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Host, vector, and parasite dynamics: exploring intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping tick‐borne filarial nematode transmission

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tick‐borne filarial nematodes are a complex and understudied group of parasites that rely on ticks for transmission in vertebrates. This review examines how intrinsic and extrinsic factors may influence the successful transmission of filarial nematodes in tick vectors, drawing insights from extensively studied haematophagous dipteran vector ...
Oluwaseun D. Ajileye, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer, Guilherme G. Verocai, Jessica E. Light   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Productive foraging grounds enhance maternal condition and offspring quality in a capital breeding species

Ecology and Evolution
Feeding ecology is an essential component of an organism's life, but foraging comes with risks and energetic costs. Species in which populations exhibit more than one feeding strategy, such as sea turtles, are good systems for investigating how feeding ...
Leila Fouda, Stuart R. B. Negus, Emma C. Lockley, Kirsten Fairweather, Artur Lopes, Anice Lopes, Sandra M. Correia, Albert Taxonera, Gail Schofield, Christophe Eizaguirre   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Population structure and foraging ecology of juvenile black sea bass, tautog, and cunner in a southern New England estuary: Habitat and trophic niche overlap amid a species geographic range expansion. [PDF]

Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 2023
Taylor DL, Pearson C, Green-Gavrielidis L, Hobbs NV, Thornber C, Cicchetti G, Gerber-Williams A, McManus MC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental and local habitat variables as predictors of trophic interactions in subtidal rocky reefs along the SE Pacific coast

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperature generally drives latitudinal patterns in the strength of trophic interactions, including consumption rates. However, local community and other environmental conditions might also affect consumption, disrupting latitudinal gradients, which results in complex large‐scale patterns.
Catalina A. Musrri, Alistair G. B. Poore, Oscar Pino, Nicolás Riquelme, Wolfgang B. Stotz, Fadia Tala, Martin Thiel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population-specific sex and size variation in long-term foraging ecology of belugas and narwhals. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2021
Louis M, Skovrind M, Garde E, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Szpak P, Lorenzen ED.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Although anthropogenically‐induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruptions and their effects are generally not comparable to one another, nor to disturbances that are part of natural disturbance regimes.
Erica A. Newman, Mark Q. Wilber, Alexandre Génin, Oriana E. Chafe, Henry F. Houskeeper, Steven Lee, Eric L. Berlow, John Harte   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foraging Ecology Differentiates Life Stages and Mercury Exposure in Common Terns (Sterna hirundo). [PDF]

Integr Environ Assess Manag, 2021
Bracey AM, Etterson MA, Strand FC, Matteson SW, Niemi GJ, Cuthbert FJ, Hoffman JC.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Scale-Dependent Habitat Selection of Nesting Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets [PDF]

, 2007
Foraging habitat selection of nesting Great Egrets ( Ardea alba ) and Snowy Egrets ( Egretta thula ) was investigated within an estuary with extensive impounded salt marsh habitat.
Collazo, Jaime A., Percival, H. Franklin, Stolen, Eric D.   +2 more
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Patterns of understorey bird diversity across Amazonian forests: survey effort and range maps predict local species richness

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species diversity typically increases from higher to lower latitudes, but the regional‐scale variation along this geographic gradient remains unclear. It has been suggested that species diversity throughout Amazonia generally increases westward toward the Andes, but this pattern and its environmental determinants require further investigation for most ...
Pilar L. Maia‐ Braga, Anderson S. Bueno, Marina F. A. Maximiano, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Marina Anciães, John G. Blake, Bette A. Loiselle, Sergio H. Borges, Juliana Menger, Sidnei Dantas, Ramiro D. Melinski, Affonso H. N. Souza, Fernando H. T. de Abreu, Roberta L. Boss, Carlos A. Peres   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal foraging strategies can be learned

New Journal of Physics
The foraging behavior of animals is a paradigm of target search in nature. Understanding which foraging strategies are optimal and how animals learn them are central challenges in modeling animal foraging.
Gorka Muñoz-Gil, Andrea López-Incera, Lukas J Fiderer, Hans J Briegel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source