Differing life history characteristics support coexistence of tree soil generalist and specialist species in tropical rain forests. Biotropica 46, 58-68. http://dx. doi.org/10.1111/btp.12083.Born J, Pluess AR, Burslem DFRP, Nilus R, Maycock CR, Ghazoul J (2014) Differing life history ...
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...
There are two species of manta rays: the reef manta ray and the giant oceanic manta ray, also known as the giant manta ray. The latter is more widely known than the former, not only due to its much larger size but also because of its more predominant habitat. While reef manta rays ...
The functional richness of bee communities also had a positive asso-ciation with the specialization of bee-flower interaction networks, indicating that bee communities with more functional groups contain more specialist bee species. Studies that disentangle the effects of specific habitat characteristics on...
Urban areas form a complex, heterogeneous, fragmented mosaic of habitats, including ecosystems in different degrees of alteration. Nevertheless, some species of birds of prey can thrive in cities. But, there is a knowledge gap regarding the species of birds of prey that who inhabit the cities in...
Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Abstract The genus Listeria is currently comprised of 17 species, including 9 Listeria species newly described since 2009. Genomic and phenotypic data clearly define a distinct ...
Copper was the dominant inorganic species in these particles. By deploying aerosol mass spectrometers, high concentrations of particulate organic matter were also detected and characterized in detail. Several organic compounds were identified using a thermal desorption aerosol gas chromatography. The mass ...
Influence of carboxylic acid-carboxylic ester ratio of carboxylic acid ester superplasticizer on characteristics of cement mixtures presently co-operating with Mapei Research Laboratory, Milan, Italy as synthesis specialist for Six CAE polymers characterized by different molar CA/CE were synthesized by copol...
development in the Brazilian savanna, we postulated that its increasing availability permits plants to invest more in defense strategies. We demonstrate that plant density, Ca soil concentration, and leaf size can be used to predict the plant damage suffered by woody species in savannas at community...
I thank colleagues in the DFO West Vancouver Laboratory and at the Workshop, who provided the basis of the study and helped with the grab sampling, and Dr. E.V. Bagaveeva specialist of Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS (Vladivostok) for identification of some species and fruitful consultati...