Hourdin, Frédéric Musat, Ionela Bony, Sandrine Braconnot, Pascale Codron, Francis Dufresne, Jean-Louis Fairhead, Laurent Filiberti, Marie-Angèle Friedlingstein, Pierre Grandpeix, Jean-Yves
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Climate Dynamics
The LMDZ4 general circulation model is the atmospheric component of the IPSL–CM4 coupled model which has been used to perform climate change simulations for the 4th IPCC assessment report. The main aspects of the model climatology (forced by observed sea surface temperature) are documented here, as well as the major improvements with respect to the...
Számadó, Szabolcs
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Animal Behaviour
Richter-Boix, Alex Tejedo, Miguel Rezende, Enrico L
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Ecology and evolution
Anurans breed in a variety of aquatic habitats with contrasting levels of desiccation risk, which may result in selection for faster development during larval stages. Previous studies suggest that species in ephemeral ponds reduce their developmental times to minimize desiccation risks, although it is not clear how variation in desiccation risk aff...
Hubert, Nicolas Paradis, Emmanuel Bruggemann, Henrich Planes, Serge
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Ecology and evolution
Theories of species coexistence have played a central role in ecology and evolutionary studies of the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in highly diverse communities. The concept of niche and associated theories predict that competition for available ecological space leads to a ceiling in species richness that influences further diversificatio...
Leppänen, Jenni Vepsäläinen, Kari Savolainen, Riitta
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Ecology and evolution
Widely distributed Palearctic insects are ideal to study phylogeographic patterns owing to their high potential to survive in many Pleistocene refugia and-after the glaciation-to recolonize vast, continuous areas. Nevertheless, such species have received little phylogeographic attention. Here, we investigated the Pleistocene refugia and subsequent ...
Kinziger, Andrew P Nakamoto, Rodney J Anderson, Eric C Harvey, Bret C
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Ecology and evolution
Molecular evaluations of successful invaders are common, however studies of introduced species that have had limited invasion success, or have died out completely, are rare. We studied an introduced population of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) from northern California, USA that has rapidly increased in abundance but remained restricted to a 25...
Ikeda, Hiroshi Sota, Teiji
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Ecology and evolution
Some insect species exhibit polymorphisms in flight muscles or wings, which provide opportunities for studying the factors that drive dispersal polymorphisms and the evolution of flightlessness in insects. We investigated the macroscale evolutionary pattern of flightlessness in the widespread Japanese beetle Necrophila japonica (Coleoptera: Silphid...
Yang, D-S Kenagy, G
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Ecology and evolution
Despite current interest in population genetics, a concrete definition of a "population" remains elusive. Multiple ecologically and evolutionarily based definitions of population are in current use, which focus, respectively, on demographic and genetic interactions. Accurate population delimitation is crucial for not only evolutionary and ecologica...
Kudo, Gaku Amagai, Yukihiro Hoshino, Buho Kaneko, Masami
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Ecology and evolution
Recently, a dwarf bamboo species,Sasa kurilensis; Poaceae, has invaded into alpine snow-meadows in the wilderness area of the Taisetsu Mountains, northern Japan. This dwarf bamboo species has a wide distribution range from lowland to alpine sites of snowy regions. Because of the formation of dense evergreen culms and an extensive rhizome system, ot...
Moore, Patricia J Attisano, Alfredo
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Ecology and evolution
Plasticity in reproductive physiology is one avenue by which environmental signals, such as poor quality food, can be coordinated with adaptive responses. Insects have the ability to resorb oocytes that are not oviposited. Oosorption is proposed to be an adaptive mechanism to optimize fitness in hostile environments, recouping resources that might ...
