Publications by authors named "Margarita Hartlieb"
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- * Analyzing 11 years of data from 111 plots in Germany, the research highlights that different mowing techniques negatively affect the abundance and species richness of key arthropod groups, with the lowest numbers occurring immediately after mowing.
- * The study suggests that modified mowing practices and reduced frequency could mitigate some of the harmful effects on arthropods, although mowing is identified as a significant stressor overall.
Recent studies indicate that yawning evolved as a brain cooling mechanism. Given that larger brains have greater thermolytic needs and brain temperature is determined in part by heat production from neuronal activity, it was hypothesized that animals with larger brains and more neurons would yawn longer to produce comparable cooling effects. To test this, we performed the largest study on yawning ever conducted, analyzing 1291 yawns from 101 species (55 mammals; 46 birds).
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