413 papers
This study reveals that while *Mycoplasmopsis agassizii* is highly prevalent in captive Mediterranean tortoises in Spain, its occurrence in wild populations is species-specific, with *Testudo graeca* showing very low or absent infection rates compared to the comparatively higher prevalence found in wild *Testudo hermanni*.
This study reveals that while Thorn-tailed Rayadito populations in southern Patagonia successfully adapt to climatic variations by extending incubation periods to ensure optimal embryonic development, northern populations lack this plasticity, resulting in slower development and declining fitness under increasingly adverse weather conditions.
This study presents the first quantitative, multi-scale characterization of the previously undocumented Solito Seamount in the southeast Pacific, using an integrated framework of high-resolution geophysical data and ROV observations to map distinct megahabitats and reveal how geomorphology, substrate, and depth-dependent oceanographic conditions structure unique benthic megafaunal assemblages.
This experimental field study in Hungary demonstrates that while ground-based ULV deltamethrin spraying effectively reduces mosquito populations by approximately 45%, it simultaneously causes significant short-term declines of over 40% in non-target flying insects, highlighting a critical trade-off between vector control and insect conservation.
This study demonstrates that airborne environmental DNA is a highly sensitive and efficient complementary tool for rapidly assessing terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia, successfully detecting the majority of species found by camera traps within a short sampling window.
This study presents a novel framework integrating ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration data, high-resolution remote sensing, and field observations to successfully map groundwater-dependent vegetation in temperate Central Germany with 97% accuracy, revealing that a significant portion of these biodiversity hotspots currently lacks protection under the EU Water Framework Directive.
A reciprocal transplant experiment across a latitudinal gradient reveals that while northern bur oak populations are maladapted to warmer climates, southern populations exhibit superior fitness in heat, suggesting that assisted migration using southern seed sources could enhance the species' resilience to climate change.
An analysis of the Global Soil Virus Atlas reveals that while virus-encoded metabolic genes are globally rare in soils, they are non-randomly enriched for carbohydrate-active enzymes, particularly chitinases, suggesting that ignoring viral contributions may lead to underestimating the functional potential for specific carbon degradation traits in soil metagenomic studies.
This study documents the high diversity and seasonal variation of insect assemblages visiting *Balanites aegyptiaca* flowers in Senegal's Ferlo region, revealing that while restoration efforts had limited impact on local abundance, the tree's year-round floral resources are critical for sustaining diverse insect functional groups across harsh seasonal cycles.
Based on 33 years of data from white-faced capuchins, this study demonstrates that environmental fluctuations dynamically shift the competitive trade-offs between within-group foraging costs and between-group territorial advantages, driving larger groups to expand their ranges and encroach on neighbors in ways that depend on seasonal and climatic conditions.
By analyzing 8,000 years of fossil pollen data, this study reveals a millennia-scale decline in global vegetation compositional resilience driven primarily by anthropogenic land-use change, while highlighting the critical, often predominant, role of biotic factors in shaping these long-term dynamics.
Analysis of five years of standardized monitoring data from Japan reveals that coral bleaching prevalence follows a bimodal distribution driven by state transition dynamics, with distinct patterns between partial and comprehensive mass bleaching events and a strong dependence of thermal stress metric performance on the specific severity threshold used to define the outcome.
This study analyzes data from 110 permanent sample plots in the Sundarbans to reveal how taxonomic, structural, functional, and phylogenetic biodiversity dimensions are interconnected and differentially driven by environmental stressors like salinity and siltation, highlighting the need for holistic conservation strategies that account for these distinct multidimensional responses.
This study demonstrates that while adult survival of the tropical copepod *Pseudodiaptomus annandalei* remains unaffected by copper exposure and warming, their feeding and reproductive performance are highly sensitive to temperature, with warming to 35°C significantly altering the toxicity of copper on reproductive output.
Using the Carpenter model of lake eutrophication, this study demonstrates that standard ecological monitoring data often fail to distinguish bistable regimes from stable ones, revealing that accurate identification of tipping points and bistability is only practically achievable when data are collected very close to the critical threshold.
Through trans-solstice climate manipulation experiments on European beech, this study demonstrates that developmental constraints mediate a flexible phenological "switch" after the summer solstice, where the timing of spring leaf-out and specific diel temperature responses (particularly nighttime cooling) determine whether post-solstice warming delays or advances autumn phenology.
This study demonstrates that fine-scale temporal (diel cycles) and spatial factors, alongside genetic variation, are critical drivers of metagenomic community structure in coral reefs, often outweighing larger-scale environmental gradients.
Based on a long-term field experiment, anthropogenic nitrogen deposition restructures decomposing microbial communities and alters the biochemical composition of mineral soil organic matter—specifically lignin- and lipid-derived compounds—without significantly affecting molecular complexity or diversity, a process that likely contributes to reduced soil organic matter decomposition.
This paper presents a reproducible, low-cost, ground-based photogrammetry workflow using chest-mounted action cameras to generate high-resolution 3D models and orthomosaics of forested streams, overcoming canopy limitations to enable frequent, fine-scale habitat assessments for ecological monitoring.
This study demonstrates that geospatial foundation models (AlphaEarth and Tessera) significantly outperform conventional satellite composites in mapping tree species in temperate mountain forests by achieving higher accuracy with minimal training data and robustness to label impurity, provided they are paired with nonlinear classifiers, though their performance is limited by temporal transferability issues.