Young, Euan A Postma, Erik
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Ecology and evolution
Evolutionary adaptation through genetic change requires genetic variation and is a key mechanism enabling species to persist in changing environments. Although a substantial body of work has focused on understanding how and why additive genetic variance (V A) differs among traits within species, we still know little about how they vary among specie...
Funk, Steffen Funk, Nicole Herrmann, Jens-Peter Hinrichsen, Hans-Harald Krumme, Uwe Möllmann, Christian Temming, Axel
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Ecology and evolution
Understanding individual growth in commercially exploited fish populations is key to successful stock assessment and informed ecosystem-based fisheries management. Traditionally, growth rates in marine fish are estimated using otolith age-readings in combination with age-length relationships from field samples, or tag-recapture field experiments. H...
Van Lanen, Nicholas J Monroe, Adrian P Aldridge, Cameron L
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Ecology and evolution
Effective wildlife management requires robust information regarding population status, habitat requirements, and likely responses to changing resource conditions. Single-species management may inadequately conserve communities and result in undesired effects to non-target species. Thus, management can benefit from understanding habitat relationship...
Wyver, Chris Potts, Simon G Edwards, Mike Edwards, Rowan Senapathi, Deepa
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Ecology and evolution
Climate plays a major role in determining where species occur, and when they are active throughout the year. In the face of a changing climate, many species are shifting their ranges poleward. Many species are also shifting their emergence phenology. Wild bees in Great Britain are susceptible to changes in climatic conditions but little is known ab...
Peters, Catherine Geary, Matthew Hosie, Charlotte Nelson, Howard Rusk, Bonnie Muir, Anna
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Ecology and evolution
As an island endemic with a decreasing population, the critically endangered Grenada Dove Leptotila wellsi is threatened by accelerated loss of genetic diversity resulting from ongoing habitat fragmentation. Small, threatened populations are difficult to sample directly but advances in molecular methods mean that non-invasive samples can be used. W...
Bertellotti, Franklin Sommer, Nathalie R Schmitz, Oswald J McCary, Matthew A
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Ecology and evolution
Metacommunity theory has advanced scientific understanding of how species interactions and spatial processes influence patterns of biodiversity and community structure across landscapes. While the central tenets of metacommunity theory have been promoted as pivotal considerations for conservation management, few field experiments have tested the va...
Xiao, Changyi Duarri-Redondo, Sara Thorhölludottir, Dagny A V Chen, Yiwen Schlötterer, Christian
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Ecology and evolution
Competitive fitness assays are widely used in evolutionary biology and typically rely on a reference strain to compare different focal genotypes. This approach implicitly relies on the absence of interaction between the competing genotypes. In other words, the performance of the reference strain must not depend on the competitor. This report scruti...
Lindstrom, Jessica Ahlering, Marissa Hamilton, Jill
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Ecology and evolution
Restoration advocates for the use of local seed in restoration, but theory suggests that diverse seed sources may enhance genetic diversity and longer term evolutionary potential within restored communities. However, few empirical studies have evaluated whether species and genetic diversity within species impacts plant community composition followi...
Behrendorff, Linda King, Rachel Allen, Benjamin L
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Ecology and evolution
Threatened species throughout the world are in decline due to various causes. In some cases, predators of conservation or cultural value are causing the decline of threatened prey, presenting a conservation conundrum for managers. We surveyed marine turtle nests on K'gari (formally known as Fraser Island), Australia, to investigate dingo predation ...
Correa, César M A da Silva, Kalel Caetano de Oliveira, Pedro Lucas Moreira Salomão, Renato Portela
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Ecology and evolution
Dung beetles are efficient indicators to obtain responses regarding the effects of land use change on biodiversity. Although the biological consequences of Cerrado conversion into pasture have been observed at the assemblage scale, there are no cues regarding the effects of tropical savanna conversion into pasture on physiological condition of dung...
