Ecology

Use of linear features by red-legged partridges in an intensive agricultural landscape: implications for landscape management in farmland

1. Charlotte Perrot
2. Léo Seranne
3. Antoine Berceaux
4. Mathias Noël
5. Beatriz Arroyo
6. Léo Bacon

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Methods for tagging an ectoparasite, the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis

1. Alexius Folk
2. Adèle Mennerat

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Landscape drives zoonotic malaria prevalence in non-human primates

1. Emilia Johnson
2. Reuben Sunil Kumar Sharma
3. Pablo Ruiz Cuenca
4. Isabel Byrne
5. Milena Salgado-Lynn
6. Zarith Suraya Shahar
7. Lee Col Lin
8. Norhadila Zulkifli
9. Nor Dilaila Mohd Saidi
10. Chris Drakeley
11. Jason Matthiopoulos
12. Luca Nelli
13. Kimberly Fornace

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This useful study presents findings regarding the impact of forest cover and fragmentation on the prevalence of malaria in non-human primates. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid.

Reviewed by eLife

Beyond variance: simple random distributions are not a good proxy for intraspecific variability in systems with environmental structure

1. Camille Girard-Tercieux
2. Ghislain Vieilledent
3. Adam Clark
4. James S. Clark
5. Benoit Courbaud
6. Claire Fortunel
7. Georges Kunstler
8. Raphaël Pélissier
9. Nadja Rüger
10. Isabelle Maréchaux

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Efficient sampling designs to assess biodiversity spatial autocorrelation: should we go fractal?

1. Fabien Laroche

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Diagnosis of planktonic trophic network dynamics with sharp qualitative changes

1. Cedric Gaucherel
2. Stolian Fayolle
3. Raphael Savelli
4. Olivier Philippine
5. Franck Pommereau
6. Christine Dupuy

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Mt or not Mt: Temporal variation in detection probability in spatial capture-recapture and occupancy models

1. Rahel Sollmann

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

The push–pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

1. Anna L Erdei
2. Aneth B David
3. Eleni C Savvidou
4. Vaida Džemedžionaitė
5. Advaith Chakravarthy
6. Béla P Molnár
7. Teun Dekker

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable study addresses both commonly accepted and alternative hypotheses for the mechanism by which an intercrop supports pest control in push-pull agriculture, a promising and broadly recognized approach for sustainable intensification. The findings address a widely recognized gap in data on the mechanism underlying push-pull systems and thus can be important for work on pest control in agroecology as well as plant-herbivore interactions more generally. The support of claims is solid, combining observations of several different mechanistic aspects in an uncommonly broad range of relevant environments with clear reasoning regarding experimental design, but also using some non-standard approaches that are not as well explained, complicating comparisons to the current state of the art.

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Investigating macroecological patterns in coarse-grained microbial communities using the stochastic logistic model of growth

1. William R Shoemaker
2. Jacopo Grilli

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable study considers empirical macroecological patterns in microbiome data across multiple taxonomic scales. The work convincingly shows that the Stochastic Logistic Growth model is a more appropriate choice of null model than the neutral theory of biodiversity. The work will be of particular interest to microbial ecologists.

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Molecular mechanisms of microbiome modulation by the eukaryotic secondary metabolite azelaic acid

1. Ahmed A Shibl
2. Michael A Ochsenkühn
3. Amin R Mohamed
4. Ashley Isaac
5. Lisa SY Coe
6. Yejie Yun
7. Grzegorz Skrzypek
8. Jean-Baptiste Raina
9. Justin R Seymour
10. Ahmed J Afzal
11. Shady A Amin

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study presents valuable findings on the contrasting responses of two bacteria to the phytoplankton-derived compound azelaic acid. Metabolomics and transcriptomics evidence convincingly shows the assimilation pathway in one marine bacterium and a stress response in a second bacterium. The study provides evidence that azelaic acid can alter marine microbial community structure in mesocosm experiments, though the mechanisms underlying this shift in community structure remain to be explored in future studies.

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