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Nutritional ecology, functional ecology and Functional Ecology [PDF]
Functional Ecology, 2009 ‘Nutritional ecology’ is a bit like ‘art’: easy to recognize but difficult to define. We believe that this is, in part, because the field has progressed on a broad (even diffuse) front, and has lacked cohesion or commonality of purpose. Our aim in this special feature is to bring together leading researchers drawn from across this spectrum and have ...
David Raubenheimer, Carol Boggs
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SOCIOECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE LITHOSPHERE [PDF]
Economy of Region, 2010 Interaction of the lithosphere and the biosphere with a view of socioeconomic activity by a human being has the most complete effect in the process of mineral resource utilization. It is typical of mining and metal production complexes (MMC) of the Ural, which are basic for the regional economy.
Tatarkin, A. I., Semyachkov, A. I.
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Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment
Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 Bacteriophages are as ubiquitous as their bacterial hosts and often more abundant. Understanding how bacteriophages control their bacterial host populations requires a number of different approaches. Bacteriophages can control bacterial populations through lysis, drive evolution of bacterial immunity systems through infection, provide a conduit for ...
Richard J, Puxty, Andrew D, Millard
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Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 Rarity has been a central topic for conservation and evolutionary biologists aiming to determine the species characteristics that cause extinction risk. More recently, beyond the rarity of species, the rarity of functions or functional traits, called functional rarity, has gained momentum in helping to understand the impact of biodiversity decline on ...
Violle, Cyrille +7 more
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Asexual reproduction of a few genotypes favored the invasion of the cereal aphid Rhopalosiphum padi in Chile [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are insects with one of the highest potentials for invasion. Several aphid species are present globally due to introduction events; they represent important pests of agroecosystems.
María E. Rubio-Meléndez +4 more
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On the methodology of feeding ecology in fish [PDF]
, 2016 Feeding ecology explains predator’s preference to some preys over others in their habitat and their competitions thereof. The subject, as a functional and applied biology, is highly neglected, and in case of fish, a uniform and consistent ...
Saikia, Surjya Kumar
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Genome size variation and polyploidy incidence in the alpine flora from Spain
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2013 The interest to study genome evolution, in particular genome size variation and polyploid incidence, has increased in recent years. Still, only a few studies have been focused at a community level.
João Loureiro +4 more
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Functional responses can’t unify invasion ecology [PDF]
, 2017 Dick et al. (Biol Invasions, 2017) propose that the comparative functional response framework provides a unifying approach for the study of invasive species.
Altwegg, Res +4 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their moments (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) or diversity metrics (e.g ...
Brian S. Maitner +13 more
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History matters : ecometrics and integrative climate change biology [PDF]
, 2011 Climate change research is increasingly focusing on the dynamics among species, ecosystems and climates. Better data about the historical behaviours of these dynamics are urgently needed.
Polly, P. David +9 more
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