Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Ecology

   Early experience affects foraging behavior of wild fruit bats more than their original behavioral predispositions

   Adi Rachum, Lee M Harten ... Yossi Yovel

   Early-life environment shapes how wild bats behave as adults, showing that developmental experience, rather than innate predisposition, drives individual differences in foraging behavior.
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Neuroscience

   Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius)

   Christoph D Dahl, Yaling Cheng

   A jumping spider discriminates familiar from novel conspecifics for hours, indicating recognition and long-term memory in a miniature-brained, asocial arthropod, highlighting learning and internal representations in small nervous systems.
3. 1. Ecology

   Assessing plant phenological changes based on drivers of spring phenology

   Yong Jiang, Stephen J Mayor ... Qing-Lai Dang

   A new method to partition observed phenological changes based on drivers of spring phenology has been presented.
4. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Ecology

   Microbial consortia in salt marsh sediments are sequentially buried over millennia and genomic complementarity analysis indicates an important role in complex carbon decomposition

   Joseph H Vineis, Ashley N Bulseco ... Jennifer L Bowen
5. 1. Ecology

   Birds migrate longitudinally in response to the resultant Asian monsoons of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift

   Wenyuan Zhang, Zhongru Gu ... Xiangjiang Zhan

   The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau redirected avian migrations from latitudinal to longitudinal paths through induced monsoon systems, fundamentally reshaping continental biogeographic patterns.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   vassi – verifiable, automated scoring of social interactions in animal groups

   Paul Nührenberg, Aneesh PH Bose, Alex Jordan
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Kinematics and morphological correlates of descent strategies in arboreal mammals suggest early upright postures in euprimates

   Séverine LD Toussaint, Dionisios Youlatos, John A Nyakatura
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   The dominant–egalitarian transition in species-rich communities

   David A Kessler, Nadav M Shnerb

   A model of a species-rich neutral ecosystem, perturbed by environmental noise impacting each species differently, predicts that for large noise the community is dominated by a few species, while for weaker noise it is more egalitarian, with many significant species.
9. 1. Ecology

   Partitioning changes in ecosystem productivity by effects of species interactions in biodiversity experiments

   Jing Tao, Charles A Nock ... Ji Zheng

   A novel approach has been developed to partition the net biodiversity effect into components associated with positive, negative, and competitive species interactions.
10. 1. Ecology

    Desmodium volatiles in ‘push-pull’ cropping systems and protection against the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda

    Daria M Odermatt, Frank Chidawanyika ... Meredith C Schuman

    'Push-pull' agro-ecosystems appear to protect maize against the fall armyworm, but volatiles from Desmodium intercrops are not sufficient to reliably repel this herbivore, indicating that additional mechanisms contribute to protection.