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Effects of inter- and intraspecific competition and food availability on shredder invertebrates from an Amazonian stream
Shredders play an important role in leaf decomposition in headwater streams; however, their activities can be affected by irregular leaf...
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Ecosystem services provided by river-floodplain ecosystems
River-floodplain ecosystems (RFEs) provide multiple ecosystem services. However, their importance may be underestimated because they are not...
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Exploring the value of ecosystem services at health clinic gardens in a South African context
Ecosystem services (ESs) valuation is important for advancing biodiversity objectives and investing in green infrastructure (GI) establishment....
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Ecosystem services generated by Neotropical freshwater fishes
To understand how Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFF) benefit society, we conducted a broad literature survey to (i) map and list the ecosystem...
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Patterns of parent-absent begging in European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) nestlings
Parent–offspring communication mediates parental provisioning rates through nestling begging. Although begging can be energetically costly and it...
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Experimentally manipulated food availability affects offspring quality but not quantity in zebra finch meso-populations
Food availability modulates survival, reproduction and thereby population size. In addition to direct effects, food availability has indirect effects...
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Ecosystem services provided by freshwater and marine diatoms
Diatoms, a unique group of algae colonising a wide range of aquatic habitats and contributing to human well-being in many ways. We list and summarise...
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The Baobab in Hadza Inspirational Life
Central-place provisioning was earlier identified as a system of social production in which resources acquired by male hunters and female gatherers...
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Toward climate-resilient and biodiverse agriculture in the Mediterranean region: experiences and perceptions of farmers engaged in sustainable food production
The abandonment of smallholder agriculture and the expansion of conventional intensive agriculture pose a potential threat to the multifunctionality...
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A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, which form extensive meadows in intertidal and shallow water marine environments. They provide a wide range...
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Explaining the impact of agroecology on farm-level transitions to food security in Malawi
How does agroecology influence household food security? While previous studies have found that adopting agroecological practices can have a positive...
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Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips
BackgroundDiving marine predators forage in a three-dimensional environment, adjusting their horizontal and vertical movement behaviour in response...
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Nest defence and offspring provisioning in a cooperative bird: individual subordinates vary in total contribution, but no division of tasks among breeders and subordinates
AbstractResearch aimed at understanding the evolution of costly, seemingly altruistic hel** behaviour in cooperative birds has strongly focused on...
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Telomere dynamics during hibernation in a tropical primate
Hibernation is a widespread metabolic strategy among mammals for surviving periods of food scarcity. During hibernation, animals naturally alternate...
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Less bins, less baboons: reducing access to anthropogenic food effectively decreases the urban foraging behavior of a troop of chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in a peri-urban area
In South Africa, chacma baboons ( Papio hamadryas ursinus ) living near peri-urban areas may forage on anthropogenic food. Baboons have been recorded...
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Contribution of freshwater metazooplankton to aquatic ecosystem services: an overview
Although its role in the functioning of aquatic systems is widely recognized, the contribution of freshwater metazooplankton (metazoan plankton) to...
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Leach’s storm-petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous), a long-lived seabird shows flexible, condition-dependent, feeding strategies in response to poor chick condition
BackgroundParent-offspring conflict represents the sensitive balance of resource allocation between self-maintenance and reproduction. Two strategies...
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Urban and Peri-Urban Agroforestry to Sustain Livelihood and Food Security in the Face of Global Environmental Change and Epidemic Threats
Many cities in tropical regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are at the forefront of global environmental change, and are now faced with the...
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How competition between overlap** generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects
Annual social insects are an integral functional group of organisms, particularly in temperate environments. An emblematic part of their annual cycle...
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Food accessibility of different socioeconomic groups in sub-Saharan African cities: a mixed-method analysis in Kampala, Uganda
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are characterised by rapid urban sprawl, which has implications for urban food accessibility. Urban sprawl results in...
