Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 713-722 (10 pages) Sex and dormancy are intertwined in organisms that engage in asexual and sexual reproduction. The transition ...

Mutualistic symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and facilitate high biodiversity and productivity of ecosystems by enhancing the efficiency of energy and nutrient use within ecological communities. For ...

The impact of ocean acidification on species in different parts of the world has been miscalculated, so far, and its impact in some cases over- and in other cases underestimated, an analysis of 86 ...

The speed of environmental change is very challenging for wild organisms. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust their biology to better cope with new ...

A new analysis looks at how rates of reproduction and survival of 26 shrub species with fire-dependent life cycles in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa respond to environmental variation. The ...

Scientists have investigated the influence of environmental variability on the behavioral repertoires of 144 social groups. The scientists found that chimpanzees living further away from historical ...

In the course of the so-called reproducibility crisis, various sources of poor reproducibility of animal research have been identified, including a lack of scientific rigor, low statistical power, ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki, the University of Zurich and the University of Exeter have carried out modeling on how environmental factors affect the occurrence of human-pathogenic ...

Collin, Rachel and Ochoa, Isis. 2016. "Influence of seasonal environmental variation on the reproduction of four tropical marine gastropods." Marine Ecology Progress ...

Chipmakers are pushing into sub-threshold operation in an effort to prolong battery life and reduce energy costs, adding a whole new set of challenges for design teams. While process and environmental ...