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Migratory behaviour affects the size of brains in birds
Researchers at Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF, a UAB-affiliated centre) shed new light on the evolution of brain size in birds. Scientists have known for some time that migratory birds have smaller brains than their resident...
Elemental factors and ecology
The identification of general connections between the chemical composition of organisms and the laws of ecosystem function and structure is an increasingly present objective in the current agenda of ecology. For this reason we consider the ratio among the main elements (carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus)...
Organic agriculture: a good option to be improved
Ecological farming is possible and the range of possibilities is large, but not all are advantages. The biodiversity of fields is affected by the changes involved in both using organic fertilisers and the management of weeds. Precisely how weeds are eliminated seems to be...
