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New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Temperate winters are getting warmer, the length of the growing season is increasing and mid‐winter fluctuations of warm and freezing temperatures are more frequent. Although typically winter dormant, some herbaceous perennials can maintain or grow green leaves during ...
F. Curtis Lubbe, Andrea Kučerová, Martin Bitomský, Jitka Klimešová   +3 more
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Changing food availability and its effect on the heritability of offspring size in woodland passerine birds

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings' body size traits in two woodland passerines. Food availability increased over the 25‐year‐long study period, accompanied by increases in body mass.
Emma Vatka, Markku Orell, Seppo Rytkönen, Juha Merilä   +3 more
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Should you use data integration for your distribution model?

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This paper explores cases where data integration (the joint modelling of two or more observational datasets) is useful for species distribution models, and also highlights cases where it's actually not useful. This provides the first concrete guidance for deciding whether or not data integration is worth your time.
Benjamin R. Goldstein, Jeffrey W. Doser, Brent S. Pease, Krishna Pacifici   +3 more
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Cohorts of immature Pteropus bats show interannual variation in Hendra virus serology

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Pteropus bat with offspring, photo taken by Manuel Ruiz‐Aravena. Abstract Understanding the drivers of seasonal disease outbreaks remains a fundamental challenge in disease ecology. Periodic outbreaks can be driven by several seasonally varying factors, including pulses of susceptible individuals through births, changes in host behaviour and social ...
Daniel E. Crowley, Caylee A. Falvo, Chris K. Grant, Benny Borremans, Tamika J. Lunn, Manuel Ruiz‐Aravena, Evelyn Benson, Clifton D. McKee, Daniel J. Becker, Devin N. Jones, Trenton Bushmaker, Y. Tina Yu, Michelle Michie, Adrienne S. Dale, Lianying Yan, Spencer L. Sterling, Christopher C. Broder, Laura B. Goodman, Rasa Petraityte‐Burneikiene, Eric D. Laing, Ina L. Smith, Vincent J. Munster, Agnieszka Rynda‐Apple, Alison J. Peel, Raina Plowright   +24 more
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Early‐life stasis in partial seasonal migration is underpinned by among‐cohort variation in migratory plasticity and selective disappearance

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Changes to mean early‐life phenotypes are fundamentally driven by joint dynamics of plasticity and selection, but such effects are rarely quantified. We show that cross‐cohort stasis in the degree of partial migration is underpinned by substantial within‐ and among‐cohort variation in plasticity and selection on migration, indicating high environmental
Cassandra R. Ugland, Paul Acker, Sarah J. Burthe, Rita Fortuna, Carrie Gunn, Michael P. Harris, Josie H. Hewitt, Timothy I. Morley, Mark A. Newell, Robert L. Swann, Erin A. Taylor, Sarah Wanless, Francis Daunt, Jane M. Reid   +13 more
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The Time‐Varying Anchoring of Inflation Expectations in Australia

Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the anchoring of inflation expectations in Australia, an important indicator of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) credibility in the public's eyes regarding its inflation mandate. Rather than treating anchoring as a binary state, the study examines its evolution over time.
Thuy Hang Duong
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Markov-chain Monte Carlo method enhanced by a quantum alternating operator ansatz

Physical Review Research
Quantum computation is expected to accelerate certain computational tasks over classical counterparts. Its most primitive advantage is its ability to sample from classically intractable probability distributions.
Yuichiro Nakano, Hideaki Hakoshima, Kosuke Mitarai, Keisuke Fujii   +3 more
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Genetic and phenotypic variation in wood tiger moths from the Caucasus: insights into male warning color variation

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Coloration serves several fitness‐related functions, including thermoregulation, immunity, social signaling, sexual selection, and predator avoidance. Consequently, color polymorphism can have a significant impact on a species’ interactions with its environment, including its relationships with predators, prey, and potential mates. The wood tiger moth (
Juan A. Galarza, Ossi Nokelainen, Melanie N. Brien, Cristina Ottocento, Bibiana Rojas, Janne K. Valkonen, Tamar Chunashvili, Tõnis Tasane, Chris D. Jiggins, Johanna Mappes   +9 more
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Comparative Population Genetics of Two Alvinocaridid Shrimp Species in Chemosynthetic Ecosystems of the Western Pacific

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Little is known about the population divergence and gene flow of deep‐sea animals living in disjunct hydrothermal vents and cold seep habitats. Taking advantage of samples collected from multiple cruises across a huge distance of >5000 km, we revealed the differential population divergence pattern and gene flow in two congeneric species of shrimps ...
Qi Dai, Ting Xu, Yixuan Li, Yanan Sun, Yitao Lin, Takuya Yahagi, Maeva Perez, Pei‐Yuan Qian, Jian‐Wen Qiu   +8 more
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Colour Morphs as Alternative Solutions to the Trade‐Off Predicted by the Immuno‐Competence Handicap Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
In this study, we tested whether white and yellow morphs of the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) adopt alternative strategies shaped by the immuno‐competence handicap hypotheses (ICHH). We found that testosterone‐induced immune suppression was stronger in white males, while aggression decreased in both morphs.
Roberto Sacchi, Alan J. Coladonato, Stefano Scali, Marco A. L. Zuffi, Rupert Palme, Marco Mangiacotti   +5 more
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