Ecology

Functional trade-offs: exploring the temporal response of field margin plant communities to climate change and agricultural practices

1. Isis Poinas
2. Christine N Meynard
3. Guillaume Fried

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Synthetic eco-evolutionary dynamics in simple molecular environment

1. Luca Casiraghi
2. Francesco Mambretti
3. Anna Tovo
4. Elvezia Maria Paraboschi
5. Samir Suweis
6. Tommaso Bellini

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  In this important study, the authors develop a promising experimental approach to a central question in ecology: What are the contributions of resource use and interactions in the shaping of an ecosystem? For this, they develop a synthetic ecosystem set-up, a variant of SELEX that allows very detailed control over ecological variables. The evidence is convincing, and the work should be of broad interest to the ecology community, leading to further quantitative studies.

Reviewed by eLife

Pig herd management and infection transmission dynamics: a challenge for modellers

1. Vianney Sicard
2. Sébastien Picault
3. Mathieu Andraud

Reviewed by Peer Community in Animal Science

A fungi hotspot deep down the ocean: explaining the presence of Gjaerumia minor in Equatorial Pacific bathypelagic waters

1. Massimo Ciro Pernice
2. Irene Forn
3. Ramiro Logares
4. Ramon Massana

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Automating an insect biodiversity metric using distributed optical sensors: an evaluation across Kansas, USA cropping systems

1. Klas Rydhmer
2. James O. Eckberg
3. Jonathan G. Lundgren
4. Samuel Jansson
5. Laurence Still
6. John E. Quinn
7. Ralph Washington
8. Jesper Lemmich
9. Thomas Nikolajsen
10. Nikolaj Sheller
11. Alex M. Michels
12. Michael M. Bredeson
13. Steven T. Rosenzweig
14. Emily N. Bick

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study presents useful work comparing different techniques for monitoring insect species in agricultural settings, including a brand new one using optical sensors. That said, the data were analysed using an inadequately-described -- or potentially inadequate -- framework, and more careful thought must be given to the interpretation of the results before the new methodology can be used as a starting point for insect studies in agricultural fields and beyond.

Reviewed by eLife

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