Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology

    Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

    Anurag A Agrawal, Amy P Hastings, Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Evidence of social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in sperm whales

    Antonio Leitao, Maxime Lucas ... Giovanni Petri
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Dark matter of an orchid: metagenome of the microbiome associated with the rhizosphere of Dactylorhiza traunsteineri

    Gabriel A Vignolle, Leopold Zehetner ... Julien Charest
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fitness drivers of division of labor in vertebrates

    Irene García-Ruiz, Dustin Rubenstein
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Geomagnetic and visual cues guide seasonal migratory orientation in the nocturnal fall armyworm, the world’s most invasive insect

    Yi-Bo Ma, Gui-Jun Wan ... Gao Hu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Colony demographics shape nest construction in Camponotus fellah ants

    Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
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Highlights

    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman
    1. Ecology

    Ecosystems: The diversity of decay

    Emma J Sayer, Ralf Schäfer
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The natural history of the house sparrow

    Haley E Hanson, Noreen S Mathews ... Lynn B Martin

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