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Sensory Ecology of Predator-Induced Phenotypic Plasticity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Ecological communities are organized in trophic levels that share manifold interactions forming complex food webs. Infochemicals can further modify these interactions, e.g., by inducing defenses in prey. The micro-crustacean Daphnia is able to respond to
Linda C. Weiss
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Vision and Foraging in Structurally Complex Habitats: Common Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) See the Way Ahead [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
This study quantifies the visual field configuration of common moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) to examine how sensory systems balance the competing demands of foraging and predator detection in structurally complex habitats.
Steven J. Portugal   +4 more
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The sensory ecology of adaptive landscapes [PDF]

open access: yesBiology Letters, 2015
Alex Jordan, Michael Ryan
exaly   +2 more sources

The evolution of the concept of sensory ecology and the influence of behavioral ecology [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023
The science of sensory ecology formally emerged in the book of Ali (1978), when behavioral ecology was gaining popularity. Until 2020, three main books were written on the subject, in 1992 (Dusenbery 1992), 2001 (Barth & Schmid 2001) and 2013 (Stevens ...
RODRIGO H. WILLEMART
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Reversal of a Spatial Discrimination Task in the Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris)

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
Reversal learning requires an animal to learn to discriminate between two stimuli but reverse its responses to these stimuli every time it has reached a learning criterion.
Alexander Bublitz   +2 more
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Flow discharge impacts competition for food and shelter between two overlapping species of crayfish

open access: yesJournal of Freshwater Ecology, 2023
Competition between aquatic organisms is heavily influenced by abiotic factors in the environment, specifically flow regime in aquatic systems. Flow regime has been shown to significantly affect the way in which a species uses the environmental resources
Sophia Adami-Sampson   +2 more
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A Comparative Study of Food Source Selection in Stingless Bees and Honeybees: Scent Marks, Location, or Color

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2020
In social bees, the choice of food sources is based on several factors, including scent marks, color, and location of flowers. Here, we used similar setups, in which two stingless bee species, Melipona subnitida and Plebeia flavocincta, and the Western ...
Sebastian Koethe   +6 more
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Sensory collectives in natural systems

open access: yeseLife, 2023
Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely incorporated into the emerging field of collective behaviour, which studies the ...
Hannah J Williams   +13 more
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Aeroscapes and the Sensory Ecology of Olfaction in a Tropical Dry Forest

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Aeroscapes—dynamic patterns of air speed and direction—form a critical component of landscape ecology by shaping numerous animal behaviors, including movement, foraging, and social and/or reproductive interactions.
Allegra DePasquale   +5 more
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First observations of nectar-drinking lizards on the African mainland [PDF]

open access: yesPlant Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Background and aims – Pollination of flowers is performed mainly by insects, but also by vertebrates. In South Africa, beside birds, non-flying mammals contribute to pollination.
Petra Wester
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