A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution

P Edelaar, J Otsuka, VJ Luque - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the
world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights …

[HTML][HTML] Individualized social niches in animals: Theoretical clarifications and processes of niche change

MI Kaiser, J Gadau, S Kaiser, C Müller, SH Richter - BioScience, 2024 - academic.oup.com
What are social niches, and how do they arise and change? Our first goal in the present
article is to clarify the concept of an individualized social niche and to distinguish it from …

The role of phenotypic plasticity in shaping ecological networks

JM Gómez, A González‐Megías, C Armas… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plasticity‐mediated changes in interaction dynamics and structure may scale up and affect
the ecological network in which the plastic species are embedded. Despite their potential …

[HTML][HTML] The dark side of niche construction

S Coninx - Philosophical Studies, 2023 - Springer
Niche construction denotes the alteration, destruction, or creation of environmental features
through the activities of an organism, modifying the relation between organism and …

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions

C Kandler, S Kühn, B Mönkediek… - Current Directions …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that
fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people's desired life …

The landscape of fear has individual layers: an experimental test of among‐individual differences in perceived predation risk during foraging

M Dammhahn, P Lange, JA Eccard - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Perceived predation risk varies in space and time creating a landscape of fear. This key
feature of an animal's environment is classically studied as a species‐specific property …

The explanatory role of Umwelt in evolutionary theory: Introducing von Baer's reflections on teleological development

T Rama - Biosemiotics, 2024 - Springer
This paper argues that a central explanatory role for the concept of Umwelt in theoretical
biology is to be found in developmental biology, in particular in the effort to understand …

[HTML][HTML] UAV Cluster Mission Planning Strategy for Area Coverage Tasks

X Yan, R Chen, Z Jiang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the context of area coverage tasks in three-dimensional space, unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) clusters face challenges such as uneven task assignment, low task efficiency, and …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of personality disorders: A review of proposals

F Gutiérrez, F Valdesoiro - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Personality disorders (PDs) are currently considered dysfunctions. However, personality
differences are older than humanity and are ubiquitous in nature, from insects to higher …

Migratory birds modulate niche tradeoffs in rhythm with seasons and life history

SW Yanco, RY Oliver, F Iannarilli, BS Carlson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Movement is a key means by which animals cope with variable environments. As they move,
animals construct individual niches composed of the environmental conditions they …