by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Ecology
In 1983, Peter Morin published a paper in Ecological Monographs on the impact of salamander predation on larval anuran assemblages in experimental ponds. This paper formed one of the three chapters in Peter Morin’s PhD dissertation. Thirty-three years after its... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Behaviour, Evolution
In 1988, Anders Pape Møller published a paper showing that male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) with experimentally-lengthened tails obtained mates quicker that males with shorter tails. While this wasn’t the first experimental demonstration of the function of... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Ecology
In 2002, Vojtech Novotny, Yves Basset, Scott Miller, George Weiblen, Birgitta Bremer, Lukas Cizek and Pavel Drozd published a paper in Nature providing evidence for low host-specificity of tropical herbivorous arthropods. This finding was based on data from over 900... by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Evolution
In 2005, Denis Fournier, Arnaud Estoup, Jérôme Orivel, Julien Foucaud, Hervé Jourdan, Julien Le Breton and Laurent Keller published a paper in Nature describing their discovery of the unique reproductive system of the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata): males... by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Conservation, Ecology
In 1998, William Laurance, Leandro Ferreira, Judy Rankin-De Marona and Susan Laurance published a paper in Ecology describing findings from an 18-year field experiment on habitat fragmentation effects on rainforest trees in Central Amazonia. This paper was...