Data from: Good reasons to leave home: proximate dispersal cues in a social...
Natal dispersal is a successful tactic under a range of conditions in spite of significant costs. Habitat quality is a frequent proximate cause of dispersal, and studies have shown that dispersal...
View ArticleData from: Long-term effect of yolk carotenoid levels on testis size in a...
Conditions experienced during prenatal development can have long-lasting organizational effects on offspring. Maternal carotenoids deposited in the eggs of birds and other oviparous species play an...
View ArticleData from: Inbreeding depression in a critically endangered carnivore
Harmful effects arising from matings between relatives (inbreeding) is a long-standing observation that is well founded in theory. Empirical evidence for inbreeding depression in natural populations is...
View ArticleData from: Initial genetic diversity enhances population establishment and...
When newly-created habitats are initially colonized by genotypes with rapid population growth rates, later arriving colonists may be prevented from establishing. Although these priority effects have...
View ArticleData from: Forest cover mediates genetic connectivity of northwestern cougars
Population structure, connectivity, and dispersal success of individuals can be challenging to demonstrate for solitary carnivores with low population densities. Though the cougar (Puma concolor) is...
View ArticleData from: Picky hitch-hikers: vector choice leads to directed dispersal and...
Dispersal is a central life-history trait for most animals and plants: it allows to colonize new habitats, escape from competition or avoid inbreeding. Yet, not all species are mobile enough to perform...
View ArticleData from: A test of priority effect persistence in semi-natural grasslands...
Background: It is known that during plant community assembly, the early colonizing species can affect the establishment, growth or reproductive success of later arriving species, often resulting in...
View ArticleData from: Within guild co-infections influence parasite community...
1. Experimental studies in laboratory settings have demonstrated a critical role of parasite interactions in shaping parasite communities. The sum of these interactions can produce diverse effects on...
View ArticleData from: The effects of food-web structure on ecosystem function exceeds...
Ecosystems are being stressed by climate change, but few studies have tested food web responses to changes in precipitation patterns and the consequences to ecosystem function. Fewer still have...
View ArticleData from: Experimental evidence for fundamental, and not realised, niche...
Patterns of niche partitioning can result from local ecological interactions (e.g. interspecific competition) occurring within a contemporary time frame (realised niche partitioning). Alternatively...
View ArticleData from: The role of cognitive and affective empathy in spouses' support...
The present study examined how support providers’ empathic dispositions (dispositional perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress) as well as their situational empathic reactions...
View ArticleData from: Dietary niche constriction when invaders meet natives: evidence...
1. Invasive species are a key driver of global environmental change, with frequently strong negative consequences for native biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Understanding competitive interactions...
View ArticleData from: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
Where in the world are the Sci-Hub users? And what are they reading? These data are from the Sci-Hub server logs from 1 September 2015 through 29 February 2016. They include 28 million download...
View ArticleData from: Opioid use and storage patterns in patients after hospital...
Introduction: Opioid-based analgesic therapy represents a cornerstone of pain management after surgery. The recent rise in opioid sales and opioid overdoses suggests it is important to maximize the...
View ArticleData from: Faunal community consequence of interspecific bark trait...
Dead tree trunks have significant ecosystem functions related to biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles. When lying on the soil surface they are colonized by an array of invertebrate fauna, but what...
View ArticleData from: Disentangling associational effects: both resource density and...
Neighbouring resources have been found to either decrease or increase the likelihood that a consumer organism attacks a focal resource. These phenomena are referred to as associational resistance and...
View ArticleData from: The stable isotope ecology of mycalesine butterflies: implications...
One of the most dramatic examples of biome shifts in the geological record is the rapid replacement of C3 vegetation by C4 grasses in (sub-) tropical regions during the Late Miocene-Pliocene....
View ArticleData from: Bottom time does not always predict prey encounter rate in...
Optimal foraging models applied to breath-holding divers predict that diving predators should optimize the time spent foraging at the bottom of dives depending on prey encounter rate, distance to prey...
View ArticleData from: Beyond plant–soil feedbacks: mechanisms driving plant community...
Although biotic legacies of past agricultural practices are widespread and increasing in contemporary ecosystems, our understanding of the mechanisms driving such legacies is still poor. Forest...
View ArticleData from: Cardiovascular variability analysis and baroreflex estimation in...
Introduction: Indexes derived from spontaneous heart period (HP) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) fluctuations can detect autonomic dysfunction in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)...
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