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Ecosphere, 2020 The threat‐sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis suggests that prey animals should minimize the costs of antipredator behaviors by only responding to predators that pose a potentially lethal threat.
Tyler C. Wood, Paul A. Moore
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Visibility and attractiveness of Fritillaria (Liliaceae) flowers to potential pollinators
Scientific Reports, 2021 Visual floral characters play an important role in shaping plant-pollinator interactions. The genus Fritillaria L. (Liliaceae), comprising approximately 140 species, is described as displaying a remarkable variety of flower colours and sizes.
Katarzyna Roguz +5 more
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Anthropogenic noise events perturb acoustic communication networks
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Anthropogenic noise sources impact ecological processes by altering wildlife behavior and interactions with cascading impacts on community structure.
Nathan J. Kleist +7 more
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Chemosensory Exploitation and Predator-Prey Arms Races
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Thousands of armed predatory species, distributed widely across the metazoan tree-of-life, consume only hard-shell or exoskeleton-bearing organisms (called “durophagy”).
Richard K. Zimmer +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2017 The range of odours that an insect can detect depends on its olfactory receptors. Here, the authors functionally characterize the olfactory receptor repertoire of the mothSpodoptera littoralis using the Drosophilaempty neuron system and reconstruct the ...
Arthur de Fouchier +13 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The study of butterfly coloration has helped to identify the ecological pressures involved in the evolution of animal coloration. However, almost all studies that addressed this issue have focused on species that inhabit more temperate environments ...
Sofia Coradini Schirmer +4 more
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Functional differences in echolocation call design in an adaptive radiation of bats
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 All organisms have specialized systems to sense their environment. Most bat species use echolocation for navigation and foraging, but which and how ecological factors shaped echolocation call diversity remains unclear for the most diverse clades ...
Leith B. Leiser‐Miller +1 more
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Animals, 2022 The influence of environmental factors on prey discrimination of bait-attracted white sharks was studied over a six-year period (2008–2013) at Dyer Island Nature Reserve (Gansbaai, South Africa).
Francesca Romana Reinero +5 more
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The Mormyrid Optic Tectum Is a Topographic Interface for Active Electrolocation and Visual Sensing
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2018 The African weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii is capable of cross-modal object recognition using its electric sense or vision. Thus, object features stored in the brain are accessible by multiple senses, either through connections between ...
Malou Zeymer +2 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2015 Pollination of plants by non-flying mammals, such as mice (Rodentia), is a rarely observed phenomenon. Previously, elephant-shrews (Macroscelidea), small African mammals looking similar to mice, but not being related to them, were believed to be purely ...
Petra Wester
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