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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
Now showing items 801-820 of 1921
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Genetic consequences of cladogenetic vs. anagenetic speciation in endemic plants of oceanic islands
(Oxford University Press, 2015-08-26)Adaptive radiation is a common mode of speciation among plants endemic to oceanic islands. This pattern is one of cladogenesis, or splitting of the founder population, into diverse lineages in divergent habitats. In contrast, ... -
Climatic niche and flowering and fruiting phenology of an epiphytic plant
(Oxford University Press, 2015-09-10)Species have geographic distributions constrained by combinations of abiotic factors, biotic factors and dispersal-related factors. Abiotic requirements vary across the life stages for a species; for plant species, a ... -
Habitat use by colonies of Philoponella republicana (Araneae: Uloboridae).
(American Arachnological Society, 1985)Philoponella republicana (Araneae, Uloboridae) is a communal orb-weaving spider. Colonies of this spider were found more frequently in interface forest than in high forest or mountain savannah forest. This does not appear ... -
Population genetics of Anelosimus eximius (Araneae: Theridiidae)
(American Arachnological Society, 1986)Anelosimus eximius is a cooperative, group-living neotropical spider. Colonies consist of up to several thousand individuals, and colonies may be aggregated into local colony clusters. The colony clusters are patchily ... -
A mitochondrial DNA restriction enzyme cleavage map for the scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis (Iuridae).
(American Arachnological Society, 1991)Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was prepared from a single individual of the scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis Ewing. The total size of the mitochondrial genome was estimated to be 13 850 to 14 000 base pairs. The mtDNA was surveyed ... -
Notes on the reproductive biology and social behavior of two sympatric species of Philoponella, Mello-Leitao (Araneae: Uloboridae)
(American Arachnological Society, 1997)Populations of the facultatively communal species Philoponella oweni (Chamberlin 1924) and Philoponella arizonica (Gertsch 1936) (Uloboridae) occur sympatrically in the Chiricahua mountains of southeastern Arizona. This ... -
Argyrodes: Phylogeny, sociality and interspecific interactions: A report on the Argyrodes Symposium, Badplaas 2001
(American Arachnological Society, 2002)Argyrodes Simon 1864 is a large, cosmopolitan theridiid genus whose members exhibit a wide range of foraging techniques which usually involve exploiting other spiders, either by using their webs, stealing their food, or ... -
Genetic Differentiation in Insular Lowland Rainforests: Insights from Historical Demographic Patterns in Philippine Birds
(Public Library of Science, 2015-08-27)Phylogeographic studies of Philippine birds support that deep genetic structure occurs across continuous lowland forests within islands, despite the lack of obvious contemporary isolation mechanisms. To examine the pattern ... -
Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria
(Public Library of Science, 2015-10-14)Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved is not well understood because phylogenetic ... -
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-03-20)We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest’s edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation. A synthesis of fragmentation experiments spanning ... -
Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription
(PeerJ, 2015-11-19)Hydrozoans display the most morphological diversity within the phylum Cnidaria. While recent molecular studies have provided some insights into their evolutionary history, sister group relationships remain mostly unresolved, ... -
The Carboniferous fishes of Kansas
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The effect of the extirpation of the thyroid upon the thymus and the pituitary glands of Rana pipiens
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A floristic study of Republic County, Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1962)The purposes of this study were to obtain a list of the plants presently growing in the county, to discover their associations, and to record seasonal aspects of various representative areas. -
Systematics and morphology of Ischyrosonychini, with an investigation of color change in the Geiger tortoise beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The New World tribe Ischyrosonychini consists of 66 described species in seven genera. Seven genera in the tribe were traditionally recognized in three distinct tribes (Asterizini, Ischyrosonychini and Physonotini). However, ... -
Three new species of the bee genus Caenaugochlora from Central America and Colombia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2014)Three distinctive new species of the augochlorine bee genus Caenaugochlora Michener (Halictinae: Augochlorini) are described and figured as Caenaugochlora (Caenaugochlora) leoi Engel, new species, from Costa Rica, C. (C.) ... -
A new species of Thyreus from northern Cameroon (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2014)A new species of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Thyreus Panzer (Apinae: Melectini) is described and figured from two females captured near Garoua in northern Cameroon. Thyreus garouensis Engel, new species, is distinguished ... -
A new paracolletine bee from Colombia (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), with an updated checklist of the tropical Andean bee fauna
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2014)A new species of the paracolletine genus Lonchopria Vachal, Lonchopria (Biglossa) comforti Gonzalez & Engel, new species, from high elevations in the Central Andes of Colombia is described and figured. A preliminary key ... -
Comment: Cultural eutrophication of natural lakes in the United States is real and widespread
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A test of niche centrality as a determinant of population trends and conservation status in threatened and endangered North American birds
(Inter Research, 2015)Abundance and other aspects of population ecology have long been known to contribute to shaping the geography of species’ distributions. In particular, abundance patterns have recently been shown to negatively correlate ...