Throughout evolution the foraging and echolocation behaviors as well as the motor systems of bats have been adapted to the tasks they have to perform while searching and acquiring food. When bats exploit the same class of environmental resources in a similar way, they perform comparable tasks and thus share similar adaptations independent of their phylogeny. Species with similar adaptations are...

The vertical stratification of insect species assemblages inhabiting tropical rainforests is well established but few have examined whether these patterns are reflected in vertical stratification of body size or feeding guilds. We used Malaise and Flight InterceptionTraps to sample beetle assemblages from five locations, at both canopy and ground zones of a tropical lowland rainforest site near...

Aphids are a major concern in agricultural crops worldwide, and control by natural enemies is an essential component of the ecological intensification of agriculture. Although the complexity of agricultural landscapes is known to influence natural enemies of pests, few studies have measured the degree of pest control by different enemy guilds across gradients in landscape complexity. Here, we u...

Abstract Urbanisation can limit species persistence and bias composition of functional guilds with serious consequences for ecosystem functioning conservation planning. Standardised biodiversity surveys are missing at most tropical urban cities where levels high alongside rapidly increasing rates urbanisation. We explored the utility time-bound to document winter birds ponds (wetlands ≤ 5 ha) i...

mohaghegh-esabzevarididthemostseriouscontemplations over political life in the safavid era, discussing various political systems from a pragmatic view point. social life, law, just ruler, the objectives of state, utopian political system, defective political system, the charactristics of ruling system, the types of social classes and guilds, the organization of state, emphasis on the asceticism...

Domestication of algae by lichen-forming fungi describes the symbiotic relationship between the photosynthetic (green alga or cyanobacterium; photobiont) and fungal (mycobiont) partnership in lichen associations (Goward 1992). The algal domestication implies that the mycobiont cultivates the alga as a monoculture within its thallus, analogous to a farmer cultivating a food crop. However, the in...

High-throughput generation of new types of relational biological datasets is creating a demand for methods to provide insights into their complexity. Such networks are often too large to interpret visually and too complicated to be explained solely based on local topological properties. One way to try to make sense of such complex networks would be to transform them into discernable abstracts, ...

Climatic extreme events can cause the shift or disruption of plant-insect interactions due to altered plant quality, e.g. leaf carbon to nitrogen ratios, and phenology. However, the response of plant-herbivore interactions to extreme events and climatic gradients has been rarely studied, although climatic extremes will increase in frequency and intensity in the future and insect herbivores repr...