This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. The Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii) exhibits mate-sharing by both males and females, with monogamy, polyandry, polygyny and ...

1. The long-term persistence of fragmented plant populations is predicted to be threatened by a loss of genetic variability and increasing inbreeding, which might lower offspring fitness through ...

A small brown moth, the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta), has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world, new research has found. Despite the insect's unassuming appearance, a new study ...

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...

image: New University of East Anglia research into the mating habits of a critically endangered sea turtle will help conservationists understand more about its mating patterns. The turtle is ...

Birds provide one of the most common ways to encounter nature in cities, but few people wonder how their actions affect birds looking for love. A new study published in the journal Ecology and ...

Mating behaviour is a fundamental aspect of the evolutionary ecology of sexually reproducing species, but one that has been under-researched in parasitic nematodes. We analysed mating behaviour in the ...

Mating patterns in flowering plants are governed by complex interactions between reproductive traits and the ecology of populations (Lloyd, 1980; Holsinger, 1996; Barrett and Pannell, 1999). An ...