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C New research has found that two similar species of birds-both capable of showing self-control through delayed gratification-behave very differently around their favourite food when they have company.Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study was led by researchers from Angli a Ruskin University...
Naturalcommunitieshave always contained organisms that were economically significant; locusts, for example, have plagued humans throughout history, and grain fromStone Agelocations has been found infected withbuntandergotdiseases. Most species that became pests, however, did so because of environmental mod...
The Global Tree Assessment identified nine tree threats (Table1)5. We aimed to determine the rates of recent change per threat for each species, calculated as a percentage of species’ extent (km2) that became unsuitable, damaged, or underwent a change in trend over the last 20 years (betwe...
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“The first two or three days, it’s quite easy,” she says. “But the longer the experiment goes, the more they are like, ‘I need to sing.’” At that point, she’d tap the cage and tell them to stop singing. After a week, the birds’ singing muscles lost half their ...
A native of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaiian Monk Seal is one of the earless seals that live on warm beaches, unlike other seals. This endangered marine mammal is one of the two remaining seal species—along with the Mediterranean monk seal. The third species from this family,...
The problem is that competition ordinarily cannot be observed directly but must be inferred from the spread or increase of one species and the concurrent reduction or disappearance of another species. The Russian biologist G. F. Gause performed numerous two-species experiments in the laboratory, in...
(SM). Díazet al.9found that occupancy of the six-dimensional trait space is highly constrained, and is captured in a two-dimensional global spectrum of plant form and function, indicating strong correlation and trade-offs among traits. These results provide a foundation and baseline for studies...
Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known about how species’ positions shift within their climatic niches. Furthermore, wh