Publications


Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments


Jitka Polechová

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 123, 2026, pp. e2604510123


Genome-wide cline analysis identifies new locus contributing to a barrier to gene flow across an Antirrhinum hybrid zone


David L Field, Sean Stankowski, Taylor Reiter, Jitka Polechová, Desmond Bradley, Daniel Richardson, Arka Pal, Daria Shipilina, Louis Boell, Melinda Pickup, Yongbiao Xue, Enrico Coen, Nick Barton

bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025, pp. 2025--02


Eco-evolutionary dynamics in changing environments: integrating theory with data


Louise Fouqueau, Jitka Polechová

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 37(6), Oxford University Press US, 2024, pp. 579--587


The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations


Jitka Polechová

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 377, The Royal Society, 2022, p. 20210011


Sympatric ecological divergence with coevolution of niche preference


Pavel Payne, Jitka Polechová

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 375, The Royal Society, 2020, p. 20190749


The influence of fluctuating population densities on evolutionary dynamics


Hanja Pisa, Joachim Hermisson, Jitka Polechová

Evolution, vol. 73, Wiley Online Library, 2019, pp. 1341--1355


Is the sky the limit? On the expansion threshold of a species’ range


Jitka Polechová

PLoS Biology, vol. 16, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2018, pp. e2005372


Limits to adaptation along environmental gradients


J Polechová, NH Barton

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, National Academy of Sciences, 2015, pp. 6401--6406


Genetic drift widens the expected cline but narrows the expected cline width


J Polechová, NH Barton

Genetics, vol. 1, Genetics Society, 2011, pp. 227--235


Why is adaptation prevented at ecological margins? New insights from individual-based simulations


J.R. Bridle, J. Polechová, M. Kawata, R.K. Butlin

Ecology Letters, vol. 13, Wiley Online Library, 2010, pp. 485--494


Patterns of biodiversity and limits to adaptation in time and space


J.R. Bridle, J. Polechová, T. H. Vines

J.R. Bridle R.K. Butlin, D. Schluter, Speciation and patterns of biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 77--101


Species' range: Adaptation in space and time


J. Polechová, N. Barton, G. Marion

The American Naturalist, vol. 174, University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. E186--204


Ecological Niche


Jitka Polechová, David Storch

Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Encyclopedia of Ecology, vol. 2, Elsevier, 2008, pp. 1088--1097


The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales


David Storch, Arnošt L Šizling, Jiří Reif, Polechová Jitka, Eva Šizlingová, Kevin J Gaston

Ecology Letters, vol. 11, Wiley Online Library, 2008, pp. 771--784


Speciation through competition: A critical review


J. Polechová, N.H. Barton

Evolution, vol. 59, Blackwell Synergy, 2005, pp. 1194--1210


The limitations of adaptive dynamics as a model of evolution


N.H. Barton, J. Polechová

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 18, Wiley Online Library, 2005, pp. 1186--1190