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The spread of non‐native species

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irene Martín‐Forés, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ronaldo Sousa, Ismael Soto, Andy J. Green, Antonín Kouba, Teun Everts, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Nadège Belouard, Cang Hui, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, Margaux Boeraeve, Franz Essl, J. Robert Britton   +16 more
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Would you? Effects of oxytocin on moral choices in forensic psychopathic patients

Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
Psychopaths are suggested to be more likely to favor utilitarian outcomes over non-utilitarian (i.e., deontological) choices. Here we re-test this hypothesis and investigate whether oxytocin, a hormone associated with empathy, can counter this ...
Ronald J.P. Rijnders, Sophie van den Hoogen, Jack van Honk, David Terburg, Maaike M. Kempes   +4 more
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Efectos de los atributos de la hembra de ñandú (Rhea americana) sobre la viabilidad del huevo [PDF]

, 2019
We conducted a study throughout a breeding season in a captive-bred population of Greater rheas (Rhea americana) to evaluate the association between egg viability and the female´s body weight and age.
Bazzano, Gisela del Valle, Lábaque, María Carla, Martella, Monica Beatriz, Navarro, Joaquin Luis   +3 more
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The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S. Killen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolutionary Loss of Paternal Care Is Associated With Shifts in Female Life‐History Traits

Ecology and Evolution
Parental care can increase the fitness of parents through increased offspring survival but can also reduce reproductive output by limiting time and energy allocated to additional mating opportunities.
Colby Behrens, Sarah Young, Eric Arredondo, Anne C. Dalziel, Laura K. Weir, Alison M. Bell   +5 more
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Investment in defense and cost of predator-induced defense along a resource gradient [PDF]

, 2018
An organism's investment in different traits to reduce predation is determined by the fitness benefit of the defense relative to the fitness costs associated with the allocation of time and resources to the defense.
Steiner, Ulrich
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of adjacent insured risks upon the management of insurance companies [PDF]

Besides technical and investment risks, other risks can be identified, with own traits and implications that cannot be ignored. We speak about the risk of participation, the risk regarding guarantees in favor of tertiary, risk regarding loss because of ...
Florin Ion COANA, Iudit FODOR, Rodica Viorica COANA   +2 more
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