Data from: Concordance in evolutionary history of threatened plant and insect...
Threatened organisms may act as host to a suite of dependent organisms, which are potentially cothreatened, yet management is rarely coordinated between host and dependent species. Here, we test the...
View ArticleData from: Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the...
Language’s expressive power is largely attributable to its compositionality: meaningful words are combined into larger/higher-order structures with derived meaning. Despite its importance, little is...
View ArticleData from: Maternal pathogen exposure causes diet- and pathogen-specific...
Transgenerational effects, whereby the environment experienced by a parent leads to an altered offspring phenotype, have now been described in a variety of taxa. In invertebrates, much of the research...
View ArticleData from: Bees eavesdrop upon informative and persistent signal compounds in...
Pollinators such as bees provide a critical ecosystem service that can be impaired by information about predation. We provide the first evidence for olfactory eavesdropping and avoidance of...
View ArticleData from: The small nuclear genomes of Selaginella are associated with a low...
The haploid nuclear genome size (1C DNA) of vascular land plants varies over several orders of magnitude. Much of this observed diversity in genome size is due to the proliferation and deletion of...
View ArticleData from: An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia
The Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) occurs on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Over 50 species are known from here, including trilobites and...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary potential in the Alpine: trait heritabilities and...
Alpine ecosystems are seriously threatened by climate change. One of the key mechanisms by which plants can adapt to changing environmental conditions is through evolutionary change. However, we still...
View ArticleData from: Do the antipredator strategies of shared prey mediate intraguild...
Understanding the conditions that facilitate top predator effects upon mesopredators and prey is critical for predicting where these effects will be significant. Intraguild predation (IGP) and the...
View ArticleData from: Aging alters interspecific competition between two sympatric...
Interspecific competition can vary depending on the stage, age, or physiological state of the competitors. Competitive ability often increases with age or size; alternatively, senescence can lead to a...
View ArticleData from: The effects of natural and anthropogenic microparticles on...
Concerns are being raised that microplastic pollution can have detrimental effects on the feeding of aquatic invertebrates, including zooplankton. Both small plastic fragments (microplastics, MPs)...
View ArticleData from: Quantitative analysis of the ecological dominance of benthic...
The end-Permian mass extinction, the largest extinction of the Phanerozoic, led to a severe reduction in both taxonomic richness and ecological complexity of marine communities in its aftermath,...
View ArticleData from: Anchors and snorkels: heterochrony, development and form in...
New growth-rate estimates for nine species from three genera of New Zealand Crassatellidae (Mollusca; Bivalvia), combined with existing morphometric ontogenetic descriptions, allow identification of...
View ArticleData from: Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in...
Reductions in body size are increasingly being identified as a response to climate warming. Here we present evidence for a case of such body shrinkage, potentially due to malnutrition in early life. We...
View ArticleData from: Phenotypic shifts in urban areas in the tropical lizard Anolis...
Urbanization is an important dimension of global change, and urban areas impose significant natural selection on species within them. Although many species persist in urban areas, little research has...
View ArticleData from: Intensity of space use reveals conditional sex-specific effects of...
Home range (HR) size variation is often linked to resource abundance, with sex differences expected to relate to sex-specific fitness consequences. However, studies generally fail to disentangle the...
View ArticleData from: The evolution of growth patterns in mammalian versus non-mammalian...
One of the major evolutionary transitions of the mammaliaform lineage was the origin of a typically mammalian pattern of growth. This is characterised by rapid juvenile growth followed by abrupt...
View ArticleData from: A case study of extant and extinct Xenarthra cranium covariance...
Most of the mammalian diversity is known only from fossils, and only a few of these fossils are well preserved or abundant. This under sampling poses serious problems for understanding mammalian...
View ArticleData from: Biotic invasion, niche stability, and the assembly of regional...
Biotic invasions in the fossil record provide natural experiments for testing hypotheses of niche stability, speciation, and the assembly and diversity of regional biotas. We compare ecologic...
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