Seasonal food scarcity prompts long-distance foraging by a wild social bee

NS Pope, S Jha - The American Naturalist, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Foraging is an essential process for mobile animals, and its optimization serves as a
foundational theory in ecology and evolution; however, drivers of foraging are rarely …

Population connectivity among shallow and mesophotic Montastraea cavernosa corals in the Gulf of Mexico identifies potential for refugia

MS Studivan, JD Voss - Coral Reefs, 2018 - Springer
Successful management of spatially isolated coral reefs is contingent on an understanding
of ecological connections across populations. To investigate genetic connectivity of the …

Regional variation in drivers of connectivity for two frog species (Rana pretiosa and R. luteiventris) from the US Pacific Northwest

JM Robertson, MA Murphy, CA Pearl… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Comparative landscape genetics has uncovered high levels of variability in which
landscape factors affect connectivity among species and regions. However, the relative …

Understanding genetic diversity, spatial genetic structure, and mating system through microsatellite markers for the conservation and sustainable use of Acrocomia …

NHP Coelho, EV Tambarussi, BI Aguiar… - Conservation …, 2018 - Springer
Acrocomia aculeata is a native palm distributed widely throughout Brazil that is used in a
diverse array of products from the food industry to biodiesel oil production. This study uses …

Assessment of mesophotic coral ecosystem connectivity for proposed expansion of a marine sanctuary in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico: Population genetics

MS Studivan, JD Voss - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
While there are several areas containing shallow coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM),
the availability of suitable reef habitat at mesophotic depths (~ 30–150 m) along the …

Why are anurans threatened? The case of Dryophytes suweonensis

A Borzée - 2018 - search.proquest.com
The sixth mass extinction is under way, and amphibians are leading the race. An
unpredictably high number of amphibian species is under threats of extinction. Factors of …

Sleeping with the enemy: introgressive hybridization in two invasive centrarchids

G Diedericks, R Henriques… - Journal of fish …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introgressive hybridization between Micropterus dolomieu and Micropterus salmoides was
assessed in their invaded South African range using nine microsatellite markers and two …

Gene flow and differentiation in a native calcareous sponge (Porifera) with unknown dispersal phase: Population structure of C. aurea

A Padua, HA Cunha, M Klautau - Marine Biodiversity, 2018 - Springer
Clathrina aurea is a calcareous sponge with a wide distribution along the Eastern South
American coast. Despite this wide distribution, larvae have never been observed in this …

The ghost of introduction past: Spatial and temporal variability in the genetic diversity of invasive smallmouth bass

G Diedericks, R Henriques… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the demographic history of introduced populations is essential for
unravelling their invasive potential and adaptability to a novel environment. To this end …

Fire does not strongly affect genetic diversity or structure of a common treefrog in the endangered Florida scrub

JM Robertson, SW Fitzpatrick, BB Rothermel… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Fire regimes influence natural populations of organisms in diverse ways, via direct effects on
population dynamics as well as indirect effects on habitat and ecosystem processes …