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Densities, Sex Ratios, and Population Structure in Four Species of Bahamian Anolis Lizards
Thomas W. Schoener,Amy Schoener +1 more
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This article is published in Journal of Animal Ecology.The article was published on 1980-02-01. It has received 199 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anolis.read more
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Interspecific allometry of population density in mammals and other animals: the independence of body mass and population energy‐use
TL;DR: It is suggested that rough independence of body mass and the energy-use of local populations is a widespread rule of animal ecology and community structure.
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The roles of island area per se and habitat diversity in the species-area relationships of four Lesser Antillean faunal groups
TL;DR: The results suggest that the four Lesser Antillean taxonomic groups diAer in their responses to area and habitat diversity are related to diAerences in several biological traits of the diAerent faunal groups.
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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Costa Rican Fruit and Fruit‐Eating Bird Abundance
TL;DR: It is suggested that insect abundance may be more important than fruit abundance in determining breeding cycles of these birds, and large areas of diverse habitats are probably necessary for the long-term maintenance of frugivore populations.
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An empirically based estimate of home range
TL;DR: In this article, a regression method is introduced that uses data from well-sampled individuals whose true home ranges are assumed approximately known to predict home-range areas for less well sampled individuals, and the sizes of home ranges estimated by the regression method are half or less than sizes estimated by previous methods in which utilization distributions are assumed to be all of a particular statistical type.
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Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community
Jonathan B. Losos,Manuel Leal,Manuel Leal,Richard E. Glor,Kevin de Queiroz,Paul E. Hertz,Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino,Ada Chamizo Lara,Todd R. Jackman,Allan Larson +9 more
TL;DR: It is found that evolutionary divergence overcomes niche conservatism: closely relatedspecies are no more ecologically similar than expected by random divergence and some distantly related species are Ecologically similar, leading to a community in which the relationship between ecological similarity and phylogenetic relatedness is very weak.
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
TL;DR: In this paper, secondary sexual characters of fishes, amphibians and reptiles are presented. But the authors focus on the secondary sexual characteristics of fishes and amphibians rather than the primary sexual characters.
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On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds
TL;DR: In this article, the Dickcissel sex ratio is employed as an indirect index of suitability and a sex ratio index was found to be correlated positively with density, consistent with the hypothesis that territorial behavior in males of this species limits their density.
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Theory of Feeding Strategies
TL;DR: Throughout, emphasis will be placed on strategic aspects of feeding rather than on what Holling (75) has called "tactics," and possible answers to the first problem may be given to the second problem.
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The Anolis Lizards of Bimini: Resource Partitioning in a Complex Fauna
TL;DR: It is suggested that such small, non-dimorphic species are best suited for insinuation into complex faunas, whereas larger, dimorphic forms are best for the colonization of empty areas.