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Return of the ants: investigating temporal and spatial patterns of ant colonization in unsealed schoolyards

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 5, July 2026.
Abstract Introduction Urban soil unsealing, the removal of impervious surface layers, is increasingly promoted as a habitat restoration strategy to enhance ecosystem resilience in cities. Yet, its potential to support soil biodiversity from the onset remains underexplored.
Robin Chevrel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variations in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Two Anurans Along an Urbanization Gradient in Shanghai: Assessment of Rensch's Rule

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Variations in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have important consequences for animal ecology, behavior, population dynamics, and the evolution of life‐history traits, and can be explained by many intraspecific and interpopulation hypotheses. Urbanization is an important factor that affects anuran phenotypic characteristics (including morphology),
Ben Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Landsat Satellite Imagery to Investigate Spatial and Temporal Variation in Life History Traits in a Long‐Term Study Population of Superb Fairy‐Wrens Malurus cyaneus

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
We used 27 years of data from an insectivorous passerine in southeastern Australia, the superb fairy‐wren Malurus cyaneus, to assess how climate variation influences vegetation productivity and, indirectly, reproduction and survival via potential trophic interactions.
Richard S. Turner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population Development in the Czech Republic in 2024

open access: yesDemografie
The article analyses the demographic development of the Czech Republic in 2024 and sets it in the context of the previous five years. The study focuses on the main demographic processes, namely fertility, mortality, nuptiality, the divorce rate, and ...
Jana Koukalová
doaj   +1 more source

Nuptiality in Early 20th Century Yekaterinburg: Quantitative Analysis

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
This article analyses one of the main characteristics of the demographic behaviour of Russian citizens, i.e. their age at first marriage and its dynamics in the early twentieth century. The authors examine the situation in Yekaterinburg, a compact but an 
Elena Mikhailovna Glavatskaya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Female Mating Status on Male Courtship Behaviour in a Sexually Cannibalistic New Zealand Fishing Spider

open access: yesEthology, Volume 132, Issue 6, Page 373-384, June 2026.
Scoring of male courtship behaviour in Dolomedes minor revealed no effect of female mating status on courtship duration or sequence structure, but males delayed the initiation of courtship when encountering previously mated females. ABSTRACT The evolution of male courtship rituals has traditionally been attributed to female mate selection, but may also
Bastien E. Clémot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-twentieth century

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2018
Background: The early research on the baby boom tried to account for it as a logical recovery following the end of the Second World War (WWII). But it cannot be understood merely as a post-war phenomenon because its origins go back to the 1930s and early
Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte
doaj   +1 more source

Nuptial gifts [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2011
Lewis, Sara   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Demography and COVID-19: risks, responses and impacts. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Popul Res (Canberra), 2022
Jatrana S, Temple J, Wilson T, Payne C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Migração Portuguesa para São Paulo na segunda metade do século XIX: um estudo de caso

open access: yesAlmanack
Resumo Por meio da análise de uma singular experiência migratória ocorrida entre Portugal (Província da Beira / Concelho da Lousã) e a província de São Paulo (região de Espírito Santo do Pinhal) apresentam-se algumas considerações sobre as ...
Ana Silvia Volpi Scott
doaj   +1 more source

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