by admin | Oct 31, 2020 | Conservation, Ecology
In a paper published in Nature in 2003, Mark Torchin, Kevin Lafferty, Andrew Dobson, Valerie McKenzie and Armand Kuris provided evidence to suggest that reduced parasite load in their introduced range might contribute to an exotic species’ invasive success.... by admin | Oct 29, 2020 | Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1994, Timothy Wootton demonstrated the use of a new approach that combines experimental perturbations with path analysis to determine interaction strengths in communities. Wootton showed, using interactions between birds and other... by admin | Oct 28, 2020 | Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution
In a paper published in Animal Behaviour in 2002, Niels Dingemanse, Christiaan Both, Piet Drent, Kees van Oers and Arie van Noordwijk showed, using an open field test in the laboratory on wild caught great tits, that, 1. there is consistent individual variation in... by admin | Oct 18, 2020 | Behaviour, Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1997, Oswald Schmitz, Andrew Beckerman and Kathleen O’Brien experimentally tested the relative importance of direct and indirect effects of predation in causing tropic cascades, Using an old-field system that included... by admin | Oct 17, 2020 | Behaviour, Ecology
In a paper published in Ecology in 1978, David Inouye demonstrated, using removal experiments and careful observation in Gothic, Colorado, that the use of resources by a bumblebee species is affected by the presence of other bumblebee species , a finding that...