by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Behaviour
In 1999, Rebecca Kilner, David Noble and Nick Davies published a paper in Nature showing how the common cuckoo exploits the sensory predispositions of its host, the reed warbler, to obtain the same amount of care that the latter would give a brood of its own chicks.... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Conservation, Ecology
In 2002, Gary Roemer, Josh Donlan and Franck Courchamp published a paper in PNAS showing how the introduction of pigs had reshaped an island’s foodweb and caused the decline of an endemic fox. Fourteen years after the study was published, I spoke to Gary Roemer about... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Evolution
In a paper published in Evolution in 1980, John Endler provided experimental evidence to show that guppy color patterns represented a “shifting balance” between the effects of sexual and natural selection. Thirty-six years after the paper was published, I spoke to... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Conservation, Ecology
In 2001, John Terborgh, Lawrence Lopez, Percy Nuňez, Madhu Rao, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Gabriela Orihuela, Mailen Riveros, Rafael Ascanio, Greg Adler, Thomas Lambert and Luis Balbas published a paper in Science demonstrating a trophic cascade on predator-free islands,... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Evolution
In 1988, Trevor Price, Mark Kirkpatrick and Stevan Arnold published a paper in Science developing a model to explain why breeding date in birds, though heritable and under selection, does not evolve. Twenty-eight years after the paper was published, I spoke to Trevor...