Wolf U. Blanckenhorn

TL;DR: The impact of steep elevational gradients and geography on a community of closely related, often sympatric species is illustrated, and potential mechanisms of niche partitioning via temporal succession, thermal adaptation and differential resource use are discussed.

TL;DR: This study confronted pairs of adult females approaching hibernation with a choice between two foraging patches with differing prey delivery rates, and hypothesized that the behaviourally dominant individual would consistently occupy and defend the richer patch, resulting in greater foraging success, and consequently greater body mass gain, higher overwinter survivorship and greater initial fecundity the following spring.

TL;DR: It is concluded that discriminating sexual selection models by sole means of quantitative genetics is difficult, if not impossible, to account for the evolution of sexually selected traits.

TL;DR: The results illustrate that temperature stress, even when moderate and temporary, during early development can have profound lethal and non-lethal fitness-consequences later in life.

TL;DR: The robustness of the method and the repeatability of its findings were assessed concurrently in 4 countries (Canada, France, Switzerland, and The Netherlands) in climatically diverse ecoregions and support the method's formal adoption by the European Union to assess the effects of veterinary medical product residues on the composition and diversity of insects in dung of treated livestock.