This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In many species, post-copulatory mate guarding prevents other males from mating with the guarded female. In crabs, males stay with their mates ...

1. Individual-and population-level variation in body size and growth often correlates with many fitness traits. Predation and food availability are expected to affect body size and growth as important ...

When an individual directly alters the resource-attaining behavior of other individuals, the interaction is considered interference competition. For example, when a male gorilla prohibits other males ...

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at McGill University and the University of British Columbia ...

Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe. At a meeting of the American Society of ...

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over ...