Author(s): Gibb H; Bishop TR; Leahy L; Parr CL; Lessard JP; Sanders NJ; Shik JZ; Ibarra-Isassi J; Narendra A; Dunn RR; Wright IJ;

Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from decades of work that largely focussed on plants. However, a key question is whether plant ecological strategies resemb ...

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Biologists have long been fascinated by the processes that give rise to phenotypic complexity of organisms, yet whether there exist geographical hotspots of phenotypic complexity remains poorly explored. Phenotypic complexity can be readily observed in ant colonies, which are superorganisms with ...

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