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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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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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Feeding ecology of Serrasalmus gouldingi (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) in the lower Anapu River region, Eastern Amazon, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2016 Studies on feeding ecology of fishes are important to understand the relationship between species and environmental seasonal variations. In tropical rivers, these relationships are mainly modeled by hydrological patterns.
Bruno da S. PRUDENTE +3 more
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Plant, Soil and Environment, 2023 Earthworms dominate the soil biota, and different structural and functional features of their biology and ecology have been studied and exploited to evaluate their contributions as ecosystem services.
Madalina Iordache
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Goal-Directed Travel in the Nocturnal Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus javanicus)
Ecologies, 2023 An animal’s ability to navigate its home range in search of essential resources is a key aspect of its ecology. To reach these resources, animals employ varying navigational processes depending on their exocentric or egocentric view of their environment.
Stephanie A. Poindexter +3 more
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Evolution and ecology of feeding in elasmobranchs [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2007 Paleozoic chondrichthyans had a large gape, numerous spike-like teeth, limited cranial kinesis, and a non-suspensory hyoid, suggesting a feeding mechanism dominated by bite and ram. Modern sharks are characterized by a mobile upper jaw braced by a suspensory hyoid arch that is highly kinetic.
Cheryl D, Wilga +2 more
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