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Wolbachia -induced cytoplasmic incompatibility: Puzzle more than buzz in Drosophila suzukii ">Insect population dynamics under Wolbachia -induced cytoplasmic incompatibility: Puzzle more than buzz in Drosophila suzukii

Alexandra Auguste, Nicolas Ris,  [ ... ], Xavier Fauvergue

An improved approach for ecological modeling of social phenomena in Blau space

Nicolas L. Harder, Matthew E. Brashears

Difficulties in summing log-normal distributions for abundance and potential solutions

Emma J. Talis, Christian Che-Castaldo, Heather J. Lynch

Spurious early ecological association suggesting BCG vaccination effectiveness for COVID-19

Jorge R. Ledesma, Peter Lurie,  [ ... ], Mark N. Lurie

Taxonomic and geographic bias in 50 years of research on the behaviour and ecology of galagids

Grace Ellison, Martin Jones, Bradley Cain, Caroline M. Bettridge

easyFulcrum: An R package to process and analyze ecological sampling data generated using the Fulcrum mobile application

Matteo Di Bernardo, Timothy A. Crombie, Daniel E. Cook, Erik C. Andersen

A mathematical modelling framework for the regulation of intra-cellular OCT4 in human pluripotent stem cells

L. E. Wadkin, S. Orozco-Fuentes,  [ ... ], A. Shukurov

Inbreeding, Allee effects and stochasticity might be sufficient to account for Neanderthal extinction

Krist Vaesen, Fulco Scherjon, Lia Hemerik, Alexander Verpoorte

Optimal dispersal in ecological dynamics with Allee effect in metapopulations

Marcelo A. Pires, Sílvio M. Duarte Queirós

Using an individual-based model to assess common biases in lek-based count data to estimate population trajectories of lesser prairie-chickens

Beth E. Ross, Daniel S. Sullins, David A. Haukos

Simplified procedure for efficient and unbiased population size estimation

Marcos Cruz, Javier González-Villa

A multi-level model of emerging technology: An empirical study of the evolution of biotechnology from 1976 to 2003

Ad van den Oord, Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Seasonal reproduction leads to population collapse and an Allee effect in a stage-structured consumer-resource biomass model when mortality rate increases

Zepeng Sun, André M. de Roos

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Explore our most highly accessed* ecology articles in 2018. Featuring authors from around the World, these papers highlight valuable research within ecology from an international community.

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Multi-modal survey of Adélie penguin mega-colonies reveals the Danger Islands as a seabird hotspot

• Alex Borowicz
• Philip McDowall
• Heather J. Lynch

The evolution of fruit colour: phylogeny, abiotic factors and the role of mutualists

• Kim Valenta
• Urs Kalbitzer

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

• Vitor H. F. Gomes
• Stéphanie D. IJff
• Hans ter Steege

Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change

• Giovanni Strona
• Corey J. A. Bradshaw

A specialized fungal parasite ( Massospora cicadina ) hijacks the sexual signals of periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada )

• John R. Cooley
• David C. Marshall
• Kathy B. R. Hill

Light pollution is greatest within migration passage areas for nocturnally-migrating birds around the world

• Sergio A. Cabrera-Cruz
• Jaclyn A. Smolinsky
• Jeffrey J. Buler

Acceleration of phenological advance and warming with latitude over the past century

• Byron A. Steinman
• Michael E. Mann

Mitochondrial DNA is unsuitable to test for isolation by distance

• Peter R. Teske
• Tirupathi Rao Golla
• Luciano B. Beheregaray

Multi-species coexistence in Lotka-Volterra competitive systems with crowding effects

• Maica Krizna A. Gavina
• Takeru Tahara
• Jin Yoshimura

Environmental DNA filtration techniques affect recovered biodiversity

• Markus Majaneva
• Ola H. Diserud
• Torbjørn Ekrem

Reduced occupancy of hedgehogs ( Erinaceus europaeus ) in rural England and Wales: The influence of habitat and an asymmetric intra-guild predator

• Ben M. Williams
• Philip J. Baker
• Richard W. Yarnell

Controlling the impact of the managed honeybee on wild bees in protected areas

• Mickaël Henry

The influence of riverine barriers, climate, and topography on the biogeographic regionalization of Amazonian anurans

• Marcela Brasil de Castro Godinho
• Fernando Rodrigues da Silva

Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens

• Jonathan J. Giacomini
• Jessica Leslie
• Lynn S. Adler

Long-term response of forest productivity to climate change is mostly driven by change in tree species composition

• Xavier Morin
• Lorenz Fahse
• Harald Bugmann

Demonstration of the potential of environmental DNA as a tool for the detection of avian species

• Masayuki Ushio
• Koichi Murata
• Masaki Miya

Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21 st century

• Josep M. Serra-Diaz
• Charles Maxwell
• Jonathan R. Thompson

Gymnosperms on the EDGE

• Félix Forest
• Justin Moat
• Sven Buerki

Climate Degradation and Extreme Icing Events Constrain Life in Cold-Adapted Mammals

Climate change is affecting mortality of weasels due to camouflage mismatch

• Kamal Atmeh
• Anna Andruszkiewicz

Genetic analyses favour an ancient and natural origin of elephants on Borneo

• Reeta Sharma
• Benoit Goossens
• Lounès Chikhi

Warning signals of biodiversity collapse across gradients of tropical forest loss

• Fabio de Oliveira Roque
• Jorge F. S. Menezes
• William F. Laurance

Future global productivity will be affected by plant trait response to climate

• Nima Madani
• John S. Kimball
• Steven W. Running

DNA-based identification reveals illegal trade of threatened shark species in a global elasmobranch conservation hotspot

• Leonardo Manir Feitosa
• Ana Paula Barbosa Martins
• Luís Fernando Carvalho-Costa

Partial migration in savanna elephant populations distributed across southern Africa

• Andrew Purdon
• Michael A. Mole
• Rudi J. van Aarde

Modeling the distributions of tegu lizards in native and potential invasive ranges

• Catherine S. Jarnevich
• Mark A. Hayes
• Robert N. Reed

Environmental DNA reveals quantitative patterns of fish biodiversity in large rivers despite its downstream transportation

• Didier Pont
• Mathieu Rocle
• Tony Dejean

A global mismatch in the protection of multiple marine biodiversity components and ecosystem services

• Martin Lindegren
• Ben G. Holt
• Carsten Rahbek

Combining fish and benthic communities into multiple regimes reveals complex reef dynamics

• Mary K. Donovan
• Alan M. Friedlander
• Kimberly A. Selkoe

Ocean acidification drives community shifts towards simplified non-calcified habitats in a subtropical−temperate transition zone

• Sylvain Agostini
• Ben P. Harvey
• Jason M. Hall-Spencer

Impact of the huge 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the phenotypes and genotypes of Japanese coastal threespine stickleback populations

• Manabu Kume
• Seiichi Mori
• Shotaro Nishida

Phenotypic plasticity vs. local adaptation in quantitative traits differences of Stipa grandis in semi-arid steppe, China

• Shao-bo Gao

Estimating wildlife activity curves: comparison of methods and sample size

• Marcus A. Lashley
• Michael V. Cove
• Chris E. Moorman

Grazing and climate effects on soil organic carbon concentration and particle-size association in northern grasslands

• Daniel B. Hewins
• Mark P. Lyseng
• Edward W. Bork

Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields impair the Cognitive and Motor Abilities of Honey Bees

• S. Shepherd
• M. A. P. Lima
• P. L. Newland

Toward reliable population estimates of wolves by combining spatial capture-recapture models and non-invasive DNA monitoring

• J. V. López-Bao

Altitudinal, temporal and trophic partitioning of flower-visitors in Alpine communities

• Vincent Lefebvre
• Claire Villemant
• Christophe Daugeron

Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: a gap analysis in environmental space

• Laura Mannocci
• Jason J. Roberts
• Joseph Vella

Integrated Population Modeling Provides the First Empirical Estimates of Vital Rates and Abundance for Polar Bears in the Chukchi Sea

• Eric V. Regehr
• Nathan J. Hostetter
• Sarah J. Converse

Climate change-driven range losses among bumblebee species are poised to accelerate

• Catherine Sirois-Delisle
• Jeremy T. Kerr

Effect of tropical forest disturbance on the competitive interactions within a diverse ant community

• Ross E. J. Gray
• Robert M. Ewers
• Richard J. Gill

Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities

• J. P. Egerton
• A. F. Johnson
• O. Aburto-Oropeza

Social bees are fitter in more biodiverse environments

• Benjamin F. Kaluza
• Helen M. Wallace
• Sara D. Leonhardt

Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi

• Matthew C. Fisher
• Trenton W. J. Garner

Biophysical feedbacks mediate carbonate chemistry in coastal ecosystems across spatiotemporal gradients

• Nyssa J. Silbiger
• Cascade J. B. Sorte

Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species

• Lea-Anne Henry
• Claudia G. Mayorga-Adame
• J. Murray Roberts

Uniqueness of Protected Areas for Conservation Strategies in the European Union

• Samuel Hoffmann
• Carl Beierkuhnlein
• Alessandro Chiarucci

Fungal spore diversity reflects substrate-specific deposition challenges

• Sara Calhim
• Jacob Heilmann-Clausen

Asclepias Syriaca (Common Milkweed) flowering date shift in response to climate change

• Aaron F. Howard

Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot - areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges

• Jalil Noroozi
• Amir Talebi
• Gerald M. Schneeweiss

Genetic homogeneity of the invasive lionfish across the Northwestern Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

• R. Pérez-Portela
• M. F. Oleksiak

Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress

• Thomas Wernberg
• Melinda A. Coleman
• Brendan P. Kelaher

Humpback whale migrations to Antarctic summer foraging grounds through the southwest Pacific Ocean

• V. Andrews-Goff
• M. C. Double

Distribution and the origin of invasive apple snails, Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) in China

• Qian-Qian Yang
• Xiao-Ping Yu

Verification of Argentine ant defensive compounds and their behavioral effects on heterospecific competitors and conspecific nestmates

• Kevin F. Welzel
• Shao Hung Lee
• Dong-Hwan Choe

Epidemiological tracing of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans identifies widespread infection and associated mortalities in private amphibian collections

• Liam D. Fitzpatrick
• Frank Pasmans
• Andrew A. Cunningham

Artificial Light at Night Affects Emergence from a Refuge and Space Use in Guppies

• R. H. J. M. Kurvers
• J. Drägestein
• D. Bierbach

Evaluating the Contribution of North American Zoos and Aquariums to Endangered Species Recovery

• Judy P. Che-Castaldo
• Shelly A. Grow
• Lisa J. Faust

Northern protected areas will become important refuges for biodiversity tracking suitable climates

• Dominique Berteaux
• Marylène Ricard
• Sylvie de Blois

Effects of sampling effort on biodiversity patterns estimated from environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys

• Erin K. Grey
• Louis Bernatchez
• David M. Lodge

Novel crab predator causes marine ecosystem regime shift

• T. Wernberg
• H. Orav-Kotta

High carnivore population density highlights the conservation value of industrialised sites

• Daan J. E. Loock
• Samual T. Williams
• Lourens H. Swanepoel

A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species

• Meredith L. McClure
• Christopher L. Burdett
• Ryan S. Miller

Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape

• Ricardo Rocha
• Otso Ovaskainen
• Christoph F. J. Meyer

Optimal swimming strategies and behavioral plasticity of oceanic whitetip sharks

• Yannis P. Papastamatiou
• Gil Iosilevskii
• Yuuki Y. Watanabe

Floral resource partitioning by individuals within generalised hoverfly pollination networks revealed by DNA metabarcoding

• Andrew Lucas
• Owen Bodger
• Natasha de Vere

Blue mussel shell shape plasticity and natural environments: a quantitative approach

• Luca Telesca
• Kati Michalek
• Elizabeth M. Harper

Sea surface temperature predicts the movements of an Arctic cetacean: the bowhead whale

• Philippine Chambault
• Christoffer Moesgaard Albertsen
• Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen

Species contributions to single biodiversity values under-estimate whole community contribution to a wider range of values to society

• Matthew Hiron
• Mark J. Whittingham

Enzootic frog pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Asian tropics reveals high ITS haplotype diversity and low prevalence

• Milind C. Mutnale
• Sachin Anand
• Karthikeyan Vasudevan

Species distribution model transferability and model grain size – finer may not always be better

• Syed Amir Manzoor
• Geoffrey Griffiths
• Martin Lukac

Homogenization and impoverishment of taxonomic and functional diversity of ants in Eucalyptus plantations

• Felipe Martello
• Francesco de Bello
• Carlos P. Carmona

A Nearctic-Neotropical Migratory Songbird’s Nesting Phenology and Clutch Size are Predictors of Accumulated Cyclone Energy

• Christopher M. Heckscher

Disclosing the double mutualist role of birds on Galápagos

• Jens M. Olesen
• Christian F. Damgaard
• Anna Traveset

Climatic niche divergence drives patterns of diversification and richness among mammal families

• Adrián Castro-Insua
• Carola Gómez-Rodríguez
• Andrés Baselga

Grassland ecosystem responses to climate change and human activities within the Three-River Headwaters region of China

• Xinliang Xu

Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

• Géraldine Derroire
• Jennifer S. Powers
• John R. Healey

Sporadic nesting reveals long distance colonisation in the philopatric loggerhead sea turtle ( Caretta caretta )

• Carlos Carreras
• Marta Pascual
• Luis Cardona

Population genetic signatures of a climate change driven marine range extension

• Jorge E. Ramos
• Gretta T. Pecl
• Jan M. Strugnell

Cryptic population structure reveals low dispersal in Iberian wolves

• Pedro Silva
• José Vicente López-Bao
• Raquel Godinho

Contrasting phylogeographic pattern among Eudyptes penguins around the Southern Ocean

• M. J. Frugone
• J. A. Vianna

Socio-ecological dynamics of Caribbean coral reef ecosystems and conservation opinion propagation

• Vivek A. Thampi
• Madhur Anand
• Chris T. Bauch

Non-structural carbohydrates regulated by season and species in the subtropical monsoon broad-leaved evergreen forest of Yunnan Province, China

• Jianrong Su
• Xiaobo Huang

Female dispersion and sex ratios interact in the evolution of mating behavior: a computational model

• B. V. Gomes
• D. M. Guimarães

Scenario planning with linked land-sea models inform where forest conservation actions will promote coral reef resilience

• J. M. S. Delevaux
• S. D. Jupiter

On the wrong track: ocean acidification attracts larval fish to irrelevant environmental cues

• Tullio Rossi
• Jennifer C. A. Pistevos
• Ivan Nagelkerken

Metabarcoding of marine environmental DNA based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes

• Babett Günther
• Thomas Knebelsberger
• Pedro Martínez Arbizu

Using spatial mark-recapture for conservation monitoring of grizzly bear populations in Alberta

• John Boulanger
• Scott E. Nielsen
• Gordon B. Stenhouse

Climate Warming as a Possible Trigger of Keystone Mussel Population Decline in Oligotrophic Rivers at the Continental Scale

• Ivan N. Bolotov
• Alexander A. Makhrov
• Alexey A. Zotin

High-resolution GPS tracking reveals sex differences in migratory behaviour and stopover habitat use in the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

• Jan M. Baert
• Eric W. M. Stienen
• Wendt Müller

Proximate mechanisms affecting seasonal differences in migration speed of avian species

• Heiko Schmaljohann

Repeatability and degree of territorial aggression differs among urban and rural great tits ( Parus major )

• Samuel I. Hardman
• Sarah Dalesman

Habitat degradation alters trophic pathways but not food chain length on shallow Caribbean coral reefs

• Piedad S. Morillo-Velarde
• Patricia Briones-Fourzán
• Enrique Lozano-Álvarez

Boat noise impacts risk assessment in a coral reef fish but effects depend on engine type

• Mark I. McCormick
• Bridie J. M. Allan
• Stephen D. Simpson

Barn swallows long-distance migration occurs between significantly temperature-correlated areas

• Mattia Pancerasa
• Roberto Ambrosini
• Renato Casagrandi

N -mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates

• Gentile Francesco Ficetola
• Benedetta Barzaghi
• Raoul Manenti

New universal ITS2 primers for high-resolution herbivory analyses using DNA metabarcoding in both tropical and temperate zones

• Rosemary J. Moorhouse-Gann
• Jenny C. Dunn
• William O. C. Symondson

Remotely-sensed productivity clusters capture global biodiversity patterns

• Nicholas C. Coops
• Sean P. Kearney
• Volker C. Radeloff

Searching for a compromise between biological and economic demands to protect vulnerable habitats

• M. Grazia Pennino
• Marie-Christine Rufener
• U. Rashid Sumaila

Hybrids of amphibian chytrid show high virulence in native hosts

• S. E. Greenspan
• C. Lambertini
• C. G. Becker

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