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Trade‐offs between surviving and thriving: A careful balance of physiological limitations and reproductive effort under thermal stress

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Balancing survival and reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary challenge, especially in extreme and unpredictable environments. Thermoregulatory behaviour, in particular, imposes a costly trade‐off, as time spent maintaining optimal body temperature precludes ...
David L. Hubert, Ehren J. Bentz, Robert T. Mason   +2 more
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Morphological variance in cave and surface populations of Asellus aquaticus challenges the fluctuating selection and greater male variability hypotheses

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionFluctuating selection, the changes in the strength and/or direction of natural selection stemming from fine-scale spatio-temporal environmental variation, is a fundamental, yet rarely tested explanation for the maintenance of phenotypic ...
Anna Biró, Anna Biró, Anna Biró, Gergely Balázs, Gergely Balázs, Gergely Horváth, Gergely Horváth, Žiga Fišer, Cene Fišer, Serban M. Sarbu, Serban M. Sarbu, Gábor Herczeg, Gábor Herczeg   +12 more
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Endogenous colony dormancy shapes seasonal cold tolerance in temperate ants

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract As eusocial superorganisms, cold‐adapted ants must survive multiple consecutive winters and are shaped by selective pressures acting at both individual and colony‐level.
Quentin Willot, Vladimir Kostal, Martin Moos, Johannes Overgaard   +3 more
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The Balkan Peninsula –one of the world's major hotspots of troglobitic millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda)

, 2023
The Balkan Peninsula is characterized by numerous unique and relict cave animals, both aquatic and terrestrial. This region is known as one of the world's major subterranean biodiversity hotspots. One of the Balkan’s main groups of terrestrial arthropods,
Makarov, Slobodan, Antić, Dragan
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Second Palearctic Record of the Genus Stereoglyphus Berlese (Acari: Acaridae) with Morpho-Molecular Description of a New Species from Zagros Mountains, Iran

Insects
In this study, the astigmatid mite genus Troglocoptes Fain, 1966 is proposed as a junior synonym of Stereoglyphus Berlese, 1923. As a part of the project concerning identification of cave-dwelling mites in the Zagros Mountains, all ontogenetic instars of
Mojgan Sadat-Shojaei, Miroslawa Dabert, Mohammad Ali Akrami, Saber Sadeghi, Jacek Dabert   +4 more
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Digging into dirt: Rewilding with threatened mammals shapes soil‐emerging insect assemblages

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
By comparing insect communities across treatments at two time points, we show that reintroduced digging mammals shape soil‐emerging insect assemblages. This provides empirical evidence that restoring ecosystem engineers may drive broader community‐level change in semi‐arid ecosystems. Abstract Digging mammals function as ecosystem engineers by altering
Lucy G. Johanson, Peter Contos, Romina Rader, Heloise Gibb   +3 more
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Two new species of Cybaeodes Simon, 1878 (Araneae, Liocranidae) and description of the male of C. magnus Ribera & De Mas, 2015 from the MSS in the eastern Prebaetic Mountain Range (eastern Spain)

European Journal of Taxonomy
Many species in the spider genus Cybaeodes Simon, 1878 have been described from caves and show marked adaptive characters to the underground environment, being considered troglobitic species.
Carles Ribera, Vicente M. Ortuño, Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, Marc Domènech   +3 more
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Social organization and habitat use shape the gut microbiome of a marine fish

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study provides the first evidence linking habitat use—and to a lesser extent social organization—to gut microbiome composition in a wild marine fish. The results indicate that local habitat conditions are the primary driver of microbial variation, while social effects are detectable but weak.
Aina Pons, Eneko Aspillaga, Ignacio A. Catalán, Tomeu Viver, Robert Arlinghaus, Martina Martorell‐Barceló, Margarida Barcelo‐Serra, Josep Alós   +7 more
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source