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23 September 2014
There is concern that climate change will disrupt the temporal schedules of interactions between plants and their pollinators or seed dispersers. This can make communities vulnerable to other ecological threats, for example habitat destruction. In our paper “Robustness...
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19 September 2014
Many animals locate resources and orient in rather complex environments like vegetation, coral reefs or leaf litter. How does the presence of a stimulus affect animal movement in such complex environments? And what is the relative contribution of a stimulus vs. the...
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12 September 2014
Understanding lifetime tracks and fitness of long distance avian migrants. This is the title of our DFG-funded German-Israeli Project Cooperation and it is also our quest for several years. Within this project, we aim to explore how movement, survival and reproduction...
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5 September 2014
How pollinator decline affect plant-plant interactions for pollinator is studied in the Early View article ‘ Experimental reduction of pollinator visitation modifies plant-plant interactions for pollination’ by Amparo Lázaro and co-workers. Several studies have...
What happens with plants, microbes and animals during soli transition from mull to mor? Find out in the Early View paper "Coordination of aboveground and belowground responses to local-scale soil fertility differences between two contrasting Jamaican rain forest types...
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22 August 2014
What is it that determines if a bird should deposit a seed from a fruit in a specific place or not? I the Early View paper "Seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes: linking field observations with spatially explicit models" , Jessica E Lavabre ad colleagues combines...
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19 August 2014
A sexual reproduction system should confer higher mutation rates and hence evolutionary rate than asexual ones. Is it really so? Find out in the Early View paper “Asexual plants change just as often and just as fast as do sexual plants when introduced to a new range”...
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11 August 2014
Can invasive species actually alter their environment so that more nutrients are available for them? Find out in the Early View paper "Non-additive effects of invasive tree litter shift seasonal N release: a potential invasion feedback" by Michael J. Schuster and...
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27 June 2014
How do seabirds cooperate with tunas to find more fish? Find out in the Early View paper " Facilitative interactions among the pelagic community of temperate migratory terns, tunas and dolphins" by Holly F Goyert and co-workers. Below is their short summary of the...
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24 June 2014
That predators affect prey populations and vice versa is well known. But how does the prey's behavioral responses to predators affect populations of the prey's prey? This was studied by Bradley Carlson and Tracy Langkilde in the Early View paper "Predation risk in...
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