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Nature Communications, 2023 The relatively high level of morphological diversity in Australasian marsupials compared to that observed among American marsupials remains poorly understood.
Laura A. B. Wilson +6 more
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A comparison of traditional and geometric morphometric techniques for the study of basicranial morphology in horses: a case study of the Araucanian horse from Colombia [PDF]
, 2020 Skull size and shape have been widely used to study domestic animal populations and breeds. Although several techniques have been proposed to quantify cranial form, few attempts have been made to compare the results obtained by di erent techniques. While
Bentez-Molano, Jannet +3 more
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Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: The Importance of Function
The Quarterly review of biology, 2018 Many spectacular cases of biological diversity are associated with sexual selection, and structures under sexual selection often show positive static allometry: they are disproportionately large for the size of the animal’s body in larger individuals ...
W. Eberhard +6 more
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Acoustic allometry and vocal learning in mammals
Biology Letters, 2020 Acoustic allometry is the study of how animal vocalizations reflect their body size. A key aim of this research is to identify outliers to acoustic allometry principles and pinpoint the evolutionary origins of such outliers. A parallel strand of research
Maxime Garcia, A. Ravignani
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iScienceSummary: An analysis of the impact on seagrass ecosystems of the high nutrient levels recently reported for the Mexican Caribbean revealed major structural, floristic, and community transformations over 20 years, but no adverse effects; rather ...
Roberto Velázquez-Ochoa +1 more
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Impact of low sperm competition on male reproductive trait allometries in a bush-cricket
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Studying reproductive trait allometries can help to understand optimal male investment strategies under sexual selection. In promiscuous mating systems, studies across several taxa suggest that testes allometry is usually positive, presumably ...
Lennart Winkler +3 more
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Canine evolution in sabretoothed carnivores: natural selection or sexual selection? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The remarkable elongated upper canines of extinct sabretoothed carnivorous mammals have been the subject of considerable speculation on their adaptive function, but the absence of living analogues prevents any direct inference about their evolution.
Marcela Randau +2 more
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Stand Structure Impacts on Forest Modelling
Applied Sciences, 2022 Modelling is essential in forest management as it enables the prediction of productions and yields, and to develop and test alternative models of silviculture.
Ana Cristina Gonçalves
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Allometry and growth of eight tree taxa in United Kingdom woodlands. [PDF]
, 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the ...
Benham, S +7 more
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Forests, 2019 Many recent studies have shown that the structure, density, and productivity of mixed-species stands can differ from the weighted mean of monospecific stands of the respective species. The tree and stand properties emerging by inter-specific neighborhood
H. Pretzsch
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