Data from: Winter chilling speeds spring development of temperate butterflies
Understanding and predicting phenology has become more important with ongoing climate change and has brought about great research efforts in the recent decades. The majority of studies examining spring...
View ArticleModelling seasonal habitat suitability for wide-ranging species: Invasive...
Invasive wildlife often causes serious damage to the economy and agriculture as well as environmental, human and animal health. Habitat models can fill knowledge gaps about species distributions and...
View ArticleData from: Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation?...
While community-weighted means of plant traits have been linked to mean environmental conditions at large scales, the drivers of trait variation within communities are not well understood. Local...
View ArticleData from: Misuse of bird digital distribution maps creates reversed spatial...
It is well known that bird richness in the Amazon is greater in upland forests, and that seasonally flooded forest is particularly species-poor. However, the misleading pattern of greater bird richness...
View ArticleData from: Ancient DNA analysis of the extinct North American flat-headed...
The geographical range of extant peccaries extends from the southwestern United States through Central America and into northern Argentina. However, from the Miocene until the Pleistocene now-extinct...
View ArticleData from: No evidence for maintenance of a sympatric Heliconius species...
Mechanisms that suppress recombination are known to help maintain species barriers by preventing the breakup of co-adapted gene combinations. The sympatric butterfly species H. melpomene and H. cydno...
View ArticleData from: Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: exposing...
Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of climate change and lowered support...
View ArticleData from: Identification and analysis of novel salt responsive candidate...
Background: Majority of the Asian people depend on rice for nutritional energy. Rice cultivation and yield are severely affected by soil salinity stress worldwide. Marker assisted breeding is a rapid...
View ArticleData from: Minimally invasive estimation of ventricular dead space volume...
This paper develops a means of more easily and less invasively estimating ventricular dead space volume (Vd), an important, but difficult to measure physiological parameter. Vd represents a subject and...
View ArticleData from: Differential predation drives the geographical divergence in...
Prey have evolved a range of traits to enhance their survival against predators. These traits often show geographical variation due to the differences in local predation pressure. To date, there exists...
View ArticleData from: Effects of gene action, marker density, and time since selection...
Genomic “scans” to identify loci that contribute to local adaptation are becoming increasingly common. Many methods used for such studies have assumed that local adaptation is created by loci...
View ArticleData from: Jumping without slipping: leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)...
Many hemipteran bugs can jump explosively from plant substrates, which can be very smooth. We therefore analysed the jumping performance of froghoppers (Philaenus spumarius, Aphrophoridae) and...
View ArticleData from: Advection by ocean currents modifies phytoplankton size structure
Advection by ocean currents modifies phytoplankton size structure at small scales (1–10 cm) by aggregating cells in different regions of the flow depending on their size. This effect is caused by the...
View ArticleData from: Three-dimensional midwater camouflage from a novel two-component...
The largest habitat by volume on Earth is the oceanic midwater, which is also one of the least understood in terms of animal ecology. The organisms here exhibit a spectacular array of optical...
View ArticleData from: A logic approach to modeling nomenclatural change
We utilize an Answer Set Programming (ASP) approach to show that the principles of nomenclature are tractable in computational logic. To this end we design a hypothetical, 20 nomenclatural taxon use...
View ArticleData from: Climate change and human colonization triggered habitat loss and...
The relative effect of past climate fluctuations and anthropogenic activities on current biome distribution is subject to increasing attention, notably in biodiversity hotspots. In Madagascar, where...
View ArticleData from: Dopamine disruption increases cleanerfish cooperative investment...
Social familiarization is a process of gaining knowledge that results from direct or indirect participation in social events. Cooperative exchanges are thought to be conditional upon familiarity with...
View ArticleData from: The transcriptional landscape of seasonal coat colour moult in the...
Seasonal coat colour change is an important adaptation to seasonally changing environments but the evolution of this and other circannual traits remains poorly understood. In this study we use gene...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenomic analysis of a rapid radiation of misfit fishes...
Phylogenetics is undergoing a revolution as large-scale molecular datasets reveal unexpected but repeatable rearrangements of clades that were previously thought to be disparate lineages. One of the...
View ArticleData from: Variation in thermal niche of a declining river-breeding frog:...
When dams or climate change alter the thermal regimes of rivers, conditions can shift outside optimal ranges for aquatic poikilothermic vertebrates. Plasticity in thermal performance and preference,...
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