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No gain from pain: Lack of nociceptor activation suggests no adaptation for defence in the evolution of European viper venoms

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Snake venoms show variability in composition at all taxonomic levels, both within and between species, and the selective pressures underlying this variation have long been debated.
Bálint Üveges, Samuel D. Robinson, Vanessa Schendel, Edvárd Mizsei, Ana Ćuriċ, Maria Dimaki, Vincenzo Ferri, Silviu Petrovan, Andrea V. Pozzi, Tihomir Radonjiċ, Tibor Sos, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Alexandru Strugariu, Emina Šunje, Ștefan Zamfirescu, Oleksandr Zinenko, Irina Vetter, Wolfgang Wüster   +17 more
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Pre-dispersal seed predation decreases plant progeny performance: the role of seed position within the fruit. [PDF]

Ann Bot
Chiapero AL, Melgar S, Ferreras AE, Ashworth L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2019
Hargreaves AL, Suárez E, Mehltreter K, Myers-Smith I, Vanderplank SE, Slinn HL, Vargas-Rodriguez YL, Haeussler S, David S, Muñoz J, Carlos Almazán-Núñez R, Loughnan D, Benning JW, Moeller DA, Brodie JF, Thomas HJD, Morales M PA.   +16 more
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Innate behaviours shape generalist herbivore host choice and feeding patterns independent of plant defences

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant–herbivore interactions are typically examined through plant defence and herbivore performance, yet individual herbivore behavioural mechanisms underlying these interactions are rarely considered alongside plant traits.
Sara Hoefer, Xianming Yang, Cheng Song, Gaétan Glauser, Kongming Wu, Matthias Erb, Jamie M. Waterman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mast years increase wind pollination and reduce seed predation in sugar maple (Acer saccharum). [PDF]

Am J Bot
Crone EE, Rapp JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tolerance to seed predation mediated by seed size increases at lower latitudes in a Mediterranean oak. [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2019
Bogdziewicz M, Espelta JM, Bonal R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Scaling temperature‐dependent dispersal rates to metacommunity dynamics: An experimental test

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Changes in community structure under shifting thermal regimes depend on how both local population dynamics and regional dispersal respond to temperature. Processes underlying dispersal, such as movement speed and demographic density dependence, are constrained by ...
Keila Stark, Ze‐Yi Han, Jean P. Gibert, Mary I. O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Together again: the invasive mustard <i>Hesperis matronalis</i> suffers devastating seed predation by a recently adventive specialist weevil. [PDF]

Biocontrol (Dordr)
Ensing DJ, Nelson TD, Moffat CE, Joslin L, Eckert L, Kraml MM, Eckert CG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Functional variation in butterfly egg pore traits: The potential role of climate

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Immobile eggs of terrestrial animals are exposed to variable environmental conditions. Insect egg pores, critical for gas exchange (aeropyles) and fertilisation (micropyles), are ecologically important yet understudied.
Teun de Jong, Liana O. Greenberg, Ella Catley, Nina E. Fatouros, Graziella Iossa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource dilution effect rather than resource concentration hypothesis explains the patterns of pre-dispersal seed predation of an African cycad along an elevational gradient in South Africa. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Sadiki KG, Yessoufou K, Suinyuy TN.
europepmc   +1 more source