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Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2023 Following the observation of adult pairs of the Western Whipsnake, Hierophis viridiflavus, in a controlled environment, two distinct but related phenomena were observed: egg deposition and predation of freshly laid eggs by the male.
Alessandro Paterna
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Parasites & Vectors, 2016 Background Cannibalism has been observed in a wide range of animal taxa and its importance in persistence and stability of populations has been documented. In anopheline malaria vectors the inter-instar cannibalism between fourth- and first-instar larvae
Daniele Porretta +8 more
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Hydra effects predator-prey bazykin's model with stage-structure and intraspecific for predator
Desimal: Jurnal Matematika, 2022 Bazykin's predator-prey population model is considered to represent the exchange stability condition of population growth. The existence of the hydra effect and, at the same time, analyzing its influence on population growth. The condition of the model divides the species into a stage structure, namely, prey, immature predators, and mature predators ...
Rian Ade Pratama +3 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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Scientific Reports, 2022 Differences in hatching dates can shape intraspecific interactions through size-mediated priority effects (SMPE), a phenomenon where bigger, early hatched individuals gain advantage over smaller, late hatched ones.
Mateusz Raczyński +2 more
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Sex-biased predation and predator intraspecific competition effects in a prey mating system
AIMS Mathematics, 2023 <abstract><p>In this work, we propose and investigate a predator-prey model where the prey population is structured by sex and the predators (unstructured) depredate based on sex-bias. We provide conditions for the existence of equilibrium points and perform local stability analysis on them.
Eric M. Takyi +3 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.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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Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2020 In this paper, we consider a nonautonomous predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response and explore the global stability of boundary solution.
Dingyong Bai, Jinshui Li, Wenrui Zeng
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.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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Intraspecific Behavioral Variation Mediates Insect Prey Survival via Direct and Indirect Effects
Diversity, 2020 Conspecific individuals often exhibit behavioral differences that influence susceptibility to predation. Yet, how such trait differences scale to affect prey population regulation and community structure remains unclear.
Benjamin J. Toscano +2 more
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