Abstract Background The retention of ancestral juvenile characters by adult stages of descendants is called paedomorphosis.However, this process can mislead phylogenetic analyses based on morphological data, even in combination with molecular data, because barely buff gelish the assessment if a character is primary absent or secondary lost is diffi
The erosive capacity of rainfall can be expressed by an index and knowing it allows recommendation of soil management and conservation practices to reduce water erosion.The objective of this study was to calculate various indices of rainfall erosivity in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil, identify the best one, and discover its temporal distribution.Th
Heterogeneity in forests might promote biodiversity not only through an increase in niche volume but also through other processes, such as an increase in resources and their spatial distribution.However, negative relationships between heterogeneity and biodiversity have also been observed, which may indicate that heterogeneity acts as a filter moti
Host specialization is considered a primary driver of the enormous diversity of herbivorous insects.Trade-offs in host use are hypothesized to promote this specialization, but they have mostly been studied in generalist herbivores.We conducted a multi-generation selection experiment to examine the adaptation of the specialist seed-feeding bug, Lyga