Browsing by Subject "Invertebrates"
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Biological and Physical Factors Affecting the Natural History and Evolution of Encapsulated Development
(2016)The evolution of reproductive strategies involves a complex calculus of costs and benefits to both parents and offspring. Many marine animals produce embryos packaged in tough egg capsules or gelatinous egg masses attached ... -
Defaunation of large mammals alters understory vegetation and functional importance of invertebrates in an Afrotropical forest
(Biological Conservation, 2020-01-01)Hunting has reduced or eliminated large-bodied vertebrates in many areas across the tropics, contributing to the global process of defaunation. Elucidating the ecological consequences of hunting has important implications ... -
Environmental fate and effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) proteins from transgenic crops: a review.
(Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2005-06)This paper reviews the scientific literature addressing the environmental fate and nontarget effects of the Cry protein toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), specifically resulting from their expression in transgenic ... -
Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2015-04)A key measure of humanity's global impact is by how much it has increased species extinction rates. Familiar statements are that these are 100-1000 times pre-human or background extinction levels. Estimating recent rates ... -
Experimental evaluation of evolution and coevolution as agents of ecosystem change in Trinidadian streams.
(Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2009-06-12)Evolution has been shown to be a critical determinant of ecological processes in some systems, but its importance relative to traditional ecological effects is not well known. In addition, almost nothing is known about the ...
