Little is known about the factors causing variation in behavioural plasticity and the interplay between personality and plasticity. Habituation to predators is a special case of behavioural plasticity ...

Ecological communities are shaped by a complex array of direct and indirect interactions. These interactions are spatially and temporally dynamic and can be challenging to disentangle. Relationships ...

Direct labor costs and indirect headcount algorithms can provide business owners and managers with an important tool for financial analysis. Both of these cost valuation systems are used as a means to ...

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) influence plant competition via direct interactions with pathogens and mutualists or indirectly via apparent competition/mutualisms (i.e ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the ...

While speaking to another person, we might have to quote something the third person has said. If the third person is being directly quoted, then it is called direct speech. In order to write a ...

Direct and indirect costs are accounting concepts that help you separate expenditures that fluctuate, relative to how much business you transact, and costs that stay mostly the same, whether you sell ...

This practical guide explains the differences between direct and indirect speech, along with essential rules for conversion. Covering pronoun shifts, tense changes, time expression adjustments, and ...

Concerns about biodiversity tend to focus on the loss of species from ecosystems, but a new study suggests that the loss of variation within species can also have important ecological consequences.