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Small predators dominate fish predation in coral reef communities.

PLoS Biology, 2022
Ecosystem processes are challenging to quantify at a community level, particularly within complex ecosystems (e.g., rainforests, coral reefs). Predation is one of the most important types of species interactions, determining several ecosystem processes ...
Michalis Mihalitsis, Renato A Morais, David R Bellwood   +2 more
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Bivariate stochastic modeling of functional response with natural mortality [PDF]

, 2010
A correction due to Abbott (1925) is the standard method of dealing with control mortality in insect bioassay to estimate the mortality of an insect conditional on control mortality not having occurred.
B. J. T. Morgan, C. S. Holling, D. J. Kuenen, D. J. Skirvin, D. J. Skirvin, D. J. Skirvin, D. J. Skirvin, H. K. Preisler, J. A. Hoekstra, J. S. Fenlon, J. S. Fenlon, M. J. Faddy, M. J. Faddy, M. J. Faddy, M. J. Faddy, P. S. Hewlett, W. S. Abbott   +16 more
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Intraguild predation among aphidophagous predators [PDF]

European Journal of Entomology, 2005
Since the publication of papers by Polis et al. (1989, 1992), intraguild predation (IGP) has been considered in numerous systems and a growing number of papers have been published, demonstrating the ubiquity and the importance of this interaction. It appears that aphidophagous guilds constitute especially favourable systems for IGP.
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Generating Dynamic Structures Through Physics‐Based Sampling of Predicted Inter‐Residue Geometries

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
While static structure prediction has been revolutionized, modeling protein dynamics remains elusive. trRosettaX2‐Dynamics is presented to address this challenge. This framework leverages a Transformer‐based network to predict inter‐residue geometric constraints, guiding conformation generation via physics‐based iterative sampling. The resulting method
Chenxiao Xiang, Wenkai Wang, Zhenling Peng, Jianyi Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feline‐Inspired Robot Enabled by Combustion‐Driven Actuators for Agile Motion and High‐Payload Obstacle Traversal

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by nature's competitive maneuvers, this study introduces a combustion‐driven soft actuator that powers a multi‐modal “Jump‐and‐Fly Catbot” (JFC). With millisecond response, high‐force output (over 70 times its weight) and precise control (error within 5%), the robot can jump, fly, hover, and escape from challenging environments, achieving ...
Hongkuan Ma, Yang Yang, Zhiguo He, Hongliang Ren, Pengcheng Jiao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male-biased predation and its effect on paternity skew and life history in a population of common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Differences in predation risk may exert strong selective pressures on life history strategies of populations. We investigated the potential for predation to shape male mating strategies in an arboreal folivore, the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus ...
Jane L DeGabriel, Ben D Moore, William J Foley, Christopher N Johnson   +3 more
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The Effects of Alewife on the Zooplankton Community in Townhouse Pond [PDF]

, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine what plankton species was more dominant in Townhouse Pond and what effects predation has on the food web. Plankton size is important when determining pelagic food web structure.
Toupin, Sarah
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Gut Microbe‐Driven Resistance Mechanisms in Propylea Japonica: Insights from Horizontal Gene Transfer and Oxidative Phosphorylation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Acinetobacter regulates dinotefuran tolerance in Propylea japonica by mediating the expression of the horizontally transferred gene PjDUF1. Abstract Insect–microbial symbiont relationships are widespread in nature and often involve lateral gene transfer.
Ningbo HuangFu, Xiangzhen Zhu, Zhijuan Tang, Li Wang, Kaixin Zhang, Dongyang Li, Jichao Ji, Jinjie Cui, Zhaojiang Guo, Junyu Luo, Xueke Gao   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predator-prey interactions: How thrips avoid predation

Biological Control
Biological pest control is successful in many agricultural systems, yet various pests can still not be controlled with natural enemies. Examples are invasive thrips species such as Echinothrips americanus Morgan and Thrips parvispinus (Karny) in Europe.
Beretta, Giuditta M., Zandbergen, Lotte, Deere, Jacques A., Messelink, Gerben J., Muñoz Cárdenas, Karen, Janssen, Arne   +5 more
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Reconfigurable Acoustofluidic Microvortices for Selective Microcargo Delivery

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work introduces a frequency‐encoded, reconfigurable acoustofluidic system that overcomes the low throughput and poor selectivity of conventional micro‐delivery methods. By exploiting discrete microbubble resonances to program adaptive microvortex modes, the platform enables real‐time switching and selective guidance of microscale payloads through ...
Lei Wang, Yiqiang Wu, Yiyang Tang, Hui Wei, Tianshi Lyu, Xin Zhang, Tian‐Yun Huang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source