Ryan Shofner
University of New South Wales
7 Papers
13 Citations
Ryan Shofner is an academic researcher from University of New South Wales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genus & Insular biogeography. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications.
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Papers
Manipulation of habitat isolation and area implicates deterministic factors and limited neutrality in community assembly.
TL;DR: Over 64 weeks, the experiment revealed the primacy of deterministic factors in community assembly, with habitat islands of the same size exhibiting remarkable consistency in community composition and diversity, irrespective of isolation.
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Systematics and host plant associations of the Australian lace bug genus Nethersia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae), including the description of eighteen new species
TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of Nethersia was undertaken resulting in fully resolved topologies for a range of concavity constant settings ( K = 2–6) under implied weights.
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Impact of Black Summer 2019/20 Wildfires on True Bug Priority Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of the Black Summer 2019/20 wildfires in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales for seven priority heteropteran (= true bug) species, across a range of vegetation classes and host plants.
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Dynamic evolution of locomotor performance independent of changes in extended phenotype use in spiders
Michael B. J. Kelly,Md Kawsar Khan,Kaja Wierucka,B. R. Jones,Ryan Shofner,Shahan Derkarabetian,Jonas O. Wolff +6 more
- 01 Oct 2023
TL;DR: There was no correlation with running speed, and leg spination only poorly correlated, relative to the use of extended phenotypes, indicating that web use does not reduce selective pressures on body functions involved in prey capture and defence per se, and extended prey capture devices serve as supplements rather than substitutions to body traits.
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Batesian Mimicry Converges Towards Inaccuracy in Myrmecomorphic Spiders.
Michael B. J. Kelly,Shahan Derkarabetian,D. J. McLean,Ryan Shofner,Cristian J. Grismado,Charles R. Haddad,Gerasimos Cassis,Gaston Giribet,M. E. Herberstein,Jonas O. Wolff +9 more
TL;DR: This study investigates the evolution of Batesian mimicry in myrmecomorphic spiders, finding that accurate ant mimicry evolved gradually but was unstable at the macroevolutionary scale, with an inferred global optimum at an inaccurate state due to conflicting selective pressures.
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