Hyndes, Glenn A Berdan, Emma L Duarte, Cristian Dugan, Jenifer E Emery, Kyle A Hambäck, Peter A Henderson, Christopher J Hubbard, David M Lastra, Mariano Mateo, Miguel A
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Sandy beaches are iconic interfaces that functionally link the ocean with the land via the flow of organic matter from the sea. These cross-ecosystem fluxes often comprise uprooted seagrass and dislodged macroalgae that can form substantial accumulations of detritus, termed 'wrack', on sandy beaches. In addition, the tissue of the carcasses of mari...
Yue, Kai De Frenne, Pieter Van Meerbeek, Koenraad Ferreira, Verónica Fornara, Dario A Wu, Qiqian Ni, Xiangyin Peng, Yan Wang, Dingyi Heděnec, Petr
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Plant litter is the major source of energy and nutrients in stream ecosystems and its decomposition is vital for ecosystem nutrient cycling and functioning. Invertebrates are key contributors to instream litter decomposition, yet quantification of their effects and drivers at the global scale remains lacking. Here, we systematically synthesized dat...
Watson, Stuart K Filippi, Piera Gasparri, Luca Falk, Nikola Tamer, Nicole Widmer, Paul Manser, Marta Glock, Hans-Johann
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A critical feature of language is that the form of words need not bear any perceptual similarity to their function - these relationships can be 'arbitrary'. The capacity to process these arbitrary form-function associations facilitates the enormous expressive power of language. However, the evolutionary roots of our capacity for arbitrariness, i.e....
Dorfman, Arik Hills, Thomas T Scharf, Inon
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Area-restricted search is the capacity to change search effort adaptively in response to resource encounters or expectations, from directional exploration (global, extensive search) to focused exploitation (local, intensive search). This search pattern is used by numerous organisms, from worms and insects to humans, to find various targets, such as...
Degueldre, Félicien Aron, Serge
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In internally fertilizing species, sperm transfer is not always immediately followed by egg fertilization, and female sperm storage (FSS) may occur. FSS is a phenomenon in which females store sperm in a specialized organ for periods lasting from a few hours to several years, depending on the species. Eusocial hymenopterans (ants, social bees, and s...
Volsche, Shelly Root-Gutteridge, Holly Korzeniowska, Anna T Horowitz, Alexandra
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Modern behavioural scientists have come to acknowledge that individual animals may respond differently to the same stimuli and that the quality of welfare and lived experience can affect behavioural responses. However, much of the foundational research in behavioural science lacked awareness of the effect of both welfare and individuality on data, ...
Nanglu, Karma Cole, Selina R Wright, David F Souto, Camilla
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Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms, and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa. However, their early evolution is poorly understood, due in part to their disparity, which makes identifying commonalities difficult, as well as their relatively poor early f...
Edelaar, Pim Otsuka, Jun Luque, Victor J
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Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights successfully. Nonetheless, there is currently a tension between certain biological phenomena and mainstream evolutionary theory. For example, how does the inheritance of molecular epi...
Henderson, Struan Dunne, Emma M Fasey, Sophie A Giles, Sam
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Actinopterygii makes up half of living vertebrate diversity, and study of fossil members during their Palaeozoic rise to dominance has a long history of descriptive work. Although research interest into Palaeozoic actinopterygians has increased in recent years, broader patterns of diversity and diversity dynamics remain critically understudied. Pas...
Kornilev, Yurii V Natchev, Nikolay D Lillywhite, Harvey B
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The advanced snakes (Alethinophidia) include the extant snakes with a highly evolved head morphology providing increased gape and jaw flexibility. Along with other physiological and morphological adaptations, this allows them to immobilize, ingest, and transport prey that may be disproportionately large or presents danger to the predator from bites...
