Intraspecific competition Puns

Is there a word for this in the science of ecology?

Basically looking for an article or two to cite so I can state "competition reduces fitness". This is proving to be annoyingly difficult.

I just finished a month long biology experiment with fast plants. Results I got showed that intraspecific plants grew better than interspecific. Why is this? Wouldn't the intraspecific plants be competing some nutrients? Any articles that explain why would be very helpful!

Hi! Spore was basically my childhood and I'm very excited about there being a spiritual successor with more promise (and whimsy) than Thrive. I just hope that y'all keep things realistic and find a way to keep motivation through the development slog, and I'm rooting for you to get to a final product even if it takes several years. That said, since you seem very open to suggestions, here's a couple of ideas I wanted to bring up for various stages, hopefully ones that wouldn't add too much scope or ambition.

- Organelle absorption for stage advancement. It's thought that some of the organelles in animal cells on Earth may have been separate microbes symbiotically incorporated into larger ones. Perhaps when you absorb specific species of smaller cells, your cell gains certain stat buffs independent of its external parts. Advancing to the aquatic stage might rely on gathering all the organelles needed for larger-scale function as a set of items, with different micro-challenges built into finding each one.

- Evolutionary fitness in the editor. I might have seen this brought up before somewhere, but I think that when you die in the early stages (cell, aquatic, creature), you should go to the editor instead of just respawning, to show that your creature is adapting as it hits new challenges and encourage problem-solving in the editor. Maybe show a little dialog when it first happens: "this lineage of your species has died off, try to adapt a new variation to overcome the challenges they could not" or something like that. Really easy to implement and would add a lot of flavor.

- Intraspecific competition and social development. The creature stage could include competing with other members of your own species rather than only with others, forcing in some element of player skill because you'd be on an even power level with other hostile members of your own species as you fight for food sources or hunting territory. Part of the progression to the tribal stage might be to gather more and more members of your species together to reflect the development of sociality.

- Agriculture for stage advancement. At the end of the tribal stage, you could start cultivating the procedural plants from the world as the transition to the medieval stage. Then in the medieval stage, part of your city building would be farms of different kinds of plant found on your planet, and the longer you cultivate a certain plant species, the better (more nourishing, easier t

Pemchaz Belba scuttled to the head of the table and attempted the beanbag which had been placed there by a well-meaning attendant, accidentally puncturing it with his forelegs, then flipping it over seconds before a rotund human, wearing a strange plant-fiber garment externally secured with a belt of similar material burst into the room.

"Mr. Belba! Sorry I'm late." Pemchaz replaced the beanbag in its former position

"Oh, I got here only minutes before you did. But please call me 'Pemchaz'. Use of my surname is inappropriately familiar here, I'm afraid." The Vrith tapped his thorax-mounted translator affectionately, relieved that his friendly tone could be communicated with the new model.

Kazushi slumped in a chair. "Glad to see we're getting off on the right foot, I don't mean to offend."

Pemchaz attempted an ingratiating smile, ruined by his chelicerae. "I am not offended. I am the inter-species aide to the pan-stellar fighting championship and these niceties are my primary duty, not yours. But another one of my duties is to prevail on the Terran athletic commissioner to lift the ban on humans competing in these championships."

"Why?" Kazushi asked.

"I'm sure you can guess,” Pemchaz responded. “New sentient contact is terribly rare, especially ones with durability appropriate for these games. Our viewers are excited to see the best of your species compete, and I'm sure we can come to a most favorable profit-sharing arrangement with your government-"

"No." Kazushi interrupted. "I mean, I’m very sorry to waste your time, you must have travelled a frightfully long way to see me here. I'm afraid that our policy has not changed, and the answer must remain no."

"Why? I mean, I understand, I injured your sitting object before you came in just now. But the PSFC rules prohibit the use of natural cutting weapons, and Vrith fighters have their forelegs and manipulator claws blunted before competing," Pemchaz explained.

"I'm not concerned for human competitors, I'm worried for the others. See the garment? I'm not here as athletic commissioner. In human cultures, older martial artists advise younger ones on the tasks they should attempt, and I'm saying respectfully that the other species aren't ready," Kazushi said, gesturing downward with a knobble-knuckled hand.

"I must remind you that though human physical capacities are high, they are not exceptional among the species which compete. Why, an adult female Prilt can lift a mass of 500 kilos overhead!

You awaken cold and itchy. In the night you seemed to have rolled off of your prized asset; an unwashed goat pelt. The stench of your own armpits hit you like a shot of caffeine into your blood as you amble around the dark cave. You begin your morning ritual of smashed berries, nuts and insects to fuel your sluggish Neanderthal body. Except what's this? A ruckus just beyond the cave entrance

It's barely sun up, but there is excitement as you step out into the cold breeze. The smell of something so delicious, it masks your ape-like musk fills the air. At last you see it, a small wood fire surrounded by your dancing monkey brethren, and atop it sits the prized beast. A bison shoulder the size of a boulder. You approach, mesmerised, as your clan begin to feast. You will eat like kings for weeks! But not if it gets eaten up first by the rest of your greedy tribe. More and more ape's begin to surround the feast and you watch as the meat gets stripped from the bone. Your stomach pangs, what if there's none left? After observing for a while your ape brain tells you to take the plunge- before there is nothing left. You sniff it first, smells good. And just like that, your due diligence is done. You may feast.

You would not stay in your cave, ignoring the ruckus at your front door. And nor should you jump in first, for what if the meat is too hot? Or rotten? This is the predicament that many people face in crypto today. Yes, being early is risky, but it also yields the greatest rewards. I believe that as long as you have smelled the meat and done your due diligence, that jumping in is a good idea. FOMO is an evolutionary response to intraspecific and interspecific competition. Not financial advice, obviously.

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well! I have a new open ecology article of the week, and this week it's maybe a first for The American Naturalist.

You can find the open access link here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716927

As always, please feel free to discuss this article in the comments below if you like. Questions, comments, or anything remotely relevant is fair game!

Abstract: Species interactions mediate how warming affects community composition via individual growth and population size structure. While predictions on how warming affects composition of size- or stage-structured communities have so far focused on linear (food chain) communities, mixed competition-predation interactions, such as intraguild predation, are common. Intraguild predation often results from changes in diet over ontogeny (“ontogenetic diet shifts”) and strongly affects community composition and dynamics. Here, we study how warming affects a community of intraguild predators with ontogenetic diet shifts, consumers, and shared prey by analyzing a stage-structured bioenergetics multispecies model with temperature- and body size–dependent individual-level rates. We find that warming can strengthen competition and decrease predation, leading to a loss of a cultivation mechanism (the feedback between predation on and competition with consumers exerted by predators) and ultimately predator collapse. Furthermore, we show that the effect of warming on community composition depends on the extent of the ontogenetic diet shift and that warming can cause a sequence of community reconfigurations in species with partial diet shifts. Our findings contrast previous predictions concerning individual growth of predators and the mechanisms behind predator loss in warmer environments and highlight how feedbacks between temperature and intraspecific size structure are important for understanding such effects on community composition.

Repost: https://twitter.com/Rob_SalGo/status/1469299803117006848

https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/article/the-role-of-intraspecific-trait-variation-in-shaping-the-resilience-of-natural-populations-a

Project Details
This CASE project is supported by the St Andrews Botanical Garden

Key Questions
How and when does intraspecific trait variation influence the resilience of natural populations and communities?

Background

As the full scope of the climate change emergency and biodiversity crisis unfolds, we are increasingly aware that the world is changing and that biological systems are changing in turn. Future sustainability requires that we understand those changes so that policies can be implement to support ecosystem resilience. In particular, biosecurity risk, climate change, and urbanisation present existential threats that increasingly interact, disrupting the usual dynamics of species turnover and thereby pushing communities closer to tipping points for systemic breakdown. Improving our understanding of how trait-level physiological trade-offs scale to whole plant functioning, population resilience, and community assembly will enable evidence-based management strategies for some of our most vulnerable and important habitats.

In the UK, policy and research are primarily focused on charismatic or economically important plants, such as tree species (e.g., Fraxinus excelsior or Picea sitchensis). This focus means that less charismatic but nonetheless important species are under-researched, and that the functional and genetic diversity contained within species is often overlooked. These impacts are compounded by the fact that most research is limited to questions that can be addressed within a short-term funding cycle.

Resolving challenges arising from such impacts will require scaling from laboratory to experimental work in controlled environments and managed habitats over longer time frames. In this project, the PhD student will focus on stress tolerant plant species that struggle to adapt to rapid environmental change, and develop methods to identify within-species diversity and test forecasts of vulnerability.

Aims of the Project

Intra-specific trait variation is an area of active research interest, with a wide range of recent

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

But let me give it a shot.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

He’s the new temp.

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.