Data from: High cover of hedgerows in the landscape supports multiple...
1. Field-margin diversification through conservation and restoration of hedgerows is becoming a prominent intervention for promoting biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in intensive...
View ArticleData from: Avian pest control in vineyards is driven by interactions between...
1. Insectivorous birds are increasingly recognised for the crucial pest control services they provide to agroecosystems. While both the foraging activity and functional diversity of birds are enhanced...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic diversity reveals hidden patterns related to...
1. A phylogenetic perspective of community assembly can reveal new insights into how variations within dominant species interact with the local species pool to influence the structure of restored plant...
View ArticleData from: Burning for enhanced non-timber forest product yield may...
1. Non-timber forest product (NTFP) harvest is frequently accompanied by resource management practices that interact with the harvesting itself, other disturbances and abiotic conditions. These...
View ArticleData from: Mollusc-shell debris can mitigate the deleterious effects of...
1. Organic pollution is widespread in coastal areas and can have profound impacts on the seabed. Coastal sediments play an important role at a global scale in the recycling of organic matter, and this...
View ArticleData from: State-space modelling of geolocation data reveals sex differences...
1. Effective management and conservation of terrestrially-breeding marine predators requires information on connectivity between specific breeding sites and at-sea foraging areas. In the north-east...
View ArticleData from: Plant and insect microbial symbionts alter the outcome of...
1. Understanding how soil microbial communities influence plant interactions with other organisms, and how this varies with characteristics of the interacting organisms, is important for multiple...
View ArticleData from: Native soil-borne pathogens equalise differences in competitive...
Soil-borne pathogens can contribute to the maintenance of local plant diversity by reducing differences in competitive ability between co-occurring plant species. It has been hypothesised that...
View ArticleData from: Short-term climate change manipulation effects do not scale up to...
1. Despite time lags and non-linearity in ecological processes, the majority of our knowledge about ecosystem responses to long-term changes in climate originates from relatively short-term...
View ArticleData from: Phylogeny and temporal diversification of the New World pond...
We present a comprehensive multigene phylogeny and time tree for the turtle family Emydidae. Our phylogenetic analysis, based on 30 nuclear and four mitochondrial genes (23,330 total base pairs)...
View ArticleData from: Importance of latrine communication in European rabbits shifts...
BACKGROUND: Information transfer in mammalian communication networks is often based on the deposition of excreta in latrines. Depending on the intended receiver(s), latrines are either formed at...
View ArticleData from: Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography...
We apply a comparative framework to test for concerted demographic changes in response to climate shifts in the neotropical lowland forests, learning from the past to inform projections of the future....
View ArticleData from: Concessions, lifetime fitness consequences and the evolution of...
The relationship between the costs of coalitionary behavior and the evolution of such behavior has not been closely examined by theoretical studies. Here, we create a set of life-history models for...
View ArticleData from: Ornament size and colour as alternative strategies for effective...
Sexual ornamentation needs to be conspicuous to be effective in attracting potential mates and defending territories and indeed, a multitude of ways exists to achieve this. Two principal mechanisms for...
View ArticleData from: DiscoMark: Nuclear marker discovery from orthologous sequences...
High-throughput sequencing has laid the foundation for fast and cost-effective development of phylogenetic markers. Here we present the program DISCOMARK, which streamlines the development of nuclear...
View ArticleData from: The genetic architecture of local adaptation and reproductive...
The genetic architecture of local adaptation has been of central interest to evolutionary biologists since the modern synthesis. In addition to classic theory on the effect size of adaptive mutations...
View ArticleData from: Energy and lipid metabolism during direct and diapause development...
Diapause is a fundamental component of the life-cycle in the majority of insects living in environments characterized by strong seasonality. The present study addresses poorly understood associations...
View ArticleData from: Colour ornamentation in the blue tit: quantitative genetic...
While secondary sexual traits are commonly more developed in males than females, in many animal species females also display elaborate ornaments or weaponry. Indirect selection on correlated traits in...
View ArticleData from: 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing for epidemiological surveys of...
The human impact on natural habitats is increasing the complexity of human-wildlife interactions and leading to the emergence of infectious diseases worldwide. Highly successful synanthropic wildlife...
View ArticleData from: ASSET: analysis of sequences of synchronous events in massively...
With the ability to observe the activity from large numbers of neurons simultaneously using modern recording technologies, the chance to identify sub-networks involved in coordinated processing...
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