Miguel Gomez

Research

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).

Selected publications

Papers

  • Gómez -Llano, M., Yamamichi, M., and A. Siepielski. (in press). Sexual conflict in resident species can facilitate establishment of a maladapted invader. The American Naturalist
  • Gómez -Llano, M., Bassar, R., Svensson, E., and A. Siepielski. (2024). Meta-analytical evidence of frequency dependent selection. Ecology Letters 27 (8): e14477
  • 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., Boys, W., Ping, T., Tye, S., and A. Siepielski. (2023). Multivariate trade-offs prevent species coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (12): 2297-2308 
  • 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
  • Svensson, E., Goedert, D., Gómez -Llano, M., Spagopoulou, F., Nava-Bolaños, A., and Booksmythe, I. 2018. Sex differences in local adaptation: what can we learn from reciprocal transplant experiments? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373 (1757): 20170420
  • Gómez -Llano, M., Bensch, H., and Svensson, E. 2018. Sexual conflict and ecology: species composition and male density interact to reduce male mating harassment and increase female survival. Evolution 72 (4): 905-915
  • Svensson, E., Gómez -Llano, M., Bensch, H. and Rivas, A. 2018. Frequency dependence and ecological drift shape coexistence of species with similar niches. The American Naturalist 191 (6): 691-703
  • Gómez -Llano, M., Navarro-López, E., and Gilman, T. (2016). The coevolution of sexual imprinting by males and females. Ecology and Evolution 6 (19): 7113-7125
  • Llusia, D., Gómez, M., Penna, M., and Márquez, R. 2013. Call Transmission Efficiency in Native and Invasive Anurans:  Competing Hypotheses of Divergence in Acoustic Signals. PloS ONE 8 (10): e77312

 

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

Publications