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Modelling succession to include a herbivore effect

2001

Long-term data collected from an old-field community suggest that physical and environmental patterns alone may be insufficient to account for different patterns of succession. Using a simple Lotka–Volterra model to represent competition between early and late succession guilds, we add...

Nutritional stress and behavioural immunity of damselflies

2001

Increased mortality in the presence of stress may result from stress-reduced availability of energy for immune function, coupled with the presence of pathogens or parasites. We tested the hypothesis that stress reduces antiparasite responses of damselflies Ischnuraverticalis (Hagen) to...

Tactic-specific success in sperm competition

2001

Sperm competition is a major force in sexual selection, but its implications for mating–system and life–history evolution are only beginning to be understood. The well–known sneak–guard model predicts that sneaks will win in sperm competition. We now provide empirical confirmation...

Food stress, nesting growth, and fluctuating asymmetry

2000

It has been suggested that fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is an indicator of perturbed development. Our study tests the validity of a fundamental assumption of asymmetry theory: that environmental stress imposed during development increases FA. We deprived tree swallow (Tachycineta...

Genetics of Avian Mating Systems

2000

Traditional population genetics theory assumed that at some level in the hierarchy of genetic diversity there existed 'demes' in which males and females mate at random. Polygynous mating systems or individual variance in reproductive success were considered complications which altered...