Injurious pecking (IP) represents a serious concern for the welfare of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus). The risk of IP among hens with intact beaks in cage-free housing …
W Xue, L Huang, FH Yu, TM Bezemer - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental conditions experienced by parent plants can influence offspring performance through parental effects induced by DNA methylation. The offspring can also be influenced …
Species conservation in a rapidly changing world requires an improved understanding of how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment across temporal …
P Scherler, S Witczak, A Aebischer… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Attributes of natal habitat often affect early stages of natal dispersal. Thus, environmental gradients at mountain slopes are expected to result in gradients of dispersal behavior and to …
CA Plaisir, WJ King, DM Forsyth… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A central goal of ecology is to understand how environmental variation affects populations. Long-term studies of marked individuals can quantify the effects of environmental variation …
The natal environment can have long-term fitness consequences for individuals, particularly via 'silver spoon'or 'environmental matching'effects. Invasive species could alter natal effects …
Developmental and adult environments can interact in complex ways to influence the fitness of individuals. Most studies investigating effects of the environment on fitness focus on …
Early developmental nutrition profoundly influences phenotypic trajectories and affects adult morphology, physiology, behaviour, longevity and fitness across taxa. During early life, the …
JM Reid, E Bignal, S Bignal… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conceptual and methodological advances in population and evolutionary ecology are often pursued with the ambition that they will help identify demographic, ecological and genetic …