Ecology

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1. 1. Ecology

   The push–pull intercrop Desmodium does not repel, but intercepts and kills pests

   Anna L Erdei, Aneth B David ... Teun Dekker

   Instead of repelling, Desmodium, a hallmark of pest suppressive sustainable intercropping, acts as a mechanical and developmental barrier to larvae, thereby truncating population development.
2. 1. Ecology

   Mutualistic Relationships: Balancing metabolism and reproduction

   Songdou Zhang, Shiheng An

   The bacterium responsible for a disease that infects citrus plants across Asia facilitates its own proliferation by increasing the fecundity of its host insect.
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolutionary trade-offs in dormancy phenology

   Théo Constant, F. Stephen Dobson ... Sylvain Giroud
4. 1. Ecology

   Warming and altered precipitation independently and interactively suppress alpine soil microbial growth in a decadal-long experiment

   Yang Ruan, Ning Ling ... Zhibiao Nan
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion

   Alexis J Breen, Dominik Deffner

   Animals can thrive alongside humans by being expert judges of risk.
6. 1. Ecology

   Boosting biodiversity monitoring using smartphone-driven, rapidly accumulating community-sourced data

   Keisuke Atsumi, Yuusuke Nishida ... Shogoro Fujiki
7. 1. Ecology

   Synthetic eco-evolutionary dynamics in simple molecular environment

   Luca Casiraghi, Francesco Mambretti ... Tommaso Bellini

   A variant of SELEX introduced here to induce abiotic evolution in a molecular system enables to observe and study speciation, the nature of fitness, and the interplay between use of resources and interactions between individuals.
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Longer mandible or nose? Co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms

   Chunxiao Li, Tao Deng ... Shi-Qi Wang
9. 1. Ecology

   Habitat loss weakens the positive relationship between grassland plant richness and above-ground biomass

   Yongzhi Yan, Scott Jarvie, Qing Zhang

   Habitat loss rather than fragmentation per se can weaken the positive BEF relationship by reducing the percentage of grassland specialists in the community.
10. 1. Ecology

    Adipokinetic hormone signaling mediates the fecundity of Diaphorina citri infected by ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’

    Jiayun Li, Paul Holford ... Xiaoge Nian