Reservoirs of pestilence: what pathogen and rodent community analyses can tell us about transmission risk

Francois Massol

doi:10.24072/pci.ecology.100087

Abstract

A recommendation of: Samantha Bowser, Maggie MacPherson A study on the role of social information sharing leading to range expansion in songbirds with large vocal repertoires: Enhancing our understanding of the Great-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) alarm call https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/2UFJ5

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According to the acoustic adaptation hypothesis, the habitat plays an important role too in how acoustic patterns get transmitted. This is of particular interest for range-expanding species that will face new environmental conditions along the leading edge
The few additional comments made by one of the initial reviewers round up the current stage this interesting research project is in
I think that incorporating the phylogenetic with the PPCA and PGLS will help to disentangle if the differences in vocalisations are more or less than expected the phylogeny

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Does the active vocabulary in Great-tailed Grackles supports their range expansion? New study will find out. A study on the role of social information sharing leading to range expansion in songbirds with large vocal repertoires: Enhancing our understanding of the Great-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) alarm call. According to the acoustic adaptation hypothesis, the habitat plays an important role too in how acoustic patterns get transmitted This is of particular interest for range-expanding species that will face new environmental conditions along the leading edge. The few additional comments made by one of the initial reviewers round up the current stage this interesting research project is in To this end, I can only fully recommend the revised research plan and am much looking forward to the outcomes from the author’s experiments, modeling, and field data. With the suggestions being made at such an early stage I firmly believe that the final outcome will be highly interesting to an ornithological readership but to every ecologist and biogeographer interested in drivers of range dynamic processes

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