Ecology

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

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

  The authors propose a new methodology to survey insects, using new sensors and analytical capabilities that could be valuable for addressing urgent conservation challenges. While the results of the optical sensors appear to be comparable to those obtained with classical survey methodologies, current analyses are considered incomplete.

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

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

Wilting wildflowers and bummed‐out bees: Climate change threatens US state symbols

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

Reviewed by PREreview