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Widespread disruptive selection in the wild is associated with intense resource competition

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012
Background Disruptive selection has been documented in a growing number of natural populations. Yet, its prevalence within individual systems remains unclear. Furthermore, few studies have sought to identify the ecological factors that promote disruptive
Martin Ryan A, Pfennig David W
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Insecticide-mediated shift in ecological dominance between two competing species of grain beetles.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Competition is a driving force regulating communities often considered an intermittent phenomenon, difficult to verify and potentially driven by environmental disturbances.
Erick Maurício G Cordeiro, Alberto S Corrêa, Raul Narciso C Guedes   +2 more
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Intraspecific food competition in fishes

, 2006
Intraspecific food competition exerts powerful selective forces on all animals; successful foragers thrive relative to weaker conspecifics. Understanding competition is therefore fundamental both to ecological insight and to conservation efforts.
Ward, Ashley J.W., Webster, Michael M., Hart, Paul J.B.   +2 more
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Drought Stress Mediated Changes in Food Crops: Mechanisms and Remediation Strategies

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents a multi‐scale framework for flavonoid‐mediated drought tolerance in staple food crops, integrating ROS redox regulation, antioxidant defense, rhizosphere microbial interactions, and sustainable agronomic practices. This interdisciplinary model provides core insights to develop climate‐resilient cropping systems and enhance global ...
Xiaoyi Duan, Litao Wang, Tuuli‐Marjaana Koski, Lizhe An, Thomas Efferth, Yujie Fu   +5 more
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Bushkiller (Cayratia japonica) Growth in Interspecific and Intraspecific Competition

, 2010
Bushkiller was evaluated under inter- and intraspecific competition. In experiment 1, bushkiller, trumpetcreeper, and wild grape were greenhouse-grown alone and in two or three species mixtures in pots.
Richardson, Robert J, Burton, Michael G, West, Amanda M, Arellano, Consuelo   +3 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert   +2 more
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Integrating machine learning, deep learning, and image analysis for seed species classification

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise The growing demand for wildflower seeds in ecological restoration requires reliable species identification, yet current market products often contain heterogeneous species. As seed identification is labor‐intensive and requires advanced botanical knowledge, we evaluated multiple segmentation and classification approaches to determine ...
Jonathan Ashworth, Eloise Barrett, Rebonto Haque, Ben Wildey, Anthony Hall, Felix Shaw, Jose J. De Vega   +6 more
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Anthropogenic change decouples a freshwater predator’s density feedback

Scientific Reports, 2023
Intraspecific interactions within predator populations can affect predator–prey dynamics and community structure, highlighting the need to better understand how these interactions respond to anthropogenic change. To this end, we used a half-century (1969–
J. S. Sinclair, R. Briland, M. E. Fraker, J. M. Hood, K. T. Frank, M. D. Faust, C. Knight, S. A. Ludsin   +7 more
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Are there morpho‐acoustic patterns of adaptation in nonhuman primate ears? Testing the role of ecology and habitat in shaping ear morphology and function

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Analysis of the variation in the bony structures of the inner and middle ear provides critical insights into functional morphology, as well as adaptive morphology across primates. In this study, we investigated whether ear morphology patterns are related to the ecological characteristics of species and their habitats to test two acoustic ...
Myriam Marsot, Rémi Laffont, Émilie Steimetz, Patricia Balaresque, Sébastien Couette   +4 more
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Inverse relationship between species competitiveness and intraspecific trait variability may enable species coexistence in experimental seedling communities

Nature Communications
Theory suggests that intraspecific trait variability may promote species coexistence when competitively inferior species have higher intraspecific trait variability than their superior competitors.
Jing Yang, Xiya Wang, Carlos P. Carmona, Xihua Wang, Guochun Shen   +4 more
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