Cryptic species as a window into the paradigm shift of the species concept

C Fišer, CT Robinson, F Malard - Molecular Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The species concept is the cornerstone of biodiversity science, and any paradigm shift in the
delimitation of species affects many research fields. Many biologists now are embracing a …

Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets

MC Hutchinson, AP Dobson, RM Pringle - Ecology letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Diet composition is among the most important yet least understood dimensions of animal
ecology. Inspired by the study of species abundance distributions (SADs), we tested for …

Co‐phylogeography and comparative population genetics of the threatened Galápagos hawk and three ectoparasite species: ecology shapes population histories …

NK Whiteman, RT Kimball, PG Parker - Molecular Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Comparative microevolutionary studies of multiple parasites occurring on a single host
species can help shed light on the processes underlying parasite diversification. We …

Life cycle and life history strategies of parasitic Crustacea

EH Williams, L Bunkley-Williams - … crustacea: state of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Different parasitic life strategies are described including four new life cycles: complex
rebrooding, micro-male, mesoparasite and prey-predator transfer. Four new life cycle …

Methods for the assessment and conservation of threatened animal parasites

ML Kwak, ACG Heath, P Cardoso - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Animal parasites are species rich and ecologically diverse, some with complex life cycles
and life histories and consequently many are vulnerable to extinction. While the …

How few whales were there after whaling? Inference from contemporary mtDNA diversity

JA Jackson, NJ Patenaude, EL Carroll… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing the history of exploited populations of whales requires fitting a trajectory
through at least three points in time:(i) prior to exploitation, when abundance is assumed to …

Occurrence of whale barnacles in Nerja Cave (Málaga, southern Spain): indirect evidence of whale consumption by humans in the Upper Magdalenian

E Álvarez-Fernández, RP Carriol, JF Jordá… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
A total of 167 plates of two whale barnacle species (Tubicinella major Lamarck, 1802 and
Cetopirus complanatus Mörch, 1853) have been found in the Upper Magdalenian layers of …

Epibiotic fauna of the Antarctic minke whale as a reliable indicator of seasonal movements

S Ten, K Konishi, JA Raga, LA Pastene, FJ Aznar - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Antarctic minke whales, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, breed in tropical and temperate waters
of the Southern Hemisphere in winter and feed in Antarctic grounds in the austral summer …

[PDF][PDF] The concepts of population and metapopulation in evolutionary biology and ecology

RL Millstein - Evolution since Darwin: The first 150 years, 2010 - researchgate.net
Contemporary concepts of population in ecology and evolutionary biology vary greatly.
Biologists rarely defend their choice of population concept and may not even explicitly …

A global synthesis of the correspondence between epizoic barnacles and their sea turtle hosts

JD Zardus - Integrative Organismal Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Barnacles that are obligate epizoites of sea turtles are not parasites in the traditional sense.
However, they can impair their hosts in some instances, disqualifying the association as …