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Genetic structure and diversity of the endangered growling grass frog in a rapidly urbanizing region
(2015)Two pervasive and fundamental impacts of urbanization are the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats. From a genetic perspective, these impacts manifest as reduced genetic diversity and ultimately reduced genetic ... -
The use of body condition and haematology to detect widespread threatening processes in sleepy lizards in two agricultural environments.
(2014)Agricultural practices, including habitat alteration and application of agricultural chemicals, can impact wildlife resulting in their decline. Determining which of these practices are contributing to declines is essential ... -
Generalist specialist trade off during thermal acclimation
(2015)The shape of performance curves and their plasticity define how individuals and populations respond to environmental variability. In theory, maximum performance decreases with an increase in performance breadth. However, ... -
Forward flight of birds revisited. Part 2.
(2014)Thrust generation by flapping is accompanied by alternating pitching moment. On the down-stroke, it pitches the bird down when the wings are above its centre of gravity and up when they are below, on the up-stroke, the ... -
The mechanics of hyperactivation in adhered human sperm
(2014)Hyperactivation is an important phenomenon exhibited by mammalian sperm during the process of acquiring fertilization capacity. The majority of studies have focused on incubation-induced hyperactivation in non-human species, ... -
Mitigating the Goldilocks effect
(2014)In ichnology, the Goldilocks effect describes a scenario in which a substrate must be ‘just right’ in order for tracks to form—too soft, the animal will be unable to traverse the area, and too firm, the substrate will not ... -
Remote sensing and conservation of isolated indigenous villages in Amazonia
(2014)The vast forests on the border between Brazil and Peru harbour a number of indigenous groups that have limited contact with the outside world. Accurate estimates of population sizes and village areas are essential to begin ... -
Revision of the Late Jurassic teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus
(2014)Machimosaurus was a large-bodied genus of teleosaurid crocodylomorph, considered to have been durophagous/ chelonivorous, and which frequented coastal marine/estuarine ecosystems during the Late Jurassic. Here, we revise ... -
The subgenual organ complex in the cave cricket
(2014)Comparative studies of the organization of nervous systems and sensory organs can reveal their evolution and specific adaptations. In the forelegs of some Ensifera (including crickets and tettigoniids), tympanal hearing ... -
Nearest neighbour clusters as a novel technique for assessing group associations
(2015)When all the individuals in a social group can be easily identified, one of the simplest measures of social interaction that can be recorded is nearest-neighbour identity. Many field studies use sequential scan samples of ... -
Effect of nutrients and salinity pulses on biomass
(2015)We determined the interactive effects of nutrient loading and salinity pulsing on Vallisneria americanaMichx., the dominant submerged aquatic vegetation species in the lower St Johns River (LSJR), FL, USA, and its associated ... -
An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values
(2014)If you use p=0.05 to suggest that you have made a discovery, you will be wrong at least 30% of the time. If, as is often the case, experiments are underpowered, you will be wrong most of the time. This conclusion is ... -
Supervised learning from human performance at the computationally hard problemof optimal traffic signal control on a network of junctions
(2014)Optimal switching of traffic lights on a network of junctions is a computationally intractable problem. In this research, road traffic networks containing signallized junctions are simulated. A computer game interface is ... -
A note on improved F-expansion method combined with Riccati equation applied to nonlinear evolution equations
(2014)The purpose of this article is to present an analytical method, namely the improvedF-expansion method combined with the Riccati equation, for finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The present method is ... -
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, ... -
Attenuation of species abundance distributions by sampling
(2015)Quantifying biodiversity aspects such as species presence absence, richness and abundance is an important challenge to answer scientific and resource management questions. In practice, biodiversity can only be assessed ... -
Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune-related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral
(2015)Climate change is negatively affecting the stability of natural ecosystems, especially coral reefs. The dissociation of the symbiosis between reef-building corals and their algal symbiont, or coral bleaching, has been ... -
Repeatability in the contact calling systemof Spix’s disc winged bat
(2015)Spix’s disc-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor) forms cohesive groups despite using an extremely ephemeral roost, partly due to the use of two acoustic signals that help individuals locate roost sites and group members. While ... -
Role reversal in a predator–prey interaction
(2014)Predator–prey relationships are one of the most studied interactions in population ecology. However, little attention has been paid to the possibility of role exchange between species, despite firm field evidence of such ... -
New stopping criteria for iterative root finding
(2014)A set of simple stopping criteria is presented, which improve the efficiency of iterative root finding by terminating the iterations immediately when no further improvement of the roots is possible. The criteria use only ...
