Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology

    Crickets evade bats via olfaction beyond acoustic cues

    Yannan Li, Wenhao Zhang ... Aiqing Lin
    Olfactory bat avoidance in crickets uncovers an overlooked sensory axis in this classic system and a functional eavesdropping strategy across phylogenetically distant predator–prey interactions.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Eco-genomic analysis uncovers precision-conservation targets for the western Pacific’s southernmost salmonid

    Yi-Chien Lee, Zong-Yu Shen ... Sheng-Feng Shen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands

    Zhiwei Zhong, Bingbo Ni ... Zhibin Zhang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Genetic canalization of nutrient resorption: evidence from a widespread grass under effective salt stress

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

    Bosco Gracia-Alvira, Stefanie Migotti ... Christian Schlötterer
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Global relationships between body size and urban affinity across more than 30,000 plant and animal species

    Corey T Callaghan, Diana E Bowler ... Thomas Merckx
    Across the tree of life, urban communities are consistently characterized by many urban-avoiding species and few urban exploiters, revealing a general pattern in biodiversity responses to urbanization.
    1. Ecology

    The overall and sequence-specific degradation of soil extracellular DNA fragments: rates and influential factors

    Ting Li, Song Zhang ... Rongxiao Che
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

    Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Asymmetric introgression and thermal advantage jointly drive climate-mediated lineage turnover in a mixed-ploidy reed

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communities

    Jacob Kelman, Meena Khan ... Ben Knowles
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
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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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  1. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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