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A theoretical framework to improve the adoption of green Integrated Pest Management tactics
Sustainable agriculture relies on implementing effective, eco-friendly crop protection strategies. However, the adoption of these green tactics by...
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Characteristics of breeding habitat, genetic mating system, and determinants of male mating success in the sponge-dwelling goby Elacatinus lori
AbstractDetermining the patterns and causes of variation in reproductive success is key to understanding mating systems and sexual selection, but...
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Mating Behaviour
In sexually reproducing animals, reproduction entails insemination (the transfer of the male’s sperm to the female) and fertilisation (the fusion of...
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The Mating Machine
Gene transmission and hence fitness, for any animal, is a direct product of sex. Offspring production is the essential currency rewarded by natural...
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Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy
The aim of this study was an analytical justification of the emergence and presence of the phenomenon of war among hominins , taking into account...
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Protogyny in Fishes
Of approximately 480 hermaphroditic fish species, over 300 have been confirmed to undergo protogynous (female-to-male) sex changes. The occurrence of...
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Mating and reproductive characteristics of the pathogenic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
Pine wood nematode ( Bursaphelenchus xylophilus ), one of the most destructive invasive species, has caused extremely serious economic, ecological and...
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Simultaneous Hermaphroditism in Fishes
Simultaneous hermaphrodites have both male and female sexual functions at the same time. In this chapter, I briefly summarize the theories on the...
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High-resolution tracking of hyrax social interactions highlights nighttime drivers of animal sociality
Network structure is a key driver of animal fitness, pathogen transmission, information spread, and population demographics in the wild. Although a...
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Wolves in a Human World: Social Dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere’s Most Iconic Social Carnivore
Wolves are one of the most studied wildlife species in the world, yet we only have an emerging picture of how humans affect wolf social dynamics....
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Important alien and potential native invasive insect pests of key fruit trees in Sub-Saharan Africa: advances in sustainable pre- and post-harvest management approaches
Fruit production in Sub-Saharan Africa is of paramount importance both socially and economically. Millions of farmers derive livelihoods from mango,...
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The Social Life of Owl Monkeys
The study of owl monkeys provides an excellent opportunity for understanding the behavioral correlates of pair-living, sexual monogamy, and...
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Revisiting the role of behavior-mediated structuring in the survival of populations in hostile environments
Increasing the population density of target species is a major goal of ecosystem and agricultural management. This task is especially challenging in...
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Viewing the Lives of Whales Through a Molecular Lens
GeneticsGenetics and genomicsEcological genomics tools are providing unprecedented insights into the hidden social lives of baleen whales, from...
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Mobbing for matings: dynamics, plumage correlates, and fitness impacts of conspicuous group extra-pair behaviors in the lark bunting
The widespread occurrence of extra-pair paternity (EPP) in birds adds rich complexity to our understanding of sexual selection and mating system...
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Intrasexual Selection: How Males Compete
Although modern sex roles acknowledge the fact that males and females both compete for and chose mates, there are sound theoretical reasons for...
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When THAT Exception Persists Almost as THAT Exception
We present the counterpart to Chap. 4 in Chap. 5 , where we...
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Representing Insect Movement in Agricultural Areas using Spatially Explicit Models
Understanding the movement of organisms is fundamental for comprehending how life thrives and the changes in population dynamics of a species. It is...
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Meta-analysis reveals that animal sexual signalling behaviour is honest and resource based
Animals often need to signal to attract mates and behavioural signalling may impose substantial energetic and fitness costs to signallers....
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Developments in the study of poison frog evolutionary ecology I: social interactions, life history and habitat use across space and ontogeny
Poison frogs of the superfamily Dendrobatoidea have fascinated researchers since the 19th century, which is reflected in multiple studies on their...
