How does early‐life adversity shape telomere dynamics during adulthood? Problems and paradigms

V Marasco, S Smith, F Angelier - BioEssays, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although early‐life adversity has been associated with negative consequences during
adulthood, growing evidence shows that such adversity can also lead to subsequent stress …

Prenatal and early postnatal behavioural programming in laying hens, with possible implications for the development of injurious pecking

EN De Haas, RC Newberry, J Edgar… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects

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 …

Environment and physiology shape Arctic ungulate population dynamics

JP Desforges, GM Marques, LT Beumer… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species conservation in a rapidly changing world requires an improved understanding of
how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment across temporal …

Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long‐lived raptor species

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 …

Effects of rainfall, forage biomass, and population density, on survival and growth of juvenile kangaroos

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 …

An invasive prey provides long-lasting silver spoon effects for an endangered predator

C Poli, EP Robertson, J Martin… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Effects of developmental and adult environments on ageing

K Sanghvi, M Iglesias-Carrasco, F Zajitschek… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 life nutrition and the programming of the phenotype

KL Buchanan, A Meillère, TS Jessop - Development strategies and …, 2022 - Springer
Early developmental nutrition profoundly influences phenotypic trajectories and affects adult
morphology, physiology, behaviour, longevity and fitness across taxa. During early life, the …

Integrating advances in population and evolutionary ecology with conservation strategy through long‐term studies of red‐billed choughs

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 …