Garnier, Suzon Giordanengo, Emma Saatkamp, Arne Santonja, Mathieu Reiter, Ilja M Orts, Jean-Philippe Gauquelin, Thierry Meineri, Eric
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Ecology and evolution
Seedling recruitment is a bottleneck for population dynamics and range shift. The vital rates linked to recruitment by seed are impacted by amplified drought induced by climate change. In the Mediterranean region, autumn and winter seedling emergence and mortality may have strong impact on the overall seedling recruitment. However, studies focusing...
Criscuolo, François Dobson, F Stephen Schull, Quentin
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Ecology and evolution
Longevity is highly variable among animal species and has coevolved with other life-history traits, such as body size and rates of reproduction. Telomeres, through their erosion over time, are one of the cell mechanisms that produce senescence at the cell level and might even have an influence on the rate of aging in whole organisms. However, unero...
Mackin, Christopher R Goulson, Dave Castellanos, Maria Clara
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Ecology and evolution
With many plant-pollinator interactions undergoing change as species' distributions shift, we require a better understanding of how the addition of new interacting partners can affect plant reproduction. One such group of floral visitors, nectar robbers, can deplete plants of nectar rewards without contributing to pollination. The addition of necta...
Hurtado, Gizelle Mayer, Ghislaine Mabry, Karen E
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Ecology and evolution
Urban development can fragment and degrade remnant habitat. Such habitat alterations can have profound impacts on wildlife, including effects on population density, parasite infection status, parasite prevalence, and body condition. We investigated the influence of urbanization on populations of Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami) and their...
Jochum, Malte Barnes, Andrew D Brose, Ulrich Gauzens, Benoit Sünnemann, Marie Amyntas, Angelos Eisenhauer, Nico
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Ecology and evolution
Global change alters ecological communities with consequences for ecosystem processes. Such processes and functions are a central aspect of ecological research and vital to understanding and mitigating the consequences of global change, but also those of other drivers of change in organism communities. In this context, the concept of energy flux th...
Wright, Cynthia L de Lima, André L A de Souza, Eduardo S West, Jason B Wilcox, Bradford P
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Ecology and evolution
In seasonally dry tropical forests, plant functional type can be classified as deciduous low wood density, deciduous high wood density, or evergreen high wood density species. While deciduousness is often associated with drought-avoidance and low wood density is often associated with tissue water storage, the degree to which these functional types ...
Silva, Sofia Marques Ribas, Camila C Aleixo, Alexandre
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Ecology and evolution
We assessed population structure and the spatio-temporal pattern of diversification in the Glossy Antshrike Sakesphorus luctuosus (Aves, Thamnophilidae) to understand the processes shaping the evolutionary history of Amazonian floodplains and address unresolved taxonomic controversies surrounding its species limits. By targeting ultraconserved elem...
Braun-Reichert, Ralf Rubanschi, Sven Poschlod, Peter
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Ecology and evolution
The abandonment of historical land-use forms within forests, such as grazing or coppicing, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition, has led to an increasing overgrowth of forest gaps and canopy closure in forest ecosystems of Central Europe. From 1945 to 2015, 81% of the forest gaps greater than 150 m2 within the study area transitioned into a closed f...
Nelson, Erik D Cong, Qian Grishin, Nick V
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Ecology and evolution
Recently diverged butterfly populations in North America have been found to exhibit high levels of divergence on the Z chromosome relative to autosomes, as measured by fixation index, F st . The pattern of divergence appears to result from accumulation of incompatible alleles, obstructing introgression on the Z chromosome in hybrids (i.e., the larg...
Ram, Ashok Kumar Mondol, Samrat Subedi, Naresh Lamichhane, Babu Ram Baral, Hem Sagar Natarajan, Laxminarayanan Amin, Rajan Pandav, Bivash
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Ecology and evolution
Attacks on humans by Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is an extreme form of human-elephant conflict. It is a serious issue in southern lowland Nepal where elephant-related human fatalities are higher than other wildlife. Detailed understanding of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal is still lacking, hindering to devising appropriate strategies for ...
