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18 August 2021
This month's cover features an illustration inspired by the FORUM PAPER titled "Deriving indicators of biodiversity change from unstructured community-contributed data" Citizen science is a vast and growing resource for understanding global biodiversity as it shifts in...
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17 August 2021
Parasite spread in experimental metapopulations: Resistance, Tolerance and Host Competence Understanding why some individuals transmit infectious disease more than others has been a goal of epidemiologists and disease ecologists for quite some time, however most of the...
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23 July 2021
Size-mediated priority effects are trait-dependent and consistent across latitudes in a damselfly The hatching date and length of the growth season can impact ecological interactions. We expected that organisms that hatch early in the season will perform better...
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13 April 2021
Why time-limited individuals can make populations more vulnerable to disturbance Individual variation may make some individuals more vulnerable to disturbance than others. Besides that individuals differ in how they respond to disturbance, we show that time-limited...
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1 April 2021
Cover Photo Credit: Audrey Campeau/ imaggeo.egu.eu/ CC BY 3.0 The authors of " Rewiring of peatland plant–microbe networks outpaces species turnover" would like to share some additional thoughts with you. What are your thoughts? Turnover in plant–microbial interactions...
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31 March 2021
Take a look at this paper's SPECULATIONS section! Do you agree with the authors? What are your thoughts? Retreat, detour or advance? Understanding the movements of birds confronting the Gulf of Mexico (Zenzal et al. 2021) "The ability for migrating birds to stop en...
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24 March 2021
Grazing and the vanishing complexity of plant association networks Plants do not grow in isolation in nature but interact with their neighbors – this can determine how the community as a whole will respond to environmental changes. If we are to understand the effect of...
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17 March 2021
How to address sampling issues in biodiversity measurement? (NEW FORUM PAPER) When sampling communities, we’re more likely to miss rare species than common ones. As a result, sampling issues pervade biodiversity measurement. For example, two of us could compare species...
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4 December 2020
Urbanization drives an early spring for plants but not for pollinators The sharp increase of urban areas and the associated human population in the last century has put growing pressure on native animal and plant species, as they are threatened by habitat destruction...
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2 November 2020
Image 1: The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster (Photo credit: Ken Jones) Tracking dispersal across a patchy landscape reveals a dynamic interaction between genotype and habitat structure Historically, as well as contemporary, dispersal remains one of the most...
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