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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 For many squirrel species, their intense – arguably coevolutionary – interactions with seed and nut producing trees have significantly shaped their biology and diversity.
Michael A. Steele, Xianfeng Yi
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Synthesis of Patchy Particles at Phase Boundaries
Small Methods, EarlyView.The various strategies employed for synthesizing complex multifunctional patchy particles are reviewed, with, as a guideline, the type of phase boundary (solid‐gas, liquid‐gas, solid‐liquid, and liquid‐liquid), that serves as the crucial ingredient for symmetry breaking.
Lin Zhang, Alexander Kuhn
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The consumption of human food subsidies influences ecological processes, and can affect individual behavior and fitness with population level changes in abundance and distribution. American black bears Ursus americanus often consume human food subsidies, which have been correlated with increased bear body size, age‐specific fertility and mortality ...
Isabel I. Field +4 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Asiatic black bears in Russia face conservation threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, which exacerbate food shortages caused by crop failures. This study explores an innovative approach to rehabilitating bears that abandon hibernation in mid‐winter due to extreme exhaustion by providing supplemental food near their den sites.
Sergey A. Kolchin +2 more
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, 2011 This file contains annual data on the relationship between the acorn crop and whether helpers delayed dispersal or ...
Joseph Haydock (3300960) +5 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Vegetation cover promotes rodent activity and acorn dispersal, while wild boars exert a direct negative effect on mice. Conversely, deer and predators displayed no significant impact on rodent behavior. These results identify wild boars as the main disruptors of rodent‐mediated forest regeneration.
David Notario Rincón +9 more
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Nondormant Acorns Show Higher Seed Dispersal Effectiveness Than Dormant Ones
Forests, 2022 Seed dormancy has been thought to be an important survival strategy to tune the seed dispersal timing. Although a theoretical trade-off between seed dormancy and dispersal is often proposed, empirical field evidence of the trade-off between seed dormancy, spatial dispersal, and seedling recruitment is still lacking.
Yueqin Yang, Xianfeng Yi
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, 2019 Globally, the aggregate length of roads exceeds 64 million km and 90.7% of protected areas are disturbed by road penetration, and therefore understanding how road networks impact species and ecosystem processes is highly relevant to applied conservation ...
Xie, Zongqiang +2 more
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Sojky vytvárajú vnášaním dubov do pásov krovín nové habitaty pre lesné vtáky v poľnohospodárskej krajine / European jays create new habitats for forests birds in agricultural land by spreading oaks into shrub belts [PDF]
Tichodroma, 2018 The European jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a very efficient acorn disperser, and most of the Quercus seeds, especially at medium to large distances, are jay-dispersed.
Štefan PAVLÍK +2 more
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