Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    The neuronal clock network in the polar key species Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)

    Lukas Hüppe, Nils Reinhard ... Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Moderate density of small mammalian herbivores facilitates livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands

    Zhiwei Zhong, Bingbo Ni ... Zhibin Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Beyond Acoustic Cues: Olfactory-Mediated Avoidance of Bats by Crickets

    Yannan Li, Wenhao Zhang ... Aiqing Lin
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Dopamine and its receptor DcDop2 are involved in the coevolution between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and Diaphorina citri

    Xiaoge Nian, Jiayun Li ... Songdou Zhang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons

    Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Albert B Kao
    A navigational model exploring social learning strategies differing in cognitive complexity in homing pigeons shows that simple averaging sufficiently explains collective route improvements, without requiring cumulative cultural evolution.
    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
    Faster early-season development, especially under nighttime warming, advances the point at which the autumn phenology of European beech becomes responsive to late-summer cooling.
    1. Ecology

    Conservation Blind Spot: The Critical Role of Larval Stage in Assessing Extinction Risk

    Yanfang Song, Yongle Wang ... Weiwei Zhou
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

    Juan Diaz-Colunga, Pablo Catalan ... Alvaro Sanchez
    A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.
    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
    In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.
    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    Drift in individual behavioral phenotype as a strategy for unpredictable worlds

    Ryan T Maloney, Athena Q Ye ... Benjamin L de Bivort
    Individual flies have idiosyncratic preferences that shift over their lifetime in a way that depends on genotype and may be adaptive to rapidly changing environmental pressures.
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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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