Braschler, B.Mahood, K.Karenyi, N.Gaston, K.J.Chown, S.L.(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010)
Biodiversity-rich, resource-poor countries need to allocate scarce resources to the competing goals of identifying and monitoring their biodiversity and educating
their populace about it. Often only relatively wealthy ...
Despite the apparent risks of the introduction of non-indigenous ungulates to biodiversity, relatively little is known globally about the pathways of introduction, propagule pressure and realized impacts of ungulate ...
Spear, D.Chown, S.L.(The Zoological Society of London, 2009)
Non-indigenous ungulate species pose a problem for conservation. They can be
socially and economically valuable, but are also potentially harmful to biodiversity.
Therefore, their introduction requires an explicit assessment ...
van Kleunen, M.Burczyk, J.(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2008)
Most studies on selection in plants estimate female fitness components and neglect male mating success, although the latter might also be fundamental to understand adaptive evolution. Information from molecular genetic ...
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It has often been suggested that South Africa’s Cape fynbos shrublands, although
extremely rich in plant species, are poor in insects, thus representing a notable exception from the broad plant–insect diversity ...
The fundamental equation of the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) indicates
that most of the variation in metabolic rate are a consequence of variation in
organismal size and environmental temperature. Although evolution ...
Whether melanism plays a significant role in thermoregulation has been a persistent question in studies of thermal biology of ectotherms. This review provides a synthesis of the thermal melanism hypothesis which states ...
Due to changes in climate and continental arrangement, plant and animal assemblages faced different dispersal barriers at different moments in Earth’s history. It is generally accepted that groups which diversified during ...