Ecology

Human disturbance increases spatiotemporal associations among mountain forest terrestrial mammal species

1. Xueyou Li
2. William V Bleisch
3. Wenqiang Hu
4. Quan Li
5. Hongjiao Wang
6. Zhongzheng Chen
7. Ru Bai
8. Xue-Long Jiang

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  In this study, camera trapping and species distribution models are used to show that human disturbance in mountain forests in the eastern Himalayas pushes medium-sized and large mammal species into narrower habitat space, thus increasing their co-occurrence. While the collected data provide a useful basis for further work, the study presents incomplete evidence to support the claim that increased co-occurrence may indicate positive interactions between species.

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Spider mites collectively avoid plants with cadmium irrespective of their frequency or the presence of competitors

1. Diogo Prino Godinho
2. Inês Fragata
3. Maud Charlery de la Masseliere
4. Sara Magalhães

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Hierarchizing multi-scale environmental effects on agricultural pest population dynamics: a case study on the annual onset of Bactrocera dorsalis population growth in Senegalese orchards

1. Cécile Caumette
2. Paterne Diatta
3. Sylvain Piry
4. Marie-Pierre Chapuis
5. Emile Faye
6. Fabio Sigrist
7. Olivier Martin
8. Julien Papaïx
9. Thierry Brévault
10. Karine Berthier

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Adipokinetic hormone signaling mediates the enhanced fecundity of Diaphorina citri infected by ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’

1. Jiayun Li
2. Paul Holford
3. George Andrew Charles Beattie
4. Shujie Wu
5. Jielan He
6. Shijian Tan
7. Desen Wang
8. Yurong He
9. Yijing Cen
10. Xiaoge Nian

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  eLife assessment

  This important study reveals the molecular basis of mutualism between a vector insect and a bacterium responsible for the most devastating disease in citrus agriculture worldwide. The evidence supporting the conclusions is compelling, with solid biochemical and gene expression analyses demonstrating the phenomenon. We believe this work will be of great interest to the fields of vector-borne disease control and host-pathogen interaction.

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Body mass and growth rates predict protein intake across animals

1. Stav Talal
2. Jon F. Harrison
3. Ruth Farington
4. Jacob P. Youngblood
5. Hector E. Medina
6. Rick Overson
7. Arianne J. Cease

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  eLife assessment

  How and why nutritional requirements change over development and differ between species are significant questions with wide-ranging implications spanning ecology to health. In this manuscript, Talal et al. set out to address these questions in laboratory and field experiments with grasshoppers and in a comparative analysis of different species. The laboratory experiments are convincing but the field and comparative aspects are not sufficiently well developed. In general, the study offers some evidence of a universal shift from high protein to high carbohydrate intake during ontogeny in animals, but the methods are not clear and/or appropriate to support the goals and conclusions of the manuscript as it is.

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Attracting pollinators vs escaping herbivores: eco-evolutionary dynamics of plants confronted with an ecological trade-off

1. Youssef Yacine
2. Nicolas Loeuille

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Disentangling non-specific and specific transgenerational immune priming components in host–parasite interactions

1. Frida Ben-Ami
2. Christian Orlic
3. Roland R. Regoes

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Temperate freshwater soundscapes: A cacophony of undescribed biological sounds now threatened by anthropogenic noise

1. Rodney A. Rountree
2. Francis Juanes
3. Marta Bolgan

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Chronic noise unexpectedly increases fitness of a freshwater zooplankton

1. Loïc Prosnier
2. Emilie Rojas
3. Olivier Valéro
4. Vincent Médoc

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Disentangling the effects of eutrophication and natural variability on macrobenthic communities across French coastal lagoons

1. Auriane G. Jones
2. Gauthier Schaal
3. Aurélien Boyé
4. Marie Creemers
5. Valérie Derolez
6. Nicolas Desroy
7. Annie Fiandrino
8. Théophile L. Mouton
9. Monique Simier
10. Niamh Smith
11. Vincent Ouisse

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