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Rare catastrophic events drive population dynamics in a bat species with negligible senescence by Fleischer, Toni, Gampe, Jutta, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Kerth, Gerald

“…Bats are remarkably long-lived with lifespans exceeding even those of same-sized birds. Despite a recent interest in the extraordinary longevity of bats very…”
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Constant mortality and fertility over age in Hydra by Schaible, Ralf, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Dańko, Maciej J, Gampe, Jutta, Martínez, Daniel E, Vaupel, James W

“…Senescence, the increase in mortality and decline in fertility with age after maturity, was thought to be inevitable for all multicellular species capable of…”
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The emergence of longevous populations by Colchero, Fernando, Rau, Roland, Jones, Owen R., Barthold, Julia A., Conde, Dalia A., Lenart, Adam, Nemeth, Laszlo, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Schoeley, Jonas, Torres, Catalina, Zarulli, Virginia, Altmann, Jeanne, Brockman, Diane K., Bronikowski, Anne M., Fedigan, Linda M., Pusey, Anne E., Stoinski, Tara S., Strier, Karen B., Baudisch, Annette, Alberts, Susan C., Vaupel, James W.

“…The human lifespan has traversed a long evolutionary and historical path, from short-lived primate ancestors to contemporary Japan, Sweden, and other longevity…”
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COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography by Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto, Jones, Owen R, Archer, C. Ruth, Bein, Christoph, Buhr, Hendrik, Farack, Claudia, Gottschalk, Fränce, Hartmann, Alexander, Henning, Anne, Hoppe, Gabriel, Römer, Gesa, Ruoff, Tara, Sommer, Veronika, Wille, Julia, Voigt, Jakob, Zeh, Stefan, Vieregg, Dirk, Buckley, Yvonne M, Che‐Castaldo, Judy, Hodgson, David, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Caswell, Hal, Vaupel, James W, Coulson, Tim

“…The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases…”
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Global warming leads to larger bats with a faster life history pace in the long-lived Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii) by Mundinger, Carolin, Fleischer, Toni, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Kerth, Gerald

“…Whether species can cope with environmental change depends considerably on their life history. Bats have long lifespans and low reproductive rates which make…”
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Ant Colonies Do Not Trade-Off Reproduction against Maintenance by Kramer, Boris H, Schrempf, Alexandra, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Heinze, Jürgen

“…The question on how individuals allocate resources into maintenance and reproduction is one of the central questions in life history theory. Yet, resource…”
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Deterioration, death and the evolution of reproductive restraint in late life by McNamara, John M., Houston, Alasdair I., Barta, Zoltan, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Fromhage, Lutz

“…Explaining why organisms schedule reproduction over their lifetimes in the various ways that they do is an enduring challenge in biology. An influential…”
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Differences in seasonal survival suggest species‐specific reactions to climate change in two sympatric bat species by Reusch, Christine, Gampe, Jutta, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Meier, Frauke, Grosche, Lena, Kerth, Gerald

“…Long‐lived animals with a low annual reproductive output need a long time to recover from population crashes and are, thus, likely to face high extinction…”
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Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat by Stapelfeldt, Bianca, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Tress, Christoph, Koch, Ralf, Tress, Johannes, Kerth, Gerald

“…Bats are characterized by low reproductive rates in contrast with most of other small mammals. This makes their populations vulnerable when inclement…”
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No simple answers for ecological immunology: relationships among immune indices at the individual level break down at the species level in waterfowl by Matson, Kevin D, Cohen, Alan A, Klasing, Kirk C, Ricklefs, Robert E, Scheuerlein, Alexander

“…Understanding immune function in the context of other life-history traits is crucial to understand the evolution of life histories, at both the individual and…”
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Community relationships of avian malaria parasites in southern Missouri by Ricklefs, R.E, Swanson, B.L, Fallon, S.M, Martinez-Abrain, A, Scheuerlein, A, Gray, J, Latta, S.C

“…We studied the organization and temporal stability of an assemblage of malaria parasites (genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus) and their passerine avian hosts…”
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Predators as stressors? Physiological and reproductive consequences of predation risk in tropical stonechats (Saxicola torquata axillaris) by Scheuerlein, Alexander, Van't Hof, Thomas, Gwinner, Eberhard

“…Tropical birds usually lay smaller clutches and are less likely to initiate a second brood than their temperate–zone relatives. This reduction in annual…”
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Is Food Availability a Circannual Zeitgeber in Tropical Birds? A Field Experiment on Stonechats in Tropical Africa by Scheuerlein, Alexander, Gwinner, Eberhard

“…Equatorial stonechats (Saxicola torquata axillaris) in Africa are seasonal breeders like their temperate-zone conspecifics (S.t. rubicola). Their annual cycle…”
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Long-term study shows that increasing body size in response to warmer summers is associated with a higher mortality risk in a long-lived bat species by Mundinger, Carolin, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Kerth, Gerald

“…Change in body size is one of the universal responses to global warming, with most species becoming smaller. While small size in most species corresponds to…”
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Heat over heritability: Increasing body size in response to global warming is not stabilized by genetic effects in Bechstein's bats by Mundinger, Carolin, Schaik, Jaap, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Kerth, Gerald

“…How well populations can cope with global warming will often depend on the evolutionary potential and plasticity of their temperature‐sensitive,…”
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Long-term field study reveals that warmer summers lead to larger and longer-lived females only in northern populations of Natterer’s bats by Stapelfeldt, Bianca, Tress, Christoph, Koch, Ralf, Tress, Johannes, Kerth, Gerald, Scheuerlein, Alexander

“…Animals often respond to climate change with changes in morphology, e.g., shrinking body size with increasing temperatures, as expected by Bergmann’s rule…”
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Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals by Lemaître, Jean-François, Ronget, Victor, Tidière, Morgane, Allainé, Dominique, Berger, Vérane, Cohas, Aurélie, Colchero, Fernando, Conde, Dalia A., Garratt, Michael, Liker, András, Marais, Gabriel A. B., Scheuerlein, Alexander, Székely, Tamás, Gaillard, Jean-Michel

“…In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such…”
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Diversity of ageing across the tree of life by Jones, Owen R., Scheuerlein, Alexander, Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Camarda, Carlo Giovanni, Schaible, Ralf, Casper, Brenda B., Dahlgren, Johan P., Ehrlén, Johan, García, María B., Menges, Eric S., Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F., Caswell, Hal, Baudisch, Annette, Vaupel, James W.

“…Evolution drives, and is driven by, demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype’s age patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns…”
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Artificially raised roost temperatures lead to larger body sizes in wild bats by Mundinger, Carolin, Wolf, Janis M., Gogarten, Jan F., Fierz, Marcel, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Kerth, Gerald

“…Climate warming has major consequences for animal populations, as ambient temperature profoundly influences all organisms’ physiology, behavior, or both.1 Body…”
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Worker lifespan is an adaptive trait during colony establishment in the long-lived ant Lasius niger by Kramer, Boris H., Schaible, Ralf, Scheuerlein, Alexander

“…Eusociality has been recognized as a strong driver of lifespan evolution. While queens show extraordinary lifespans of 20years and more, worker lifespan is…”
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