Most processes within organisms, and most interactions between organisms and their
environment, have distinct time profiles. The temporal coordination of such processes is …

Biological rhythms coordinate organisms' activities with daily rhythms in the environment.
For parasites, this includes rhythms in both the external abiotic environment and the within …

Males and females often exhibit different behaviours during mate acquisition, pair‐bonding
and parenting, and a convenient label to characterize these behaviours is sex role. The …

Animals breeding at northern latitudes experience drastic changes in daily light conditions
during the breeding season with decreasing periods of darkness, whereas those living at …

Survival of many species, from insects and birds to human and non-human mammals,
requires synchronized activity. Among humans, synchrony occurs even at the level of …

Many animals benefit from synchronizing their daily activities with conspecifics. In this hybrid
paper, we first review recent literature supporting and extending earlier evidence for a lack …

Changes in demographic rates underpin changes in population size, and understanding
demographic rates can greatly aid the design and development of strategies to maintain …

Events during one stage of the annual cycle can reversibly affect an individual's condition
and performance not only within that stage, but also in subsequent stages (ie reversible …

Sleep is widespread across the animal kingdom. However, most comparative sleep data
exist for terrestrial vertebrates, with much less known about sleep in amphibians, bony …

Individual niche specialization can have important consequences for competition, fitness,
and, ultimately, population dynamics and ecological speciation. The temporal window and …