Data from: Trade-offs and tritrophic consequences of host shifts in...
1. Trade-offs in an herbivore’s ability to feed, avoid predation, and succeed on alternative hosts are thought to be major driving factors in host specialization. In this study we compared how two...
View ArticleData from: Positive species diversity and above-ground biomass relationships...
1. There is growing concern over rates of global species diversity loss and its implications on healthy ecosystem functioning. While positive relationships between tree species diversity and forest...
View ArticleData from: Do thermoregulatory costs limit altitude distributions of Andean...
Along tropical mountains, species often occupy narrow altitude ranges. Numerous biotic and abiotic factors have been proposed as determinants of altitude occupancy. We measured several aspects of...
View ArticleData from: Model-based inference for estimating shifts in species...
Changing climate is already impacting the spatial distribution of many taxa, including bees, plants, birds, butterflies and fishes. A common goal is to detect range shifts in response to climate...
View ArticleData from: Triplet MaxCut: a new toolkit for rooted supertree
The rapid increase of molecular, as well as other types, of available classification data has created the need to combine this data into a unified hypothesis. Supertree methods are essential when...
View ArticleData from: Detecting evolutionarily significant units above the species level...
1. There is renewed interest in inferring evolutionary history by modelling diversification rates using phylogenies. Understanding the performance of the methods used under different scenarios is...
View ArticleData from: A minimum-impact, flexible tool to study vocal communication of...
1.To understand both proximate and ultimate factors shaping vocal communication, it is fundamental to obtain reliable information of participating individuals on different levels: Firstly, it is...
View ArticleData from: Measuring the biodiversity of microbial communities by flow cytometry
1. Measuring the microbial diversity in natural and engineered environments is important for ecosystem characterization, ecosystem monitoring and hypothesis testing. Although the conventional...
View ArticleData from: Hormonal and metabolic responses to upper temperature extremes in...
Extreme temperatures constrain organismal physiology and impose both acute and chronic effects. Additionally, temperature-induced hormone-mediated stress response pathways and energetic trade-offs are...
View ArticleData from: Revisiting Brownian motion as a description of animal movement: a...
1. Characterisation of patterns of animal movement is a major challenge in ecology with applications to conservation, biological invasions, and pest monitoring. Brownian random walks, and diffusive...
View ArticleData from: Mycorrhizal feedback is not associated with the outcome of...
The symbiosis between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is hypothesized to be an important contributor to plant-soil feedbacks, which can influence the outcome of inter-specific competition....
View ArticleData from: The ontogeny of tolerance curves: habitat quality versus...
1. Stressful environments affect life-history components of fitness through (i) instantaneous detrimental effects, (ii) historical (carry-over) effects, and (iii) history-by-environment interactions,...
View ArticleData from: Elevation and latitude interact to drive life history variation in...
1. Elevational gradients provide a powerful laboratory for understanding the environmental and ecological drivers of geographic variation in avian life history strategies. Environmental variation...
View ArticleData from: Consistent scaling of population structure across landscapes...
1. Understanding the spatial scale of population structure is fundamental to long-standing tenets of population biology, landscape ecology, and conservation. Nonetheless, identifying such scales has...
View ArticleData from: Grazing-induced shifts in community functional composition and...
1. The functional structure of plant communities can be altered by grazing through two main mechanisms: species turnover (i.e. changes in species occurrence and relative abundance), and by...
View ArticleData from: Species and population diversity in Pacific salmon fisheries...
1. Indigenous people are considered to be among the most vulnerable to food insecurity and biodiversity loss. Biodiversity is cited as a key component of indigenous food security; however, quantitative...
View ArticleData from: Can intercropping with the world’s three major beverage plants...
1. The dramatic expansion of rubber plantations in mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China has caused many eco-environmental problems, especially negative hydrological consequences. These problems...
View ArticleData from: Identifying management actions to increase foraging opportunities...
The expansion of aquaculture has resulted in widespread habitat conversion throughout the world. Identifying beneficial management measures may dramatically reduce negative impacts of aquaculture for...
View ArticleData from: Manipulating wetland hydroperiod to improve occupancy rates by an...
1. Environmental managers have the difficult task of ensuring species persistence despite considerable uncertainty about their response to management. Spatially-explicit population models provide one...
View ArticleData from: Faster and farther: wolf movement on linear features and...
1. Predation by Canis lupus grey wolves has been identified as an important cause of Rangifer tarandus caribou boreal woodland caribou mortality and it has been hypothesized that wolf use of...
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