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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Personality Traits, Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, and Investment Performance in Vietnam

GLOBAL BUSINESS FINANCE REVIEW, 2017
The study explored the impact of personality traits, perceived risk, and perceived uncertainty on investment performance of individual investors...
Phung Thai Minh Trang, Mai Ngoc Khuong
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Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Root volatiles mediate rhizosphere chemical communication, shaping interactions among plants, microbes, herbivores, and natural enemies. Their production, transport, and perception underpin ecological adaptation, multitrophic interactions, and plant resilience, offering opportunities for sustainable crop protection, resilient agroecosystems, and ...
Xueyao Cao, Nanli Song, François Verheggen, Meritxell Pérez‐Hedo, Andrea Clavijo McCormick, Antonino Cusumano, Arthur de Fouchier, Bing Wang, Chen‐Zhu Wang, Emmanuelle Jacquin‐Joly, Gary W. Felton, Geoff M. Gurr, Hao Guo, Jiancai Li, Jin Zhang, Li Chen, Manqun Wang, Michele Ricupero, Peng Han, Peng He, Qi Yan, Qingbo Tang, Qingsong Liu, Shiheng An, Xiangbo Kong, Xiaoling Sun, Xueming Ren, Yuanyuan Song, Yang Liu, Yanhui Guo, Yunhe Li, Xiao Sun   +31 more
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Teachers’ and Parents’ Assessments of Primary School Children’s Intellectual Investment as Predictors of Change in Need for Cognition

Journal of Intelligence
The present study investigated whether parents’ and teachers’ evaluations of children’s intellectual investment would predict a change in children’s need for cognition (NFC) over one year. An exploratory look at how teachers’ evaluations are predicted by
Anke Hufer-Thamm, Rolf Jürgens, Sebastian Bergold, Ricarda Steinmayr   +3 more
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The Relationship of Big 5 Personality Traits on Investment Decision

Syntax Literate ; Jurnal Ilmiah Indonesia, 2023
The Big Five personality traits, comprising openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, represent a widely acknowledged framework in the realm of psychological research. These characteristics have shown to be especially important in studies on financial decision-making, especially when it comes to individual
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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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Rhizodeposition Drives One Third of Belowground Carbon Input in Agroecosystems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study quantifies photosynthesized C allocation in the plant–soil system across six crop types: barley, wheat, maize, rice, legumes and grasses. It reports C partitioning into shoot respiration, shoot‐C, root‐C, net rhizodeposition and root‐derived CO2, providing standardized percentage averages and GPP‐derived absolute values as a robust baseline ...
Zhengjun Yan, Yuan Wen, Jie Zhou, Yakov Kuzyakov, Damien Beillouin, Johannes Lehmann, Yadong Yang, Yiqi Luo, Pete Smith, Zhaohai Zeng, Huadong Zang   +10 more
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Mechanism Role of Investment Strategies for Investment Performance: Investigating the Impact of Personality Traits: A Case of Behavioral Finance

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
Purpose: This study investigates the mechanism role of investment strategies in mediating the relationship between personality traits and investment performance within the behavioral finance framework.
Tariq Mahmood Shaikh, Syed Zain ul Abdin
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Pre- and Postcopulatory Traits of Salvator Male Lizards in Allopatry and Sympatry

Scientifica, 2016
The reproductive traits of males are under influence of sexual pressures before and after copulation. The strength of sexual selection varies across populations because they undergo varying competition for mating opportunities.
Sergio Naretto, Cecilia S. Blengini, Gabriela Cardozo, Margarita Chiaraviglio   +3 more
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What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata, M. Rodríguez‐Entrena, M. Espinosa‐Goded, F. J. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé   +4 more
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