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Hierarchical controls on the impact of consumer stoichiometric regulation: From species traits to ecosystem level consequences
(2013-12)
As natural ecosystems become increasingly changed due to habitat alteration, species loss, introduction of non-native species, and climate change, understanding the functional significance of communities to ecosystem ...
The ecological importance of ant colony size
(2010)
Despite the rich diversity of life, all organisms are unified by the conserved biochemical pathways that drive metabolism and govern the rate at which resources are processed and used to perform biological work. Metabolic ...
The evolution of early tribosphenic mammals
(2011)
The history of paleomammalogy stretches back to the beginning of paleontology as a scientific discipline; though with far less fanfare, early fossil mammals were discovered alongside the iconic dinosaurs that would capture ...
THE CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS FOR SWIMMING AND SCRATCHING ARE PARTLY SHARED OR INTERACT AT THE INTERNEURONAL LEVEL IN ADULT TURTLES.
(2014-12)
Distinct rhythmic behaviors involving a common set of motoneurons and muscles can be generated by separate central nervous system networks, a single network, or partly overlapping networks in invertebrates. Less is known ...
The evolution of early tribosphenic mammals
(2011)
The history of paleomammalogy stretches back to the beginning of paleontology as a scientific discipline; though with far less fanfare, early fossil mammals were discovered alongside the iconic dinosaurs that would capture ...
THE ECOLOGY OF AN INVASIVE TOXIGENIC PROTIST
(2013)
Humans have facilitated a spread of nonnative biota across the Earth. As nonnative species, their interactions with native species, their surrounding community, and their environment are novel, and thereby provide unique ...
Integrating biodiversity and landscape ecosystem processes: tests with freshwater mussels
(2011)
As humans alter the environmental landscape, ecosystems become increasingly imperiled due to habitat alteration and the associated species extinctions and extirpations. Consequently, recent research has often focused on ...
THE ROLE OF DIVERGENT GENITAL MORPHOLOGIES IN REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
(2018-05-11)
How a single ancestral species can give rise to new, separate species remains a major outstanding question in evolutionary biology. Understanding speciation requires identifying how reproductive isolation (RI) is initiated ...
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FRESHWATER MUSSELS, MERCURY CONTAMINATION, AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN FRESHWATER SYSTEMS
(2017)
Humans are impacting the environment at an unprecedented scale, with anthropogenic activities altering environmental processes and cycles planet-wide. Centuries of gold mining and coal burning has more than tripled the ...
From individuals to environment: the relative roles of morphology, flight, density, synchrony, habitat structure, and weather on extra-pair paternity
(2016-08)
Reproductive success is driven in large part by the mating system of a species, which ultimately determines patterns of gene transmission across generations. In species with socially monogamous mating systems, an important ...