Stage-specific traits and habitat utilisation
Life stage specific habitat use and mortality in two species of salmonid
... Populations of wild Atlantic salmon and anadromous brown trout have been in severe decline throughout their ranges over the last decades and could be at all-time lows at the moment (Parrish et al., 1998; Aas et al. 2010; ...
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Using habitat-specific population trends to evaluate the consistency of the effect of species traits on bird population change
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Habitat-related seed germination traits in alpine habitats
... developed stage; for example, young plants would have a more deeper root system and deeper soils layers rarely dry up (Körner, ...that habitat dormancy differences may be related to the environmental ...
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Context-Specific Genomic Selection Strategies Outperform Phenotypic Selection for Soybean Quantitative Traits in the Progeny Row Stage
... important traits that display complex quantitative ...context specific genomic selection (GS) ...row stage for yield and fatty acid, protein, and oil contents by using appro- priate selection ...
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Habitat utilisation, feeding tactics and age related feeding efficiency in the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans
... Bertellotti and Yorio 2000). These food sources have improved breeding success, body condition and likely winter survival as well (Spaans 1971; Kihlman and Larsson 1974; Hu¨ppop and Wurm 2000). Gulls are opportunistic ...
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Spatial variation of reef fishes and the relative influence of biotic and abiotic habitat traits
... of habitat traits and specific observations of fish behaviour, competition and predation, are needed to unambiguously reveal cause- effect relationships, this study contributes to disclose the ...
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Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits
... against the mean Ellenberg indicator values predicted by four traits: specific leaf area, leaf dry matter 576. content, leaf area and seed mass.[r] ...
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Two-stage analyses of sequence variants in association with quantitative traits.
... more specific hypothesis is formed for the second stage; the summary measure used is the count of minor alleles in only those variants that in the initial data showed the same direction of association as ...
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Two stage analyses of sequence variants in association with quantitative traits
... more specific hypothesis is formed for the second stage; the summary measure used is the count of minor alleles in only those variants that in the initial data showed the same direction of association as ...
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Personality traits in dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica): context specific traits and their correlation with biological characteristics
... life stage in squid outweigh the costs of increased encounter rates with predators (Werner & Anholt, 1993), then becoming more active and bold may be an adaptive strategy for squid that are ready to ...
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The North Atlantic Ocean as habitat for Calanus finmarchicus : environmental factors and life history traits
... Figure 7. Average number of stage CV of Calanus finmarchicus from mid-October to end of February at demographic stations in the North Atlantic (Table 1; Fig. 1B). Error bars are standard errors. Note that in deep ...
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Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation
... (2) Palaeo-invasions The hypothesis that grasses were ‘invasive’ before the Anthropocene ('palaeo-invasions' sensu Richardson et al., 2000) is based on three lines of evidence. Firstly, historical biogeographical ...
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The stage-specific function of gap junctions during tumourigenesis
... INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN PROLIFERATION, CELL MOTILITY, AND GAP JUNCTIONAL COUPLING IN INVASIVE AND NON- INVASIVE TUMOUR CELL LINES As mentioned, the invasive potential of tumour cells in vivo is predominantly based on ...
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Sweet problems: insect traits defining the limits to dietary sugar utilisation by the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
... The specific purpose of this study was to identify the nutritional, osmoregulatory and behavioural traits of pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum, that define the upper and lower limits to the range of dietary ...
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Habitat fragmentation and ecological traits influence the prevalence of avian blood parasites in a tropical rainforest landscape
... We speculate that restricted-endemic species invest less in infection control because of a longer evolutionary association with their blood parasites, which has resulted in reduced parasite virulence. Terrestrial birds ...
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The selective utilisation of Rhizophora mangle habitat by juvenile reef fish
... Mean abundance of seven most common species of juvenile fish counted below AMUs with different canopy shade Irn and 3m from the natural mangrove fringe.. 176..[r] ...
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Life history, habitat utilisation, and biomass of introduced Mysis relicta
... Life history, habitat utilisation, and biomass of benthic and pelagic opossum shrimp (Mysis relicta) were studied in the oligotrophic Lake Jonsvatn, central Norway.. Sampling in the [r] ...
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Stage-specific prognostic biomarkers in melanoma
... AJCC Stage III and IV melanoma ...both Stage III and Stage IV melanomas may indicate that these two melanoma stages face similar physiological challenges as reflected by the expression status of ...
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Biological traits of impatiens parviflora DC. under different habitat conditions
... The I. parviflora populations growing close to the forest edges are usually larger in size and produce the bigger amount of seeds which stays in contrary to the natural forest habitats, where the plants are smaller and ...
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HABITAT SPECIFIC BEHAVIOR OF THE PARAKEET AUKLET IN THE BARREN ISLANDS, ALASKA
... Number of Parakeet Auklets observed in the inshore flocking area at East Amatuli Cove, Barren Islands, Alaska during 1976. Number of Parakeet Auklet flights per day at a 50-pair co[r] ...
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