Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders

E Lunghi, R Manenti, M Mulargia, M Veith, C Corti… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Species can show strong variation of local abundance across their ranges. Recent analyses
suggested that variation in abundance can be related to environmental suitability, as the …

Compensatory breeding in years following drought in a desert-dwelling cooperative breeder

AR Bourne, SJ Cunningham… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Variation in weather patterns can influence reproductive effort and success not only within
but also between breeding seasons. Where environmental conditions can be highly variable …

Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster

ER Churchill, C Dytham, MDF Thom - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Successful reproduction requires the completion of many, often condition-dependent,
stages, from mate searching and courtship through to sperm transfer, fertilisation and …

Tolerance to environmental pollution in the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus: A role for the microbiome

T Horváthová, E Lafuente, JA Bartels… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater habitats are frequently contaminated by diverse chemicals of anthropogenic
origin, collectively referred to as micropollutants, that can have detrimental effects on aquatic …

Seychelles warblers with silver spoons: Juvenile body mass is a lifelong predictor of annual survival, but not annual reproduction or senescence

TJ Brown, HL Dugdale, M Hammers… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The environment experienced during development, and its impact on intrinsic condition, can
have lasting outcomes for individual phenotypes and could contribute to variation in adult …

Distributions of LRS in varying environments

S Tuljapurkar, W Zuo, T Coulson, C Horvitz… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The lifetime reproductive success (LRS) of individuals is affected by random events such as
death, realized growth or realized reproduction, and the outcomes of these events can differ …

Effects of rearing conditions on natal dispersal processes in a long‐lived predator bird

M Azpillaga, J Real… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natal or prebreeding dispersal is a key driver of the functioning, dynamics, and evolution of
populations. Conditions experienced by individuals during development, that is, rearing …

Body mass is not a useful measure of adaptation to captivity in the Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster

D Stojanovic, CM Young, CJ Hogg… - Emu-Austral …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In captivity, novel selective pressures can lead to divergence from the wild source
population, which can be a liability for animals released into the wild. Easily measured …

Do egg hormones have fitness consequences in wild birds? A systematic review and meta-analysis

L Mentesana, M Hau, PB D'Amelio, NM Adreani… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Egg-laying species are key models for understanding the adaptive significance of maternal
effects, with egg hormones being identified as an important underlying mechanism …

[PDF][PDF] Tolerance to environmental pollution in the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus: A role for the microbiome

J Wallisch, C Vorburger - 2024 - dora.lib4ri.ch
Freshwater habitats are frequently contaminated by diverse chemicals of anthropogenic
origin, collectively referred to as micropollutants, that can have detrimental effects on aquatic …