Data from: The importance of forest structure to biodiversity-productivity...
While various relationships between productivity and biodiversity are found in forests, the processes underlying these relationships remain unclear and theory struggles to coherently explain them. In...
View ArticleData from: Isolation with asymmetric gene flow during the nonsynchronous...
Dry forest bird communities in South America are often fragmented by intervening mountains and rainforests, generating high local endemism. The historical assembly of communities often results from...
View ArticleData from: Interspecies interference and monitoring duration affect detection...
Pest monitoring methods should provide unbiased accurate estimates of pest densities and locations, while also minimizing time-in-field and costs. Recent pest mammal monitoring studies have found that...
View ArticleData from: Positive selection on sperm ion channels in a brooding brittle...
Closely related species are key models to investigate mechanisms leading to reproductive isolation and early stages of diversification, also at the genomic level. The brittle star cryptic species...
View ArticleData from: Transcriptome dynamics over a lunar month in a broadcast spawning...
On one night per year, at a specific point in the lunar cycle, one of the most extraordinary reproductive events on the planet unfolds as hundreds of millions of broadcast spawning corals release their...
View ArticleData from: Oviposition traits generate extrinsic postzygotic isolation...
Background: Although empirical data indicate that ecological speciation is prevalent in nature, the relative importance of different forms of reproductive isolation and the traits generating...
View ArticleData from: Investigating the extent of parallelism in morphological and...
Understanding the emergence of species through the process of ecological speciation is a central question in evolutionary biology which also has implications for conservation and management. Lake Trout...
View ArticleData from: What makes a multimodal signal attractive? A preference function...
Courtship signals are often complex and include components within and across sensory modalities. Unfortunately, the evidence for how multimodal signals affect female preference functions is still...
View ArticleData from: Indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons on ecosystems in...
Invasive predators can dramatically alter ecosystems through both direct predation and indirect effects such as tropic cascades. However, most examples of top-down effects of invasive predators in...
View ArticleData from: Network structure and local adaptation in coevolving...
Numerous theoretical and experimental studies have investigated antagonistic coevolution between parasites and their hosts. Although experimental tests of theory from a range of biological systems are...
View ArticleData from: The physiological costs of prey switching reinforce foraging...
Sympatric speciation is thought to be strongly linked to resource specialization with alternative resource use acting as a fundamental agent driving divergence. However, sympatric speciation through...
View ArticleData from: A RhoG-mediated signaling pathway that modulates invadopodia...
Metastatic cells escape the primary tumor and enter the bloodstream by developing actin-rich membrane protrusions called invadopodia that degrade the extracellular matrix to allow invasion of...
View ArticleData from: The changing contribution of top-down and bottom-up limitation of...
Apex predators may buffer bottom-up driven ecosystem change, as top-down suppression may dampen herbivore and mesopredator responses to increased resource availability. However, theory suggests that...
View ArticleData from: Low migratory connectivity is common in long-distance migrant birds
1. Estimating how much long-distance migrant populations spread out and mix during the non-breeding season (migratory connectivity) is essential for understanding and predicting population dynamics in...
View ArticleData from: Sex-specific responses to territorial intrusions in a...
Signals play a key role in the ecology and evolution of animal populations, influencing processes such as sexual selection and conflict resolution. In many species, sexually selected signals have a...
View ArticleData from: Effects of experimental night lighting on the daily timing of...
The ecological effects of light pollution are becoming better understood, especially in birds. Recent studies have shown that several bird species can use street lighting to extend activity into the...
View ArticleData from: Not Normal: the uncertainties of scientific measurements
Judging the significance and reproducibility of quantitative research requires a good understanding of relevant uncertainties, but it is often unclear how well these have been evaluated and what they...
View ArticleData from: In situ warming strengthens trophic cascades in a coastal food web
Global warming may affect most organisms and their interactions. Theory and simple mesocosm experiments suggest that consumer top–down control over primary producer biomass should strengthen with...
View ArticleData from: Background colour matching increases with risk of predation in a...
Cryptic colouration can be adjusted to the local environment by physiological (rapid) change, and/or by morphological (slow) change. The threat-sensitivity hypothesis predicts that the degree of...
View ArticleData from: Does plant diversity increase top–down control of herbivorous...
Higher trophic level interactions are key mediators of ecosystem functioning in tropical forests. A rich body of theory has been developed to predict the effects of plant diversity on communities at...
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