Wildlife Initiative NGO(Mongolia)and Bavarian Association for Bird Protection(LBV-Germany)and IGA-20223107 provided the funding to realize this research.
The mechanisms of interactions between apex and smaller carnivores may range from competition to facilitation.Conversely,interactions between predators and prey are mainly driven by the prey reducing the likelihood of...
funded by a postdoctoral fellowship of the Galician government(Xunta de Galicia;“Axudas de apoio a etapa posdoutoral 2017”,ref:ED481B-2017/034).
The association of unrelated ant queens(pleometrosis)is supposed to improve nest foundation and competitiveness under environmental stress,but its evolutionary maintenance is difficult to explain because only one of t...
Zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha is a Ponto-Caspian species invasive in Europe and North America, with great environmental impact. It lives byssally attached to hard substrata in large aggregations, which is often ex...
Differences in boldness are common between populations or between related species and are discussed as part of individual coping style, personality, or behavioral syndrome. Boldness has been found to be dependent on e...
Many aposematic insect species advertise their toxicity to potential predators using olfactory and auditory signals, in addition to visual signals, to produce a multimodal warning display. The olfactory signals in the...
Toxic insects advertise their defended state to potential predators using warning displays. Frequently these displays use cues through more than one sensory modality, and combine color, smell and sound to produce a mu...
provided by the National Research Foundation (Grant number:2069110);the University of the Witwatersrand
A number of mechanisms are known to influence coexistence in small mammal communities. However, the role ofbehavioral interactions in promoting species coexistence is under-represented in the literature. We studied th...