by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Nature in 2003, Anne Magurran and Peter Henderson used a long-term dataset on estuarine fish to throw light on a puzzling pattern – a greater number of rare species than predicted by theory in large community assemblages. Magurran and... by admin | Aug 22, 2020 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in Behaviour in 1979, Tim Clutton-Brock and Steve Albon showed, using observations and playback experiments, that red deer stags use roaring contests to assess each other’s fighting abilities when there aren’t any obvious size... by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Conservation, Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 2003, Nick Haddad, David Bowne, Alan Cunningham, Brent Danielson, Douglas Levey, Sarah Sargent and Tim Spira, synthesized findings from a large-scale experiment to show that corridors aided movement between habitat patches, although... by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in Nature in 1988, Meredith West and Andrew King demonstrated that that a wing stroke visual display by female cowbirds, which don’t sing, plays a role in song learning of male cowbirds. The findings of the study provided evidence for the... by admin | Aug 4, 2020 | Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution
In a paper published in Science in 2004, Rosemary Gillespie demonstrated that both dispersal and in situ speciation contribute to accumulation of species numbers of Tetragnathid spiders on Hawaiian islands. Moreover, accumulation, whether through dispersal or...