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Phytochemical Assessment of Native Ecuadorian Peppers (Capsicum spp.) and Correlation Analysis to Fruit Phenomics
(MDPI, 2020-08-04)
[Abstract] In this work, the impact of pepper (Capsicum spp.) fruits morphology on their composition for health-promoting compounds was investigated. For that purpose, pepper accessions from Ecuador, one of the hotspots ...
Census and Contemporary Effective Population Size of Two Populations of the Protected Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia Isabellae)
(Wiley, 2019-03-02)
[Abstract] 1. Graellsia isabellae is a protected lepidopteran both in France and Spain; however, there has been considerable debate over its conservation status. Recent literature emphasised the need of monitoring population ...
Rapid Colour Shift by Reproductive Character Displacement in Cupido Butterflies
(Wiley, 2020-10-13)
[Abstract] Reproductive character displacement occurs when competition for successful breeding imposes a divergent selection on the interacting species, causing a divergence of reproductive traits. Here, we show that a ...
Determinants of Eurasian Otter (Lutra Lutra) Diet in a Seasonally Changing Reservoir
(Springer, 2020-03-03)
[Abstract] Otter diet in reservoirs is known to experience seasonal changes. We selected a reservoir with a large population of exclusively wintering great cormorants and seasonal changes in stored water volume to test the ...
Ecological Non-equilibrium and Biological Conservation
(Elsevier, 2023-09-08)
[Abstract] How to establish efficient conservation actions and policies for the long-term persistence of ecological systems remains a challenge. Conservation biology was born as a discipline of crisis, targeting the recovery ...
Assessing Rensch’s Rule in a Newt: Roles of Primary Productivity and Conspecific Density in Interpopulation Variation of Sexual Size Dimorphism
(Wiley, 2019-08-28)
[Abstract] Aim: Major efforts have been devoted to understanding the geographic pattern of sexual size dimorphism (SSD). Rensch's rule posits that SSD increases with body size in male-biased SSD species and decreases with ...
Determinants of Mercury Contamination in Viperine Snakes, Natrix Maura, in Western Europe
(Elsevier, 2018-04-03)
[Abstract] The effects of Hg contamination are presumably widespread across the components of aquatic ecosystems, but investigations have been mainly focused on freshwater fish, because this biota represents a major source ...
Local Prior Information and Mainland Overflow Explain Avian Colonisation in a Major Land-Bridge Island
(Wiley, 2023-06-23)
[Abstract] Aim: The relative roles of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, and those of local and regional variables, in island colonisation, remain major biogeographical questions. Thus, we analysed avian colonisation records ...
Landscape Resistance Constrains Hybridization Across Contact Zones in a Reproductively and Morphologically Polymorphic Salamander
(Springer Nature, 2021-04-29)
[Abstract] Explicitly accounting for phenotypic differentiation together with environmental heterogeneity is crucial to understand the evolutionary dynamics in hybrid zones. Species showing intra-specific variation in ...
Large Effective Size as Determinant of Population Persistence in Anostraca (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)
(Springer, 2023-05-26)
[Abstract] The fairy shrimp Branchinectella media, because of its passive dispersal capacity and scarce and irregularly distributed habitats (temporary saline aquatic systems), is an intriguing organism from a population ...