funded by and undertaken on behalf of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi(EAD)under a memorandum of understanding with Mongolia’s Ministry of Environment and Green Development(MEGD);supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31930013,32361133559);the Third Xinjiang Scientifc Expedition Program(grant no.2022xjkk0801);the CASTWAS President’s Fellowship Programme(BB).
As an apex predator in arid steppe,saker falcon plays a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem balance.Understanding their movement patterns concerning conspecific competition and prey availability is important for the...
Distance traveled and home range size describe how animals move in space.The seasonal variations of these parameters are important to comprehensively understand animal ecology and its connection with reproductive beha...
supported by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 to C.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31672303 to C.Y.,31772453 and 31970427 to W.L.)。
Selection due to cuckoo parasitism is responsible for the evolution of anti-parasitism defenses in hosts.Different host species breeding sympatrically with a single parasitic cuckoo may evolve different strategies to ...
J.P.S.,N.C.,and M.E.L.V.received funding grants from the Brazilian Science Ministry(Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientı´fico e Tecnolo´gico,CNPq);MCTI/CNPq/Universal 14/2014,Processo 458736/2014,PQ 311790/2017-8.L.V.receives a funding grant from FYSSEN foundation;This research was supported by CAPES(Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Psicologia Experimental[PROEX]2016/1964).
Ants show collective and individual behavioral flexibility in their response to immediate context,choosing for example between different foraging strategies.In Pachycondyla striata,workers can forage solitarily or rec...
Animals living around people may modify their antipredator behavior as a function of proximity to humans,and this response has profound implications for whether or not a population can coexist with humans.We asked whe...
We are grateful to all the members of the Animal Physiological Ecology Group for helpful discussions.We also thank Mr Bin Wu,Plant Protection Station of Taipusiqi,for help with the field work.We are grateful to Dr Michael Cant for his help revising the manuscript.This study was financially support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31372211)for W.L.and from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KSCX2-EW-N-005)for D-H.W.
Kin selection theory predicts that individuals should generally behave less aggressively or more amicably towards relatives than nonkin.However,how individuals treat conspecifics depends on genetic relatedness but als...
Urbanization of species is an ongoing process where successful urban colonizers usually obtain large fitness benefits. Mechanisms proposed to explain associations between urbanization and lifehistory traits are based ...
The causes of population differentiation can provide insight into the origins of early barriers to gene flow. Two key drivers of population differentiation are geographic distance and local adaptation to divergent sel...
When an immobile prey has detected an immobile predator nearby, predation risk is greater when the predator is closer. Consequently, prey flee with shorter latency as standing distance (predator-prey distance when bo...
Human activity has been shown to influence how animals assess the risk of predation, but we know little about the spatial scale of such impacts. We quantified how vigilance and flight behavior in mule deer Odocoileus ...