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ToxinsPlants store chemical defenses that act as toxins against herbivores, such as toxic isothiocyanates (ITCs) in Brassica plants, hydrolyzed from glucosinolate (GLS) precursors.
Suman Chakraborty, Stefan Schuster
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Teaching Genetic Linkage and Multiple Crossovers with Sets of Cards as Chromosomes
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2017 TMathematical models help students identify and understand underlying scientific patterns, while improving and reinforcing quantitative skills. However, they are often omitted from introductory undergraduate science classes.
Richard H. Heineman
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Optimal foraging predicts the ecology but not the evolution of host specialization in bacteriophages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 We explore the ability of optimal foraging theory to explain the observation among marine bacteriophages that host range appears to be negatively correlated with host abundance in the local marine environment.
Sébastien Guyader, Christina L Burch
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017 Although ducks have long been popular research subjects in both North America and Europe, geographical divergences in research orientation have developed during the past several decades for studying foraging ecology.
Matthieu Guillemain +4 more
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Gape‐limited invasive predator frequently kills avian prey that are too large to swallow
Ecology and EvolutionGape‐limited predators (e.g., snakes, many fish) are not generally expected to pose a predation threat to prey that are too large for them to swallow. However, the extent to which snakes predate on prey that exceed their gape limitation remains largely ...
Martin Kastner +6 more
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Diving seabirds share foraging space and time within and among species
Ecosphere, 2010 Ecological theory predicts that animals with similar foraging strategies should not be able to co‐exist without segregating either in space, time or diet. In communities, intra‐specific competition is thought to be more intense than the competition among
Juan F. Masello +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Central place foraging theory (CPF) has been used to predict the optimal patch residence time for air-breathing marine predators in response to patch quality.
Yu Akiyama +7 more
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Advancement in Information Foraging Theory
Intelligent Information Management, 2012 This paper presents the advantages of information foraging theory matched with traditional information retrieval theory and user behavior analysis theory, a search content framework for information foraging theory is described, on a thorough review of the two research branches i.e.
Shailesh Khapre, M. S. Saleem Basha
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Animal, 2018 To understand how foraging decisions impact individual fitness of herbivores, nutritional ecologists must consider the complex in vivo dynamics of nutrient–nutrient interactions and nutrient–toxin interactions associated with foraging.
J.S. Forbey +7 more
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Root foraging theory put to the test
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006 Roots have a tremendous plasticity that has long fascinated plant scientists. Root proliferation into enriched soil patches is commonly considered as a way for plants to acquire patchily distributed soil resources. In a recent synthetic study involving the responses of over 100 species, Kembel and Cahill concluded that long-standing generalizations ...
de Kroon, H., Mommer, L.
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