Ecology

Body mass change over winter is consistently sex-specific across roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations

1. A.J. Mark Hewison
2. Nadège C. Bonnot
3. Jean-Michel Gaillard
4. Petter Kjellander
5. Jean-François Lemaitre
6. Nicolas Morellet
7. Maryline Pellerin

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Predicting species distributions in the open ocean with convolutional neural networks

1. Gaétan Morand
2. Alexis Joly
3. Tristan Rouyer
4. Titouan Lorieul
5. Julien Barde

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InsectChange: Comment

1. Laurence Gaume
2. Marion Desquilbet

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Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension?

1. Chao Wen
2. Yuyi Lu
3. Cwyn Solvi
4. Shunping Dong
5. Cai Wang
6. Xiujun Wen
7. Haijun Xiao
8. Shikui Dong
9. Junbao Wen
10. Fei Peng
11. Lars Chittka

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  eLife assessment

  This study provides valuable new insights into insect cognition and problem-solving in bumblebees. The authors present convincing evidence that bumblebees lack causal understanding in a string-pulling task, and find support for bumblebees instead using image-matching for this task.

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Urban Cepaea nemoralis snails are less likely to have nematodes trapped within their shells

1. Maxime Dahirel
2. Hannah Reyné
3. Katrien De Wolf
4. Dries Bonte

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Easy, fast and reproducible Stochastic Cellular Automata with chouca

1. Alexandre Génin
2. Guillaume Dupont
3. Daniel Valencia
4. Mauro Zucconi
5. M. Isidora Ávila-Thieme
6. Sergio A. Navarrete
7. Evie A. Wieters

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Different coexistence patterns between apex carnivores and mesocarnivores based on temporal, spatial, and dietary niche partitioning analysis in Qilian Mountain National Park, China

1. Wei Cong
2. Jia Li
3. Charlotte Hacker
4. Ye Li
5. Yu Zhang
6. Lixiao Jin
7. Yi Zhang
8. Diqiang Li
9. Yadong Xue
10. Yuguang Zhang

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  eLife assessment

  This paper provides an important assessment of competition dynamics allowing coexistence of the carnivore guild within a large national park in China. Multiple surveying techniques (camera traps and DNA metabarcoding) provide convincing evidence that spatial segregation represents the main strategy of coexistence, while species have a certain degree of temporal and dietary overlap. Altogether, the manuscript provides information critical to the conservation and management agenda of the park.

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Contrasting responses to aridity by different-sized decomposers cause similar decomposition rates across a precipitation gradient

1. Viraj R Torsekar
2. Nevo Sagi
3. J Alfred Daniel
4. Yael Hawlena
5. Efrat Gavish-Regev
6. Dror Hawlena

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  eLife Assessment:

  This fundamental study substantially advances our understanding of the role of different-sized soil invertebrates in shaping the rates of leaf litter decomposition, using an experiment across seasons along an aridity gradient. The authors provide compelling evidence that the summed effects of all invertebrates (with large-sized invertebrates being more active in summer and small-sized invertebrates in winter) on decomposition rates result in similar levels of leaf litter decomposition across seasons. The work will be of broad relevance to ecosystem ecologists interested in soil food webs, and researchers interested in modeling carbon cycles to understand global warming.

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Near infrared radiation-driven oxygenic photosynthesis contributes substantially to primary production in biofilms harboring chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria

1. Maria Mosshammer
2. Erik CL Trampe
3. Niels-Ulrik Frigaard
4. Michael Kühl

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  eLife assessment

  This valuable study investigates the contribution of far-red light photo-acclimated cyanobacteria to primary production in intertidal beachrock habitats. Though the study presents solid evidence, the text would benefit from an improved discussion section and some additional methodological details.

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The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence

1. Mario Desallais
2. Michel Loreau
3. Jean-François Arnoldi

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