YAO, Fengxin SHI, Boyang WANG, Xiaoqi PAN, Da BAI, Ming YAN, Jie CUMBERLIDGE, Neil SUN, Hongying
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Integrative Zoology
One of the most striking radiations in brachyuran evolution is the considerable morphological diversification of the external reproductive structures of primary freshwater crabs: the male first gonopod (G1) and the female vulva (FV). However, the lack of quantitative studies, especially the lack of data on female genitalia, has seriously limited ou...
NIU, Hongyu ZHANG, Jie WANG, Zhiyong HUANG, Guangchuan PENG, Chao ZHANG, Hongmao
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Integrative Zoology
Superior species may have distinct advantages over subordinates within asymmetrical interactions among sympatric animals. However, exactly how the subordinate species coexists with superior species is unknown. In the forests west of Beijing City, intense asymmetrical interactions of food competition exist among granivorous rodents (e.g. Apodemus pe...
BUCKERIDGE, John KOČÍ, Tomáš SCHLÖGL, Ján TOMAŠOVÝCH, Adam KOČOVÁ VESELSKÁ, Martina
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Integrative Zoology
Fossil cephalopods are frequently encrusted by epibionts; however, determining whether encrustation occurred prior to or post‐mortem to the host, and whether the final environment of deposition corresponds to the habitat of encrustation is complex. The present paper describes cirripede epibionts, their calcareous bases and their attachment scars on...
Vargas-García, Selene Argaez, Víctor Solano-Zavaleta, Israel Zúñiga-Vega, J Jaime
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Integrative zoology
Most demographic studies focus on numerical changes that occur within populations across years. However, typically studies at an interannual scale do not provide information on the particular times of the year (particular months or seasons) when rates of survival, recruitment, or migration increase or decrease due to physiological, behavioral or ec...
Song, Shengjing Lin, Aiqing Jiang, Tinglei Zhao, Xin Metzner, Walter Feng, Jiang
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Integrative zoology
Many studies based on acute short-term noise exposure have demonstrated that animals can adjust their vocalizations in response to ambient noise. However, the effects of chronic noise over a relatively long time scale of multiple days remain largely unclear. Bats rely mainly on acoustic signals for perception of environmental and social communicati...
Krebs, Charles J Boonstra, Rudy Gilbert, B Scott Kenney, Alice J Boutin, Stan
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Integrative zoology
Long-term monitoring is critical to determine the stability and sustainability of wildlife populations, and if change has occurred, why. We have followed population density changes in the small mammal community in the boreal forest of the southern Yukon for 46 years with density estimates by live trapping on 3-5 unmanipulated grids in spring and au...
YLÖNEN, Hannu HAAPAKOSKI, Marko SIEVERT, Thorbjörn SUNDELL, Janne
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Integrative Zoology
Climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats for populations and a challenge for individual behavior, interactions and survival. Predator–prey interactions are modified by climate processes. In the northern latitudes, strong seasonality is changing and the main predicted feature is shortening and instability of winter. Vole popu...
HTWE, Nyo Me SINGLETON, Grant R. JOHNSON, David E.
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Integrative Zoology
Rodents and weeds are important pests to rice crops in Southeast Asia. The interaction between these 2 major pests is poorly documented. In temperate cereal systems, seeds of grass weeds can be an important food source for rodents and weed cover along crop margins provides important refuge for rodents. In 2012 and 2013, a replicated study ( n = 4) ...
Yang, Daode Dai, Xiaofeng Deng, Yiping Lu, Weiquan Jiang, Zhigang
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Integrative zoology
Two surveys of opinions about wildlife conservation were carried out in Hunan Province, China, before and after the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. Hunan is the northern neighbor of Guangdong Province, where the first SARS case was reported. The custom of consuming wild meat was not common in Hunan 30 years ago. However, in recen...
