Ecology

Habitat fragmentation mediates the mechanisms underlying long-term climate-driven thermophilization in birds

1. Juan Liu
2. Morgan W Tingley
3. Qiang Wu
4. Peng Ren
5. Tinghao Jin
6. Ping Ding
7. Xingfeng Si

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This fundamental study substantially advances our understanding of how habitat fragmentation and climate change jointly influence bird community thermophilization in a fragmented island system. The authors provide convincing evidence using appropriate and validated methodologies to examine how island area and isolation affect the colonization of warm-adapted species and the extinction of cold-adapted species. This study is of high interest to ecologists and conservation biologists, as it provides insight into how ecosystems and communities respond to climate change.

Reviewed by eLife

General mechanisms for a top–down origin of the predator–prey power law

1. Onofrio Mazzarisi
2. Matthieu Barbier
3. Matteo Smerlak

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Neuropeptide Bursicon and its receptor-mediated the transition from summer-form to winter-form of Cacopsylla chinensis

1. Zhixian Zhang
2. Jianying Li
3. Yilin Wang
4. Zhen Li
5. Xiaoxia Liu
6. Songdou Zhang

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This important study reports that the neurohormone, bursicon, and its receptor, play a role in the seasonal polyphenism of the bug Cacopsylla chinensis. Low temperature activates the bursicon signaling pathway during the transition from the summer to the winter form, affecting cuticle pigment and thickness as well as chitin content. The solid experiments reveal how bursicon signaling, which is modulated by the microRNA miR-6012, regulates features of polyphenism related to the exoskeleton, although it is less clear what the upstream regulatory events are.

Reviewed by eLife

Negative impact of mild arid conditions in natural rodent populations revealed using markers of physiological condition in natura

1. Hamilcar Keilani
2. Nico Avenant
3. Pierre Caminade
4. Neville Pillay
5. Guila Ganem

Reviewed by Peer Community In Zoology

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

1. Juan Diaz-Colunga
2. Pablo Catalan
3. Magdalena San Roman
4. Andrea Arrabal
5. Alvaro Sanchez

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript introduces a new low-cost and accessible method for assembling combinatorially complete microbial consortia using basic laboratory equipment, which is a valuable contribution to the field of microbial ecology and biotechnology. The evidence presented is convincing, demonstrating the method's effectiveness through empirical testing on both synthetic colorants and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.

Reviewed by eLife, Arcadia Science

Wilting Wildflowers and Bummed-Out Bees: Climate Change Threatens U.S. State Symbols

1. Xuezhen Ge
2. Ya Zou
3. Heather A. Hager
4. Jonathan A. Newman

Reviewed by PREreview

Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor

1. Ivan Pokrovsky
2. Teja Curk
3. Andreas Dietz
4. Ivan Fufachev
5. Olga Kulikova
6. Sebastian Rößler
7. Martin Wikelski

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This fundamental work describes an understudied bird migration pattern using data from an Arctic raptor. With an extensive dataset and comprehensive analyses, the observed pattern is convincing. This study will be of interest to researchers exploring the ecological drivers of bird migration.

Reviewed by eLife

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

InsectChange: Comment

1. Laurence Gaume
2. Marion Desquilbet

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology