| Titre : | Journal of Animal Ecology 83(3) - MAY 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Auteur ;
Dany Garant, Auteur ;
Patrick Bergeron, Auteur ;
Gabrielle Dubuc Messier, Auteur ;
Denis Reale, Auteur
Understanding the causes of animal personality (i.e. consistent behavioural differences) is a major aim of evolutionary studies. Recent theoretical work suggests that major personality traits may contribute to evolutionary trade-offs. However, s[...]
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Mathieu Denoel, Auteur ;
Gentile F. Ficetola, Auteur
Heterochrony, the change in the rate or timing of development between ancestors and their descendants, plays a major role in evolution. When heterochrony produces polymorphisms, it offers the possibility to test hypotheses that could explain its[...]
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Olivier Roux, Auteur ;
Abdoulaye Diabate, Auteur ;
Frederic Simard, Auteur
Predation is a major evolutionary force driving speciation. The threat-sensitive response hypothesis predicts that prey adjust and balance the time spent on a costly antipredator response with other activities that enhance their fitness. Thus, p[...]
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Michael Eckhardt, Auteur ;
Mare Haider, Auteur ;
Silvia Dorn, Auteur ;
Andreas Mueller, Auteur
Generalist herbivorous insects, which feed on plant tissue that is nutritionally heterogeneous or varies in its content of secondary metabolites, often benefit from dietary mixing through more balanced nutrient intake or reduced exposure to harm[...]
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Matthew D. Venesky, Auteur ;
Xuan Liu, Auteur ;
Erin L. Sauer, Auteur ;
Jason R. Rohr, Auteur
The dilution effect, the hypothesis that biodiversity reduces disease risk, has received support in many systems. However, few dilution effect studies have linked mechanistic experiments to field patterns to establish both causality and ecologic[...]
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Xinwei Wu, Auteur ;
John N. Griffin, Auteur ;
Shucun Sun, Auteur
Studies of grazing food webs show that species traits can interact with environmental factors to determine the strength of trophic cascades, but analogous context dependencies in detrital food webs remain poorly understood. In predator-detritivo[...]
