CAREER COLUMN 27 February 2020 Karine Bonneval’s residency in Matthias Rillig’s lab, and a question he first dismissed as silly, had unexpected consequences for each of them. Matthias C. Rilling & Matthias C. Rillig is an ecologist at the Free University of Berlin. Contact Search for this author in: Karine Bonneval Search for this author […] More
Measurements were made to the nearest 0.1 mm using digital calipers and a Leica M80 dissection microscope. In lists of material examined, the catalog number is followed by the number of specimens, size range in mm SL, locality, collector(s), and date. The specimen’s operculum was carefully cut on the posterior margin with the permission of the […] More
Study sites We studied two oil palm plantations in the Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, located 19 km apart and with similar climatic conditions. Average annual temperature in the area was 26.7 ± 0.2 °C, and annual precipitation was 2235 ± 385 mm (1991–2011 mean ± SD63), and a dry season with less than 120 mm monthly precipitation usually occurred between June and September. The first […] More
1. Nori, J. et al. Amphibian conservation, land-use changes and protected areas: A global overview. Biol. Conserv. 191, 367–374 (2015). Article Google Scholar 2. Blaustein, A. R. et al. In Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology Vol. 1223 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (eds Ostfeld, R. S. & Schlesinger, W. H.) 108–119 […] More
1. Stephens, D. W. & Krebs, J. R. Foraging Theory (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986). 2. Curio, E. The Ethology of Predation (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 1976). 3. Benoit-Bird, K. J. et al. Prey patch patterns predict habitat use by top marine predators with diverse foraging strategies. PLoS One 8(1), e53348 (2013). […] More
Study location and species The blacktip reef shark is a medium-sized shark, up to 1.5 m total length, and is widely distributed on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs24. The species mostly inhabits shallow reefs and sand-flats of atolls and high islands25,26,27,28 and occasionally non-reef environments29. Blacktip reef sharks are the subject of wildlife tourism, for example in […] More
There could be multiple proximate causes for fluorescence in response to blue or ultra-violet wavelengths within amphibians and the exact mechanisms that produce biofluorescence in these vertebrates require further study. Biofluorescence associated with bold colors could be the result of both chemical and structural elements of the amphibian dermal chromatophore unit24. Some pigments, like pterins […] More
Data collection An online owner-filled questionnaire was designed to collect information on canine behaviour in a pet dog population17. The questionnaire was divided into seven main sections based on different behavioural traits, including fear of dogs, strangers, and novel situations (labelled as ‘fear’); aggression toward human family members and strangers (labelled as ‘aggression’); fear of […] More
