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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

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ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard   +13 more
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

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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   +3 more
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Kin discrimination in plants: overview and implications for population and community ecology

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ABSTRACT Following the discovery of identity discrimination, particularly self and kin discrimination amongst plant competitors, research on interplant interactions has advanced significantly within plant physiology and evolutionary ecology. This review synthesizes current knowledge on how both self and kin discrimination influence plant growth ...
Akira Yamawo
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

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ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen   +5 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

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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   +1 more
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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

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ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón   +38 more
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Resistance to Insects

2017
Soybeans are attacked by several species of sucking and defoliating insects, and the sucking insects are now the main pest of the crop in tropical regions. Each year, insect damage is becoming more frequent considering the high number of species present in the crop due to the lack of adequate pest monitoring and the development of insects resistant to ...
José Baldin Pinheiro   +2 more
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Insect Resistant Cotton Plants

Nature Biotechnology, 1990
We have expressed truncated forms of the insect control protein genes of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki HD-1(cryIA(b) and HD-73 (cryIA(c) in cotton plants at levels that provided effective control of agronomically important lepidopteran insect pests.
F J, Perlak   +6 more
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Insect immune resistance to parasitoids

Insect Science, 2008
AbstractInsect host—parasitoid interactions involve complex physiological, biochemical and genetic interactions. Against endoparasitoids, immune‐competent hosts initiate a blood cell‐mediated response that quickly destroys the intruders and envelops them in a multilayered melanotic capsule. During the past decade, considerable progress has been made in
Carton, Yves   +2 more
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