Territorial defence depends on highly interrelated factors such as food abundance and
conspecific density. We used Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti as a model species to …

Iridescence is an optical effect that produces angle dependent coloration in animals.
Recently, studies have attempted to unveil structures behind such elaborated visual signals …

Wing pigmentation is a trait that predicts the outcome of male contests in some damselflies.
Thus, it is reasonable to suppose that males would have the ability to assess wing …

Populations of many vertebrates are declining and geographic ranges contracting, largely
as a consequence of anthropogenic threats. Many reports of such decline, however, lack the …

The high extinction risk of small populations is commonly explained by reductions in
fecundity and breeder survival associated with demographic and environmental …

Animal personality has received increasing interest and acknowledgment within ecological
research over the past two decades. However, some areas are still poorly studied and need …

We explore the use of movable automata in numerical modelling of male competition for
territory. We used territorial dragonflies as our biological inspiration for the model, assuming …

The increasing use of dragonflies and damselflies as models in studies on biodiversity in the
last decades has unraveled several features of natural processes and mechanisms for …

Understanding the connection between personality and fitness is an important topic in both
behavioural and evolutionary ecology. Most of our current knowledge stems from lab-studies …

Simple Summary Animals adapt to the environment they live in. If the environment changes,
animals usually adapt behaviourally as a first response. By studying behavioural profiles …