Bonny Koane

TL;DR: Across an 11,660-kilometer latitudinal gradient spanning six continents, increasing predation toward the equator is found, with a parallel pattern of increasingpredation toward lower elevations, suggesting consistent drivers of biotic interaction strength.

TL;DR: Results suggest that relative importance of predators varies along elevational gradient, and that observed predation rates correspond with abundances of predators, and show that herbivorous damage attracts both ants and birds, but its appeal is stronger for ants.

TL;DR: Researchers studied regional variation in the phylogenetic compositions of bird species and their blood parasites to identify barriers that shape parasite community assembly and parasite invasion risk.

TL;DR: The results thus challenge the generally expected high importance of temperature as a regulator of water availability, production, and biochemical process that influence species richness, and underscore the importance of vegetation structure and the food resources as the driver of observed species richness.

TL;DR: Body size of insectivorous birds was significantly positively correlated with the body size of arthropods they ate, and Selectivity indexes showed that most of the arthropod taxa were taken opportunistically, reflecting the spatial patterns inArthropod abundances to which the birds were exposed.