[PDF] Top 20 Ecological traits predict population changes in moths

... Monitoring suggests signi fi cant global losses in biodiversity, leading to the consensus that we are experiencing a crisis comparable to that of a mass extinction event (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Butchart et al., 2010; ... See full document

... both disjunct annuals and short-lived perennials (Table 6). The lower rate of within-species disjunctions in woody species is very unlikely to be due to greater rates of evolution in these plants because rates of both ... See full document

... in population size, with demographic gains and losses by all the species balancing over the study ...demographic changes, total biomass and population energy use may seem ... See full document

... The construction of the National Water Carrier (NWC) (1950’s) gave Lake Kinneret the status of the major national resource for domestic supply. Recently (2010), seawater desalinization was almost exclusively designated ... See full document

... Lacking interactions with cooccurring microorganisms from in situ environments is one of the reasons that most microbial strains failed to be cultured in labs. Identifying cooc- curring species of interesting uncultured ... See full document

... understood limitations associated with behavioral self-reports. Also, risk was measured as the proportion of the time the respondent estimates that exceeding a 60km/h speed limit is considered to be dangerous. This ... See full document

... Select a threatened or endangered species using the International Union for Conservation of Nature Redlist. They can use the database to research population numbers of each species. They learn about the threats to ... See full document

... Risk perception theories posit that changes in risk perception prompt subsequent changes in risk behavior. Prospective studies using observations made at three time- points offer the capacity to test this ... See full document

... The Irish population is part of a complex of isolated and range-restricted populations, many of which are given subspecific status. The Irish subspecies knilli is confined to the south coast of the Dingle ... See full document

... The winter-flying moths appear to be anatomically and physiologically similar to summer-flying moths their size, but they are physiologically better able to warm up and fly at low T a th[r] ... See full document

... understand changes in the transcriptional or translational activities of specific taxa by taking into account structural shifts in com- munities, such as occur before and after an environmental ...considers ... See full document

... Temperamental traits are measured as scores on continuous variables and the full complexity of an individual’s per- sonality can only be captured as a profile of scores on a variety of measures, some of which are ... See full document

... were significant. Thus personality traits are not expected to significantly predict psychometric intelligence. H4b: there will be no significant associations between estimated [r] ... See full document

... foliage moths, leaf litter moths and some mite species increased in numbers from the control sites through to the mature sites, while ants, rove beetles, grass moths, some carabid beetles, and worms ... See full document

... Big Brown Bats fed primarily on seven families of beetles (Order Coleoptera). Beetles occurred in the diet of 97of 100 samples examined (97%) and consti- tuted the greatest volume of food consumed (mean percentage volume ... See full document

... Nectar-feeding moths are attracted to the odours of their floral hosts (Heath et al., 1992; Zhu et al., 1993). These odours are a complex blend of individual volatile components, each with a different biosynthetic ... See full document

... the population sizes of others by limiting their access to the resources or reducing the abundance of ...to ecological heterogeneity among species, strongly violating the assumption of neutral community ... See full document

... Parks have to be large enough to maintain vital ecological processes and a viable population of threatened species Principle 2: management of the park maintains and restores ecological p[r] ... See full document

... of moths trapped varied over ...with moths population ...with population and infestation ...the population of the ...borer population remains in field all the year, but the ... See full document

... This case–control study was drawn from a population of 801 never-smokers with normal pre-9/11 lung function. In total, 253/801 individuals had serum available from their first post-9/11 monitoring examination. ... See full document