ecomorphological

Coming next: ecomorphological flexibility in sea kraits.

‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006

Nice to get a definitive answer, and I suppose that the ecomorphological flexibility is every bit as cool as relict cave lions would have been.

Giant killers: macropredation in lions Darren Naish 2006

Coming next: ecomorphological flexibility in sea kraits.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

We suggest that distinct wing and beak morphologies are ecomorphological adaptations resulting from divergent, multifarious selection regimes during migration.

John Wills Lloyd 2009

The Neotropical ovenbird-woodcreeper family (Furnariidae) is an avian group characterized by exceptionally diverse ecomorphological adaptations.

BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

Shapes that are wider at the posterior part of the body and have a sharper angle at the anterior part of the body are known to possess an advantageous hydrodynamic profile, which will limit drag and allow better propulsion This was recently experimentally investigated and discussed thoroughly by Langerhans et al. [9], who also formulated a new ecomorphological paradigm based on a biomechanical model of swimming.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fabrice Eroukhmanoff et al. 2009

It’s usually implied in the literature that laticaudids are more flexible, in ecomorphological terms, than are hydrophiids in that they are not all marine: as mentioned above, the sometimes melanistic Laticauda crockeri is restriced to the brackish Lake Te-Nggano (also called Lake Tegano) on Rennell Island (one of the Solomons: and if you’re especially interested in Solomon Islands wildlife go here).

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity Darren Naish 2006

It’s usually implied in the literature that laticaudids are more flexible, in ecomorphological terms, than are hydrophiids in that they are not all marine: as mentioned above, the sometimes melanistic Laticauda crockeri is restriced to the brackish Lake Te-Nggano (also called Lake Tegano) on Rennell Island (one of the Solomons: and if you’re especially interested in Solomon Islands wildlife go here).

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

Given the really cool work on furnariid ecomorphological diversity, adaptational shifts, phylogeny and nest diversity that’s recently been published (see Fjeldså et al. 2005 and Irestedt et al. 2006), I’d like to say a lot more about them, but that will have to wait, and I have to end this here.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006