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Decreases in body temperature
(2016)Hibernation is an adaptive strategy for surviving during periods with little or no food availability, by profoundly reducing the metabolic rate and the core body temperature (Tb). Obligate hibernators (e.g. bears, ground ... -
Understanding the group dynamics and success of teams
(2016)Complex problems often require coordinated group effort and can consume significant resources, yet our understanding of how teams form and succeed has been limited by a lack of large-scale, quantitative data. We analyse ... -
Sexual selection of male parental care in giant water bugs
(2016)Paternal care can be maintained under sexual selection, if it helps in attracting more mates. We tested the hypothesis in two giant water bug species,Appasus majorandAppasus japonicus, that male parental care is sexually ... -
Dynamic calibration of agent based models using data assimilation
(2016)A widespread approach to investigating the dynamical behaviour of complex social systems is via agent-based models (ABMs). In this paper, we describe how such models can be dynamically calibrated using the ensemble Kalman ... -
Restricted grouper reproductive migrations support community based management
(2016)Conservation commonly requires trade-offs between social and ecological goals. For tropical small-scale fisheries, spatial scales of socially appropriate management are generally small the median no-take locally managed ... -
A scenario for the evolution of selective egg coloration
(2016)Behavioural plasticity can drive the evolution of new traits in animals. In oviparous species, plasticity in oviposition behaviour could promote the evolution of new egg traits by exposing them to different selective ... -
Post copulatory opportunities for sperm competition and cryptic female choice provide no off spring fitness benefits in externally fertilizing salmon
(2016)There is increasing evidence that females can somehow improve their offspring fitness by mating with multiple males, but we understand little about the exact stage(s) at which such benefits are gained. Here, we measure ... -
Rotating panoramic view
(2016)Insects use a navigational toolkit consisting of multiple strategies such as path integration, view-dependent recognition methods and olfactory cues. The question arises as to how directional cues afforded by a visual ... -
Microelastic mapping of the rat dentate gyrus
(2016)The lineage commitment of many cultured stem cells, including adult neural stem cells (NSCs), is strongly sensitive to the stiffness of the underlying extracellular matrix. However, it remains unclear how well the stiffness ... -
Chattymaps: constructing soundmaps of urban areas from social media data
(2016)Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, city planning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come to the attention of city officials in the form of complaints, whereas ... -
Rapid recovery following short termacoustic disturbance in two fish species
(2016)Noise from human activities is known to impact organisms in a variety of taxa, but most experimental studies on the behavioural effects of noise have focused on examining responses associated with the period of actual ... -
Are migratory behaviours of bats socially transmitted?
(2016)To migrate, animals rely on endogenous, genetically inherited programmes, or socially transmitted information about routes and behaviours, or a combination of the two. In long-lived animals with extended parental care, as ... -
Does influenza A virus infection affect movement behaviour during stopover in its wild reservoir host?
(2016)The last decade has seen a surge in research on avian influenza A viruses (IAVs), in part fuelled by the emergence, spread and potential zoonotic importance of highly pathogenic virus subtypes. The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) ... -
To boldly climb: behavioural and cognitive differences in migrating European glass eels
(2016)European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a catadromous fish species that received substantial attention as its population has markedly declined in the last three decades. The possible causes of this decline include habitat ... -
Social familiarity affects Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo European folktales
(2016)Ancient population expansions and dispersals often leave enduring signatures in the cultural traditions of their descendants, as well as in their genes and languages. The international folktale record has long been regarded ... -
An individual based forest model links canopy dynamics and shade tolerances along a soil moisture gradient Jean Liénard and Nikolay Strigul
(2016)Understanding how forested ecosystems respond to climatic changes is a challenging problem as forest self-organization occurs simultaneously across multiple scales. Here, we explore the hypothesis that soil water availability ... -
Selfishmothers indeed. Resource-dependent conflict over extended parental care in free-ranging dogs
(2015)Parent off spring conflict (POC) theory provides an interesting premise for understanding social dynamics in facultatively social species. In free-ranging dogs, mothers increase conflict over extended parental care with ... -
Attack risk for butterflies changes with eyespot number and size
(2016)Butterfly eyespots are known to function in predator deflection and predator intimidation, but it is still unclear what factors cause eyespots to serve one function over the other. Both functions have been demonstrated in ... -
Morphological adaptation of the calamistrum to the cribellate spinning process in Deinopoidae
(2016)Spiders are famous for their silk with fascinating mechanical properties. However, some can further produce, process and handle nano fibres, which are used as capture threads. These ‘cribellate spiders’ bear a specialized ... -
Dopamine regulates termite soldier differentiation through trophallactic behaviours
(2016)Caste polyphenism in social insects is regulated by social interactions among colony members. Trophallaxis is one of the most frequently observed interactions, but no studies have been conducted identifying the intrinsic ...
