Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology

    Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test optimal foraging in an aerial insectivore bird

    Itai Bloch, David Troupin ... Nir Sapir
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Ecology

    Vasopressin 1a receptor antagonist disrupts male-male affiliative relationships formed by triadic cohabitation in large-billed crows

    Akiko Seguchi, Ei-Ichi Izawa
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology

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

    Mercury Shitindo
    Tracking wild pigs with GPS devices reveals how their social interactions could influence the spread of disease, offering new strategies for protecting agriculture, wildlife, and human health.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    Unsupervised discovery of family specific vocal usage in the Mongolian gerbil

    Ralph E Peterson, Aman Choudhri ... Dan H Sanes
    Gerbils exhibit stable, family-specific vocal dialects over weeks, suggesting vocal communication may play a key role in representing kinship in natural social groups.
    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Novel class IIb microcins show activity against Gram-negative ESKAPE and plant pathogens

    Benedikt M Mortzfeld, Shakti K Bhattarai, Vanni Bucci
    12 new class IIb microcins have been structurally identified, phylogenetically assessed, and functionally tested for their antimicrobial activity, increasing the total number of these bacteriocins to 17.
    1. Ecology

    Polarised moonlight guides nocturnal bull ants home

    Cody A Freas, Ajay Narenda ... Ken Cheng
    Large eyed bull ants are able to use the exceedingly dim lunar polarised light pattern in the overhead sky to navigate back to the nest at night.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Defensive symbionts provide high protection against natural enemies at low cost to hosts: a meta-analysis

    Cássia Siqueira Cesar, Eduardo SA Santos, Rodrigo Cogni
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology

    Integrating microscopy and transcriptomics from individual uncultured eukaryotic plankton

    Catherine Gatt, Yike Xie ... Fabio Zanini
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    First evidence for the evolution of host manipulation by tumors during the long-term vertical transmission of tumor cells in Hydra oligactis

    Justine Boutry, Océane Rieu ... Frédéric Thomas
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Ecology

    Genetic diversity affects ecosystem functions across trophic levels as much as species diversity, but in an opposite direction

    Laura Fargeot, Camille Poesy ... Simon Blanchet
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
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Highlights

    1. Ecology

    How wild pigs spread disease

    Mercury Shitindo
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman
    1. Ecology

    Ecosystems: The diversity of decay

    Emma J Sayer, Ralf Schäfer

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    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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