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QUEEN SIGNALING IN SOCIAL WASPS

open access: yesEvolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2014
J. V. van Zweden   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world. Despite tens of thousands of papers, as well as numerous books, on pollination biology published over the past 200 years, most studies focused on the fossil record of pollinating insects have only been published in ...
David Peris   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global impacts of exotic eucalypt plantations on wildlife

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The establishment of exotic tree plantations poses a pervasive threat to wildlife across the globe. Among the most important tree species used for forestry purposes worldwide are members of the genus Eucalyptus, which have now been established in at least 107 countries outside of their native range.
Maider Iglesias‐Carrasco   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The pace and shape of ant ageing

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Luisa M. Jaimes‐Nino, Jan Oettler
wiley   +1 more source

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