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African annual killifish live in temporary pools, where their populations survive the dry season as eggs that lie dormant in the mud, developing and hatching only when the pools fill each wet season....
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The body temperature of the seashore isopod Ligia oceanica is 30 8 C under stones, where the relative humidity is 100%, but 26 8 C on the surface, where it is exposed to full sun and the relative humi...
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Why did Jakobsson and Eriksson (2000) conduct their study of the relationship between seed size and seedling size in a greenhouse?
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Do you think that Grosholz might have observed food limitation if he had used higher densities of Porcellio scaber in his experiments?
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How might using other indicators of competition, such as growth rate, reproductive rate, and size at maturity, have affected Grosholz’s conclusions regarding lack of food limitation in his study popul...
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Why did Moore conduct “blind” behavioral observations— that is, without knowing whether individual Armadillidium was infected or not?
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How did Moore’s laboratory and field experiments complement each other?
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