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Testing the Optimal Foraging Theory in a Generalist Feeder: The Case of Reintroduced European Pond Turtles and Its Impact on Macroinvertebrates Communities

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.
In this study we investigated the macroinvertebrate (MI) communities in two newly created, man‐made ponds concurrently with the diet of captive‐bred European pond turtles that were translocated there. We aimed at assessing whether turtles were operating as generalist feeders, and if successive reintroductions of turtles would affect the overall MI ...
Albin Meyer, Corinne Grac, Frédéric Labat, Johannes Meka, Karina A. E. van der Zon, Kathrin Theissinger, Jean‐Yves Georges   +6 more
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Caracterização da pesca artesanal com rede de camboa na Reserva Extrativista do Cassurubá, Bahia

Biotemas, 2013
Considerados relevantes áreas de berçário para peixes, os sistemas estuarinos abrigam muitas espécies comercialmente importantes. De outubro de 2008 a novembro de 2009 foi investigada a composição ictiofaunística e descrita a rotina da pesca artesanal ...
Vinícius José Giglio, Matheus Oliveira Freitas   +1 more
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Strategies, costs and counter‐strategies to sexual coercion

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 4, Page 1557-1577, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Sexual conflict, the conflict between the evolutionary interests of females and males over mating, occasionally results in the evolution of traits favourable for one sex and adverse for the other. In this context, males can use sexual coercion to increase their mating success, at the expense of their female targets' mate choice.
Nikolaos Smit
wiley   +1 more source

Age and growth of larval Pacific flagfin mojarra (Eucinostomus currani) in coastal Ecuador based on otolith analysis

Ciencias Marinas
The flagfin mojarra (Eucinostomus currani) is an important subsistence fishery resource in local Ecuadorian markets; however, very little is known about the early life history and reproductive biology of this species. In 2016 and 2017, E.
Michelle Schuiteman, Andre R Dos Santos, Luis E Domínguez-Granda, Andrew Kinziger, Jose R Marin Jarrin   +4 more
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Length–Dry Mass Relationships of Aquatic Insects: Geographic and Taxonomic Variation in a Digital Database

Freshwater Biology, Volume 70, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Aquatic insects are an abundant, yet declining, taxonomically heterogeneous group with special importance in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Accurate estimations of insect biomass during their aquatic life stages are essential to advance our fundamental knowledge about insects, their roles in ecosystems, and their vulnerability to ...
Casper H. A. van Leeuwen, Zoltán Csabai, Anita Szloboda, Arnold Móra, Steven A. J. Declerck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demersal fish community on the inner shelf of Ubatuba, southeastern Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 1998
Fluctuations in the distribution and abundance of demersal fishes collected by otter trawl on the continental shelf of Ubatuba were examined over a two-year sampling period, in an area up to 50 m depth. A total of 111 species were collected. Seasonal and
Gecely R. A. Rocha, Carmen L. D. B. Rossi-Wongtschowski   +1 more
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Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 10, Issue 3, Page 371-380, June 2025.
Abstract The Cofán communities rely on the Cofán Bermejo Ecological Reserve for their survival and cultural practices. Due to the rugged and inaccessible topography of the reserve in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon region, limited biomonitoring and ecological characterization studies of the ecosystem health have been conducted.
Federico Sinche Chele, Manuel Cabrera Quezada, Roly Ramirez, Augusto Vargas, Jessica Cayambe, Jennifer Alvarez, Pablo Carrera, Hayda Andrade, Edison Segura   +8 more
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Atlas of marine bony fish otoliths (sagittae) of Southeastern-Southern Brazil Part IV: Perciformes (Centropomidae, Acropomatidae, Serranidae, Priacanthidae, Malacanthidae, Pomatomidae, Carangidae, Lutjanidae, Gerreidae and Haemulidae)

Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
This publication is part of a series that will constitute an Atlas of Teleostei Otoliths for the Southeastern-Southern Brazilian area. It presents the results of the morphological and morphometric analyses of 31 Perciformes (two species of Centropomidae;
Marina Rito Brenha-Nunes, César Santificetur, Valéria Regina Martins Conversani, Marcella Bockis Giaretta, Carmen Lucia Del Bianco Rossi-Wongtschowski, Carolina Correia Siliprandi   +5 more
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Why the Long “Horns”? Fine‐Scale Morphology Suggests Tactile Demands Contributed to the Exaggeration of Male Longhorned Beetle Antennae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.
Exceptionally elongated antennae are common in male longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), but their function and evolution are poorly understood. Through scanning electron microscopy and antennal morphometrics of multiple Anoplistes species (Cerambycidae), our study revealed that elongate antennae are more likely adaptive for close‐range ...
Rowan L. K. French, Magdalena Kowalewska Groszkowska, Locke Rowe, D. Luke Mahler, Lech Karpiński   +4 more
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Embryonic Development of Appasus japonicus Vuillefroy, With Special Reference to Mouthparts Formation (Insecta: Heteroptera, Belostomatidae)

Journal of Morphology, Volume 286, Issue 5, May 2025.
In this study, we provide a detailed description of the embryonic development of Appasus japonicus, focusing on the formation of its specialized mouthparts. We identify homologies between the maxillary plate and maxillary palp and most parts of the stylet‐like mandibles and maxillae are housed within the labial palp.
Tomoya Suzuki, Takashi Tanizawa, Nobuo Suzuki, Koji Tojo   +3 more
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