Spatola, Gabriella J. Ostrander, Elaine A. Mousseau, Timothy A.
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Dogs were frequently employed as laboratory subjects during the era of atomic bomb testing (1950–1980), particularly in studies used to generate predictive data regarding the expected effects of accidental human occupational exposure to radiation. The bulk of these studies were only partly reported in the primary literature, despite providing vital...
Edwards, Megan C Hoy, Julia M FitzGibbon, Sean I Murray, Peter J
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Australia's wildlife is being considerably impacted by introduced mammalian predators such as cats (Felis catus), dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), and foxes (Vulpes vulpes). This is often attributed to native wildlife being naïve to these introduced predators. A systematic review of the literature reveals that native metatherians (body mass range 0.0...
Couvreur, Thomas L P Dauby, Gilles Blach-Overgaard, Anne Deblauwe, Vincent Dessein, Steven Droissart, Vincent Hardy, Oliver J Harris, David J Janssens, Steven B Ley, Alexandra C
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Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems. Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification of this biodiversity. During the last two decades, around 90 dated molecular phylogenies of different clades across animals and plants have been published leading to ...
Griffin, Christopher T Stocker, Michelle R Colleary, Caitlin Stefanic, Candice M Lessner, Emily J Riegler, Mitchell Formoso, Kiersten Koeller, Krista Nesbitt, Sterling J
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Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad evolutionary and palaeobiological hypotheses. Assessing maturity is one of the most basic aspects of morphological interpretation and provides the means to study t...
Baguette, Michel Bertrand, Joris A M Stevens, Virginie M Schatz, Bertrand
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Adaptive radiations occur mostly in response to environmental variation through the evolution of key innovations that allow emerging species to occupy new ecological niches. Such biological innovations may play a major role in niche divergence when emerging species are engaged in reciprocal ecological interactions. To demonstrate coevolution is a d...
Caro, Tim Koneru, Manisha
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The strategies underlying different forms of protective coloration are well understood but little attention has been paid to the ecological, life-history and behavioural circumstances under which they evolve. While some comparative studies have investigated the ecological correlates of aposematism, and background matching, the latter particularly i...
Mammola, Stefano Amorim, Isabel R Bichuette, Maria E Borges, Paulo A V Cheeptham, Naowarat Cooper, Steven J B Culver, David C Deharveng, Louis Eme, David Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes
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Five decades ago, a landmark paper in Science titled The Cave Environment heralded caves as ideal natural experimental laboratories in which to develop and address general questions in geology, ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology. Although the 'caves as laboratory' paradigm has since been advocated by subterranean biologists, there are ...
Thiel, Sarina Tschapka, Marco Heymann, Eckhard W Heer, Katrin
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Vertical stratification (VS) is a widespread phenomenon in plant and animal communities in forests and a key factor for structuring their species richness and biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests. The organisms composing forest communities adjust and shape the complex three-dimensional structure of their environment and inhabit a large va...
Waller, Martyn Kirby, Jason
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Peat layers are well represented in the Holocene coastal deposits of the southern North Sea and provide evidence as to the extent and nature of the fens and bogs that occupied the region in the mid and late Holocene. While natural processes contributed to their demise, without human interference extensive areas of peatland would remain. We review t...
Moran, Nicholas P Sánchez-Tójar, Alfredo Schielzeth, Holger Reinhold, Klaus
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Animal behaviour can lead to varying levels of risk, and an individual's physical condition can alter the potential costs and benefits of undertaking risky behaviours. How risk-taking behaviour depends on condition is subject to contrasting hypotheses. The asset protection principle proposes that individuals in better condition should be more risk ...
