COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AFFECTS THE SHAPE OF MATE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS

Community composition affects the shape of mate response functions.

The evolution of mate preferences can be critical for the evolution of reproductive isolation and speciation. Heterospecific interference may carry substantial fitness costs and result in preferences where females are most responsive to the mean conspecific trait with low response to traits that differ from this value. However, when male traits are unbounded by heterospecifics, there may not be...

Fragmentation affects plant community composition over time

across ecosystems. In part this deficit is due to the fact that the most frequently used metric in long term datasets, species richness, obscures compositional shifts (Magurran and Henderson 2010, Dornelas et al. 2014). Importantly, changes in community composition can have cascading effects on ecosystem properties (Tabarelli et al. 2012), highlighting a pressing need for a better understanding...

Salbutamol affects body composition of the guinea pig

Do Honeybees Shape the Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar?

Floral nectar is considered the most important reward animal-pollinated plants offer to attract pollinators. Here we explore whether honeybees, which act as pollinators, affect the composition of bacterial communities in the nectar. Nectar and honeybees were sampled from two plant species: Amygdalus communis and Citrus paradisi. To prevent the contact of nectar with pollinators, C. paradisi flo...

On composition of generating functions

In this work we study numbers and polynomials generated by two type of composition of generating functions and get their explicit formulae. Furthermore we state an improvementof the composita formulae's given in [6] and [3], using the new composita formula's we construct a variety of combinatorics identities. This study go alone to dene new family of generalized Bernoulli polynomials which incl...