Montaño-Centellas, Flavia A. Muñoz, Jenny Mangini, Gabriela Giselle Ausprey, Ian J. Newell, Felicity L. Jones, Harrison H. Fanjul, M. Elisa Tinoco, Boris A. Colorado Z., Gabriel J. Cahill, Jennifer R. A.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Birds in mixed-species flocks benefit from greater foraging efficiency and reduced predation, but also face costs related to competition and activity matching. Because this cost–benefit trade-off is context-dependent (e.g. abiotic conditions and habitat quality), the structure of flocks is expected to vary along elevational, latitudinal and disturb...
Carlson, Nora V. Freeberg, Todd M. Goodale, Eben Theo, Anne Heloise
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Mixed-species groups of birds, fishes and mammals have traditionally been described in taxa-specific journals. However, mixed-species systems are actually more widely found when one includes aggregative (non-moving) systems, such as those common in amphibians and invertebrates. The objective of this special issue is to dispel the idea that mixed-sp...
Fujita, Hiroaki Ushio, Masayuki Suzuki, Kenta Abe, Masato S. Yamamichi, Masato Okazaki, Yusuke Canarini, Alberto Hayashi, Ibuki Fukushima, Keitaro Fukuda, Shinji
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Facilitative interactions between microbial species are ubiquitous in various types of ecosystems on the Earth. Therefore, inferring how entangled webs of interspecific interactions shift through time in microbial ecosystems is an essential step for understanding ecological processes driving microbiome dynamics. By compiling shotgun metagenomic seq...
Wu, Tong Zhong, Le Pang, Ji-Wei Ren, Nan-Qi Ding, Jie Yang, Shan-Shan
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Frontiers in Microbiology
In this study, the influence of Fe3+ on N removal, microbial assembly, and species interactions in a biofilm system was determined. The results showed that maximum efficiencies of ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N), total nitrogen (TN), phosphorus (P), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal were achieved using 10 mg/L Fe3+, reaching values of 100, 78.85, ...
Thurman, Timothy J Palmer, Todd M Kolbe, Jason J Askary, Arash M Gotanda, Kiyoko M Lapiedra, Oriol Kartzinel, Tyler R Man In't Veld, Naomi Revell, Liam J Wegener, Johanna E
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The American naturalist
AbstractDetermining whether and how evolution is predictable is an important goal, particularly as anthropogenic disturbances lead to novel species interactions that could modify selective pressures. Here, we use a multigeneration field experiment with brown anole lizards (Anolis sagrei) to test hypotheses about the predictability of evolution. We ...
Dunkley, K Dunkley, A Drewnicki, J Keith, I Herbert-Read, JE
Funder: Christ's College University of Cambridge Galapagos Islands Fund / Funder: FSBI Postdoctoral International Travelling Fellowship / Funder: Whitten Lectureship in Marine Biology / Abstract
Ecologists are now widely utilising video data to quantify the behaviours and interactions of animals in the wild. This process can be facilitated by collec...
Lynn, Austin M Sullivan, Lauren L Galen, Candace
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The New phytologist
Under the mentor effect, compatible heterospecific pollen transfer induces self-pollen germination in otherwise self-incompatible plants. The mentor effect could be considered a novel mode of reproductive interference if it negatively impacts fitness. Yet to date, this phenomenon has predominately been investigated under experimental conditions rat...
Okpara, Patricia VanLaerhoven, Sherah
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Insects
Simple Summary Blow fly life cycles are commonly used to estimate the time elapsed since death of unattended death when this interval is greater than 48 h. Female flies lay eggs in clusters, resulting in larval masses that vary in density and species, which may impact resulting adult fly size, reproductive ability, and even survival to adult. How m...
van Moorsel, Sofia J. Thébault, Elisa Radchuk, Viktoriia Narwani, Anita Montoya, José M. Dakos, Vasilis Holmes, Mark De Laender, Frederik Pennekamp, Frank
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Global change biology
Global change encompasses many co-occurring anthropogenic drivers, which can act synergistically or antagonistically on ecological systems. Predicting how different global change drivers simultaneously contribute to observed biodiversity change is a key challenge for ecology and conservation. However, we lack the mechanistic understanding of how mu...
Medeiros, Lucas P Allesina, Stefano Dakos, Vasilis Sugihara, George Saavedra, Serguei
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Ecology letters
Managing ecological communities requires fast detection of species that are sensitive to perturbations. Yet, the focus on recovery to equilibrium has prevented us from assessing species responses to perturbations when abundances fluctuate over time. Here, we introduce two data-driven approaches (expected sensitivity and eigenvector rankings) based ...
