RSS 1.0Zoology (Theses and Dissertations)
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Dietary Conservatism: The Influences and Determinants of Alternative Foraging Strategies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Dietary conservatism – the existence of alternative foraging strategies in response to novel foods – continues to be a little-known and understudied topic of animal behaviour. In every vertebrate population tested so far, ... -
Understanding variation in ecology and physiology of marine migratory species.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)As the world faces the threats of multiple compounded and worsening crises, scientists are racing to gather the knowledge necessary to safeguard entire ecosystems and species. Technological advances are continuously ... -
Temperature and the ecophysiology of marine ectotherms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Temperature influences the physiology, behaviour, and distribution of organisms and the field of thermal ecology has been stimulated in recent decades by the need for a greater understanding of how climate change will ... -
Human pressure as an ecological force across scales and systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Historically, climate has been seen as the main driver of global vegetation patterns, but ecological paradigms have recently expanded to acknowledge human activity as a critical determinant of species biogeography. Today, ... -
Dispersal and speciation in the avian archipelago
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2022)Islands play a key role in both the evolution of new species and our understanding of that evolution. The colonisation of islands, followed by different levels of gene flow between populations, has produced a diverse ...
