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Growth and feeding ecology of coniform conodonts [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Conodonts were the first vertebrates to develop mineralized dental tools, known as elements. Recent research suggests that conodonts were macrophagous predators and/or scavengers but we do not know how this feeding habit emerged in the earliest coniform ...
Isabella Leonhard +4 more
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Microplastic burden in marine benthic invertebrates depends on species traits and feeding ecology within biogeographical provinces [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The microplastic body burden of marine animals is often assumed to reflect levels of environmental contamination, yet variations in feeding ecology and regional trait expression could also affect a species’ risk of contaminant uptake.
Adam Porter +5 more
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Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Various animal taxa have specialized to living with social hosts. Depending on their level of specialization, these symbiotic animals are characterized by distinct behavioural, chemical, and morphological traits that enable close ...
Thomas Parmentier +6 more
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Changing environmental conditions have altered the feeding ecology of two keystone Arctic marine predators [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Environmental change in the Arctic has impacted the composition and structure of marine food webs. Tracking feeding ecology changes of culturally-valued Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and ringed seals (Pusa hispida) can provide an indication of the ...
Matthew A. Anderson +8 more
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Feeding Ecology of the Critically Endangered Gobio insuyanus (Gobionidae) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDespite the critical conservation status of the endemic gudgeon Gobio insuyanus, its feeding ecology remained unstudied. This research addresses this gap by investigating the diet of G.
Julian E. Johnson +3 more
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Are Feeding Modes Concealing Morphofunctional Diversity? The Case of the New World Parrotfishes
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 In functional ecology, morphology is expected to reflect function; however, occasional decoupling of these two can be found. In the case of feeding ecology, the diversity of the diet or diversity of the feeding modes within a clade is expected to be ...
Lucía Pombo-Ayora, Jose Tavera
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Multilevel feeding ecology – an introduction [PDF]
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 2018 All organisms need to acquire nourishment in sufficient quantity and quality to grow and reproduce. Food sources need to be located and choices need to be made with respect to their favourability. This issue addresses host location (plants by phytophagous insects, prey by predators or parasitoids) and performance (of phytophagous and carnivorous ...
Trienens, Monika +2 more
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Allometry predicts trabecular bone structural properties in the carnivoran jaw joint. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Because overall cranial morphology-biomechanics linkage in carnivorans is significantly influenced by both feeding and non-feeding ecological variables, whole-skull mechanical performance measures may be less sensitive to feeding ecology than regional ...
M Aleksander Wysocki, Z Jack Tseng
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Feeding Strategy of the Wild Korean Seahorse (Hippocampus haema)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The feeding and spawning grounds for seahorses have been lost due to nationwide coastal developments in South Korea. However, little information on the feeding ecology of the Korean seahorse (Hippocampus haema) is currently available.
Myung-Joon Kim +7 more
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Arctic Science, 2021 The lake ecology of high-latitude fishes is strongly influenced by seasonal feeding opportunities and environmental stochasticity in Arctic environments.
Angela L. Young, Ross F. Tallman
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