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Spatial ecology of territorial populations [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
Many ecosystems, from vegetation to biofilms, are composed of territorial populations that compete for both nutrients and physical space. What are the implications of such spatial organization for biodiversity? To address this question, we developed and analyzed a model of territorial resource competition.
Weiner, Benjamin G., Posfai, Anna, Wingreen, Ned S.   +2 more
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Ontogeny of color development in two green–brown polymorphic grasshopper species

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Many insects, including several orthopterans, undergo dramatic changes in body coloration during ontogeny. This variation is particularly intriguing in gomphocerine grasshoppers, where the green and brown morphs appear to be genetically determined ...
Mahendra Varma, Gabe Winter, Hannah M. Rowland, Holger Schielzeth   +3 more
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Balancing Life History Investment Decisions in Founding Ant Queens

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Reproduction is a very critical step in the life of an organism. Females must balance their investment in different life-history traits while reproducing.
Simon Tragust, Simon Tragust, Pina Brinker, Pina Brinker, Natacha Rossel, Oliver Otti   +5 more
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Mind the Wound!—Fruit Injury Ranks Higher than, and Interacts with, Heterospecific Cues for Drosophila suzukii Oviposition

Insects, 2021
Drosophila suzukii is a globally distributed insect that infests many economically important fruit varieties by ovipositing into ripening fruits.
Renate Kienzle, Marko Rohlfs
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The green-brown polymorphism of the club-legged grasshopper Gomphocerus sibiricus is heritable and appears genetically simple

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020
Background Local coexistence of distinct, genetically determined color morphs can be unstable and transitional. Stable, long-term coexistence requires some form of balancing selection to protect morphs from getting lost by directional selection or ...
Holger Schielzeth, Petra Dieker
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Making virtual species less virtual by reverse engineering of spatiotemporal ecological models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The virtual species (VS) and virtual ecologist (VE) approaches are useful tools that allow testing different methodological aspects of species distribution modelling.
Katarzyna Malinowska, Katarzyna Markowska, Lechosław Kuczyński   +2 more
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Ecology: Changing options

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2003
in English is not available for this article.
Leszek Grüm
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Variation in the population density of the Giant African Snail (Lissachatina fulica) in the Neotropical region

Caldasia, 2022
The Giant African Snail (Lissachatina fulica) is one of the 100 world’s worst invasive species and has been recorded in the Neotropical region since the 1980s.
Angie Patiño-Montoya, Alan Giraldo, Rosana Tidon   +2 more
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The Population Ecology of Organizations

American Journal of Sociology, 1977
A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective.
Hannan, Michael T., Freeman, John
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Competition over guarding in the Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps), a cooperative breeder [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2016
Observations on 12 groups comprised of two adult males and one adult female (some included one or two fledglings), tame, individually marked, Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps) in the rift valley in Israel revealed that the babblers compete to guard.
Arnon Dattner, Amotz Zahavi, Avishag Zahavi   +2 more
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