Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Evolutionary Ecology

Evolutionary ecology is the field that studies how ecological interactions and evolutionary processes shape one another over time. It combines the perspectives of ecology, which examines how organisms interact with their environment and with other species, and evolutionary biology, which examines how heritable trait…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 1 peer-reviewed article cited Cited 25× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2689-4602 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Evolutionary ecology is the field that studies how ecological interactions and evolutionary processes shape one another over time. It combines the perspectives of ecology, which examines how organisms interact with their environment and with other species, and evolutionary biology, which examines how heritable traits change across generations through mechanisms such as natural selection, genetic drift, and adaptation. Researchers in this field investigate questions such as how life-history traits, behavior, and physiology evolve in response to environmental pressures, how species adapt to changing or novel habitats, how coevolution shapes relationships between predators and prey or hosts and parasites, and how populations diversify and form new species. By integrating these viewpoints, evolutionary ecology helps explain patterns of biodiversity, the distribution and abundance of organisms, and the responses of populations to environmental change, including human-driven pressures. Within Evolutionary Science, this topic sits at the intersection of theory and field study, connecting questions about the mechanisms of evolution with the ecological contexts in which they unfold. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to evolutionary ecology and the study of how evolutionary and ecological processes interact to shape living systems.

Research published in this journal

1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 1 article above has been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Evolutionary Ecology, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Evolutionary Science (ISSN 2689-4602).

Journal editorial board
Maria Luisa Chiusano · Italy Adina-Elena Segneanu · Romania George Mikhailovsky · United States

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