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Rodents in open space adjust their behavioral response to the different risk levels during barn-owl attack
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 1-16 - 2003
Previous studies have revealed that the response of prey species to predatory
risk comprised either freezing (when the prey remained immobile), or fleeing
(when it ran frantically in order to remove itself from the vicinity of the
predator). Other studies, however, have suggested that the prey will adjust its
behavior to risk level. The present study was designed to follow the attacks of
a barn ow...
Analysis of a marine phototrophic biofilm by confocal laser scanning microscopy using the new image quantification software PHLIP
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 1-15 - 2006
Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) is the method of choice to study
interfacial biofilms and acquires time-resolved three-dimensional data of the
biofilm structure. CLSM can be used in a multi-channel modus where the different
channels map individual biofilm components. This communication presents a novel
image quantification tool, PHLIP, for the quantitative analysis of large amounts
of mu...
The dynamics of social networks among female Asian elephants
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 1-16 - 2011
Patterns in the association of individuals can shed light on the underlying
conditions and processes that shape societies. Here we characterize patterns of
association in a population of wild Asian Elephants at Uda Walawe National Park
in Sri Lanka. We observed 286 individually-identified adult female elephants
over 20 months and examined their social dynamics at three levels of
organization: pair...
Queen dominance and worker policing control reproduction in a threatened ant
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 1-7 - 2011
Efficient division of reproductive labor is a crucial characteristic of social
insects and underlies their ecological and evolutionary success. Despite of the
harmonious appearance of insect societies, nestmates may have different
interests concerning the partitioning of reproduction among group members. This
may lead to conflict about reproductive rights. As yet, few studies have
investigated the...
An acoustic postconflict display in the duetting tropical boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus): a signal of victory?
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-6 - 2004
In many species of birds, pair bonded males and females precisely co-ordinate
their vocalisations to form duets. Duetting behaviour, although still somewhat
of an enigma, is thought to function primarily in territorial defence and mate
guarding. We identify an additional function of duetting in an afrotropical
bird, the tropical boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus), that uses one duet type as a
postconf...
Temporal development and collapse of an Arctic plant-pollinator network
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 Số 1 - 2009
Abstract Background The temporal dynamics and formation of plant-pollinator
networks are difficult to study as it requires detailed observations of how the
networks change over time. Understanding the temporal dynamics might provide
insight into sustainability and robustness of the networks and how they react to
environmental changes, such as global warming. Here we study an Arctic
plant-pollinato...
An open future for ecological and evolutionary data?
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 1-6 - 2014
As part of BioMed Central’s open science mission, we are pleased to announce
that two of our journals have integrated with the open data repository Dryad.
Authors submitting their research to either BMC Ecology or BMC Evolutionary
Biology will now have the opportunity to deposit their data directly into the
Dryad archive and will receive a permanent, citable link to their dataset.
Although this do...
Burrow characteristics of the co-existing sibling species Mus booduga and Mus terricolor and the genetic basis of adaptation to hypoxic/hypercapnic stress
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 1-7 - 2009
The co-existing, sibling species Mus booduga and Mus terricolor show a
difference in site-preference for burrows. The former build them in flat portion
of the fields while the latter make burrows in earthen mounds raised for holding
water in cultivated fields. In northern India which experiences great variation
in climatic condition between summer and winter, M. booduga burrows have an
average dep...
Capturing chloroplast variation for molecular ecology studies: a simple next generation sequencing approach applied to a rainforest tree
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 1-11 - 2013
With high quantity and quality data production and low cost, next generation
sequencing has the potential to provide new opportunities for plant
phylogeographic studies on single and multiple species. Here we present an
approach for in silicio chloroplast DNA assembly and single nucleotide
polymorphism detection from short-read shotgun sequencing. The approach is
simple and effective and can be im...
Preliminary inventory and classification of indigenous afromontane forests on the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-11 - 2004
Mixed evergreen forests form the smallest, most widely distributed and
fragmented biome in southern Africa. Within South Africa, 44% of this vegetation
type has been transformed. Afromontane forest only covers 0.56 % of South
Africa, yet it contains 5.35% of South Africa's plant species. Prior to this
investigation of the indigenous forests on the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve
(BRCNR), very li...
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