For the denizens of a tropical cloud forest, the perils of life soon become apparent high up on the escarpment of Mount Lewis, an ancient granite massif that soars 4,000 feet above mangrove swamps and the Coral Sea. Near ...
Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney; Hrabar, Michael; Delgado, Juan A.; Collantes, Francisco; Dotterl, Stefan; Windsor, Donald M.; Gries, Gerhard; Hendy, Austin J. W.; Jones, Douglas S.; Moreno, Federico; Zapata, Vladimir; Jaramillo, Carlos A.(2015)
Paine, C. E. Timothy; Harms, Kyle Edward; Schnitzer, Stefan A.; Carson, Walter P.(2008)
ABSTRACT The intensity of competition among forest tree seedlings is poorly understood, but has important ramifications for their recruitment and for the maintenance of species diversity. Intense competition among seedlings ...
Rendall, Drew; Owren, Michael J.; Ryan, Michael J.(2009)
Animal communication studies often use analogies to human language and related constructs such as information encoding and transfer. This commonality is evident even when research goals are very different, for example when ...
Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr.; Vermeij, Geerat Jacobus; Wikelski, Martin C.(2009)
What factors limit ecosystem evolution? Like human economies, ecosystems are arenas where agents compete for locally limiting resources. Like economies, but unlike genes, ecosystems are not units of selection. In both ...
Vanderelst, Dieter; De Mey, Fons; Peremans, Herbert; Geipel, Inga; Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria; Firzlaff, Uwe(2010)
Background: Many bats vocalizing through their nose carry a prominent noseleaf that is involved in shaping the emission beam of these animals. To our knowledge, the exact role of these appendages has not been thoroughly ...