Ecology and Conservation: Recent submissions
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Towards equity and justice in ocean sciences
(Nature Research, 13 December 2023)The global scientific community is currently going through a self-reckoning in which it is questioning and re-examining its existing practices, many of which are based on colonial and neo-colonial perceptions. This is ... -
Ecological and morphological correlates of visual acuity in birds
(The Company of Biologists, 18 January 2024)Birds use their visual systems for important tasks, such as foraging and predator detection, that require them to resolve an image. However, visual acuity (the ability to perceive spatial detail) varies by two orders of ... -
Resolving the puzzle of same-sex sexual interactions
(Nature Research, 8 November 2023)Sexual interactions between members of the same sex are common but the reasons for these behaviours are not always clear. Results from a study across mammals suggest that increased same-sex behaviour evolved with sociality ... -
Antipredator defences in motion: animals reduce predation risks by concealing or misleading motion signals
(Wiley / Cambridge Philosophical Society, 4 January 2024)Motion is a crucial part of the natural world, yet our understanding of how animals avoid predation whilst moving remains rather limited. Although several theories have been proposed for how antipredator defence may ... -
Penetrance interactions of colour pattern loci in the African Monarch and their implications for the evolution of dominance
(Wiley, 27 February 2024)Scoring the penetrance of heterozygotes in complex phenotypes, like colour pattern, is difficult and complicates the analysis of systems in which dominance is incomplete or evolving. The African Monarch (Danaus ...