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Pollinator shifts drive petal epidermal evolution on the Macaronesian Islands bird-flowered species
Pollinator shifts are considered to drive floral trait evolution, yet little is still known about the modifications of petal epidermal surface at a biogeographic region scale. Here, how independent...
How will changes in ecosystem functioning affect the demography of animal populations
Temporal variability in primary productivity can change habitat quality for consumer species by affecting the energy levels available as food resources. However, it remains unclear how...
Effect of habitat quality on flying patterns of the butterfly Plebejus argus
Animal movement often changes with habitat quality. Butterfly movements may be influenced by structural attributes of habitat patches or may reflect the distribution of food, mates, host plants or...
Feather fault bars: review and model
First review and synthesis paper on feather fault bars. A model is proposed to link fault bar severity with the propensity to produce fault bars and the intensity of the perturbation. This study...
The costs of nestling begging behavior
Many theoretical models on the evolution of nestling begging assume this behavior is costly, so that only nestlings in real need of food would profit from giving intensive signals to parents....
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