Concepts

Ecological succession on substrate that cannot easily be colonized by vascular plants, where lichens serve as primary successors

Competitive advantage afforded to early discoverers that arrive at and modify a resource first

The degree to which alarming aerial stimuli must elicit 'aerial alarm calls' and alarming terrestrial stimuli must elicit 'terrestrial alarm calls'

Acceleration of gonad development which becomes functional at a significantly younger age than the usual onset of maturity in metamorphs

Physiological responses including elevated heart rate triggered by perceived threats or social interactions rather than physical activity

QA/QC process for time-series data involving identification of problems in data, subsequent data cleaning or processing, including outlier detection, gap filling, and data validation

A method of cellular communication in which organisms communicate via cell-to-cell signaling, coordinating gene expression based on population density

Process where LAG becomes more tightly compacted as a result of reduced growth rate, creating difficulty in accurately deducing the number of LAG

The evaluation of how consistently an individual's alarm calls are associated with actual predation risk

A flow of fixed energy between two different ecosystems, including both passive flows (leaf litter, terrestrial invertebrate inputs) and direct flows (energy that goes directly from source to consumer...

The author's written response addressing reviewer and editor comments on a manuscript

Gravitational spreading or mountain sagging process that creates local stress perturbation and sub-vertical fractures

Feeding on sap from wells drilled by sapsuckers, practiced by at least 40 species including warblers, hummingbirds, chipmunks, and insects

The practice of communicating scientific findings in creative and novel ways to audiences broader than technical journal readership

The process of developing research questions and hypotheses through systematic observation and questioning

Differential selection of plant materials for storage based on nutritional quality rather than random sampling of available vegetation

Bees controlling the sex of their offspring via haplodiploid sex determination, with fertilized eggs becoming females and unfertilized eggs developing into males

Differential effects of male versus female neighbors on focal individual fitness due to varying resource needs or allocation patterns

Any situation in which one sex function directly decreases the success of the other sex function

State of being ready for reproduction, measured by cloacal swelling in this study

The dissolution process of iron carbonate mineral (FeCO3) under varying geochemical conditions

The negative feedback system where increased atmospheric CO2 enhances silicate weathering rates, which removes CO2 from the atmosphere through carbonate precipitation