Dear Colleagues,
We are very glad to announce that the latest issue, 3rd issue of 2011, has been published online. The papers are now available on the journal web page, http://www.currentzoology.org/currentissue.asp. This issue includs 10 regular peer-reviewed papers, together with a Special Column: Effects of Extreme Climate Change on Birds. Among the 10 regular papers is one paper about parental child homicide in stepfamilies, which is contributed by Prof Hans TEMRIN from D e p a r t m e n t o f Z o o l o g y , S t o c k h o l m U n i v e r s i t y. This paper challenges "Cinderella Effect", one of the core findings of evolutionary psychology,as commented by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201101/why-are-stepparents-more-likely-kill-their-children . Coming out in the 4th issue: Special issue, Animal Cognition. Volume 57, Issue 3 Content Table ( PDF[9656 KB] ) Is the higher rate of parental child homicide in stepfamilies an effect of non-genetic relatedness? ( PDF[64 KB] ) Hans TEMRIN, Johanna NORDLUND, Mikael RYING, Birgitta S. TULLBERG Sleeping site use of the white-headed langur Trachypithecus leucocephalus: The role of predation risk, territorial defense, and proximity to feeding sites ( PDF[1245 KB] ) Dayong LI, Qihai ZHOU, Xiaoping TANG, Henglian HUANG, Chengming HUANG Locomotor adaptations in Plio-Pleistocene large carnivores from the Italian Peninsula: Palaeoecological implications ( PDF[350 KB] ) Carlo MELORO Copulatory pattern and behavior in a semi-captive population of Eld's deer ( PDF[196 KB] ) Zhigao ZENG, Yan-Ling SONG, Qiong ZHANG Gut passage of epigeous ectomycorrhizal fungi by two opportunistic mycophagous rodents ( PDF[109 KB] ) Citlalli CASTILLO-GUEVARA, Josette SIERRA, Gema GALINDO-FLORES,Mariana CUAUTLE, Carlos LARA Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds? ( PDF[103 KB] ) Kathleen R. PESHEK, Daniel T. BLUMSTEIN Avian succession along ecological gradients: Insight from species-poor and species-rich communities of Sylvia warblers ( PDF[299 KB] ) Alban GUILLAUMET, Roger PRODON Bird assemblages in natural and urbanized habitats along elevational gradient in Nainital district (western Himalaya) of Uttarakhand state, India ( PDF[1083 KB] ) Dinesh BHATT, Kamal Kant JOSHI Can native species crucian carp Carassius auratus recognizes the introduced red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii? ( PDF[298 KB] ) Fengjin CAI, Zhengjun WU, Nan HE, Zhenxing WANG, Chengming HUANG Nimodipine alleviates apoptosis-mediated impairments through the mitochondrial pathway after spinal cord injury ( PDF[479 KB] ) Yafei CAI, Rui FAN, Tianmiao HUA, Huiling LIU, Jing LI Editorial: Why responses to dramatic climate change are important? ( PDF[13 KB] ) Anders Pape Møller Behavioral and life history responses to extreme climatic conditions: Studies on a migratory songbird ( PDF[353 KB] ) A. P. Møller What are extreme environmental conditions and how do organisms cope with them? ( PDF[353 KB] ) John C. WINGFIELD, J. Patrick KELLEY, Frédéric ANGELIER Extreme climatic events in relation to global change and their impact on life histories ( PDF[131 KB] ) Juan MORENO, Anders Pape Møller Host-parasite interactions under extreme climatic conditions ( PDF[159 KB] ) J. MARTINEZ, S. MERINO Community responses to extreme climatic conditions ( PDF[116 KB] ) Frédéric JIGUET, Lluis BROTONS, Vincent DEVICTOR Warmer springs, laying date and clutch size of tree sparrows Passer montanus in Croatia ( PDF[135 KB] ) Z. DOLENEC, P. DOLENEC, A.P. MØLLER You are welcome to submite your findings to CURRENT ZOOLOGY. Zhi-Yun JIA,Ph.D. Executive Editor Current Zoology http://www.currentzoology.org Institute of Zoology The Chinese Academy of Sciences Beichen Xilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China Coverd by SCI and Current Contents, BIOSIS Preview,Biological Abstract, Zoological Records, Chemical Abstract, and Scopus, CURRENT ZOOLOGY is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed international journal that publishes reviews and research articles, including significant new findings of fundamental and general interest. Submissions in the research fields of ecology, behavioral biology, biogeography, conservation biology, evolutionary biology and genomics are especially welcome. In particular, CURRENT ZOOLOGY seeks to publish research that explores the interface between zoological disciplines, and is truly integrative by illuminating the greater picture.
