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Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals differ. While seemingly trivial, this insight has nevertheless led to paradigm shifts, as three key fields of organismal biology have seen marked changes in key concepts over the past few decades. In animal behaviour, it has become increasingly recognised that behavioural differences among individuals can be stable over time and ...
Oliver Krüger, Jaime Anaya‐Rojas, Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, Nayden Chakarov, Melanie Dammhahn, Alkistis Elliott‐Graves, Claudia Fricke, Jürgen Gadau, Joseph I. Hoffman, Marie I. Kaiser, Sylvia Kaiser, Peter Korsten, Ulrich Krohs, Joachim Kurtz, Roland Langrock, Caroline Müller, Robert Peuß, Klaus Reinhold, Helene Richter, Norbert Sachser, Holger Schielzeth, Tim Schmoll, Ralf Stanewsky, Tamas Szekely, Franz J. Weissing, Meike Wittmann, Shuqing Xu   +27 more
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A roadmap to key traits of invasive Drosophilidae

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions have intensified in recent decades, mostly driven by international trade and travel, raising significant concerns, particularly regarding insect pests. Once non‐native species establish, they can disrupt natural ecosystem stability, undermine agroecosystem sustainability and cause substantial economic losses.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Bréa Raynaud‐Berton, Méghan Boulembert, Olivier Chabrerie, Aude Couty, Franck Dedeine, Patrice Eslin, Vincent Foray, Romain Georges, Patricia Gibert, Laurence Mouton, Sylvain Pincebourde, David Renault, Christelle Suppo, Hervé Colinet   +14 more
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Classifying avian drinking behaviour: ecological insights and implications in a changing world

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water is a fundamental currency of life, and its availability significantly influences animal behaviour, physiology and distributions. However, our knowledge around the dependence on water for drinking and the direct and indirect mechanisms driving related behaviours remains partial in the context of changing climates. Here, we review patterns
Shannon R. Conradie, Marc T. Freeman
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Interspecific competition and coexistence between wood ants

, 2016
Competition among or within species has long been considered one of the most fundamental processes shaping ecological communities, affecting distributions and the evolution of species. While its importance and detectability are strongly debated (Schaffer
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet., Gibb, Heloise,, Löfroth, Therese,   +2 more
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Interspecific competition in natural plant communities: mechanisms, trade-offs and plant-soil feedbacks. [PDF]

, 1999
Interspecific competition in natural plant communities Most plant scientists agree that interspecific competition is highly dependent on nutrient availability.
Aerts, R., Rien Aerts, Aerts, R.; id_orcid   +2 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Relative influence of habitat modification and interspecific competition on woodland bird assemblages in eastern Australia

, 2011
Many of eastern Australia's woodland birds have declined in recent decades. Although historical landscape transformation ultimately underlies these declines, effective conservation action requires knowledge of the relative importance of current threats ...
Bowen, M., M. Maron, C. A. Mcalpine, McAlpine, C. A., Maron, M., Pillette, C., J. Kath, Howes, A., Kath, J., A. Main, C. Pillette, A. Howes, Main, A., M. Bowen   +13 more
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Quantifying competition in two co-occurring southern African psammophiinae snakes: Psammophis crucifer and psammophylax r. Rhombeatus [PDF]

, 2020
Magister Scientiae (Biodiversity and Conservation Biology) - MSc (Biodiv and Cons Biol)Studies on snake competitive interactions have relatively been well documented globally, however, those examples tend to be dominated by non-African examples.
Tokota, Silindokuhle
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Clash of the Invaders: Competition Dynamics of Bromus tectorum and Ventenata dubia in an Addition Series Study

Ecology and Evolution
Competitive interactions between co‐occurring invasive species can have detrimental impacts on native communities and cause counter‐effective responses to management.
Lilly Sencenbaugh, Bruce D. Maxwell, Lisa J. Rew   +2 more
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On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A review of behavioural studies using home‐cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and female animals. This bias could influence the outcomes of biomedical research.
Maša Čater, Adam Dušek, Aleksandra Bartelik, Silvia Mandillo, Elisabetta Golini, Mara Rigamonti, Rasneer Sonia Bains, Hamish Forrest, Marion Rivalan, Melissa Long, Anna Kiryk, Lars Lewejohann, Nuno Henrique Franco   +12 more
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