This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The post-dispersal fate of seeds and fruit (diaspores) of three vertebrate-dispersed trees, Crataegus monogyna, Prunus mahaleb and Taxus ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 88, No. 8 (Aug., 2001), pp. 1437-1443 (7 pages) We investigated genetic and ecological factors contributing to the maintenance of females in populations of the ...

Smaller mammals, especially rodents, are rather low on the universal food chain. Due to the nature of their bite-sized physique, larger predators often take full advantage to satisfy their ...

A caterpillar experiment revealed global insect predation patterns with the help of fake caterpillars. Results of the study showed, not just the predation patterns among insects in various locations ...

Like predation and competition, recognition of mutualisms' functional responses and consumer-resource interactions provides new insights into their density-dependent population dynamics. Fluctuations ...

Humpback whales aren’t known for being the quietest animals in the ocean blue, but new research reveals that younglings certainly can be when it comes to survival. Published in the journal Functional ...

Diffuse coevolution is also known as multi-species or guild coevolution. It occurs when several species collectively influence one another. An example is pollination systems in which plants interact ...