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The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S. Killen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of Avian Predation on a Critically Endangered Elasmobranch, the Halavi Guitarfish (<i>Glaucostegus halavi</i>), in the Red Sea. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Richardson EB, Hardenstine RS, O'Toole KA, McIvor AJ, Calabrese L, Laughlin SR, Scannell BJ, Cochran JEM, Berumen ML.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Placental crises: disruptive selection and maternal under‐investment as the foundations of mammalian placental evolution and dysfunction

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Among the vertebrates, mammals are notable for the dominance of live birth and placental nutrition. The structural diversity of the mammalian placenta is remarkable, despite sharing a single common ancestor and conserved physiological functions.
Davis Laundon, Neil J. Gostling, Ian G. Reddin, Bram G. Sengers, Pascale Chavatte‐Palmer, Rohan M. Lewis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonconsumptive Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) induces stage-dependent dispersal, development, and diapause investment in Periphyllus koelreuteriae (Hemiptera: Chaitophoridae). [PDF]

J Insect Sci
Zhu P, Wang Y, Pang S, Guo S, Kong M, Li D, Li D, Yang H.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small prey fight back: post-capture defences shape prey-predator size relationships. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sugiura S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stuck in space but not in time: multiple-scale resource selection in a stationary prey. [PDF]

Mov Ecol
May R, Jackson CR, Wanda J, Fyumagwa R, Bevanger K, Røskaft E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A roadmap to key traits of invasive Drosophilidae

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions have intensified in recent decades, mostly driven by international trade and travel, raising significant concerns, particularly regarding insect pests. Once non‐native species establish, they can disrupt natural ecosystem stability, undermine agroecosystem sustainability and cause substantial economic losses.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Bréa Raynaud‐Berton, Méghan Boulembert, Olivier Chabrerie, Aude Couty, Franck Dedeine, Patrice Eslin, Vincent Foray, Romain Georges, Patricia Gibert, Laurence Mouton, Sylvain Pincebourde, David Renault, Christelle Suppo, Hervé Colinet   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dominated Spider Species and the Predation Assessment on <i>Apolygus lucorum</i> (Hemiptera: Miridae) in a Tea Plantation. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Zhang M, Fu X, Li F, Zhu Y, Gao Y, Zhang D, Wang Q.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source