Plastic is the most pervasive element of marine waste, with harmful impact on wildlife. By
using iEcology (ie, internet Ecology, use of online data sources as a new tool in ecological …

Chemical cues and signals enable animals to sense their surroundings over vast distances
and find key resources, like food and shelter. However, the use of chemosensory information …

Animals' cognitive abilities can be tested by allowing them to choose between alternatives,
with only one alternative offering the correct solution to a novel problem. Hermit crabs are …

The evolution of cooperation among non-kin poses a major theoretical puzzle: why should
natural selection favor individuals who help unrelated conspecifics at a cost to themselves …

As animals grow in size, their relationship to the physical environment necessarily changes,
but molluscs and brachiopods whose accretionary skeletons expand at one end of a hollow …

Organisms architecturally modify environments and these modifications may persist across
generations, potentially strongly shaping social behavior. However, few experiments have …

All living organisms must eventually die, though in some cases their death can bring life‐
giving opportunities. Few studies, however, have experimentally tested how animals …

Organisms can receive not only a genetic inheritance from their ancestors but also an
ecological inheritance, involving modifications their ancestors made to the environment …

Many animals can modify the environments in which they live, thereby changing the
selection pressures they experience. A common example of such niche construction is the …

Prey exposed to predators with different hunting and feeding modes are under different
selective pressures, therefore it is expected that they should exhibit plastic and adaptive …