Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Ecology

   Strip cropping in organic agriculture results in 15% higher ground beetle richness and 30% higher activity density than monocultures

   Luuk Croijmans, Fogelina Cuperus ... Erik H Poelman
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Weak evidence for heritable changes in response to selection by aphids in Arabidopsis accessions

   Marc W Schmid, Klara Kropivšek ... Ueli Grossniklaus
3. 1. Ecology

   Loss of olfaction reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to a natural enemy

   Qi Wang, Yufei Jia ... Alexander Haverkamp
4. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use

   Elliot Howard-Spink, Tetsuro Matsuzawa ... Dora Biro
5. 1. Ecology

   Assessing plant phenological changes based on drivers of spring phenology

   Yong Jiang, Stephen J Mayor ... Qing-Lai Dang
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size, challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds

   Shinichi Nakagawa, William K Cornwell, Corey T Callaghan

   Analysis of 3 billion bird observations finds no intrinsic abundance-occupancy relationship, overturning a famous macroecological rule and redefining approaches to biodiversity assessment and conservation.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Brochosomes as an antireflective camouflage coating for leafhoppers

   Wei Wu, Qianzhuo Mao ... Jian-Ping Chen

   Leafhoppers evade predators using nanostructured brochosomes that reduce ultraviolet reflectance through morphology shaped by four novel structural proteins originating from evolutionary duplication–divergence processes.
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction

   Wenwei Guo, Li Tian ... Jinnan Tong
9. 1. Ecology

   Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns

   Jessica E Rosien, Luke D Fannin ... Amanda Tan

   Monkeys are sensitive to foods coated with tooth-damaging sand and will invest time and energy to eliminate sand, but dominance rank affects the effort allocated to cleaning behaviors.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Variation in albumin glycation rates in birds suggests resistance to relative hyperglycaemia rather than conformity to the pace of life syndrome hypothesis

    Adrián Moreno Borrallo, Sarahi Jaramillo Ortiz ... Francois Criscuolo

    Bird species with higher plasma glucose show comparatively lower albumin glycation, suggesting the evolution of glycation resistance mechanisms, and terrestrial carnivores present higher glycation than omnivores.