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Discrete but variable structure of animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum
(2016)
Animal societies are typically divided into those in which reproduction within a group is monopolized by a single female versus those in which it is shared among multiple females. It remains controversial, however, whether ...
Artificial light onwater attracts turtle hatchlings during their near shore transit
(2016)
We examined the effect of artificial light on the near shore trajectories of turtle hatchlings dispersing from natal beaches. Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings were tagged with miniature acoustic transmitters and ...
Responsiveness to conspecific distress calls is influenced by day roost proximity in bats
(2016)
Distress calls signal extreme physical distress, e.g. being caught by a predator. In many bat species, distress calls attract conspecifics. Because bats often occupy perennial day-roosts, they might adapt their responsiveness ...
Rhenium uptake and distribution in phaeophyceae macroalgae, Fucus vesiculosus
(2016)
Owing to Rhenium (Re) having no known biological role, it is not fully understood how Re is concentrated in oil kerogens. A commonly held assumption is that Re is incorporated into decomposing biomass under reducing ...
The importance of delineating networks by activity type in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in CedarKey, Florida
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Network analysis has proved to be a valuable tool for studying the behavioural patterns of complex social animals. Often such studies either do not distinguish between different behavioural states of the organisms or simply ...
How far will a behaviourally flexible invasive bird go to innovate?
(2016)
Behavioural flexibility is considered a key factor in the ability to adapt to changing environments. A traditional way of characterizing behavioural flexibility is to determine whether individuals invent solutions to novel ...
Coexistence of three sympatric cormorants
(2016)
Resource partitioning is well known along food and habitat for reducing competition among sympatric species, yet a study on temporal partitioning as a viable basis for reducing resource competition is not empirically ...
Signalling with a cryptic trait
(2016)
Sexual signals often compromise camouflage because of their conspicuousness. Pigmentation patterns, on the contrary, aid in camouflage. It was hypothesized that a particular type of pattern—barred plumage in birds, whereby ...
No early gender effects on energetic status and life history in a salmonid
(2015)
Throughout an organism’s early development, variations in physiology and behaviours may have long lasting consequences on individual life histories. While a large part of variation in critical life-history transitions ...
Reproduction of Pisidium casertanum in Arctic lake
(2015)
Freshwater invertebrates are able to develop specific ecological adaptations that enable them to successfully inhabit an extreme environment. We investigated the brooding bivalve of Pisidium casertanum in Talatinskoe Lake, ...