Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology

    Novel but stable endosymbionts have contrasting effects on aphid dispersal and plant feeding damage in the cereal pest Diuraphis noxia

    Xinyue Gu, Alex Gill ... Ary A Hoffmann
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

    Cody A Freas, Antoine Wystrach
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Asymmetric introgression and thermal advantage jointly drive climate-mediated lineage turnover in a mixed-ploidy reed

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology

    Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands

    Zhiwei Zhong, Bingbo Ni ... Zhibin Zhang
    At moderate densities, small mammalian herbivores can enhance livestock weight gains by suppressing toxic plants and improving both the abundance and nutritional quality of palatable forage in rangelands.
    1. Ecology

    Stage-specific threats reveal the inadequacy of adult-centered conservation

    Yan-Fang Song, Yong-Le Wang ... Wei-Wei Zhou
    In complex life cycle taxa, the relationship between functional traits and threat status varies across developmental stages, making adult‑based threat predictions insufficient to reflect risks faced during other life stages.
    1. Ecology

    Soil extracellular DNA fragments show variable degradation rates among sequences and environmental conditions

    Ting Li, Song Zhang ... Rongxiao Che
    Extracellular DNA degrades at markedly different rates across soils and sequences, substantially biasing estimates of prokaryotic abundance, diversity, and community composition.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Plasticity Associated with Adoption of Social Roles in Clown Anemonefish

    Lili F Vizer, Douglas Alvarado ... Peter M Buston
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Spatiotemporal patterns of genetic diversity in the world’s coral reefs

    Oliver Selmoni, Meredith C Schuman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes

    Punya Alahakoon, Ian Marchinton ... James A Hay
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Ecology

    Planetary-scale heterotrophic microbial community modeling assesses metabolic synergy and viral impacts

    Antoine Régimbeau, Funing Tian ... Damien Eveillard
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Ecology

    Insect Migration: A sense of direction

    Aleksandr Pakhomov, Dmitry Kishkinev
    1. Ecology

    Disease Transmission: Interactions between wild pigs and the spread of disease

    Mercury Shitindo
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Camouflage: Tiny particles help insects evade predators

    Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong

Senior editors

  1. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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