Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

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

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

   Assessing plant phenological changes based on drivers of spring phenology

   Yong Jiang, Stephen J Mayor ... Qing-Lai Dang
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Ecology

   Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

   Iva Veseli, Yiqun T Chen ... A Murat Eren

   Higher biosynthetic capacity of gut microbes in individuals diagnosed with noncommunicable diseases or taking antibiotics suggests that diversity loss and 'dysbiosis' result from microbiome restructuring in response to ecosystem disruption.
9. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Fitness drivers of division of labor in vertebrates

   Irene García-Ruiz, Dustin Rubenstein
10. 1. Ecology

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

    Wenyuan Zhang, Zhongru Gu ... Xiangjiang Zhan