26 July 2024

Negative effects of agricultural open-channel irrigation system on vertebrate populations in central Mexico

Fernanda Michalski, Handling Editor

19 July 2024

Natural grazing by horses and cattle promotes bird diversity in a restored European alluvial grassland

"This article move its field forward using a robust dataset to answer interesting questions about the effects of grazer density, season and land cover on bird guilds in a restored conservation area."

Fernanda Michalski, Handling Editor

28 June 2024

The effects of meliponicultural use of Tetragonula laeviceps on other bee pollinators and pollination efficacy of lemon

Stanislav Gorb, Handling Editor

22 May 2024

Determining the plant-pollinator network in a culturally significant food and medicine garden in the Great Lakes region

"The work provides new valuable information on plant-pollinator interactions within semi-urban ecological systems"

Javier Manjarrez, Handling Editor

8 May 2024

Interactive effects of drought and deforestation on multitrophic communities and aquatic ecosystem functions in the Neotropics—a test using tank bromeliads

"This article deals with two factors that affect tropical environments, deforestation and changes in precipitations (droughts). The model used (bromeliad tanks) is very good for testing hypotheses, as experiments can work with a whole ecosystem. Also, these small ecosystems imply a very important proportion of tropical rainforest biodiversity, often unseen."

Esteban Balseiro, Handling Editor

30 April 2024

Ecological niche divergence or ecological niche partitioning in a widespread Neotropical bird lineage

"This paper helps to understand the ecological niche divergence within a widespread, pan-American avian lineage."

José Maria Silva, Handling Editor

26 April 2024

The role of environmental gradients and microclimates in structuring communities and functional groups of lizards in a rainforest-savanna transition area

"This manuscript is a very interesting contribution to understand assembly of lizard communities in the Amazon, with a very well done experimental design."

Armando Sunny, Handling Editor

1 April 2024

Seasonal fluctuations of litter and soil Collembola and their drivers in rainforest and plantation systems

"Due to their size and other aspects of their biology, Collembola are difficult to work with and are often neglected in biodiversity research. However, they play substantial roles in the ecosystem and deserve greater attention in an era of massive anthropogenic ecological change."

Dezene Huber, Handling Editor

1 April 2024

Spatial habitat suitability prediction of essential oil wild plants on Indonesia’s degraded lands

"The article discusses how to utilize and restore degraded land to increase land productivity."

Federica Semprucci, Handling Editor

15 March 2024

Mammal dung–dung beetle trophic networks: an improved method based on gut-content DNA

"Introducing a new method always has an impact. By showing that the mammalian producers of dung can be identified through sequencing this should lead to advances in the ecology of this area."

Clement Kent, Handling Editor