Simple Summary Anthropogenic climate change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity.
Extreme temperature events associated with longer-term climate change are increasing in …

Spiders represent a diverse, widespread and abundant group of carnivores. Studying the
nutritional ecology of spiders is critical because it can aid in understanding the evolution of …

Genetic engineering (GE) can be used to improve forest plantation productivity and
tolerance of biotic and abiotic stresses. However, gene flow from GE forest plantations is a …

In describing the behavior and ecology of animals, the term “mating system” broadly
describes the population-or species-specific pattern of mating between individuals. While …

Sexual dimorphism describes substantial differences between male and female phenotypes.
In spiders, sexual dimorphism research almost exclusively focuses on size, and recent …

Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the evolution of extreme sexual size
dimorphism (SSD). Among them, the gravity hypothesis (GH) explains that extreme SSD has …

Background Explanations for the evolution of female-biased, extreme Sexual Size
Dimorphism (SSD), which has puzzled researchers since Darwin, are still controversial …

Spiders are the most sexually size dimorphic terrestrial animals and the evolution of this
dimorphism is controversial. Patterns of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in spiders have been …

In some animal groups males may be several times smaller than females. One of the
hypotheses proposed to explain the evolution of this extreme sexual size dimorphism (SSD) …

Leg autotomy can be a very effective strategy for escaping a predation attempt in many
animals. In spiders, autotomy can be very common (5–40% of individuals can be missing …