Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reproductivesuccess, aggregated by home.social.
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Temporal niches drive divergent reproductive responses of #FloweringGroups under warming and cooling
#ReciprocalTransplantExperiment | #FloweringFunctionalGroups | #ReproductivePhenology | #ReproductiveEffort | #ReproductiveSuccess
In long-lived southern ground-hornbills, hot-dry conditions reduce reproductive success, but helpers offer no buffering effects. Middleton et al. highlight the role of life-history in shaping cooperative strategies.
Available now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739305
Scientists find out why chimpanzees kill their neighbors | Features
Alex Kraft By Stephen Beech Chimps in the wild engage in deadly battles with rival troops to increase…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #aggression #Animals #behaviouralsciences #biologicalconcepts #biologicalevolution #biology #CA #Canada #Chimpanzee #ethology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Primate #reproductivesuccess #stephenbeech #Violence #Zoology
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/292131/
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Flower surface is warmer in center than at edges in alpine plants: evidence from #Qinghai-TibetanPlateau
#FlowerShape | #FlowerTraits | #ReproductiveSuccess | #ThermalPattern
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The conspicuously large #Bracts influence #ReproductiveSuccess in #ThuniaAlba (Orchidaceae)
New research casts doubt on a popular theory in evolutionary psychology https://www.psypost.org/new-research-casts-doubt-on-a-popular-theory-in-evolutionary-psychology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #evolutionarypsychology #research #fertility #psychology #reproductivesuccess
Now available ahead of print! "Age-Specific Phenology and Reproductive Success Senescence Vary with Environmental Age in a Wild Bird" by Bonamour et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733182
We tend to keep away from midges and – even when in swarms – they tend to keep away from each other
#Insects #Animals #Swarm #Midges #Swarming #Wildlife #NatureBehavior #ReproductiveSuccess #SummerSwarms #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #SurvivalStrategies
https://the-14.com/we-tend-to-keep-away-from-midges-and-even-when-in-swarms-they-tend-to-keep-away-from-each-other/
Is it possible that when food was abundant, laying extra eggs was adaptive because it would be a way to store "fresh food" for periods of high food demands?
Barón et al. discovered that hoopoes use extra eggs as packed food to feed older siblings. Read now ahead of print!