Ecology

Characterising a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding

1. David R. Hemprich-Bennett
2. Ezekiel Donkor
3. Bernard Adams
4. Naana Afua Acquaah
5. Eva D. Ofori
6. Samuel Anie-Amoah
7. Abigail Bailey
8. H. Charles J. Godfray
9. Owen T. Lewis
10. Fred Aboagye-Antwi
11. Talya D. Hackett

Reviewed by GigaScience

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

1. Dominic Rebindaine
2. Thomas W Crowther
3. Susanne S Renner
4. Zhaofei Wu
5. Yibiao Zou
6. Lidong Mo
7. Haozhi Ma
8. Raymo Bucher
9. Constantin M Zohner

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This article presents valuable findings on how the timing of cooling affects autumn bud set in European beech saplings. The study leverages extensive experimental data and provides an interesting conceptual framework for the various ways in which warming can affect bud set timing. The statistical analysis is very well considered, while indicating some factors that may temper the authors' claims. The factorial experiments offer solid support.

Reviewed by eLife

Population size estimation when multiple samples carrying the risk of misidentification are taken within the same capture occasion from the same individual

1. Rémi Fraysse
2. Rémi Choquet
3. Roger Pradel

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Seasonal variation in insect assemblages at flowers of Balanites aegyptiaca , an ecologically and socially important tree species in the Ferlo region of Senegal's Great Green Wall corridor

1. Natalia MEDINA-SERRANO
2. Anne-Genevieve Bagneres
3. Mouhamadou Moustapha Ndiaye
4. Valentin Vrecko
5. Doyle McKey
6. Martine Hossaert

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data

1. Sadie J. Ryan
2. Paul J. Huxley
3. Catherine A. Lippi
4. Samraat Pawar
5. Lauren Cator
6. Samuel S.C. Rund
7. Leah R. Johnson

Reviewed by GigaScience

Are all waterholes equal from a lion’s view? Exploring the role of prey abundance and catchability in waterhole visitation patterns in a savannah ecosystem

1. Romain Dejeante
2. Andrew J. Loveridge
3. David W. Macdonald
4. Daphine Madhlamoto
5. Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
6. Marion Valeix

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Climate warming and urbanization may expand dengue transmission risk in California

1. Lisa I. Couper
2. Terrell J Sipin
3. Samantha Sambado
4. Zoe Rennie
5. Kyle M. Shanebeck
6. Kelsey P. Lyberger
7. Philip P.A. Collender
8. Van Ngo
9. Justin V. Remais
10. Andrew J. MacDonald

Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

1. Anurag A Agrawal
2. Amy P Hastings
3. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This important study investigates how structurally diverse cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially mixtures containing nitrogen- and sulfur-containing variants, influence monarch caterpillar feeding, growth, and toxin sequestration. The experiments provide solid evidence that chemical diversity within a single group of plant toxins can have combined effects on even highly specialized herbivores that differ from the effects of each toxin alone. However, as the mixture design does not fully separate true diversity effects from the influence of the N,S-cardenolides themselves and the ecological basis for the chosen natural ratios remains weakly justified. As a result, the broader conclusions would require more fully justified concentration regimes, mixture treatments that exclude N,S-cardenolides, and tests on living plants and non-adapted herbivores to firmly support the proposed coevolutionary interpretation.

Reviewed by eLife

Spatial signature of resource distribution is mediated by consumer body size and habitat preference

1. Chelsea J. Little
2. Pierre Etienne Banville
3. Adam T. Ford
4. Rachel M. Germain

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Rift Valley fever virus dynamics in a transhumant cattle system in The Gambia

1. Essa Jarra
2. Divine Ekwem
3. Sarah Cleaveland
4. Daniel T Haydon

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This modelling study tests several hypotheses describing how seasonality and migration drive the epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever Virus among transhumant cattle in The Gambia. The work is methodologically solid, and the findings offer valuable insights into how the movement of cattle in and out of the Gambia River and Sahel ecoregions could lead to source-sink transmission dynamics among cattle subpopulations, sustaining endemic transmission.

Reviewed by eLife