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{"title":"Potential caterpillar mimicry in a tropical hummingbird","authors":"Jay J. Falk, Michael Castaño-Diaz, Sebastian Gallan-Giraldo, Joseph See, Scott Taylor","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blue angels have devil hands: Predatory behavior using cerata in Glaucus atlanticus","authors":"Gaku Yamamoto, Naoki Kanai, Toru Miura, Kohei Oguchi","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nudibranchs, a subset of gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, encompass over 3000 valid species worldwide, characterized by the thinning or internalization of a shell (Do et al., <span>2022</span>; Goodheart et al., <span>2015</span>; Valdés, <span>2004</span>). In place of shells, nudibranchs have evolved various alternative defense tactics, including vibrant warning or camouflage coloration (Paul & Ritson-Williams, <span>2008</span>; Wägele & Klussmann-Kolb, <span>2005</span>). Among nudibranch species belonging to Cladobranchia, most employ nematocysts stolen from dietary benthic cnidarians such as hydrozoans and anemones for defense, as known as “kleptocnidae.” These nematocysts are incorporated inside dorsal projections called “cerata (singular: ceras)” (Edmunds, <span>1966</span>; Goodheart et al., <span>2017</span>, <span>2018</span>; Greenwood, <span>2009</span>; Grosvenor, <span>1903</span>; Kepner, <span>1943</span>; Putz et al., <span>2010</span>). Nematocysts are a type of organelle unique to cnidarians; these pouch-like structures invert in response to mechanical and/or chemical stimuli, to release toxic needles (Holstein & Tardent, <span>1984</span>). Remarkably, cladobranchs can capture and store nematocysts in the distal part of each ceras in an organ called the “cnidosac,” which are expelled when attacked by predators (Goodheart et al., <span>2017</span>, <span>2018</span>; Greenwood, <span>2009</span>; Grosvenor, <span>1903</span>). During the process of incorporating the ingested nematocysts, they are transported through the digestive tract into specialized cells called “cnidophages” located in the cnidosac (Goodheart et al., <span>2017</span>, <span>2018</span>; Greenwood, <span>2009</span>; Grosvenor, <span>1903</span>).</p><p>Unlike most cladobranchs, which have cerata on their dorsal sides, all species of the genus <i>Glaucus</i> (the sole genus in the family Glaucidae), bear several paired fin-like projections on each side of their bodies (Thompson & Bennett, <span>1970</span>; Thompson & McFarlane, <span>1967</span>). <i>Glaucus</i> species live by floating with air inside their bodies and their ventral side facing the surface of the water (Thompson & McFarlane, <span>1967</span>). Due to their distinctive body plan and their silvery-white dorsal and blue ventral coloration, they are often called “blue angels,” “blue dragons” or “sea swallows” (Figure 1a). Unlike many other nudibranchs which are benthic, all species of <i>Glaucus</i> are pleuston (sometimes termed neuston) species that live on the ocean's surface, using cerata and air bubbles in their stomach cavities for buoyancy (Miller, <span>1974</span>; Thompson & Bennett, <span>1970</span>; Thompson & McFarlane, <span>1967</span>). They are carnivorous and prey on other pleustonic cnidarian species, including bluebottles (<i>Physalia</i> sp.), sea rafts (<i>Velella velella</i>), and blue buttons (<i>Porpita porpita</i>) (Bieri, <","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Altitude sickness in pollinators: Skyward emigration holds consequences for a native bee","authors":"Shawn A. Steffan, Prarthana S. Dharampal","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the era of climate change, organisms globally are being challenged to adapt to increasingly extreme stressors (Lloret et al., <span>2012</span>; Walters et al., <span>2012</span>). Such climate stressors are often typified by heat spikes, severe drought, flooding, and fire (Wagner, <span>2020</span>). For animals requiring snow cover (i.e., the space between snow and soil, also known as the <i>subnivium</i>) to survive winter, this refuge space has been retreating skyward (higher in altitude) and poleward (higher in latitude) as climates warm (Pauli et al., <span>2013</span>). With the increasing severity of climate stressors, the elevational ranges of plant species are pushing skyward (Jump et al., <span>2009</span>; Kelly & Goulden, <span>2008</span>), as are many insect populations (Hodkinson, <span>2005</span>). Indeed, an emerging biogeographic pattern associated with climate change is the skyward and poleward redistribution of plant and animal populations (Hodkinson, <span>2005</span>; Jump et al., <span>2009</span>). Among pollinator communities, climate change has been linked to continental-scale redistributions of bee taxa (Ghisbain et al., <span>2023</span>), reductions in bee size over the last three decades (Herrera et al., <span>2023</span>), and precipitous declines in general abundance (Wagner, <span>2020</span>). The channeling and redistribution of species are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude globally (Hodkinson, <span>2005</span>; Jump et al., <span>2009</span>).</p><p>High-elevation habitats may serve as near-term biodiversity reservoirs (“sky islands”), particularly for pollinator communities (Wagner, <span>2020</span>), as climate stressors reduce the viability of populations at lower elevations (Kelly & Goulden, <span>2008</span>; Lloret et al., <span>2012</span>). Pollinators and other organisms seeking refuge from excessive heat may find skyward dispersal more expedient than poleward dispersal, given that a 1°C decline in temperature can be achieved (on average) with a 167-m increase in altitude, while the same drop in temperature would necessitate a 145 km increase in latitude (Jump et al., <span>2009</span>). However, any elevational gradient will be associated with decreasing air pressure (Peacock, <span>1998</span>), which will impose a degree of hypoxia on colonizing organisms (Hoback & Stanley, <span>2001</span>; Hodkinson, <span>2005</span>). Insect species developing under depleted oxygen (O<sub>2</sub>) concentrations in controlled laboratory conditions are known to exhibit smaller adult sizes, reduced reproductive capacity, and lower survival rates (Harrison et al., <span>2018</span>), all of which represent major fitness consequences for insects (Honěk, <span>1993</span>; Kingsolver & Huey, <span>2008</span>). This begs the question as to whether altitudinal hypoxia might produce the same types of consequences as artificially reduced O<sub>2</sub> in laboratory experiments.</","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143602512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frequent disturbance to a foundation species disrupts consumer-mediated nutrient cycling in giant kelp forests","authors":"Joseph R. Peters,&nbsp;Daniel C. Reed,&nbsp;June Shrestha,&nbsp;Scott L. Hamilton,&nbsp;Deron E. Burkepile","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Structure-forming foundation species facilitate consumers by providing habitat and refugia. In return, consumers can benefit foundation species by reducing top-down pressures and increasing the supply of nutrients. Consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics (CND) fuel the growth of autotrophic foundation species and generate more habitat for consumers, forming reciprocal feedbacks. Such feedbacks are threatened when foundation species are lost to disturbances, yet testing these interactions requires long-term studies, which are rare. Here, we experimentally evaluated how disturbance to giant kelp, a marine foundation species, affects (1) CND of the forest animal community and (2) nutrient feedbacks that help sustain forest primary production during extended periods of low nitrate. Our experiment involved removing giant kelp annually during the winter for 10 years at four sites to mimic frequent wave disturbance. We paired temporal changes in the forest community in kelp removal and control plots with estimates of taxon-specific ammonium excretion rates (reef fishes and macroinvertebrates) and nitrogen (N) demand (giant kelp and understory macroalgae) to determine the effects of disturbance on CND as measured by ammonium excretion, N demand by kelp forest macroalgae, and the percentage of nitrogen demand met by ammonium excretion. We found that disturbance to giant kelp decreased ammonium excretion by 66% over the study, mostly due to declines in fishes. Apart from a few fish species that dominated CND, most reef-associated consumers were unaffected by disturbance. Disturbance to giant kelp reduced its N demand by 56% but increased that of the understory by 147% due to its increased abundance in the absence of a kelp canopy. Overall, disturbance had little effect on the fraction of N demand of macroalgae met by consumer excretion due to the offsetting responses of giant kelp, understory macroalgae, and consumers to disturbance. Across both disturbance regimes, on average, consumers supported 11%–12% of the N required by all kelp forest macroalgae and 48% of N demand by the understory macroalgae (which are confined to the benthos where most reef-associated consumers reside). Our findings suggest that CND constitutes a considerable contribution of N required in kelp forests, yet nutrient inputs decrease following reductions in essential habitat perpetuated by frequent disturbances.</p>","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cell size explains shift in phytoplankton community structure following storm-induced changes in light and nutrients","authors":"Alexis L. N. Guislain,&nbsp;Jens C. Nejstgaard,&nbsp;Jan Köhler,&nbsp;Erik Sperfeld,&nbsp;Ute Mischke,&nbsp;Birger Skjelbred,&nbsp;Hans-Peter Grossart,&nbsp;Anne Lyche Solheim,&nbsp;Mark O. Gessner,&nbsp;Stella A. Berger","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the mechanisms driving community structure and dynamics is crucial in the face of escalating climate change, including increasing incidences of extreme weather. Cell size is a master trait of small organisms that is subject to a trade-off between resistance to grazing and competition for resources, and thus holds potential to explain and predict community dynamics in response to disturbances. Here, we aimed at determining whether cell size can explain shifts in phytoplankton communities following changes in nutrient and light conditions resulting from storm-induced inputs of nutrients and colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM) to deep clearwater lakes. To ensure realistic environmental conditions, we used a crossed gradient design to conduct a large-scale enclosure experiment over 6 weeks. Cell size explained phytoplankton community structure when light availability declined as a result of cDOM supply. Initially unimodal, with small-celled species accounting for up to 60% of the total community biovolume, the cell-size distribution gradually shifted toward large-celled species as light levels declined following cDOM addition. Neither nutrients nor mesozooplankton affected the shift in cell-size distribution. These results suggest a distinct competitive advantage of larger over smaller species at reduced light levels following cDOM inputs during storm events. Importantly, the clustering of species in two distinct size classes implies that interspecific size differences matter as much as cell size per se to understand community dynamics. Given that shifts in cell-size distribution have strong implications for food-web structure and biogeochemical cycles, our results point to the importance of analyzing cell-size distributions of small organisms as an essential element to forecast community and ecosystem dynamics in response to environmental change.</p>","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Net primary productivity but not its remote-sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean-Amazonian rainforests","authors":"Kim L. Holzmann,&nbsp;Pedro Alonso-Alonso,&nbsp;Yenny Correa-Carmona,&nbsp;Andrea Pinos,&nbsp;Felipe Yon,&nbsp;Alejandro Lopera,&nbsp;Gunnar Brehm,&nbsp;Alexander Keller,&nbsp;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,&nbsp;Marcell K. Peters","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tropical forests are disappearing, but we have a limited understanding of the factors driving species coexistence in mammal communities of old-growth forest ecosystems. The total energy that is bound by plants is assumed to be a key factor determining mammalian species richness, but accurately measuring energy flows in complex ecosystems is difficult, and most studies therefore rely on remote-sensing-based surrogates of net primary productivity (NPP). We monitored mammal species richness across three seasons using camera traps on 26 study plots along a forested, elevational gradient from 245 to 3588 m above sea level in southeastern Peru for which a unique dataset on field-measured NPP exists. Using linear-regression models and path analysis, we disentangled the effects of climate and NPP on the diversity of mammals, testing the predictions of the more-individuals hypothesis, stating that energy availability drives the number of individuals and, thus, the number of coexisting species. We compared detailed field measurements of NPP with remote-sensing products (MODIS NPP and MODIS NDVI). Mammal species richness, abundance, and biomass decreased in a negative exponential pattern with elevation. Field-measured data on NPP, which was largely driven by temperature, was a strong predictor of both abundance and species richness, while remotely sensed proxies for NPP failed to accurately predict mammal diversity. Our study underpins the importance of field-based ecosystem data and emphasizes the role of high primary productivity for maintaining diverse mammal communities, which is a particularly pressing issue in light of recent anthropogenic impacts on the Amazonian forest system.</p>","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient","authors":"Carlos Martorell,&nbsp;Alejandra Martínez-Blancas","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) may determine plant–species coexistence. They may stabilize coexistence, but frequently destabilize it by increasing fitness differences between species. Most studies focus on pairwise models in greenhouses. Thus, whether PSFs favor or deter coexistence is still unclear, especially in multispecies field contexts. We analyzed pairwise and multispecies coexistence over a hydric gradient in a semiarid grassland. Using PSF strength estimates between 17 species, we measured stability and fitness differences between all species pairs, and built all possible multispecies communities to test computationally whether they were stabilized by PSFs. We analyzed whether coexistence probability diminishes with species richness, as previously hypothesized. Because PSFs change with environmental conditions, we investigated their contribution to overall diversity maintenance over the hydric gradient. Strong PSF increased fitness differences, hindering pairwise coexistence. As expected, the probability that an assemblage was stable diminished with its richness, with the largest stable community containing 12 of the 17 species. However, all species coexisted with others in at least one assemblage, highlighting the importance of multispecies analyses. Positive PSFs promoted coexistence in pairwise analyses, but were associated with species-poor communities. Contrastingly, negative PSFs predominated in species-rich associations, perhaps due to indirect positive interactions (an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” scenario) that are known to maintain diversity in this grassland. Changes in the density of different species over the hydric gradient predicted from PSF-stabilized communities matched observations in nature. This seems to promote species turnover and thus coexistence along the gradient. As such, the interplay between environmental conditions and PSFs may be an important driver of diversity. Our results emphasize the need to move beyond pairwise coexistence models. In multispecies systems, crucial indirect interactions may arise. The interplay between environment and PSF under field conditions may provide important insights into coexistence in nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why statistical innovations?","authors":"Elise F. Zipkin,&nbsp;Kathy Cottingham","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70056","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt; is excited to introduce a new article type, “Statistical Innovations,” which replaces “Statistical Reports.” Statistical Innovations will extend &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt;'s long tradition of publishing the most important developments in quantitative methods within the general field of ecology. For over a century, &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt; has issued seminal work advancing the analysis of ecological data, including the development of key modeling frameworks that have been widely adopted in the analysis of individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. The journal has played an important role in the uptake of new approaches to data collection and analysis by publishing “how-to” guides and highlighting both the strengths and limitations of various quantitative techniques. The collection “A century of statistical &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt;,” collated in April 2024 and available at https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1939-9170.century-stat-ecology, reviews the critical role that &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt; has played in the development of the field of statistical ecology to date.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We want &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt; to remain at the forefront of quantitative innovations as the need for complex quantitative methods continues to grow to handle the myriad types of modern ecological data. While many statistical ecology papers have become increasingly technical, with more targeted audiences, it is critical for the most significant methods developments to reach the broad ecological community. &lt;i&gt;Ecology&lt;/i&gt; is the ideal outlet for such papers given the journal's long history of impactful work in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We introduce Statistical Innovations with the goal of publishing the very best statistical ecology papers that have wide appeal. We define statistical ecology broadly to include any research that studies ecological systems using mathematical equations, probability, and empirical data. Statistical Innovations articles take a data-first perspective by putting the analysis and interpretation of data at the forefront. We encourage submissions focused on any biological level from individuals to macrosystems and analyses of data across time and/or space. Submissions that focus on model validation, model selection, syntheses about statistical tools, and best practices that transcend subdisciplines are also welcomed and encouraged. In the future, we hope that Statistical Innovations will grow to encompass new developments in ecology related to machine learning, artificial intelligence, and as yet unexplored topics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To provide a smooth and efficient publishing process for authors, we plan to “Fast Track” Statistical Innovations submissions and introduce a new peer review process that instructs reviewers to focus on the big picture in shorter, more targeted reviews. Handling editors will take an active role in streamlining the process to minimize the number of revisions required for publication. Additionally, the only constraints on length are those fo","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"18-year plant reproductive phenology dataset from Lambir, Borneo, including four large general flowering events","authors":"Shoko Sakai,&nbsp;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu,&nbsp;Rhett D. Harrison,&nbsp;Tomoaki Ichie,&nbsp;Masahiro Nomura,&nbsp;Takakazu Yumoto,&nbsp;Hidetoshi Nagamasu,&nbsp;Runi anak Sylvester Pungga,&nbsp;Takao Itioka,&nbsp;Tohru Nakashizuka","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Flowering and fruiting phenology can have large impacts on a plant's reproductive success. In many plant species, these phenological events are controlled by seasonal climatic cues, resulting in one-year reproductive cycles. However, parts of SE Asian tropical forests have an aseasonal climate with irregular fluctuations. This database comprises phenology records collected from 1993 to 2011 at the community level in an aseasonal lowland dipterocarp forest of the Lambir Hills National Park in Borneo. Observations were made every two weeks at three sites: The Canopy Biology Plot (CBP) with tree towers and walkways, the Operation Raleigh Tower (ORT) area with a tree tower for tourist attraction, and the Crane Plot located between the CBP and ORT, where plants were monitored from terraces on a canopy crane installed in 2000. The dataset includes in total 172,521 records of 450, 118, and 51 plants in CBP, Crane Plot, and ORT, respectively, representing 303 species. The number of individuals per species ranges from 1 to 21, and 64.9% are represented by only one. The plants in the censuses were mostly trees but also included lianas and epiphytes. The data have been used to study the causes and consequences of synchronized flowering and fruiting at the community level, a phenomenon unique to the region. Previous studies have shown that this synchronization is synergistically driven by cool air temperature and drought. Irregular flowering and fruiting have significant impacts on flower visitors, frugivores, forest material cycling, and plant regeneration. The dataset can also be used for comparing the phenology of the same species or group among forests and regions and exploring its association with climates. One major concern regarding tropical forests in the area is the effects of climate change on this community-wide masting regime, which could disrupt forest regeneration and ecosystem processes. The dataset could be an important source of information for conservation efforts aimed at protecting these amazingly diverse forest ecosystems. This dataset can be freely used for non-commercial purposes. Users of these data should cite this data paper in any publications resulting from its use and acknowledge the Forest Department Sarawak and Sarawak Forestry Corporation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids","authors":"Chong Chen,&nbsp;Ruiyan Zhang,&nbsp;Dongsheng Zhang,&nbsp;Jian-Wen Qiu,&nbsp;Yadong Zhou","doi":"10.1002/ecy.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11484,"journal":{"name":"Ecology","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}