supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(31801979 and 31872229);from Singapore Ministry of Education(MOE)AcRF Tier 1 grant(R-154-000-B18-114).
Although camouflage as an effective antipredator defense strategy is widespread across animals,highly conspicuous color patterning is not uncommon either.Many orb-web spiders adorn their webs with extra bright white s...
Portela and Dirzo(2020)recently reported a very interesting discovery,showing that forest fragmentation and defaunation resulted in a medium-sized monkey population outbreak,occurring in a predator-free forest fragmen...
by the Italian Ministry of Environment(DPN–2008–0008213 and PNM–II–2012–0015691);by the Prefecture of Haute Corse,France(2B–2018–01–92–004).
Ecological networks,usually depicting interactions among species,have been recently down-scaled to the individual level,permitting description of patterns of inter-individual resource variation that are usually hinder...
This research was funded by the NRF-DST Centre of Excellence in Palaoesciences,at the University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg and the National Research Foundation’s African Origins Platform(grant no.98836).
Predator-prey size relationships are among the most important patterns underlying the structure and function of ecological communities.Indeed,these relationships have already been shown to be important for understandi...
We thank Drs Angel Perez Ruzafa and Juan Guillen Nieto(University of Murcia)for aiding our research in Spain.Pablo Del Amor Saavedra and Margaret Carson kindly opened their home to us in Spain,allowing for this research to be completed.Dr John J.McDermott(Franklin and Marshall College)provided helpful comments on a previous draft and Dr Christopher Boyko(Dowling College)provided taxonomic help with the parasitic isopods.The comments from two anonymous reviewers were helpful in the improvement of this work.The support of Hofstra University to the authors is greatly appreciated.
Parasitic isopods(family Bopyridae)and burrowing barnacles(family Trypetesidae)infesting hermit crabs were investigated from shallow subtidal collections made along the southeastern coast of Spain in 2009.A total of 7...
We are grateful to the Academy of Finland(projects 52045,44887 and 208478)for funding our research.Konnevesi Research Station has provided facilities for experimentation and thinking,as has Helsinki.
Dissimilar vulnerabilities of different prey types and preferences of predators are factors likely to contribute to community dynamics.This may happen via differential individual properties of prey animals(e.g.vigilan...