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Satellite‐Derived NDVI Predicts Forage Availability in a Wild Ungulate System: Ground‐Truthing Using Field‐Collected Vegetation Biomass

Ecology and Evolution
Satellite‐derived vegetation indices provide a powerful means to quantify habitat variation in long‐term ecological studies, but their reliability as proxies for forage availability in wild herbivore populations remains underexplored.
Shane Butt, Kirsty Macphie, Richard S. Turner, Sean J. Morris, Alison Morris, Robin Pakeman, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, J. M. Pemberton, H. Froy   +8 more
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Seasonal variation in defense behavior in European and scutellata-hybrid honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southern California

Scientific Reports, 2023
Nest defense in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a complex collective behavior modulated by various interacting social, environmental, and genetic factors. Scutellata-hybrid (“Africanized”) honey bees are usually considered to be far more defensive than
Daniela Zarate, Brandon Mukogawa, Joshua Kohn, James C. Nieh   +3 more
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Quantum Genetics and Quantum Automata Models of Quantum-Molecular Evolution Involved in the Evolution of Organisms and Species [PDF]

, 2012
Previous theoretical or general approaches to the problems of Quantum Genetics and Molecular Evolution are considered in this article from the point of view of Quantum Automata Theory first published by the author in 1971 and further developed in several
I. C. Baianu
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The biological origin of linguistic diversity [PDF]

, 2012
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to signal differences in meaning; some languages lack the noun-verb distinction
A Beja-Pereira, Andrea Baronchelli, D Gil, FC Dyer, K Smith, LL Cavalli-Sforza, M Dunn, MA Nowak, MB Miller, MH Christiansen, Morten H. Christiansen, N Chater, N Evans, Nick Chater, NL Komarova, PJ Richerson, R Boyd, R Jackendoff, RD Gray, Ricard V. Solé, RM Seyfarth, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, RT Hanlon, S Dehaene, S Pinker, S Számadó, SA Tishkoff, SC Levinson, TL Griffiths   +28 more
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Ancient and Current Chaos Theories [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2006
Chaos theories developed in the last three decades have made very important contributions to our understanding of dynamical systems and natural phenomena. The meaning of chaos in the current theories and in the past is somewhat different from each other.
Güngör Gündüz
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Origin of Life: The Point of No Return

Life, 2020
Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important ...
Dimiter Kunnev
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Unlearned adaptive responses to heterospecific referential alarm calls in two bird species from separate evolutionary lineages

Scientific Reports, 2023
The interspecific responses to alarm signals may be based on unlearned mechanisms but research is often constrained by the difficulties in differentiating between unlearned and learned responses in natural situations.
Jungmoon Ha, Keesan Lee, Eunjeong Yang, Woojoo Kim, Hokyung Song, Injae Hwang, Larisa Lee-Cruz, Jinseok Park, Jihyeon Song, Chan-ryul Park, Wooshin Lee, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-im Lee   +12 more
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A Benchmark for Atlantic Salmon Conservation: Genetic Diversity and Structure in a Southern European Glacial Refuge before the Climate Changed

Fishes, 2023
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar supports highly valuable commercial and recreational fisheries in Europe, but its stocks are currently overexploited and threatened by climate change.
Ana Almodóvar, Graciela G. Nicola, Daniel Ayllón, Sheila Leal, Daniel F. Marchán, Benigno Elvira   +5 more
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Cultural replication and microbial evolution [PDF]

, 2014
The aim of this paper is to argue that cultural evolution is in many ways much more similar to microbial than to macrobial biological evolution.
Nanay, Bence
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Monogamy removes constraints on reproductive tissue investment imposed by intense sexual selection

Scientific Reports
A key factor influencing the reproductive success and fitness of an individual is the allocation of resources to reproductive tissue. Previous research has documented positive influences of sexual selection on the evolution of male traits such as testes ...
Abril Alexander, Maider Iglesias-Carrasco, Miguel Lozano, Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez   +3 more
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