The landscape of fear (LOF) concept posits that prey navigate spatial heterogeneity in
perceived predation risk, balancing risk mitigation against other activities necessary for …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Evolution has produced an astonishing array of organisms, but does it have limits and, if so,
how are these overcome and how have they changed over the course of time? Here, I …

The escalation hypothesis posits that predation by increasingly powerful and metabolically
active carnivores has been a major driver of metazoan evolution. We test a key tenet of this …

Abstract Ruchin AB, Egorov LV, Semishin GB. 2018. Fauna of click beetles (Coleoptera:
Elateridae) in the interfluve of Rivers Moksha and Sura, Republic of Mordovia, Russia …

Predation is a primary agency of natural selection affecting the evolution of skeletal form in
gastropods. The nature of antipredatory defence depends on how predators attack their prey …

Borings in fossil turtle shells collected from the lowermost beds of the early Eocene
Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation in the northwestern part of the Green …

Shell formation is the main defensive strategy against predation for the majority of snails.
Therefore, various predators have had to develop a variety of techniques how to overcome …

The first comprehensive survey of the Cameroonian Drilini fauna is presented. High diversity
was identified in the zone of tropical rain forest and five genera are proposed …

The click-beetle tribe Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) contains species with soft-
bodied, fully winged males and larviform apterous females. Currently, three genera …