Strange Seal Sounds: Claps, Slaps, and Multimodal Pinniped Rhythms
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Biogeographic Drivers of Evolutionary Radiations
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Some lineages radiate spectacularly when colonizing a region, but others do not. Large radiations are often attributed to species’ adaptation into niches, or to other drivers, such as biogeography including dispersal ability and spatial structure of the landscape. Here we aim to disentangle the factors determining radiation size, by modeling simpli...
Evaporative Water Loss and Stopover Behavior in Three Passerine Bird Species During Autumn Migration
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Migratory birds are often not specifically adapted to arid conditions, yet several species travel across deserts during their journeys, and often have more or less short stopovers there. We investigated whether differences in thermoregulatory mechanisms, specifically evaporative cooling, explain the different behavior of three passerine species whi...
Development of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) Under Hypoxic Conditions Induced Sustained Changes in Expression of Immu...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Atlantic salmon is characterized with high sensitivity to low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels. Hypoxia can affect diverse biological processes with consequences that can be manifested immediately or with delay. Effects of hypoxia on the immune system and the resistance to a bacterial pathogen were investigated. Two groups were reared at, respectively,...
Money Kills Native Ecosystems: European Crayfish as an Example
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Native European crayfish conservation was triggered by invasion of crayfish plague disease agent, Aphanomyces astaci, starting 1860s in Northern Italy. Resulting crayfish plague epidemics quickly spread over Continental Europe, then to Finland, Sweden and finally, after running amok around Europe, A. astaci was discovered also in Iberian Peninsula,...
Ecology of Fear: Spines, Armor and Noxious Chemicals Deter Predators in Cancer and in Nature
...Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
In nature, many multicellular and unicellular organisms use constitutive defenses such as armor, spines, and noxious chemicals to keep predators at bay. These defenses render the prey difficult and/or dangerous to subdue and handle, which confers a strong deterrent for predators. The distinct benefit of this mode of defense is that prey can defend ...
Community Bioacoustics: Studying Acoustic Community Structure for Ecological and Conservation Insights
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The diversity of animal acoustic signals has evolved due to multiple ecological processes, both biotic and abiotic. At the level of communities of signaling animals, these processes may lead to diverse outcomes, including partitioning of acoustic signals along multiple axes (divergent signal parameters, signaling locations, and timing). Acoustic da...
Floral Cues of Non-host Plants Attract Oligolectic Chelostoma rapunculi Bees
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Oligolectic bees are highly dependent on the availability of the host plants to which they are specialized. Nevertheless, females of Chelostoma rapunculi have recently been monitored occasionally to visit Malva moschata and Geranium sanguineum flowers, in addition to their well-known Campanula spp. hosts. The questions therefore arise which floral ...
An Evolutionary Explanation for the Female Leadership Paradox
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Social influence is distributed unequally between males and females in many mammalian societies. In human societies, gender inequality is particularly evident in access to leadership positions. Understanding why women historically and cross-culturally have tended to be under-represented as leaders within human groups and organizations represents a ...
Social Vulnerability and Human Development of Brazilian Coastal Populations
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
There is a considerable gap linking human dimensions and marine ecosystem services with Sustainable Development Goals, and one of these issues relate to differing perspectives and ideas around concepts of human development. There is also a lack of contemporary evaluations of coastal communities from developing nations under the lens of wellbeing an...
