Journal: Biology Letters
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Biol. Lett.
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Royal Society
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- Modelling plant species distribution in alpine grasslands using airborne imaging spectroscopyItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersPottier, Julien; Malenovsky, Zbynek; Psomas, Achilleas; et al. (2014) - Immune defence under extreme ambient temperatureItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersSeppälä, Otto Eerikki; Jokela, Jukka (2011) - A distinct infection cost associated with trans-generational priming of antibacterial immunity in bumble-beesItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersSadd, Ben M.; Schmid-Hempel, Paul (2009) - Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibilityItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersStephenson, Jessica F. (2019) - Moths complement bumblebee pollination of red clover: A case for day-And-night insect surveillanceItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersAlison, Jamie; Alexander, Jake; Diaz Zeugin, Nathan; et al. (2022)Recent decades have seen a surge in awareness about insect pollinator declines. Social bees receive the most attention, but most flower-visiting species are lesser known, non-bee insects. Nocturnal flower visitors, e.g. moths, are especially difficult to observe and largely ignored in pollination studies. Clearly, achieving balanced monitoring of all pollinator taxa represents a major scientific challenge. Here, we use time-lapse cameras for season-wide, day-And-night pollinator surveillance of Trifolium pratense (L.; red clover) in an alpine grassland. We reveal the first evidence to suggest that moths, mainly Noctua pronuba (L.; large yellow underwing), pollinate this important wildflower and forage crop, providing 34% of visits (bumblebees: 61%). This is a remarkable finding; moths have received no recognition throughout a century of T. pratense pollinator research. We conclude that despite a non-negligible frequency and duration of nocturnal flower visits, nocturnal pollinators of T. pratense have been systematically overlooked. We further show how the relationship between visitation and seed set may only become clear after accounting for moth visits. As such, population trends in moths, as well as bees, could profoundly affect T. pratense seed yield. Ultimately, camera surveillance gives fair representation to non-bee pollinators and lays a foundation for automated monitoring of species interactions in future. - Trans-generational immune priming in a social insectItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersSadd, Ben M.; Kleinlogel, Yvonne; Schmid-Hempel, Regula; et al. (2005) - Diversification dynamics of mammalian clades during the K–Pg mass extinctionItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersPires, Mathias M.; Rankin, Brian D.; Silvestro, Daniele; et al. (2018)The Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K–Pg) episode is an iconic mass extinction, in which the diversity of numerous clades abruptly declined. However, the responses of individual clades to mass extinctions may be more idiosyncratic than previously understood. Here, we examine the diversification dynamics of the three major mammalian clades in North America across the K–Pg. Our results show that these clades responded in dramatically contrasting ways to the K–Pg event. Metatherians underwent a sudden rise in extinction rates shortly after the K–Pg, whereas declining origination rates first halted diversification and later drove the loss of diversity in multituberculates. Eutherians experienced high taxonomic turnover near the boundary, with peaks in both origination and extinction rates. These findings indicate that the effects of geological episodes on diversity are context dependent and that mass extinctions can affect the diversification of clades by independently altering the extinction regime, the origination regime or both. - Sexual selection and its effect on the fixation of an asexual cloneItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersSalathé, Marcel (2006) - The effects of rainforest fragment area on the strength of plant - pathogen interactionsItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersViswanathan, Ashwin; Ghazoul, Jaboury; Honwad, Ganesh; et al. (2019) - A strain of the bacterial endosymbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoidsItem type: Journal Article
Biology LettersVorburger, Christoph; Gehrer, Lukas; Rodriguez, Paula (2010)
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