Miguel Gomez

My work is focused on understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes interact to maintain biological diversity. I approach this question in two different lines of research. One line is focus in local adaptation, asking if and how sexual slection promotes local adaptation and how different environmental factors affect selection. The second line is focused in the demogrpahic effects of different evolutionary processes. For example, quantifying the effects of sexual selection and sexual conflict in population growth and species persistance, and how ecological interactions between species can facilitate species persistence, coexistence or extinction. My approach is integrative, I use field observations and experiments in wild populations (mainly with damsleflies) together with laboratory-based experiments (flour beetles and fruit flies) and meta-analysis (with my computer).

Papers

• Gómez -Llano, M., Yamamichi, M., and A. Siepielski. (2025). Sexual conflict in resident species can facilitate establishment of a maladapted invader. The American Naturalist
• Gómez -Llano, M., Faria, G., García-Roa, R., Noble, D., and P. Carazo. (2024). Male harm supresses female fitness to affect the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue. Evolution Letters 8 (1): 149-160
• Urban, M., Swaegers, J., Stoks, R., Snook, R., Otto, S., Noble, D., Moiron, M., Hällfors, M., Gómez -Llano, M., Fior, S., Cote, J., Charmantier, A., Bestion, E., Berger, D., Baur, J., Alexander, J., Saastamoinen, M., Edelsparre, A., and C. Terplitsky. (2024). When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change? Evolution Letters 8 (1): 172-187
• Gómez -Llano, M., M. McPeek, and A. Siepielski. 2023. Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection. Evolutionary Ecology 37 (4):585-600
• Svensson, E., Gómez -Llano, M., and J. Waller. 2023. Out of the tropics: changing macroevolutionary size-latitude trends in an old insect order are shaped by temperature and bird predation. Journal of Biogeography 50 (3): 489-502
• Siepielski, A., Gómez -Llano, M., and M. McPeek. 2022. Environmental conditions during development affect sexual selection through trait-fitness relationships. The American Naturalist 199 (1): 34-50
• Gómez -Llano, M., Germain, R., Kyogoku, D., McPeek, M. and A. Siepielski. 2021. When ecology fails: how reproductive interactions promote species coexistence. TREE 36 (7): 610-622
• Gómez -Llano, M., Scott, E., and Svensson, E. 2021. The importance of pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection promoting adaptation to increasing temperatures.Current Zoology 67 (3): 321-327
• Svensson, E., Gómez-Llano, M., and J. Waller. 2020. Selection on phenotypic plasticity favors thermal canalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (47): 29767-29774
• Gómez -Llano, M., Narasimhan, A., and Svensson, E. 2020. Male-male competition causes parasite mediated sexual selection for local adaptation. The American Naturalist 196 (3): 344-354

Book Chapters

• Siepielski, A., Gómez -Llano, M., and Hasik, A. 2022. Evolutionary community ecology of Odonates. In: Dragonflies & Damselflies. Model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. 2nd ed.
• Grether, G., Siepielski, A., and Gómez -Llano, M. 2022. Ecological differentiation, interference, and coexistence in Odonates. In: Dragonflies & Damselflies. Model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. 2nd ed.
• Siepielski, A., Boys, W., Bried, J., Gómez -Llano, M., Lanzer, T. and S. Tye. 2021. Insect species coexistence and conservation amidst global change. In: Imperilled: The Encyclopaedia of Conservation. Elsevier