Local adaptation and ecological genetics of host-plant specialization in a leaf beetle

Article Abstract:

The extent of variation in the geographic distribution of host use leading to the evolution of local adaptation and specialization is examined. A quantative genetic experiment of larval performance in three different populations of the alpine leaf beetle was performed which suggested that selection for specialization has lead to some degree of local adaptations in host use.

Plant Genetics, Genetic aspects, Host plants

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The anarchist's guide to ecological theory. Or, we don't need no stinkin' laws

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Several ecologists have suggested that ecology has several laws concluding contrasts with the views of some philosophers of science, who have suggested that biology could not have laws. The debate is however confused as two very different types of law could be recognized as correlative and causal laws.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Ecological Sciences, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental sciences, Ecosystems

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Arguments for rejecting the sequential Bonferri in ecological studies

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The sequential Bonferri has become the most commonly utilized process for interpretation of results that include multiple statistical tests in ecological literature. The mathematical, logical and practical flaws in this method are reviewed.

Statistics, Statistics (Mathematics), Mathematical statistics

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