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Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
Parallel evolution, in which independent populations evolve along similar phenotypic trajectories, offers insights into the repeatability of adaptive evolution. Here, we revisit a classic example of parallelism, that of repeated evolution of brighter males in the Trinidadian guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ). In guppies, colonisation of low predation habitats is associated with emergence of ‘more colourful’ phenotypes since predat...
Numerical abundance and biomass reveal different temporal trends of functional diversity change in tropical fish assemblagesNARA Subscribed
Understanding how the biodiversity of freshwater fish assemblages changes over time is an important challenge. Until recently most emphasis has been on taxonomic diversity, but it is now clear that measures of functional diversity (FD) can shed new light on the mechanisms that underpin this temporal change. Fish biologists use different currencies, such as numerical abundance and biomass, to measure the abundance of fish speci...
Heterozygosity–fitness correlations ( HFC s) have been examined in a wide diversity of contexts, and the results are often used to infer the role of inbreeding in natural populations. Although population demography, reflected in population‐level genetic parameters such as allelic diversity or identity disequilibrium, is expected to play a role in the emergence and detectability of HFC s, direct comparisons of variation in HFC...
We use microsatellite loci to detail the multiple paternity patterns in broods from 10 wild populations of the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ) found in Northern Trinidad. The populations span two major drainages comprising the Caroni and the Oropouche, and include sites that are characterized by either high or low predation. Across the populations the frequency of multiple paternity is high with 95% (range: 70%–100%) of broods h...
The Guppy as a Conservation Model: Implications of Parasitism and Inbreeding for Reintroduction SuccessNARA Subscribed
Ex situ conservation is of increasing importance to prevent the extinction of endangered animals in the wild. Despite low success rates of reintroduction programs few researchers have investigated empirically the efficacy of captive breeding regimes for the release of captive‐bred vertebrates. We used guppies ( Poecilia reticulata ) from two populations in Trinidad to compare different conservation breeding regimes. The upper...
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