Data from: Functional diversity loss with increasing livestock grazing...
1. Overgrazing is one of the main drivers of desertification in drylands, and livestock production is expected to increase in the next decades. The analysis of functional diversity can clarify the...
View ArticleData from: Landscape genetics of a pollinator longhorn beetle [Typocerus v....
Landscape connectivity, the degree to which the landscape structure facilitates or impedes organismal movement and gene flow, is increasingly important to conservationists and land managers. Metrics...
View ArticleData from: Geometry of wave-formed orbital ripples in coarse sand
Using new large-scale wave-flume experiments we examine the cross-section and planform geometry of wave-formed ripples in coarse sand (median grain size D50 = 430 μm) under high-energy shoaling and...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic tree estimation with and without alignment: new...
Phylogenetic tree inference is a critical component of many systematic and evolutionary studies. The majority of these studies are based on the two-step process of multiple sequence alignment followed...
View ArticleData from: Concealed by darkness: interactions between predatory bats and...
Recently, several species of aerial hawking bats have been found to prey on migrating songbirds, but details on this behavior and its relevance for bird migration are still unclear. We sequenced avian...
View ArticleData from: Environmental heterogeneity and population differences in blue...
Environmental heterogeneity can result in spatial variation in selection pressures that can produce local adaptations. The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis predicts that habitat-specific selective...
View ArticleData from: Efficient detection of repeating sites to accelerate phylogenetic...
The phylogenetic likelihood function is the major computational bottleneck in several applications of evolutionary biology such as phylogenetic inference, species delimitation, model selection and...
View ArticleData from: Villages and their old farmsteads are hot spots of bird diversity...
To counteract the decline of farmland biodiversity in Europe, it is crucial to recognize habitats that are hot spots. Old rural settlements (e.g. villages) may be such important habitats, although...
View ArticleData from: No evidence that plant-soil feedback effects of native and...
Plant–soil feedback (PSF) may affect above-ground higher trophic levels in glasshouse experiments, but evidence from field studies on the relevance of these multitrophic interactions for plant...
View ArticleData from: Grassland invasibility varies with drought effects on soil...
Although it is known that ecosystems are more susceptible to invasion when disturbed, our knowledge of the mechanisms involved remains limited. Recent studies indicate that disturbance-induced changes...
View ArticleData from: Population dynamics and life history of Euphorbia rosescens, a...
Euphorbia rosescens is a recently described plant that is narrowly endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge. Little is known of the ecology or life history of this diminutive, deeply rooted polygamodioecious...
View ArticleData from: Soil aggregate stability and grassland productivity associations...
Soil aggregate stability data are often predicted to be positively associated with measures of plant productivity, rangeland health, and ecosystem functioning. Here we revisit the hypothesis that soil...
View ArticleData from: Impact of helminth infections and nutritional constraints on the...
Helminth infections and nutrition can independently alter the composition and abundance of the gastrointestinal microbiota, however, their combined effect is poorly understood. Here, we used the T....
View ArticleData from: Adaptive genomic divergence under high gene flow between...
Understanding the genomic basis of adaptive divergence in the presence of gene flow remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology. In prickly sculpin (Cottus asper), an abundant euryhaline fish in...
View ArticleData from: Spatial patterns of self-recruitment of a coral reef fish in...
Oceanographic features influence the transport and delivery of marine larvae, and physical retention mechanisms, such as eddies, can enhance self-recruitment (i.e., the return of larvae to their natal...
View ArticleData from: No release for the wicked: enemy release is dynamic and not...
The enemy release hypothesis predicts that invasive species will receive less damage from enemies, compared to co-occurring native and noninvasive exotic species in their introduced range. However,...
View ArticleData from: Hiding behavior in Christmas tree worms on different time scales
Many animals escape predators by hiding. Hiding decisions are economic in that individuals trade off the physiological costs of hiding with the benefits of increased security. The number of...
View ArticleData from: Disentangling the interplay of generative and vegetative...
1. Meadow plant communities are commonly driven by strong competition, and the colonization of gaps plays an important role in the maintenance of their species diversity. Despite this, species-specific...
View ArticleData from: Tree genetics strongly affect forest productivity, but...
1. Numerous studies have demonstrated biodiversity-productivity relationships in plant communities, and analogous genetic diversity-productivity studies using genotype mixtures of single species may...
View ArticleData from: Differential aphid toxicity to ladybeetles is not a function of...
1. Herbivores often defend themselves from predation by transmitting toxic plant-produced chemicals to their enemies. Polyphagous herbivores sometimes exhibit differential toxicity when found on...
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