Data from: A multilevel society of herring-eating killer whales indicates...
Non-social factors can influence animal social structure. In killer whales (Orcinus orca), fish- vs. mammal-eating ecological differences are regarded as key ecological drivers of their multilevel...
View ArticleData from: Divergence within and among seaweed siblings (Fucus vesiculosus...
Closely related taxa provide significant case studies for understanding evolution of new species but may simultaneously challenge species identification and definition. In the Baltic Sea, two dominant...
View ArticleData from: Commercial harvest and export of snapping turtles (Chelydra...
As Asian turtle populations have crashed, China has increasingly turned to international import to meet domestic demand, which has increased pressure on global turtle populations. Snapping turtles...
View ArticleData from: Preparation for flight: pre-fledging exercise time is correlated...
Chicks of many burrow-nesting seabirds are known to repeatedly emerge from their nests (these trips being termed “excursions”) and exercise their wings prior to fledging, but this behavior is poorly...
View ArticleData from: Social call divergence in bats: a comparative analysis
Acoustic signals mediate important life history events in a variety of species, providing new vistas for understanding speciation. It has been proposed that animal acoustic signals undergo complex...
View ArticleData from: Colour pattern facilitates species recognition but not signal...
There are many factors that affect signal design, including the need for rapid signal detection and the ability to identify the signal as conspecific. Understanding these different sources of selection...
View ArticleData from: Demographic history of the trace metal hyperaccumulator Noccaea...
Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae) is a major pseudometallophyte model for the investigation of the genetics and evolution of metal hyperaccumulation in plants. We studied the population genetics and...
View ArticleData from: Precipitation alters interactions in a grassland ecological community
1.Climate change is transforming precipitation regimes worldwide. Changes in precipitation regimes are known to have powerful effects on plant productivity, but the consequences of these shifts for the...
View ArticleData from: Recreational harvest and incident-response management reduce...
Conserving viable large carnivore populations requires managing their interactions with humans in increasingly anthropogenic landscapes. Faced with declining budgets and escalating wildlife conflicts,...
View ArticleData from: Reframing the evidence base for policy-relevance to increase...
1. It is necessary to improve knowledge exchange between scientists and decision-makers so that scientific evidence can be readily accessed to inform policy. 2. To maximise impact of scientific...
View ArticleData from: Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the...
Aim: The tomato family Solanaceae is distributed on all major continents except Antarctica and has its centre of diversity in South America. Its worldwide distribution suggests multiple long-distance...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic relatedness, phenotypic similarity, and plant-soil...
1.Plant-soil feedbacks contribute to species invasions, the maintenance of biodiversity, and climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their far-reaching importance, we lack a general...
View ArticleData from: Genotypic diversity mitigates negative effects of density on plant...
1.Genotypic diversity in plant populations is known to enhance plant performance and ecosystem function. Nonetheless, the effect of genotypic diversity has rarely been examined across a population's...
View ArticleData from: Herbivore size matters for productivity-richness relationships in...
1.Productivity and herbivory often interact to shape plant community composition and species richness with levels of production mediating the impact of herbivory. Yet, differences in herbivore traits...
View ArticleData from: Disruption of plant-soil-microbial relationships influences plant...
Differential dispersal of plant and microbial propagules may result in the geographical disassociation of plant populations from their local abiotic conditions and microbial communities, especially in...
View ArticleData from: The quick and the dead: microbial demography at the yeast thermal...
The niche of microorganisms is determined by where their populations can expand. Populations can fail to grow because of high death or low birth rates, but these are challenging to measure in...
View ArticleData from: Habitat continuity and stepping-stone oceanographic distances...
Effective predictive and management approaches for species occurring in a metapopulation structure require good understanding of inter-population connectivity. In this study we ask whether population...
View ArticleData from: Mitochondrial genotype and phenotypic plasticity of gene...
Adjustments of aerobic metabolic processes are critical components of organismal responses to environmental change that require tight co-ordination between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes....
View ArticleData from: Migration highways and migration barriers created by host-parasite...
Coevolving parasites may play a key role in host migration and population structure. Using coevolving bacteria and viruses, we test general hypotheses as to how coevolving parasites affect the success...
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