{"title":"Marks lost in action, biased estimations.","authors":"Sylvain Billiard","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100416","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Frédéric Touzalin, Eric J. Petit, Emmanuelle Cam, Claire Stagier, Emma C. Teeling, Sébastien J. Puechmaille Mark loss can strongly bias estimates of demographic rates in multi-state models: a case study with simulated and empirical datasets https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.25.485763","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":" 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mullerian and Batesian mimicry can influence population and community dynamics","authors":"Amanda Franklin","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100511","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Maxime Boutin, Manon Costa, Colin Fontaine, Adrien Perrard, Violaine Llaurens Influence of mimicry on extinction risk in Aculeata: a theoretical approach https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.21.513153","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Moas ancient Lazarus species?","authors":"Werner Ulrich","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100582","url":null,"abstract":"The Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of the ratite clade from New Zealand. The overkill hypothesis asserts that the first New Zealand settlers hunted the Moa to extinction by 1450 CE, whereas the staggered survival hypothesis allows for Moa survival until after Europeans began to arrive on New Zealand. Alleged Moa sightings post-1450 CE may shed light on these competing hypotheses. A dataset of 97 alleged Moa sightings from circa 1675 CE to 1993 CE was constructed, with sightings given subjective quality ratings corresponding to various statistical probabilities. Cumulative probabilities of Moa persistence were calculated with a conservative survival model using these probabilistic sighting-records; a method recently applied to sightings of the Thylacine. Cumulative persistence probability fell sharply after 1408 CE, and across pessimistic and optimistic variations of the model, it was more likely than not that the Moa were extinct by 1770 CE. Probabilistic sighting-record models favour the overkill hypothesis, and give very low probabilities of Moa persistence around the time of European arrival. Eyewitness data on Moa sightings are amenable to scientific study, and these methods may be applied to similar animals.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"322 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling microbial exopolymer dynamics in intertidal sediments","authors":"Ute Risse-Buhl, Nils Rädecker","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100519","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Cédric Hubas, Julie Gaubert-Boussarie, An-Sofie D’Hondt, Bruno Jesus, Dominique Lamy, Vona Meleder, Antoine Prins, Philippe Rosa, Willem Stock, Koen Sabbe Identification of microbial exopolymer producers in sandy and muddy intertidal sediments by compound-specific isotope analysis https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.02.516908","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136211142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biodiversity databases are ever more numerous, but can they be used reliably for Species Distribution Modelling?","authors":"Nicolas Schtickzelle","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100539","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Thibaut Ferraille, Christian Kerbiriou, Charlotte Bigard, Fabien Claireau, John D. Thompson Integrating biodiversity assessments into local conservation planning: the importance of assessing suitable data sources https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.09.539999","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135647666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A deep learning model to unlock secrets of animal movement and behaviour","authors":"Cédric Sueur","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100531","url":null,"abstract":"The movement of animals is a central component of their behavioural strategies. Statistical tools for movement data analysis, however, have long been limited, and in particular, unable to account for past movement information except in a very simplified way. In this work, we propose MoveFormer, a new step-based model of movement capable of learning directly from full animal trajectories. While inspired by the classical step-selection framework and previous work on the quantification of uncertainty in movement predictions, MoveFormer also builds upon recent developments in deep learning, such as the Transformer architecture, allowing it to incorporate long temporal contexts. The model predicts an animal’s next movement step given its past movement history, including not only purely positional and temporal information, but also any available environmental covariates such as land cover or temperature. We apply our model to a diverse dataset made up of over 1550 trajectories from over 100 studies, and show how it can be used to gain insights about the importance of the provided context features, including the extent of past movement history. Our software, along with the trained model weights, is released as open source.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of process at different scales on diversity and ecosystem functioning: a huge challenge","authors":"David Alonso","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100402","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Yuval R. Zelnik, Matthieu Barbier, David W. Shanafelt, Michel Loreau, Rachel M. Germain Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.11.463913","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing the daunting challenge of estimating species interactions from count data","authors":"T. Coulson, David Alonso","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129033546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-order interactions in food webs may strongly impact persistence of species","authors":"C. Gaucherel","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130080965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}