As biodiversity decreases worldwide, the development of effective techniques to track
changes in ecological communities becomes an urgent challenge. Together with other …

Darwin's theory of sexual selection fundamentally changed how we think about sex and
evolution. The struggle over mating and fertilization is a powerful driver of diversification …

Sexual selection plays several intricate and complex roles in the related processes of local
adaptation and speciation. In some cases sexual selection can promote these processes …

Courtship displays are behaviours aimed to facilitate attraction and mating with the opposite
sex and are very common across the animal kingdom. Most courtship displays are …

The recognition that animals sense the world in a different way than we do has unlocked
important lines of research in ecology and evolutionary biology. In practice, the subjective …

Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in
stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and …

Animal colour patterns are a model system for understanding evolution because they are
unusually accessible for study and experimental manipulation. This is possible because …

Eavesdropping predators, parasites and parasitoids exploit signals emitted by their prey and
hosts for detection, assessment, localization and attack, and in the process impose strong …

Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter‐and intra‐sexual
selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an …

It has been 25 years since the formalization of the Sensory Drive hypothesis was published
in the American Naturalist (1992). Since then, there has been an explosion of research …