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{"title":"From cognition to range dynamics – and from preregistration to peer-reviewed preprint","authors":"Emanuel A. Fronhofer","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100076","url":null,"abstract":": “This could indicate that our test was inadequate to assess causal cognition. Because of this, we are unable to speculate about the potential role of causal cognition in a species that is rapidly expanding its geographic range. ABSTRACT: play a significant role in rapid range expansions via the ability to learn faster: causal cognition could lead to making better predictions about outcomes through exerting more control over events” and relationships clicking food. of why species: are but the only reason? causal not relate performance to the task trial and error learning? touch screen task ABSTRACT: L31- 34: “by allowing… by making… by exerting…” a little bit hard to follow, rephrase? I would add the sample size in the abstract because it is important to know it to understand the conclusion of the study . And I think references can be removed from the abstract, it will make space for a sentence or two about the touchscreen task maybe?","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122890553","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":"New light on the baseline importance of temperature for the origin of geographic species richness gradients","authors":"J. Hortal","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100075","url":null,"abstract":"Whether environmental conditions –in particular energy and water availability– are sufficient to account for species richness gradients (e.g. Currie 1991), or the effects of other biotic and historical or regional factors need to be considered as well (e.g. Ricklefs 1987), was the subject of debate during the 1990s and 2000s (e.g. Francis & Currie 2003; Hawkins et al. 2003, 2006; Currie et al. 2004; Ricklefs 2004). The metabolic theory of ecology (Brown et al. 2004) provided a solid and well-rooted theoretical support for the preponderance of energy as the main driver for richness variations. As any good piece of theory, it provided testable predictions about the sign and shape (i.e. slope) of the relationship between temperature –a key aspect of ambient energy– and species richness. However, these predictions were not supported by empirical evaluations (e.g. Kreft & Jetz 2007; Algar et al. 2007; Hawkins et al. 2007a), as the effects of a myriad of other environmental gradients, regional factors and evolutionary processes result in a wide variety of richness–temperature responses across different groups and regions (Hawkins et al. 2007b; Hortal et al. 2008). So, in a textbook example of how good theoretical work helps advancing science even if proves to be (partially) wrong, the evaluation of this aspect of the metabolic theory of ecology led to current understanding that, while species richness does respond to current climatic conditions, many other ecological, evolutionary and historical factors do modify such response across scales (see, e.g., Ricklefs 2008; Hawkins 2008; D’Amen et al. 2017). And the kinetic model linking mean annual temperature and species richness (Allen et al. 2002; Brown et al. 2004) was put aside as being, perhaps, another piece of the puzzle of the origin of current diversity gradients.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130506626","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":"Dispersal: from “neutral” to a state- and context-dependent view","authors":"Emanuel A. Fronhofer","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100074","url":null,"abstract":"last sentence, « Our findings show that reduced resource competition might facilitate female philopatry and that prior knowledge of an area does not appear to be a prerequisite for male great-tailed grackles to establish breeding territories”: The beginning of the sentence needs to be reformulated, as this study was not designed to assess the effect of resource competition on dispersal. Main hypothesis: “Based on the argument that males are expected to be philopatric when they defend resources beneficial to females”: In the paragraph describing the species behavior it is suggested that only some males defend territories. So it is surprising for the reader that the formulation of the main hypothesis relies on the idea that males defend resources. It is only when reading the alternative hypotheses that the reader understands that the different hypotheses are based on different aspects of the species behaviour. I suggest slightly reformulating the main hypothesis to make clear that it really means “given that some males defend resources, in which case males are expected to be philopatric and females to disperse to avoid mating with relatives, (...)”. Alternative hypothesis 2: “The polygamous mating system of great-tailed grackles, where females might be able to choose among potential males, might reduce a female’s risk of mating with their father or brother.” This argument is valid only if females can discriminate relatives from non relatives. Has this been demonstrated in this species? l.108: IN the methods below. l.119-124: It is currently difficult to distinguish the parameters from Thrasher et al. 2018 and those specific to the study presented in this ms, because of missing brackets and long sentences with semi-columns. Some rewording would help. Results, l.159-164: It would be informative to add an estimate of the total size of the population, if it is know. That would allow to assess how representative the genetic sample is. Results, l.161-164: How was the probability of identity of siblings estimated? (And heterozygosity compared to expected in a population with random mating? – Do the authors simply mean HW equilibrium, here (but they would have forgotten other conditions of HW equilibrium))? This piece of information is missing from the method section.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124327678","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":"“Hidden” natural selection and the evolution of body size in harvested stocks","authors":"S. Blanchet","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100071","url":null,"abstract":"that in the variance in the of predator the and through top-down effects. are experimental papers on the effect of body size on ecosystem functioning.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129643549","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":"Tell us how you can be, and we’ll make you better: exploiting genetic variability in personality traits to improve top-down control of agricultural pests","authors":"M. Montserrat","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ECOLOGY.100069","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Silene Lartigue, Myriam Yalaoui, Jean Belliard, Claire Caravel, Louise Jeandroz, Geraldine Groussier, Vincent Calcagno, Philippe Louâpre, Francois-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Thibaut Malausa and Jerome Moreau Consistent variations in personality traits and their potential for genetic improvement of biocontrol agents: Trichogramma evanescens as a case study 10.1101/2020.08.21.257881","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"1987 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125480204","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 complexity of predicting mortality in trees","authors":"L. DeSoto","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100070","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript uses statistical and process-based models to study mortality of Fagus sylvatica at individual and population scale. The main results are that drought and late frost events were the major environmental causes of mortality at the population scale, whereas loss of hydraulic conductance and carbon starvation were the physiological stresses connected to mortality. In individual level, high mortality was related to low growth rate, high crown defoliation, infection by a fungi, high competition, high loss of hydraulic conductance, higher frequency of late frosts, and to early (statistical model) or late (process-based model) budburst. The topic is important and the approach is very promising. However, it is also challenging to report in a clear and structured manner due to its complexity. This still needs improvement before the manuscript is ready for publication. Also, there are several (small) technical mistakes and the language should be improved to be fluent. results of the population-level empirical how you can test the effect of early budburst in the population level model?","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"749 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123869487","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":"Assessing bat-vehicle collision risks using acoustic 3D tracking","authors":"G. Chaverri","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100068","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Charlotte Roemer, Aurelie Coulon, Thierry Disca, and Yves Bas Influence of local landscape and time of year on bat-road collision risks 10.1101/2020.07.15.204115","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130439794","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 new member of the morphometrics jungle to better monitor vulnerable lagoons","authors":"V. Bonhomme","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100066","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, morphometrics, the quantitative description of shape and its covariation [1] gained considerable momentum in evolutionary ecology. Using the form of organisms to describe, classify and try to understand their diversity can be traced back at least to Aristotle. More recently, two successive revolutions rejuvenated this idea [1– 3]: first, a proper mathematical refoundation of the theory of shape, then a technical revolution in the apparatus able to acquire raw data. By using a feature extraction method and planning its massive use on data acquired by aerial drones, the study by Lacaux and colleagues [4] retraces this curse of events.","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131483769","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 meaningful application of species distribution models and functional traits to understand invasion dynamics","authors":"J. Hortal","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100065","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Manuele Bazzichetto, François Massol, Marta Carboni, Jonathan Lenoir, Jonas Johan Lembrechts, Rémi Joly, David Renault. Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub-Antarctic islands (2020), bioRxiv, 2020.07.19.210880, ver. 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Ecology. 10.1101/2020.07.19.210880","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123878499","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":"Hidden diversity: how genetic richness affects species diversity and ecosystem processes in freshwater ponds","authors":"F. Laender","doi":"10.24072/pci.ecology.100064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100064","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Allan Raffard, Julien Cucherousset, Jose M. Montoya, Murielle Richard, Samson Acoca-Pidolle, Camille Poesy, Alexandre Garreau, Frederic Santoul & Simon Blanchet. Intraspecific diversity loss in a predator species alters prey community structure and ecosystem functions 10.1101/2020.06.10.144337","PeriodicalId":186865,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Ecology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114374633","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}