Ecology

Transcriptomic responses of sponge holobionts to in situ, seasonal anoxia and hypoxia

1. Brian W. Strehlow
2. Astrid Schuster
3. Warren R. Francis
4. Lisa Eckford-Soper
5. Beate Kraft
6. Rob McAllen
7. Ronni Nielsen
8. Susanne Mandrup
9. Donald E. Canfield

Reviewed by Peer Community In Zoology

Small deviations in kinematics and body form dictate muscle performances in the finely tuned avian downstroke

1. Marc E Deetjen
2. Diana D Chin
3. Ashley M Heers
4. Bret W Tobalske
5. David Lentink

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This important study combines experiments and mathematical modelling to enhance our understanding of the interplay between the two flight muscles in birds during slow flight. The evidence for the findings is compelling, derived from new methods for measuring wing shape and force production combined with previously validated methods in muscle physiology. This work will be of broad interest to comparative biomechanists.

Reviewed by eLife

Modeling Tick Populations: An Ecological Test Case for Gradient Boosted Trees

1. William Manley
2. Tam Tran
3. Melissa Prusinski
4. Dustin Brisson

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Consistent individual positions within roosts in Spix’s disc-winged bats

1. Giada Giacomini
2. Silvia Chaves-Ramírez
3. H. Andrés Hernández-Pinsón
4. José Pablo Barrantes
5. Gloriana Chaverri

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Pathogen community composition and co-infection patterns in a wild community of rodents

1. Jessica L. Abbate
2. Maxime Galan
3. Maria Razzauti
4. Tarja Sironen
5. Liina Voutilainen
6. Heikki Henttonen
7. Patrick Gasqui
8. Jean-François Cosson
9. Nathalie Charbonnel

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

The challenges of independence: ontogeny of at-sea behaviour in a long-lived seabird

1. Karine Delord
2. Henri Weimerskirch
3. Christophe Barbraud

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology, PREreview

Mark loss can strongly bias estimates of demographic rates in multi-state models: a case study with simulated and empirical datasets

1. Frédéric Touzalin
2. Eric J. Petit
3. Emmanuelle Cam
4. Claire Stagier
5. Emma C. Teeling
6. Sébastien J. Puechmaille

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Influence of mimicry on extinction risk in Aculeata: a theoretical approach

1. Maxime Boutin
2. Manon Costa
3. Colin Fontaine
4. Adrien Perrard
5. Violaine Llaurens

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Delayed postglacial colonization of Betula in Iceland and the circum North Atlantic

1. David J Harning
2. Samuel Sacco
3. Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson
4. Nicolò Ardenghi
5. Thor Thordarson
6. Jonathan H Raberg
7. Julio Sepúlveda
8. Áslaug Geirsdóttir
9. Beth Shapiro
10. Gifford H Miller

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  eLife assessment

  This valuable work on the paleovegetation history of Iceland has implications for the field of paleoecology, and the deglaciation history of Iceland and additional localities in Northern America and Europe via woody shrub colonization. The study uses a sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding approach to study this historic process. The strength of evidence is solid, with the methods (analysis of sedimentary DNA) and data analyses broadly supporting the claims.

Reviewed by eLife

The Moa the Merrier: Resolving when the Dinornithiformes went extinct

1. Floe Foxon

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology