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Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived SeabirdNARA Subscribed
Individuals face a trade‐off between allocating resources to reproduction or self‐maintenance, yet the drivers of the existence and strength of such trade‐off have been hard to determine. Environmental conditions are thought to play a crucial role, as long‐lived species are predicted to favour more precautionary life‐history strategies in variable environments. However, empirical evidence remains limited. Using long‐term monit...
Differences in the temporal scale of reproductive investment across the slow‐fast continuum in a passerineNARA Subscribed
Life‐history strategies differ with respect to investment in current versus ‘future’ reproduction, but when is this future? Under the novel ‘temporality in reproductive investment hypothesis’, we postulate variation should exist in the time frame over which reproductive costs are paid. Slow‐paced individuals should pay reproductive costs over short (e.g. inter‐annual) time scales to prevent reproductive costs accumulating, whe...
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledgeNARA Subscribed
Many animal populations include a diversity of personalities, and these personalities are often linked to foraging strategy. However, it is not always clear why populations should evolve to have this diversity. Indeed, optimal foraging theory typically seeks out a single optimal strategy for individuals in a population. So why do we, in fact, see a variety of strategies existing in a single population? Here, we aim to provide...
Variation in plant diversity in mediterranean‐climate ecosystems: the role of climatic and topographical stabilityNARA Subscribed
Aim Although all five of the major mediterranean‐climate ecosystems ( MCE s) of the world are recognized as loci of high plant species diversity and endemism, they show considerable variation in regional‐scale richness. Here, we assess the role of stable Pleistocene climate and Cenozoic topography in explaining variation in regional richness of the globe's MCE s. We hypothesize that older, more climatically stable MCE s would...
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