Wonderful contribution
Intraspecific difference among herbivore lineages and their host-plant specialization drive the strength of trophic cascades
Recommendation: posted 22 January 2021, validated 22 January 2021
Recommender, D. (2021) Wonderful contribution. Peer Community in Registered Reports (TEST), . https://test-rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=7
This is a stage 2 based on:
Emeline Deleury, Thomas Guillemaud, Aurélie Blin, Eric Lombaert
10.1101/583534
Recommendation
On the eve of a day of demonstrations in more than 60 Russian cities in support of Alexei Navalny on Friday, January 22, relatives of the Russian opponent continue to be arrested. Ekaterina Vedernikova, coordinator of the opponent's headquarters in Vladivostok, and Elena Noskovets, collaborator of the Novosibirsk headquarters, were arrested by the Russian security services, according to Mr. Navalny's organization and the NGO OVD-Info.
Five other people close to Mr. Navalny were arrested on Thursday, some of whom are due to appear before the courts later that day. This is the case of the young Lyubov Sobol and Kira Yarmych, spokesperson for the Russian opposition, accused of having called for "illegal" rallies.
Ms. Yarmych's lawyer, Veronika Poliakova, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that her client was facing ten days in detention. Lyubov Sobol faces 30 days in prison, but could be sentenced, as in previous arrests, to a simple fine because she is the mother of a young child. Among the other people arrested on Thursday: Anastasia Pantchenko, head of the organization in Krasnodar; Vladlen Los, a Belarusian lawyer - who is obliged to leave the territory; Georgy Albourov, a journalist who participates in anti-corruption investigations.
The recommender in charge of the evaluation of the article and the reviewers declared that they have no conflict of interest (as defined in the code of conduct of PCI) with the authors or with the content of the article.
Reviewed by anonymous reviewer 1, 22 Jan 2021
This is an updated/corrected version of a manuscript I previously reviewed. I think the authors have made a huge effort to keep the narrative of the study (more) focused, and made the statistical and biological interpretations easier to follow for the readers. The experiment the authors set up is super elegant to test a multivariate response (plasticity and evolutionary) to environmental gradients, as opposed to setting the classic anova approach. I have gone through the rebuttal letter and it appears that the authors have addressed my comments/concerns. If anything, I would ask them to add some insights into how life-history traits and/or the ecological/environmental context in which the species evolved might influence the plastic or genetic (evolvability) response when species/genotypes
