Ron Bassar
Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor


Office: 144 Funchess Hall

Phone: (334) 844-1638

Email: rdb0057@auburn.edu

Website


Education
PhD - University of California, Riverside
2011
BA - Prescott College
2001


Professional Employment
Assistant Professor - Auburn University
2022-2025
Assistant Professor - Williams College
2017 - 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar - University of Oxford, UK
2014 - 2017
Postdoctoral Scholar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
2012 - 2014


Selected Publications

Most Recent Ten Papers (see all on my google scholar page)

Gómez-Llano, M., R.D. Bassar, E.I. Svensson, S.P. Tye, and A.M. Siepielski. 2024. Meta-analytical evidence for frequency-dependent selection across the tree of life. Ecology Letters. 27:e14477 

Travis, J., R.D. Bassar, T. Coulson, D.N. Reznick, and M. Walsh. 2023. Density-dependent selection. Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics. 54:85-105. 

Lustenhouwer, N., F. Moerman, F. Altermatt, R. D. Bassar, G. Bocedi, D. Bonte, S. Dey, E. A. Fronhofer, É. G. da Rocha, A. Giometto, L. T. Lancaster, GR. B. Prather Jr, M. Saastamoinen, J. M. J. Travis, C. A. Urquhart, C. Weiss-Lehman, J. L. Williams, L. Börger, and D. Berger. 2023. Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems. Journal of Animal Ecology. 00:1-11. 

PPotter, T., J. Arendt, R.D. Bassar, B. Watson, P. Bentzen, J. Travis, and D.N. Reznick. 2023. Female preference for rare males is maintained by indirect selection in Trinidadian guppies. Science. 380:309-312. 

Riegner, M. and R. D. Bassar. 2023. Morphological trade-offs and early onset of foot prehensility as indicators of integrated evolutionary dynamics in the Ardeidae. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 5:obad010. 

PAnaya-Rojas, J.M., R.D. Bassar, B. Matthews, J. Goldberg, L. King, D. Reznick, and J. Travis. 2023. Does the evolution of ontogenetic niche shifts favour species coexistence? An empirical test in Trinidadian streams. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 00:1-12 

*Travis, J., R. D. Bassar, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, D.N. Reznick. 2023. Population regulation and density-dependent demography in the Trinidadian guppy. 202:413-432. The American Naturalist. * see the News and Views article in Nature: doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00276-5   

Paniw, M., D. Garcia Callejas, F. Floret, R. D. Bassar, J. Travis, O. Godoy. 2023. Pathways to global-change effects on biodiversity: A case for dynamically forecasting demography and species interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290:20221494 

Bassar, R. D., T. Coulson, and J. Travis. 2023. Size-dependent intraguild predation, cannibalism, and resource allocation determines the outcome of species coexistence. The American Naturalist. 201:712-724. 

Coulson, T., A. Felmy, T. Potter, G. Passoni, R. A. Montgomery, J.-M. Gaillard, P. J. Hudson, J. Travis, R. D. Bassar, S. D. Tuljapurkar, D. Marshall, and S. M. Clegg. 2022. Density dependent environments can select for extremes of body size. Peer Community Journal. 2:e49. 

van der Zee, M. J., J. R. Whiting, J. R. Paris, R. D. Bassar, J. Travis, D. Weigel, D. N. Reznick, and B. A. Fraser. 2022. Rapid genomic convergent evolution in experimental populations of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution Letters 6:149-161. 

 







Last updated: 08/21/2025