This study was supported by the National Muscum of Nature and Scicnee,Tokyo(Nos 20183001 and 20193001 to S.H.).
Individuals which have invaded urbanized environments are reported to engage in riskier behav-iors,possibly influenced by the scarcity of predators in urbanized areas.Here,we studied the risk-taking behavior of birds ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31301870 and 31872212);Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology,Guangxi Normal University(19-A-01-06);Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection(Guangxi Normal University),Ministry of Eduction,China(ERESEP2020Z22);Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province(2015FB176).
The origin and colonization history of Kurixalus,a genus of small arboreal tree frogs breeding exclusively in shallow swamps,is under disputed.On the basis of comprehensive sampling program,the evolutionary history of...
the Consell Insular d'Eivissa,Govern de les Illes Balears[grant numbers 54/2013 and 21/2015—AGRICULTURA].
Knowing the causes of biological invasion success can be relevant to combat future invasive processes.The recent invasion of the horseshoe whip snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis on the island of Ibiza provides the opportun...
The specific spatial distribution and habitat association--strongly influenced by environmental fac- tors or competitive interactions--are major issues in ecology and conservation. We located and georeferenced nesting...
We thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier version of the manuscript. We are grateful to Chunan Forestry Bureau and the Thousand Island Lake National Forest Park for permits necessary to conduct the research. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31100394, 31170397), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20070411192), Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
Abstract Nestedness is a pattern frequently reported for faunal assemblages in fragmented systems. Although nestedness has been documented for a wide range of taxa, it is rarely tested in snake assemblages. To arrive ...