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Herbivore species asynchrony underpins multitrophic stability across plants, herbivores and predators

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Across a grassland food web, multitrophic stability was most closely associated with herbivore species asynchrony. By identifying herbivores as a key source of temporal buffering between plants and predators, this study shows that intermediate consumers can play a central role in stabilizing the complex food web.
Takehiro Sasaki, Taiki Tachibana, Xiaoming Lu, Kei Uchida, Xuezhen Zhao, Issei Nishimura, Daichi Makishima, Kousuke Tachibana, Xi Sun, Yuki Iwachido, Wenhuai Li, Yongfei Bai   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nest Predation by Commensal Rodents in Urban Bushland Remnants. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Smith HM, Dickman CR, Banks PB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Male production in green sea turtles under a feminizing climate: A validated model of sex ratios with temperature‐dependent sex determination

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study introduces validated methods to predict sex ratios in wild Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests. It quantifies beach‐scale temperature heterogeneity, incorporates clutch‐level variation in thermal sensitivity and models temperature effects across the thermosensitive period, demonstrating how temporal temperature dynamics and spatial ...
Marc Girondot, Emily Turla, Kirsty Scott, Jeanette Wyneken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of nest site characteristics on Asian tits (<i>Parus cinereus</i>) defense behavior. [PDF]

PeerJ
E M, Shen C, Hu Z, Cao Y, Liu L, Li X.
europepmc   +1 more source

High thermal plasticity, low heritability and constant directional selection on breeding phenology in a viviparous ectotherm

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our findings reveal that breeding phenology of the common lizard is shaped by strong thermal plasticity, body size effects, constant selection for earlier parturition, but low heritability. This suggests that phenological responses to climate change in this species, and likely in other squamates, will predominantly arise through plastic rather than ...
Théo Bodineau, Alexis Rutschmann, Jean‐François Le Galliard, Manuel Massot, Murielle Richard, Jean Clobert, Sandrine Meylan, Pierre de Villemereuil   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Ecology of the Lesser Rhea (<i>Rhea pennata</i>) in the Peruvian Andes: Nesting Sites, Phenology, and Social Organization. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Samata-Flores DE, Cáceres Apaza DP, Soto-Gamboa M, Contreras JCM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rapid loss, and slow recovery, of coral reef structural complexity resulting from a prolonged marine heatwave

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using Structure‐from‐Motion photogrammetry in a longitudinal study, we show that although coral reef habitat complexity had declined significantly by the end of the most prolonged tropical marine heatwave on record, no further losses were detected and 3 years later the reef had begun to recover this critical ecosystem function.
Kevin A. Bruce, John H. R. Burns, Dominique G. Maucieri, Kailey Pascoe, Julia K. Baum   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of parental care as a newly identified reproductive isolating barrier

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Behavioural variation can contribute to reproductive isolation and can be an important driver of speciation. Here, we show that a previously undescribed mechanism, parental care, can function as a postzygotic reproductive isolating barrier when dysregulated in hybrids.
Colby Behrens, Meghan F. Maciejewski, Alexandra Sumarli, Gina Lucas, German Lagunas‐Robles, Kieran Samuk, Alison M. Bell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predator-guild-specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
Dillenseger G, Delautre J, Jayanth A, Marchal Z, Veselý P, Kubelka V.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environment (i.e. increase in population density) experienced at early life.
David López‐Idiáquez, Ella F. Cole, Devi Satarkar, Samuel J. Crofts, Keith McMahon, Ben C. Sheldon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source