Data from: Modeling winter moth Operophtera brumata egg phenology: nonlinear...
Understanding the relationship between an insect's developmental rate and temperature is crucial to forecast insect phenology under climate change. In the winter moth Operophtera brumata timing of...
View ArticleData from: Determining epistatic selection in admixed populations
When two diverging species begin hybridizing, selection against hybridization is likely driven not by single substitutions, but by interactions between incompatible mutations. To identify these...
View ArticleData from: A mistletoe tale: postglacial invasion of Psittacanthus...
Background: Ecological adaptation to host taxa is thought to result in mistletoe speciation via race formation. However, historical and ecological factors could also contribute to explain genetic...
View ArticleData from: Lateral plate number in low-plated threespine stickleback: a study...
In the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus model system, phenotypes are often classified into three morphs according to lateral plate number. Morph identity has been shown to be largely...
View ArticleData from: Comparative analysis of Begonia plastid genomes and their utility...
Recent, rapid radiations make species-level phylogenetics difficult to resolve. We used a multiplexed, high-throughput sequencing approach to identify informative genomic regions to resolve...
View ArticleData from: Evaluation of the bladder stimulation technique to collect...
Objective: Midstream clean-catch urine is an accepted method to diagnose urinary tract infection but is impracticable in infants before potty training. We tested the bladder stimulation technique to...
View ArticleData from: Oceanic distribution, behaviour, and a winter aggregation area of...
Seasonal distribution of adult Atlantic sturgeon was examined using pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) and ultrasonic transmitters deployed in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada. Seven...
View ArticleData from: The ecology of wildlife disease surveillance: demographic and...
1. Wildlife disease surveillance is the first line of defence against infectious disease. Fluctuations in host populations and disease prevalence are a known feature of wildlife disease systems....
View ArticleData from: Extreme prescribed fire during drought reduces survival and...
Management intervention in ecosystems with degraded environmental services requires innovative resource management strategies that go beyond conventional restoration and conservation practices. We...
View ArticleData from: How many broad-leaved trees are enough in conifer plantations? The...
1. For biodiversity conservation to be an effective and significant social investment, non-marketed values of biodiversity conservation and its associated opportunity costs should be evaluated in...
View ArticleData from: The impacts of climate change and disturbance on spatio-temporal...
1. The ongoing changes in climate challenge the conservation of forest biodiversity. Yet, in thermally limited systems, such as temperate forests, not all species groups might be affected negatively....
View ArticleData from: Kooiichthys jono n. gen. n. sp., a primitive catfish (Teleostei,...
A specimen of a remarkable new catfish genus and species was collected in middle/late Miocene marine beds of the Puerto Madryn Formation at the base of the marine cliff of the sea lion colony area near...
View ArticleData from: Tree-centric mapping of forest carbon density from airborne laser...
Forests are a major component of the global carbon cycle, and accurate estimation of forest carbon stocks and fluxes is important in the context of anthropogenic global change. Airborne laser scanning...
View ArticleData from: Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of...
The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as southern Chile...
View ArticleData from: Spatial patterns of extra-pair paternity for spotted towhees...
The extra-pair (EP) mating system of birds may be influenced by food resources, such that nutritionally stressed females are unable to pursue EP fertilizations (constrained female hypothesis; CFH), or...
View ArticleData from: Photosynthesis, growth, and decay traits in Sphagnum – a...
Peat mosses (Sphagnum) largely govern carbon sequestration in Northern Hemisphere peatlands. We investigated functional traits related to growth and decomposition in Sphagnum species. We tested the...
View ArticleData from: Functional C-terminally encoded plant peptide (CEP) hormone...
Sedentary Plant-Parasitic Nematodes (PPNs) induce and maintain an intimate relationship with their host, stimulating cells adjacent to root vascular tissue to re-differentiate into unique and...
View ArticleData from: When Bergmann's rule fails: evidences of environmental selection...
Organisms tend to exhibit phenotypes that can be shaped by climate, commonly demonstrating clinal variations along latitudinal gradients. In vertebrates, air temperature plays a major role in shaping...
View ArticleData from: Patterns of mammalian population decline inform conservation action
1. Evaluations of wildlife population dynamics have the potential to convey valuable information on the type of pressure affecting a population and could help predict future changes in the population's...
View ArticleData from: Long-term consequences of high incubation temperature in a wild...
Because incubation by birds is energetically costly, parents frequently trade off investment in incubation against self-maintenance. This can be manifested by a reduction in incubation temperature,...
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