695.1\">10.1890\/08-0695.1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intersection of evolution and ecology has risen to become a prominent subfield in both disciplines in recent years, with scientists exploring more and more how interactions among organisms can shape evolution at the population and even species level.\u00a0 In the May issue of the journal Ecology, Ethan Temeles of Amherst College explores a fascinating relationship between the males and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[249,102,262],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-competition","tag-evolution","tag-hummingbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}