Concepts

Routes of oxytocin administration that act directly on the brain, traditionally requiring surgery to deliver oxytocin directly to cerebral spinal fluid

Activities of individuals or species that benefit from the rewards and services mutualisms exchange without offering any in return

A form of crypsis where prey species chemically match the surfaces of their host plants to avoid detection by predators that hunt primarily through olfaction

Trace elements like rhenium that can be used to track and quantify specific weathering processes due to their distinctive geochemical behavior

Analytical method for detecting hydrogen peroxide concentrations using flow injection system with acridinium ester reagent

The number of molecular formulae detected in a sample

Small DNA viruses with circular single-stranded genomes that include families like Circoviridae, Geminiviridae, and Genomoviridae

Statistical methods for analyzing cyclical data such as flowering dates that occur on an annual cycle

Scientific research conducted in whole or in part by amateur or nonprofessional scientists

A mixed mating system in which plants can produce both open, chasmogamous (CH) flowers and closed, obligately self-pollinating, cleistogamous (CL) flowers within the same growing season

Global warming and extreme weather events that threaten marmot survival through increasing temperature and changing precipitation patterns

Anthropogenic environmental change expected to alter soil moisture availability and increase nitrogen deposition

Expanding range and increased development of disease vectors like mosquitos, black flies, and biting midges due to warming temperatures

The hypothesis that warming climate and earlier snowmelt will increase sociality in bees by lengthening growing seasons and allowing development of multiple broods.

Earlier emergence from hibernation in mid-April, more than a month earlier than in the 1970s, due to climate change effects

Lines of equivalent climate conditions that shift upslope with climate change

A physiological niche accounting for radiation, air temperature, wind, and humidity in which an animal can survive

The physiological connection and resource sharing between ramets within a clonal plant that allows communication of defenses

Determination of cloud top altitude using atmospheric absorption in the oxygen A-band to infer pressure level

Automated system for retrieving, normalizing, and processing heterogeneous environmental data with real-time web interface access

Intentional co-development of observation and modeling strategies across scales to enhance two-way exchange of information between models and data analytics to address science questions about watershe...

Simultaneous attack of hosts by multiple enemies, in this case herbivores and bacterial pathogens

Groups of CpG sites that show similar methylation patterns across samples

Cooperation between 2 or more individuals against a third during an aggressive or competitive encounter, or formed for intergroup contests to defend territory or take over breeding groups

A metric that defines various degrees of coalitionary behavior as a continuous function of a species' possessing 1-3 of the following traits: mutual tolerance, collaboration, and partner preference

The number of elapsed days from the estimated starting date to ending date of a developmental cohort

Nighttime accumulation of cold dense air in valleys and topographic depressions due to radiative cooling and gravity drainage

When animals work together to take over existing social groups and oust the dominant males, as seen in banded mongooses

Theoretical framework suggesting that upstream flight of stream insect adults is necessary to maintain larval populations in upstream reaches that might otherwise be depleted by downstream drift of la...

The rate at which empty sites are reoccupied by dispersing individuals

The process by which bumble bee colonies grow in size throughout the foraging season