Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Ecology

   Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension?

   Chao Wen, Yuyi Lu ... Lars Chittka

   Behavioral studies reveal that bumblebees distinguish between continuous and interrupted strings by using a combination of image matching and associative learning.
2. 1. Ecology

   Fine-scale tracking reveals visual field use for predator detection and escape in collective foraging of pigeon flocks

   Mathilde Delacoux, Fumihiro Kano

   Foveal vision in pigeons plays a crucial role in predator detection while the flock is collectively foraging and being vigilant.
3. 1. Ecology

   Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist

   Elham Nourani, Louise Faure ... Kamran Safi

   The realized energy landscape expands as animals improve their movement behaviors with age.
4. 1. Ecology

   Different coexistence patterns between apex carnivores and mesocarnivores based on temporal, spatial, and dietary niche partitioning analysis in Qilian Mountain National Park, China

   Wei Cong, Jia Li ... Yuguang Zhang

   Spatial segregation is identified as the primary mechanism facilitating the coexistence of apex and mesocarnivores in the Qilian Mountain National Park, China.
5. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Ecology

   A rapid phylogeny-based method for accurate community profiling of large-scale metabarcoding datasets

   Lenore Pipes, Rasmus Nielsen

   Tronko provides a scalable solution for accurate taxonomic assignment for large-scale metabarcoding datasets by overcoming the speed and memory limitations of previous phylogenetic placement methods.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   An illusion of a macroecological law, abundance-occupancy relationships

   Shinichi Nakagawa, William K Cornwell, Corey T Callaghan
7. 1. Ecology

   Near infrared radiation-driven oxygenic photosynthesis contributes substantially to primary production in biofilms harboring chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria

   Maria Mosshammer, Erik CL Trampe ... Michael Kühl
8. 1. Ecology

   Contrasting responses to aridity by different-sized decomposers cause similar decomposition rates across a precipitation gradient

   Viraj R Torsekar, Nevo Sagi ... Dror Hawlena
9. 1. Ecology

   Multi-dimensionality of tree communities structure host-parasitoid networks and their phylogenetic composition

   Ming-Qiang Wang, Shi-Kun Guo ... Chao-Dong Zhu
10. 1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius)

    Christoph D Dahl, Yaling Cheng