A new Special Report published in the journal BioScience warns that long-term ecological and evolutionary research faces ...

The evolution of the sea star, sea urchin, and other echinoderms’ body shape during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods was faster and more dramatic than their ecological innovation, according to a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Functional Ecology publishes original papers in organismal ecology, including physiological ecology, behavioural ecology and ...

A new scientific review has uncovered how complex microbial communities, including those in the human gut and the natural environment, act as powerful engines that drive the evolution and spread of ...

In the field of ecology, researchers are interested in understanding the complexities and interactions of the many organisms that make up our environments. Over the past two decades, the knowledges of ...

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers suggest. The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Can sexual dimorphism evolve because of ecological differences between the sexes? Although several examples of this phenomenon are well known ...

When they first evolved from lizards more than 100 million years ago, snakes were ecological bit players slithering around the fringes of ecosystems dominated by dinosaurs. But today there are around ...