Ecology

Planktonic oyster larvae optimize settlement decisions in complex sensory landscapes

1. Sarah Schmidlin
2. Yliam Treherne
3. Jan Mees
4. Pascal I. Hablützel

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time

1. Mark Novak
2. Kyle E. Coblentz
3. John P. DeLong

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Crop productivity of Central European Permaculture is within the range of organic and conventional agriculture

1. Julius Reiff
2. Hermann F. Jungkunst
3. Nicole Antes
4. Martin H. Entling

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Exploring Rubiaceae fungal endophytes across contrasting tropical forests, tree tissues, and developmental stages

1. Humberto Castillo-González
2. Jason C. Slot
3. Stephanie Yarwood
4. Priscila Chaverri

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Thermal preconditioning modulates coral physiology and heat tolerance: A multi-species perspective

1. Erik F. Ferrara
2. Anna Roik
3. Franziska Wöhrmann-Zipf
4. Maren Ziegler

Reviewed by preLights

Delayed dichromatism in waterfowl as a convenient tool for assessing vital rates

1. Adrien Tableau
2. Iain Henderson
3. Sébastien Reeber
4. Matthieu Guillemain
5. Jean-François Maillard
6. Alain Caizergues

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Using informative priors to account for identifiability issues in occupancy models with identification errors

1. Célian Monchy
2. Marie-Pierre Etienne
3. Olivier Gimenez

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Defensive symbionts provide high protection against natural enemies at low cost to hosts: a meta-analysis

1. Cássia Siqueira Cesar
2. Eduardo SA Santos
3. Rodrigo Cogni

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study makes a valuable advance in our understanding of defensive symbionts in insects. It uses a meta-analysis to quantify the magnitude of change in host fitness components when symbionts are present in hosts exposed to natural enemies. The evidence supporting the study conclusions is solid, with analyses confirming common assumptions that symbionts generally provide defence at low cost to hosts.

Reviewed by eLife