Search Results - "China, Victor"
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Hydrodynamic starvation in first-feeding larval fishes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-06-2014)“…Larval fishes suffer prodigious mortality rates, eliminating 99% of the brood within a few days after first feeding. Hjort (1914) famously attributed this…”
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Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms
Published in PLoS biology (29-10-2020)“…The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities. Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the…”
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Reduced human activity in shallow reefs during the COVID-19 pandemic increases fish evenness
Published in Biological conservation (01-05-2021)“…The COVID-19 pandemic provides a rare opportunity to examine effects of people on natural systems and processes. Here, we collected fish diversity data from…”
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Hydrodynamic regime determines the feeding success of larval fish through the modulation of strike kinematics
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (26-04-2017)“…Larval fishes experience extreme mortality rates, with 99% of a cohort perishing within days after starting to actively feed. While recent evidence suggests…”
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A new theoretical performance landscape for suction feeding reveals adaptive kinematics in a natural population of reef damselfish
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-07-2022)“…Understanding how organismal traits determine performance and, ultimately, fitness is a fundamental goal of evolutionary eco-morphology. However, multiple…”
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Hydrodynamic regime determines the feeding success of larval fish through the modulation of strike kinematics
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (26-04-2017)“…Larval fishes experience extreme mortality rates, with 99% of a cohort perishing within days after starting to actively feed. While recent evidence suggests…”
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From endosymbionts to host communities: factors determining the reproductive success of arthropod vectors
Published in Oecologia (01-08-2017)“…Elucidating the factors determining reproductive success has challenged scientists since Darwin, but the exact pathways that shape the evolution of life…”
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Automated detection of feeding strikes by larval fish using continuous high-speed digital video: a novel method to extract quantitative data from fast, sparse kinematic events
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-06-2016)“…Using videography to extract quantitative data on animal movement and kinematics constitutes a major tool in biomechanics and behavioral ecology. Advanced…”
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Hydrodynamic Constraints of Suction Feeding in Low Reynolds Numbers, and the Critical Period of Larval Fishes
Published in Integrative and comparative biology (01-07-2015)“…Larval fishes suffer prodigious mortality rates, eliminating 99% of the cohort within a few days after their first feeding. Hjort (1914) famously attributed…”
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Estimating the rate of biological introductions: Lessepsian fishes in the Mediterranean
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-04-2009)“…Sampling issues preclude the direct use of the discovery rate of exotic species as a robust estimate of their rate of introduction. Recently, a method was…”
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Density-Dependent Habitat and Patch use in Gerbils: Consequences of Safety in Numbers?
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