Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology

    Early experience affects foraging behavior of wild fruit-bats more than their original behavioral predispositions

    Adi Rachum, Lee Harten ... Yossi Yovel
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology

    Partitioning changes in ecosystem productivity by effects of species interactions in biodiversity experiments

    Jing Tao, Charles A Nock ... Ji Zheng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Ecology

    Effects of blood meal source and seasonality on reproductive traits of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

    Kevin Alen Rucci, Gabriel Barco ... Adrián Díaz
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Ecology

    Female Moths Incorporate Plant Acoustic Emissions into Their Oviposition Decision-Making Process

    Rya Seltzer, Guy Zer Eshel ... Yossi Yovel
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses

    Rebecca D Tarvin, Jeffrey L Coleman ... Richard W Fitch
    The detection of low quantities of alkaloids in putatively nontoxic species of poison frogs sheds light on early evolutionary stages of chemical defense in animals.
    1. Ecology

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

    Itai Bloch, David Troupin ... Nir Sapir
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    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.
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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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  1. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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