Islands have played a key role in understanding species formation ever since Darwin s work on the Galapagos and Wallace s work in the Malay Archipelago. Like oceanic islands, habitat islands , such as mountaintops and ...

Many marine mammals exhibit diel trends in vocal production, which can provide information on habitat use and behavioral activity. In Belize, Antillean manatees ( Trichechus manatus manatus ) commonly inhabit small depressions ...

Cobweb spiders (Theridiidae) are highly diverse from the perspective of species richness, morphological diversity, variety of web architecture, and behavioral repertoires. The family includes over 50% of social spiders, a ...

Mating with multiple partners is common across species, and understanding how individual males secure fertilization in the face of competition remains a fundamental goal of evolutionary biology. Game theory stipulates that ...