Animals use a variety of environmental cues to identify profitable conditions and increase their foraging efficiency. Identifying environmental correlates of foraging behaviour can help to understand...

The accumulation of microplastics (MP, <5 mm), is a global issue that is increasing for a widening list of taxonomic groups and trophic levels. There is little research on MP loading in terrestrial...

Our study provides a pathway to leverage functional diversity to quantitatively characterize solar-associated avian communities and the ecological mechanisms that shape them. Our results suggest that....

Fossils confirm human ancestors first appearance

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue”…

Our understanding of the ecological factors and species-environment interactions driving reproduction in wildlife populations is limited. Collecting reproductive data across environmental gradients…

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Scientists and the public often assume that one gene controls one trait, but this idea is too simple for most real biology. Early geneticists already showe

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Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...

Our results demonstrate that the drivers of primary forest biodiversity are largely context-dependent; therefore, conservation strategies based on single biodiversity indicators or individual structu...

Late Triassic forests in Central Europe developed under a seasonal sub-tropical climate while the supercontinent Pangea was breaking up. Although permineralized fossil wood from this interval is abun...

Plants that resprout after fire experience drastically altered conditions in post-fire environments. However, the effects of plant exposure to fire on offspring traits remain understudied. Many respr....

The Hawaiian honeycreepers, one of the world&rsquo;s most iconic adaptive radiations, are facing a human-mediated extinction crisis. More than 60 Hawaiia...

AbstractBackground and Aims. Poikilohydry describes the inability of plants to internally regulate their water content (hydroregulation), whereas desiccati

The fundamental unit of spatial ecology is a species range: the geographical area that it occupies. Species ranges are delineated by range edges (also known as boundaries or limits). Why range edg...