For decades,marketers of consumer goods designed highly adorned packages,deploying bold colors,snazzy text,cartoons and illustrations to seize the 05 attention of shoppers.Conventional wisdom held that with thousands ...
supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia,Innovación y Universidades grant PGC2018-093592-B-I00(MCIU/AEI/FEDER,UE);by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación grant PID2021-122358NB-I00(MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ERDF A way of making Europe).
Selecting a good mate is a decision with importantfitness consequences.For this reason,mate choice has promotedthe evolution of sexual ornaments signaling the quality of an individual.In fossorial animals,inhabiting vi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32360380,32360278);the Guizhou Provincial Key Technology R&D Program(General[2023]111);the Basic Research Program in Guizhou Province(ZK[2022]General 098,ZK[2022]General 036,ZK[2022]General 079).
The interspecific variations of plant functional traits can characterize the niche positions of species within communities,while the intraspecific variations can accurately display the species’niche breadth.Revealing...
This research was also funded by the Agricultural Produce Commission of Western Australia(APCP2123197POT and APCP2123197VEG).
The tomato potato psyllid,Bactericera cockerelli,is an invasive pest in Aus-tralia,which can cause severe economic loss in the production of Solanaceous crops.As an invasive pest,B.cockerelli may also modify biotic in...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31900372);One Yangtze River Project of the Huatai Securities,and the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol(Sun Yat-sen University).
Religious wildlife release is prevalent worldwide,especially in Asia countries.It is one of the anthropogenic pathways to cause biological inva-sions.Religious fish release is common on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau,yet...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangzhou(grant number 202201010218);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 32271613 and 32170232);the Guangdong Forestry Bureau Fund(grant number 890-2020-XMZC-2758-01-0001);the Science and Technology Basic Works Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(grant number 2019FY202100).
Plant–Lepidoptera interactions are often studied using the pollination or herbivore networks only.Lepidoptera species are involved in two types of plant–insect interactions because they are herbivores as larvae and ...
Servicio de Gestión del Medio Natural-Delegación de Cádiz from Consejería de Sostenibilidad, Medioambiente y Economía Azul (regional government);Saltpan Initiative Project (MAVA Foundation) and MEDARTSALT project (EU-ENICBC) provided the funding for the study;funded by the Margarita Salas Grant (2021-067/PN/MS-RECUAL/CD) from the Ministry of Universities of the Government of Spain and the European Union。
Shorebird populations are declining worldwide,mainly due to human disturbances and loss of coastal wetlands.However,supratidal habitats as saltpans could play a role in buffering human impact.Saltpans have shown to be...
The role of taxation in promoting economic recovery has attracted great-er attention in recent years,with economic dislocation following the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.While taxation is only one...
This study was supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(17H03719,18KK0205,and 21H02551).
Several Asian natricine snakes of the genus Rhabdophis feed on toads and sequester steroidal cardiac toxins known as bufadienolides(BDs)from them.A recent study revealed that species of the Rhabdophis nuchalis Group i...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31772505 and 32070476).
Uncovering mate choice and factors that lead to the choice are very important to understanding sexual selection in evolutionary change.Cicadas are known for their loud sounds produced by males using the timbals.Howeve...