Publications by authors named "Ciaran Harris"
Cultivation of the mass-flowering crop oilseed rape (OSR), , can provide insects with super-abundant nectar and pollen while in bloom. Several authors have suggested breeding cultivars to produce more abundant nectar and pollen to help mitigate insect decline. However, in Britain most, 95%, OSR blooms in spring (March-May), which has been suggested to be a period of nectar surplus and reduced exploitative competition.
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- Research hypothesizes that learning performance and animal personality might be linked, with natural selection influencing both simultaneously.
- The study focused on carabid beetle Nebria brevicollis females, assessing their ability to learn associations between odors and safe locations in a T-maze.
- Findings revealed that while the beetles could learn associations, they struggled to reverse their learned behavior, and no significant correlation was found between their exploratory behavior or risk-taking and learning performance.