The common cuckooCuculus canorusis a generalist avian brood parasite, but individual females show strong preference for a specific host species. Here, we use three extensive datasets to investigate different host characteristics determining cuckoo host selection at the species level: (i) 1871 population...
glabrata were generalist birds, which have a high visiting rate, high fruit consumption rate, and spend short periods on the plants. The large number of species recorded as potential seed dispersers of P. glabrata, being most of them very abundant even in Brazilian disturbed areas, may ...
Any additional species in the genus would broaden and strengthen this model system, especially for evolutionary genetic studies. Until the 1990s, only one species was described in the genus, the cosmopolitan Nasonia vitripennis, which is a generalist parasitoid attacking a variety of calyptrate flies...
Dwarf crocodiles are generalist predators, feeding on a wide range of small animals such as crabs, fish, gastropods, frogs, insects, water birds, lizards, and bats. Also read: Platypus Lion Grizzly Bear Habitat They are distributed in different countries but with varying numbers in West Africa ...
However, this gradient was not related to other fruit characters, providing only weak support for the generalist-specialist paradigm in the evolution of vertebrate-dispersed fruits. Evidence was obtained of a trade-off between the size and number of fruits. Compared to other tr...
Modelling hydration and photosystem II activation in relation to in situ rain and humidity patterns: a tool to compare performance of rare and generalist e... A dynamic water and activity model was developed to assess how efficiently lichens can exploit in situ rain and humid air. The capacity...
Eco‐phylogeographic approaches to comparative population genetic analyses allow for the inclusion of intrinsic influences as drivers of intraspecific genetic structure. This insight into microevolutionary processes, including changes within a species or lineage, provides better mechanistic understanding of specie...
species at the national level. The remaining strongholds of the Apollo butterfly are on the Åland Islands and the coast of Southwest Finland (Marttila et al.1991). However, in the archipelago of Southwest Finland, the abundance and probability of occupancy of Apollo butterflies have decreased ...
Urban wild animals, especially the typically adaptable generalist species that populate US cities, exhibit similar behavioral and population-level adaptations to urban living, including reduced wariness, and increased intraspecific aggression and population densities (Parker and Nilon, 2012). Urban noise ...
we used a metaweb-based approach to examine local food-web dynamics31. A metaweb details all possible interactions of those species found in a dataset, and then each local food web is inferred from the subset of species and their potential interactions found at each site. The metaweb approach...