Sexual shape dimorphism accelerated by male-male competition, but not prevented by sex-indiscriminate parental care in dung beetles (Scarabaeidae)

Evolution birds investment Consequences History Coleoptera Size dimorphism Onthophagus-taurus

Pathways to Truth: Comparing Different Upscaling Options for an Agent-Based Sector Model

Simulation systems Decisions Structural-change Policies

Optimal foraging behavior with an explicit consideration of within-individual behavioral variation: an example of predation

models Personality time Prey Temperature Food Optimal diets

Impacts of dispersal limitation on temporal biodiversity patterns in a neutral model

The response of simulated grassland communities to the cessation of grazing

Land-use change Biodiversity Functional-response Seminatural grasslands Beta diversity Taxonomic diversity Plant-species richness Steppe-like grasslands Herbaceous vegetation Southern sweden

Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias

proliferation growth Mechanisms Framework Stochastic invasion Equations Random-walk models Adhesion Guidance Migration assay

Analysis of functional response in presence of schooling phenomena: An IBM approach

behavior models emergence collective motion vision Animal groups Fish schools Heterogeneous environment Ratio Predator-prey systems

Unifying ecology and macroevolution with individual-based theory

Evolution Biodiversity Community ecology Tropical forests Protracted speciation Niche Species abundance distributions Unified-neutral-theory Numbers add Red queen

On the evolution of dispersal via heterogeneity in spatial connectivity

Individual-based model behavior Network Structure Landscape connectivity Density-dependent dispersal Metapopulation Rates Structured populations Quantitative-analysis Kin competition

Development of a macro-scale model from a meso-scale model for cell culture population dynamics

Migration proliferation Automaton model Tissue-growth Contact-inhibited cells