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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Antimicrobial Activity of Anuran Toxins

Microorganisms
Anurans, commonly known as frogs and toads, comprise a diverse group of amphibians distributed across all continents except Antarctica. This manuscript provides a detailed overview of the global anuran fauna, emphasizing their biology, remarkable ...
Manuela B. Pucca, Anne Grace A. C. Marques, Ana Flávia M. Pereira, Guilherme Melo-dos-Santos, Felipe A. Cerni, Beatriz C. S. Jacob, Isabela G. Ferreira, Rafael L. Piccolo, Marco A. Sartim, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Isadora S. Oliveira   +10 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Importance of Spring Habitats for Amphibians: The Case of Estavelle Ecotones in the Classical Karst Region

Animals
Springs are ecotones between groundwater and surface water, important for a variety of both surficial and subterranean organisms. However, their use by amphibians has been poorly assessed.
Damiano Brognoli, Elia Lo Parrino, Giorgia Terraneo, Giorgio Grassi, Veronica Zampieri, Matteo Galbiati, Valentina Balestra, Valeria Messina, Benedetta Barzaghi, Stefano Lapadula, Raoul Manenti   +10 more
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CALL #FROG2023: "Money & Games" vom 13. bis 15. Oktober 2023, im Wiener Rathaus

Medienimpulse, 2023
While thousands of enthusiastic players are gathering annually at the Game City in the Vienna City Hall, the FROG invites to an academic discourse on the subject of games and play.
Katharina Kaiser-Müller
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Evidence for directional selection at a novel major histocompatibility class I marker in wild common frogs (Rana temporaria) exposed to a viral pathogen (Ranavirus). [PDF]

, 2009
(c) 2009 Teacher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Trenton W J Garner, Richard A. Nichols, Trenton W. J. Garner, Garner, TWJ, Teacher, AGF, Amber G F Teacher, Teacher Amber G. F., Richard A Nichols, Garner Trenton W. J., Amber G. F. Teacher, Nichols, RA, Nichols Richard A.   +11 more
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The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen, Lucía Romero‐Verdú, Anne O. Peschel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specialist or generalist? Feeding ecology of the Malagasy poison frog Mantella aurantiaca [PDF]

, 2007
We studied the diet of a population of free-ranging Mantella aurantiaca, an alkaloid-containing poison frog from Madagascar. As in other poison frogs, this species is thought to sequester alkaloids from arthropod prey.
Fisher, Brian L., Woodhead, Cindy, Gamboni, Ilona, Vences, Miguel, Vieites, David R., Griffiths, Richard A.   +5 more
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Talk to Me Like a Human: How AI Chatbot Message Tone, Recommendation Type, and Personalization Drive Consumers' Continuance Intention

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot message tone, fashion product recommendation type, and personalization level interact to shape consumers' continuance intention in online fashion shopping. Building on Construal Level Theory and the Stereotype Content Model, we treat warmth and competence cues as psychological ...
Jung Mee Kim, Seeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological safeguarding and normalized water use of ust-ilimsk wood-industrial complex

RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2010
Nowadays high attention is paid to the ecological problems of cellulose-paper group of enterprises and wood industrial complex as a whole. First of all it is connected with questions of operating optimization of water use and water derivation systems. On
B N Frog, D B Frog, M D Harlamova
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