This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. The Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii) exhibits mate-sharing by both males and females, with monogamy, polyandry, polygyny and ...

1. The long-term persistence of fragmented plant populations is predicted to be threatened by a loss of genetic variability and increasing inbreeding, which might lower offspring fitness through ...

image: New University of East Anglia research into the mating habits of a critically endangered sea turtle will help conservationists understand more about its mating patterns. The turtle is ...

A small brown moth, the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta), has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world, new research has found. Despite the insect's unassuming appearance, a new study ...

Birds provide one of the most common ways to encounter nature in cities, but few people wonder how their actions affect birds looking for love. A new study published in the journal Ecology and ...

Mating behaviour is a fundamental aspect of the evolutionary ecology of sexually reproducing species, but one that has been under-researched in parasitic nematodes. We analysed mating behaviour in the ...

Mating patterns in flowering plants are governed by complex interactions between reproductive traits and the ecology of populations (Lloyd, 1980; Holsinger, 1996; Barrett and Pannell, 1999). An ...

Scientists have carried out an analysis of long-term data of an outbreak of classical swine fever in wild boars in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that occurred between 1993 and ...

Queen bees have been found to display honesty signals about their reproductive status and quality. The new research by the Center for Pollinator Research may help to explain why the honeybee ...

On Wednesday, scientists offered up what could be seen as fantastic news for lovers of “traditional” marriage: sexual monogamy seems to be the natural way for human beings. But, uh, so does polygamy.

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