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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Highly contrasted responses of Mediterranean octocorals to climate change along a depth gradient
(2015)
Climate change has a strong impact on marine ecosystems, including temperate species. Analysing the diversity of thermotolerance levels within species along with their genetic structure enables a better understanding of ...
Dramatic niche shifts and morphological change in two insular bird species
(2015)
Colonizations of islands are often associated with rapid morphological divergence. We present two previously unrecog-nized cases of dramatic morphological change and niche shifts in connection with colonization of tropical ...
Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles
(2015)
The regressive evolution of eyes has long intrigued biologists yet the genetic underpinnings remain opaque. A system of discrete aquifers in arid Australia provides a powerful comparative means to explore trait regression ...
Mid winter temperatures, not spring temperatures, predict breeding phenology in the European starling Sturnus vulgaris
(2015)
In many species, empirical data suggest that temperatures less than 1 month before breeding strongly influence laying date, consistent with predictions that short lag times between cue and response are more reliable, ...
Pre-zygotic isolation in the macroalgal genusFucus from four contact zones spanning 100–10 000 years
(2015)
Hybrid zones provide an ideal natural experiment to study the selective forces driving evolution of reproductive barriers and speciation. If hybrid offspring are less fit than the parental species, pre-zygotic isolating ...
High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird
(The Royal Society, 2016)
Tropical and subtropical species typically experience relatively high atmospheric temperatures during reproduction, and are subject to climate-related challenges that are largely unexplored, relative to more extensive work ...
Males migrate farther than females in a differential migrant: an examination of the fasting endurance hypothesis
(The Royal Society, 2014)
Patterns of migration including connectivity between breeding and non-breeding populations and intraspecific variation in the distance travelled are important to study because they can affect individual fitness and population ...