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Honest signalling in predator–prey interactions: Testing the resource allocation hypothesis
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 10, Page 2833-2848, October 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Warning signals are honest if they reliably deliver information about prey unprofitability to predators. One potential mechanism that may create and maintain a positive relationship between the strength of signals and defence is the resource allocation between these ...
Emily Burdfield‐Steel +5 more
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Safety in Numbers : How Color Morph Frequency Affects Predation Risk in an Aposematic Moth [PDF]
, 2021 Polymorphic warning signals in aposematic systems are enigmatic because predator learning should favor the most common form, creating positive frequency-dependent survival. However, many populations exhibit variation in warning signals. There are various
Burdfield-Steel, Emily +8 more
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It is cool to be clear: Transparency induces a thermal cost in clearwing butterflies
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 2452-2464, September 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In butterflies, wing transparency raises the question of potential costs for vital functions, such as thermoregulation. The thermal melanism hypothesis posits that darker colorations enable higher absorption of solar radiation, leading to the prediction that such ...
Violaine Ossola +8 more
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Cytisus scoparius*
Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 7, Page 1877-1933, July 2025.Broom is an attractive and common native plant across Britain, Ireland and most of Europe, and yet it is considered a harmful and invasive weed around the rest of the world. This is aided by broom thriving on poor dry soils, helped by using green stems for photosynthesis and having root nodules to fix nitrogen.
Peter A. Thomas +9 more
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, 2018 Diet is one of the major factors directly and indirectly influencing insect’s life history traits and risk of getting infected. Additionally the insect’s fitness is severely affected by the broad diversity of parasites they are exposed to.
Dickel, Franziska
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Defensive symbiosis of the Wood tiger moth (Arctia plantaginis)
, 2022 unknown ...
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Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract Several species of Lepidoptera with caterpillars bearing urticating hairs are increasing their range in metropolitan France from year to year, such as the pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis et Schiffermüller 1775) whose presence was historically limited to the south of France, and which is gradually being observed in the north ...
Nicolas Desneux +105 more
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, 2021 Natural and sexual selection can cause opposing selection pressures, which might help explain the maintenance of color polymorphism. It is a particularly puzzling phenomenon in aposematic species, such as the wood tiger moth (Arctia plantaginis), who ...
Selenius, Eetu
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Morph‐linked variation in female pheromone signalling and male response in a polymorphic moth
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 11, Page 1697-1709, November 2024.Complex polymorphisms are often characterized by complex interactions between genetic architecture, behaviour and environmental factors. In this study, the authors show that the interplay between morph‐related precopulatory strategies and variation in chemical communication channels (i.e.
Chiara De Pasqual +3 more
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