Concepts

Graph showing the number of open flowers over time, describing temporal distribution of flower openings with properties like start date, end date, mean date, breadth, and skewness

hypothesis that large animals should follow high quality forage at the leading edge of green-up in the spring

Environmental contamination by toxic metals such as lead, arsenic, nickel, zinc, and cadmium from mining operations

Specialization of left and right brain hemispheres to carry out specific activities, with right hemisphere processing threats and left hemisphere processing conspecifics

Ability of plants to survive exposure to elevated temperatures, measured as lethal temperature causing 50% electrolyte leakage (LT50)

The ability to devise a novel solution to a novel or existing problem, measured as successful opening of puzzle box

Concordant igneous intrusion that has been injected between rock strata causing uplift

The combining of information from multiple sensory modalities that influences decision-making

Increased noise levels produced by roads and motorized vehicles that alter the acoustic environment

Reduction in photosynthetic efficiency due to excess light exposure

The production of organic compounds by autotrophic organisms, measured here through chlorophyll-a concentration

The ability to maintain fitness after damage, measured through both genetic and environmental components of tolerance including resource acquisition and storage traits, and traits involved in pollinat...

Univoltine species which develop from overwintered eggs in pools formed by melting snow water

Sound production in insects by rubbing body parts together, in burying beetles occurs when plectrum on elytra rubs against par stridens on abdomen

Abundance, Size, Number, Energy framework that uses ecological state variables to predict ecosystem structure functions

The latitudinal ranges of plants and animals are greater at higher compared to lower latitudes

Four categories of biological explanation: proximate causation, development, adaptive utility, and evolutionary history

A theoretical model arguing that three social factors influence students' integration into the scientific community: scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and perceptions of alignment between...

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight