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A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 17. doi: 10.1111/brv.13082. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMigrating animals perform astonishing seasonal movements by orienting and navigating over thousands of kilometres with great precision. Many migratory species use cues from the sun, stars, landmarks, olfaction and the Earth's magnetic field for this task. Among vertebrates, songbirds are the most studied taxon in magnetic-cue-related research. Despite multiple studies, we still lack a clear understanding of when, where and how magnetic cues affect the decision-making process of birds and hence, their realised migratory behaviour in...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 17, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Thiemo Karwinkel Annika Peter Richard A Holland Kasper Thorup Franz Bairlein Heiko Schmaljohann Source Type: research

Fungal endophytes can modulate plant invasion
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 17. doi: 10.1111/brv.13085. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSymbiotic organisms may contribute to a host plant's success or failure to grow, its ability to maintain viable populations, and potentially, its probability of establishment and spread outside its native range. Intercellular and intracellular microbial symbionts that are asymptomatic in their plant host during some or all of their life cycle - endophytes - can form mutualistic, commensal, or pathogenic relationships, and sometimes novel associations with alien plants. Fungal endophytes are likely the most common endosymbiont infec...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 17, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Nicholas W Bard Quentin C B Cronk T Jonathan Davies Source Type: research

Diet effects on ectotherm thermal performance
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 14. doi: 10.1111/brv.13081. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe environment is changing rapidly, and considerable research is aimed at understanding the capacity of organisms to respond. Changes in environmental temperature are particularly concerning as most animals are ectothermic, with temperature considered a key factor governing their ecology, biogeography, behaviour and physiology. The ability of ectotherms to persist in an increasingly warm, variable, and unpredictable future will depend on their nutritional status. Nutritional resources (e.g. food availability, quality, options) var...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 15, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Emily A Hardison Erika J Eliason Source Type: research

The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13080. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmpathy is a complex, multi-dimensional capacity that facilitates the sharing and understanding of others' emotions. As our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) provide an opportunity to explore the origins of hominin social cognition, including empathy. Despite certain assumptions that bonobos and chimpanzees may differ empathically, these species appear to overlap considerably in certain socio-emotional responses related to empathy. However, few studies have systematically tested for s...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Jake S Brooker Christine E Webb Frans B M de Waal Zanna Clay Source Type: research

Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13077. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpecies are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic conditions (A), and dispersal ability or mobility (M). A species is expected to be present in areas that are accessible to it and that contain suitable sets of abiotic and biotic conditions for it to persist. A species' probability of presence can be quantified as a combination of responses to B, A, and M via ecological niche modeling (ENM; also frequen...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Xiao Feng A Townsend Peterson Luis Jos é Aguirre-López Joseph R Burger Xin Chen Monica Pape ş Source Type: research

Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta-analysis
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13078. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Darwin-Bateman paradigm predicts that females enhance their fitness by being choosy and mating with high-quality males, while males should compete to mate with as many females as possible. In many species, males enhance their fitness by defending females and/or resources used by females. That is, males directly defend access to mating opportunities. However, paternity analyses have repeatedly shown that females in most species mate polyandrously, which contradicts traditional expectations that male defensive behaviours lead to ...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Renato C Macedo-Rego Michael D Jennions Eduardo S A Santos Source Type: research

The evolution of larvae in temnospondyls and the stepwise origin of amphibian metamorphosis
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13084. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe question of what the ancient life cycle of tetrapods was like forms a key component in understanding the origin of land vertebrates. The existence of distinct larval forms, as exemplified by many lissamphibians, and their transformation into adults is an important aspect in this field. The temnospondyls, the largest clade of Palaeozoic-Mesozoic non-amniote tetrapods, covered a wide ecomorphological range from fully aquatic to terrestrial taxa. In various species, rich ontogenetic data have accumulated over the past 130 years, p...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Rainer R Schoch Florian Witzmann Source Type: research