by admin | Jan 29, 2018 | Conservation, Ecology
In 2000, Jonathan Levine published a paper in Science reporting the results of a field experiment that showed that the impact of species diversity on invasive diversity depends on spatial scale. At small scales, the removal of species reduces invasion resistance, but... by admin | Jan 26, 2018 | Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution
In 1977, Tim Clutton-Brock and Paul Harvey published a paper in the Journal of Zoology reporting the results of their comparative analysis of the ecology and social organization of 100 primate species. This study was probably the first to statistically account for the... by admin | Jan 23, 2018 | Ecology, Evolution
In 1983, Phyllis Coley published a paper in Ecological Monographs reporting the results of her survey of herbivory and defense traits of rainforest tree species on the Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama. Based on the findings of her survey, Coley proposed a new model... by admin | Jan 19, 2018 | Evolution
In 1947, John Tyler Bonner published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Zoology presenting results of his experiments that suggested that a form of “chemotaxis” was the mechanism underlying aggregation of cells in slime molds . Sixty-nine years after... by admin | Jan 15, 2018 | Behaviour, Evolution
In the summer of 1976, having just completed his PhD from Oxford and with some time to spare before his next job, Nick Davies decided to do a short study of speckled wood butterflies in Wytham Woods, where he was living at the time. Davies observed that male speckled...