Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, O. Esmat, A. Bragin, D. Bragina, O. Shirokov, A. A. Navolokin, N. Yang, Y. Abdurashitov, A. Khorovodov, A. Terskov, A.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Music plays a more important role in our life than just being an entertainment. For example, it can be used as an anti-anxiety therapy of human and animals. However, the unsafe listening of loud music triggers hearing loss in millions of young people and professional musicians (rock, jazz and symphony orchestra) owing to exposure to damaging sound ...
Frey, Seth Atkisson, Curtis
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding human institutions, animal cultures and other social systems requires flexible formalisms that describe how their members change them from within. We introduce a framework for modelling how agents change the games they participate in. We contrast this between-game ‘institutional evolution’ with the more familiar within-game ‘behaviour...
Verspagen, Nadja Ikonen, Suvi Saastamoinen, Marjo van Bergen, Erik
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Variation in environmental conditions during development can lead to changes in life-history traits with long-lasting effects. Here, we study how variation in temperature and host plant (i.e. the consequences of potential maternal oviposition choices) affects a suite of life-history traits in pre-diapause larvae of the Glanville fritillary butterfl...
Fischer, Julia Wegdell, Franziska Trede, Franziska Dal Pesco, Federica Hammerschmidt, Kurt
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The extent to which nonhuman primate vocalizations are amenable to modification through experience is relevant for understanding the substrate from which human speech evolved. We examined the vocal behaviour of Guinea baboons, Papio papio , ranging in the Niokolo Koba National Park in Senegal. Guinea baboons live in a multi-level society, with unit...
Usherwood, James R Granatosky, Michael C
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Quadrupedal animal locomotion is energetically costly. We explore two forms of mechanical work that may be relevant in imposing these physiological demands. Limb work, due to the forces and velocities between the stance foot and the centre of mass, could theoretically be zero given vertical limb forces and horizontal centre of mass path. To prevent...
Lasky, Jesse R Hooten, Mevin B Adler, Peter B
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
An urgent challenge facing biologists is predicting the regional-scale population dynamics of species facing environmental change. Biologists suggest that we must move beyond predictions based on phenomenological models and instead base predictions on underlying processes. For example, population biologists, evolutionary biologists, community ecolo...
Yurkowski, David J Brown, Thomas A Blanchfield, Paul J Ferguson, Steven H
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Climate change is altering the biogeochemical and physical characteristics of the Arctic marine environment, which impacts sea ice algal and phytoplankton bloom dynamics and the vertical transport of these carbon sources to benthic communities. Little is known about whether the contribution of sea ice-derived carbon to benthic fauna and nitrogen cy...
Harris, Stephanie M Descamps, Sébastien Sneddon, Lynne U Cairo, Milena Bertrand, Philip Patrick, Samantha C
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Carry-over effects describe the phenomenon whereby an animal's previous conditions influence its subsequent performance. Carry-over effects are unlikely to affect individuals uniformly, but the factors modulating their strength are poorly known. Variation in the strength of carry-over effects may reflect individual differences in pace-of-life: slow...
Mammola, Stefano Riccardi, Nicoletta Prié, Vincent Correia, Ricardo Cardoso, Pedro Lopes-Lima, Manuel Sousa, Ronaldo
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Through the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and the financial investments of the LIFE projects, Europe has become an experimental arena for biological conservation. With an estimated annual budget of €20 billion, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 has set an ambitious goal of classifying 30% of its land and sea territory as Protected Areas and en...
Bourgeois, Bérenger Gaba, Sabrina Plumejeaud, Christine Bretagnolle, Vincent
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
