by admin | May 24, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1983, Earl Werner, James Gilliam, Donald Hall and Gary Mittelbach, showed experimentally that small bluegill sunfish, which are vulnerable to predation by bass, showed an observable shift in foraging behaviour when bass are present... by admin | May 21, 2020 | Behaviour, Ecology
In a paper published in Ecological Monographs in 1976, Bernd Heinrich demonstrated, through careful observation and experiment on marked individuals, how bumblebees develop specialization in their foraging at the individual level, and examined the costs and benefits... by admin | May 17, 2020 | Conservation, Ecology, Evolution
In a paper published in The American Naturalist in 2003, Daniel Bolnick, Richard Svanbäck, James A. Fordyce, Louie Yang, Jeremy Davis, Darrin Hulsey and Matthew Forister reviewed studies that examined individual specialization on resource use and quantified how much... by admin | May 15, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1993, Pierre Legendre highlighted and proposed solutions to the problem of “spatial autocorrelation” in the statistical analysis of ecological data. The methods proposed by Legendre have had a lasting impact on the... by admin | May 13, 2020 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in Science in 1982, William Hamilton and Marlene Zuk showed positive associations between the level of chronic blood infections and display characteristics across North American Passerines. Based on these results they proposed a “good...