by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | Evolution
In the late 1990s, mounting experimental evidence for rapid evolution of traits related to fertilisation seemed paradoxical given that matching of male and female traits is required for successful reproduction In a paper published in Nature in 2000, Sergey Gavrilets... by admin | Jan 3, 2021 | Conservation, Ecology
In a paper published in Science in 1999, Jay Stachowicz, Robert Whitlach and Richard Osman showed, using experimental communities of sessile marine invertebrates that invasion success was lower in more species rich communities. The like reason for this pattern was... by admin | Dec 12, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecological Monographs in 2000, Emmett Duffy and Mark Hay demonstrated, using outdoor mesocosm experiments and feeding assays, strong impacts of both fish and amphipods on a benthic community, but found the effects of amphipods were stronger... by admin | Dec 6, 2020 | Behaviour
In a paper published in Nature in 2005, Iain Couzin, Jens Krause, Nigel Franks and Simon Levin modelled how information can pass between members of groups without signalling, and when members don’t know which, if any, of the other members have information.... by admin | Dec 1, 2020 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in Animal Behaviour in 1988, Nick Davies and Michael Brooke unraveled, using a mix of natural history observation and clever experiments, the nature of the interaction between the brood-parasitic common cuckoo and its host the reed warbler. Their...