Frequency of entering bees. acceptance threshold. accept. reject ... Testing the Theory of Conspecific Acceptance Thresholds Using Honey Bee Guarding ...
It has as its aim sexual union with conspecifics of the opposite sex for the ... While their immediate aims differ, all instincts have the aim of eliminating the ...
the action of the genetic operators used in the EA provided advantages over ... fortunately genetically endowed conspecifics, and thus will survive and pass on ...
Outline for this week Population growth - exponential/geometric Stochasticity and population growth Population growth - logistic Allee effects and population growth
Environment The contrasting directions of migration can largely be explained by the relative availability of food resources in ocean and freshwater habitats.
nitrogen oxides elicit antipredator responses in juvenile channel catfish, but not in convict cichlids or rainbow trout: conservation of the ostariophysan alarm pheromone
Population Ecology Characteristics of Populations SC.912.L.17.1 Population Characteristics Population ecology is the study of interactions within populations (i.e ...
Tropical cyclone tracks from 1985 to 2005. Photo credit: Larsen & Torres-Sanchez, USGS ... How does hurricane disturbance alter the biotic and abiotic environment? ...
Chemical Signals Types Production Transmission Reception Olfactory signal features Directionality Generally propagate away, but rarely linear Transmission speed ...
... in the Olfactory System of a Flatfish, the Senegalese Sole (Solea senegalensis) ... There is functional asymmetry in the olfactory system of this flatfish. ...
How many species of cichlid fishes are there in Lake Tanganyika? By Andrew G Challingsworth Lake Tanganyika? The endemic fishes of Lake Tanganyika are a textbook ...
Distance chemoreception in laboratory-reared Sepia officinalis L. and its impact on social behaviour. Bethany Lloyd MSc Marine Biology, University of Wales, Bangor
Morphological & Reproductive Species Concepts both have ... Mallard Gadwall. HYBRIDS ARE FREQUENT. HYBRIDS ARE FREQUENT. Gelada. Hamadryas. HYBRID INVIABILITY ...
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Flight rate. Latency to first ... Most males had active nests (eggs or chicks) Playbacks on non-consecutive days ...
Behavioral Ecology: Movement & Orientation Why move? Types of movement Metapopulations Local Distribution Home Range Territoriality Migration - Mass movements
Problem Solving with Open Source GIS Web GIS for Decision Support a personal perspective Karsten Vennemann, Seattle Goals Illustrate how Decision Support GIS can ...
use information gathered by sensory receptors http://biosci.usc.edu ... Cost-Benefit Analysis. Costs or benefits. Clutch size. benefits: # of surviving young. costs: ...
new species formed by same processes that give rise to ... Heliconius butterflies Cougars. Superspecies (Artenkreis) Parus spp. Gasterosteus aculeatus ...
Ungulate pelage coloration was matched to habitat type and behavior to explore ... It also acts to signal to stalking predators that approach their prey in a ...
Pseudotropheus zebra. complex of at least four species (Lake Malawi) ... Maylandia (Pseudotrophus) zebra complex. color pattern arose. repeatedly in evolutionary ...
All the plants arrive or germinate near the same time. Second stage of succession: the perennials overtop the annuals. ... Kerry Woods (reciprocal replacement) ...
Packer and Clay observed that for cherry a) seedling and b) juvenile survival ... with soil from different sources (Cherry density and distance from the parent) ...
Aggressive encounters: charges. nips. flare fins. lateral ... result of previous encounters. Dominance Hierarchies. often established in interacting groups ...
Continuous-vortex gait. High speeds. Flight Recap. Amount of drag is ... The leading edge Vortex. The 'LEV' of a swift. Low pressure zone. On top of wing ...
Division of Biomedical Informatics. 256 Baynes St Buffall 14213. OMRSE. The Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities. ... But aren t there health implications ...
Dominance in Homarus americanus is established by display or fighting, and is ... have found that a startle response in crabs can be caused by a variety of ...
Neuropsychology Option Week 5 2nd Lecture T.H. Huxley (1863, 1874) Human brain Chimpanzee brain Huxley s comparisons Huxley (1871) Every principal gyrus and ...
disgust') are inherently ambiguous: they can convey information both about ... of interest/liking' vs. disgust'). Familiarization events: negative positive ...
Termite fishing sticks: manufacturing indicates planning for future events. Leaf sponges ... Used a stick to kill a snake. ANA 215 Model Human Evolution ...
macrosmatic: highly developed sense of smell / reliance on olfactory system ... relates to physical & chemical properties of molecules (I.e. structure, ...
Brood Parasitism: An Alternative Life History N. B. Davies. 2000. Cuckoos, cowbirds and other cheats. Cambridge Univ. Press Strong Parental Care: The Typical Avian ...
... possible in SA. Correlate with Plio-pleistocene fauna at the East African sites. Breccia ... Secondary deposits: Bob Brain. South African sites: 4.4 1.5 mya ...
'memetics' vs. genetics. arguments pro and con. Evolution of group behavior. Genetic. Cultural ... Genetics vs. memetics. Many similarities: evolution as ' ...
To test parental investment in convict cichlids, ... The extent and kind of care-giving a cichlid gives may interfere with future mating opportunities ...
Eggs survive better because predators can't focus on ... Allow predators to evaluate condition. 6.26 Cheetahs abandon hunts more often when gazelles stot ...
Understanding bird language is an important naturalist skill and research tool. In the northern hemisphere, the are also a harbinger of spring's approach. All Year ...
Long-term patch dynamics in the community shaped by bivalves, barnacles, ascidians and red algae: multiple foundation species in the White Sea shallow subtidal