Ecology

Ecology

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    1. Ecology

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

    Yi-Bo Ma, Guijun Wan ... Gao Hu
    Behavioral evidence demonstrates that geomagnetic and visual cues are integrated to guide nocturnal migratory insects.
    1. Ecology

    Developmental constraints mediate the reversal of temperature effects on the autumn phenology of European beech after the summer solstice

    Dominic Rebindaine, Thomas W Crowther ... Constantin M Zohner
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    The overall and sequence-specific degradation of soil extracellular 16S rRNA genes across China: rates and influential factors

    Ting Li, Song Zhang ... Rongxiao Che
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    New idtracker.ai rethinks multi-animal tracking as a representation learning problem to increase accuracy and reduce tracking time

    Jordi Torrents, Tiago Costa, Gonzalo de Polavieja
    Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Adaptive variation in avian eggshell gas conductance and structure across elevational gradients?

    David Ocampo, Carlos D Cadena ... Gustavo A. Londoño
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fitness drivers of division of labor in vertebrates

    Irene García-Ruiz, Dustin R Rubenstein
    Direct survival benefits in larger groups rather than kin-selected indirect fitness primarily drive the evolution of division of labor in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, particularly under harsh environmental conditions.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Plasticity Associated with Adoption of Social Roles in Clown Anemonefish

    Lili F Vizer, Douglas Alvarado ... Peter M Buston
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

    Cody A Freas, Antoine Wystrach
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

    Anurag A Agrawal, Amy P Hastings, Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
    Confirming coevolutionary theory, monarch butterfly caterpillars show impaired growth and toxin sequestration when feeding on realistic cardenolide mixtures from their milkweed host plants.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    Drift in Individual Behavioral Phenotype as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds

    Ryan Maloney, Athena Ye ... Benjamin L de Bivort
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
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Highlights

    1. Ecology

    Insect Migration: A sense of direction

    Aleksandr Pakhomov, Dmitry Kishkinev
    1. Ecology

    Disease Transmission: Interactions between wild pigs and the spread of disease

    Mercury Shitindo
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Camouflage: Tiny particles help insects evade predators

    Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong

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    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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