Data from: Shade tolerance and the functional trait - demography relationship...
Despite being instrumental in forest ecology, the definition and nature of shade tolerance are complex and not beyond controversy. Moreover, the role it plays in the trait – demography relationship...
View ArticleData from: Seasonal shifts in sex ratios are mediated by maternal effects and...
1.Sex-specific maternal effects can be adaptive sources of phenotypic plasticity. Reptiles with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) are a powerful system to investigate such maternal effects...
View ArticleData from: Does movement behaviour predict population densities? a test with...
Diffusion, which approximates a correlated random walk, has been used by ecologists to describe movement, and forms the basis for many theoretical models. However, it is often criticized as too simple...
View ArticleData from: Climatic conditions cause spatially dynamic polygyny thresholds in...
1.The polygyny threshold (PT) is a critical transition point in the sexual selection process for many organisms in natural populations, characterizing when females choose to mate with an already mated...
View ArticleData from: Towards the automatic classification of avian flight calls for...
Automatic classification of animal vocalizations has great potential to enhance the monitoring of species movements and behaviors. This is particularly true for monitoring nocturnal bird migration,...
View ArticleData from: Temporal shifts and temperature sensitivity of avian spring...
1.There are wide reports of advances in the timing of spring migration of birds over time and in relation to rising temperatures, though phenological responses vary substantially within and among...
View ArticleData from: The first organ-based ontology for arthropods (Ontology of...
Morphology, the oldest discipline in the biosciences, is currently experiencing a renaissance in the field of comparative phenomics. However, morphological/phenotypic research still suffers on various...
View ArticleData from: Detecting copper toxicity in sediments: from the sub-individual...
1.Sediments accumulate chemicals that can be toxic to biota and often contribute to aquatic ecosystem decline. Measuring mortality in laboratory-bred organisms is a common way to assess sediment...
View ArticleData from: Challenging the conceptual framework of maintenance hosts for...
1.The conceptual framework considering Anseriformes and Charadriiformes as the main maintenance hosts for influenza A viruses (IAV) in wild birds has shaped IAV research and surveillance over the last...
View ArticleData from: Measuring and interpreting sexual selection metrics - evaluation...
(1) Routine assessments of overall sexual selection, including comparisons of its direction and intensity between sexes or species, rely on summary metrics that capture the essence of sexual selection....
View ArticleData from: Comparison of capture and storage methods for aqueous macrobial...
Aqueous environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging efficient non-invasive tool for species inventory studies. To maximize performance of downstream quantitative PCR (qPCR) and next-generation sequencing...
View ArticleData from: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code
Across the nervous system, certain population spiking patterns are observed far more frequently than others. A hypothesis about this structure is that these collective activity patterns function as...
View ArticleData from: Inbreeding depression and drift load in small populations at...
Inbreeding depression is a major driver of mating system evolution and has critical implications for population viability. Theoretical and empirical attention has been paid to predicting how inbreeding...
View ArticleData from: Genetic structure of native ant supercolonies varies in space and...
Ant supercolonies are the largest cooperative units known in nature. They consist of networks of interconnected nests with hundreds of reproductive queens, where individuals move freely between nests,...
View ArticleData from: Alternative splicing substantially diversifies the transcriptome...
Plants use light as source of energy and information to detect diurnal rhythms and seasonal changes. Sensing changing light conditions is critical to adjust plant metabolism and to initiate...
View ArticleData from: Perceptions of research bronchoscopy in Malawian adults with...
Bronchoscopy is an established research tool in Malawi, enabling collection of pulmonary samples for immunological, pharmacological, and microbiological studies. It is, however, an invasive clinical...
View ArticleData from: Weak coordination between leaf structure and function among...
Theory predicts that natural selection should favor coordination between leaf physiology, biochemistry and anatomical structure along a functional trait spectrum from fast, resource-acquisitive...
View ArticleData from: A multivariate study of differentiating characters between three...
Morphological variation in three rarely collected European species of the genus Lasiochernes Beier, 1932 is thoroughly examined in the present study. Detailed descriptions of previously ignored...
View ArticleData from: Influence of introduction history on genetic variation in...
Population introductions and reintroductions have become a common tool for conserving threatened species, but oftentimes introduced populations have reduced the genetic diversity compared with the...
View ArticleData from: High gene flow in the American badger overrides habitat...
Habitat associations are a function of habitat preferences and dispersal capabilities, both of which can influence how species responded to Quaternary climatic changes and contemporary habitat...
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