413 papers
This study reveals that cold stress destabilizes the cnidarian-algal symbiosis in the sea anemone *Aiptasia couchii* by causing chilling injury to algal symbionts, which disrupts photosynthetic carbon cycling and ultimately leads to host starvation through metabolic reorganization and protein catabolism.
This paper argues that the observed correlation between high biodiversity and high poverty is not a natural outcome but a result of "systemic bio-inequity," where historical colonial exploitation of biodiverse regions created enduring socio-economic legacies that current conservation narratives fail to address, thereby perpetuating a paradox where natural wealth does not translate into prosperity.
This study evaluates the long-term climate mitigation potential of a Pinus nigra forest in Italy under varying management, climate, and wood-use scenarios, revealing that while forest sector balance is primarily driven by climate and management, effective mitigation ultimately depends on minimizing the timing and magnitude of biogenic emissions and carefully accounting for the decay of substitution benefits.
This study demonstrates that environmental filtering, particularly driven by turbidity from the benthic nepheloid layer, rather than dispersal limitation, governs community assembly and patch dynamics across isolated mesophotic reefs in the Gulf of Mexico.
This study integrates species distribution models, thermal-time development models, and host-suitability metrics to map the global habitat suitability and crop-level risks of six major tropical root-knot nematodes, revealing that most agricultural land in tropical and warm temperate regions is vulnerable to their establishment and proliferation under current and future climate conditions.
This study presents the first global checklist of island bees, revealing that despite covering only 5% of Earth's land area, islands support 20% of global bee diversity with high endemism driven by area, isolation, and biome type, thereby highlighting the critical need to integrate these insects into conservation planning.
Integrating anthropogenic roosting ecology into machine learning models reveals that this trait significantly improves the prediction of bat virus hosting ability and identifies new undetected host species, particularly in Asia, highlighting its critical role in assessing spillover risks at human-wildlife interfaces.
This paper introduces Reciprocal Environmental Decision Support (REDS), a novel system that synergizes data flows by using user-contributed citizen science data to simultaneously provide tailored environmental advice and automatically refine the underlying predictive models, as demonstrated by a proof-of-concept Garden Advice tool that successfully improved House Sparrow presence predictions through automated Bayesian updating.
This study reveals that while spectral niche preferences and physiological plasticity shape *Ostreobium* community structure, inter-species competition is the dominant force driving niche partitioning, with white light specialists likely becoming key players during coral bleaching events.
A field and modeling study in Montpellier reveals that vegetated urban spaces, particularly residential areas with gardens, significantly enhance *Aedes albopictus* survival and increase the theoretical risk of Dengue and Chikungunya transmission compared to parks or impervious areas.
This study demonstrates that ringed seals' movement and foraging ecology are jointly shaped by the interplay of top-down predation risk from polar bears and bottom-up prey diversity, revealing that seals balance these tradeoffs by altering their behavior and habitat use in response to both threats and resource availability.
This study utilizes a literature review and a Generic Impact Scoring System to identify and quantify 200 human-wildlife conflicts involving 48 British terrestrial mammal species, revealing that while economic and disease-related conflicts are significant, informed decision-making requires balancing these costs with the intrinsic value of wildlife to promote coexistence rather than solely focusing on conflict resolution.
Using data from the French National Forest Inventory, this study developed robust, species-specific height-diameter allometries for 41 European tree species that incorporate stand characteristics and structure, demonstrating that local recalibration with minimal additional measurements significantly improves prediction accuracy for forest research and management.
This paper argues that quantitative, standardized biodiversity monitoring is essential for aligning agricultural production with conservation goals, highlighting how current frameworks undervalue long-term guardianship compared to post-disturbance recovery and demonstrating that sustained stewardship can yield greater ecological benefits than additionality alone.
RUBAT Studio (v4.0) is a unified, extensible software platform that simplifies high-resolution, multichannel ultrasonic data acquisition and real-time experimental control for bioacoustic research, thereby enabling complex, reproducible studies in both laboratory and field environments without requiring specialized audio engineering expertise.
This study on the African clawed frog demonstrates that while warmer developmental temperatures can simultaneously accelerate growth and enhance heat tolerance in amphibians, these benefits incur cumulative physiological costs—such as reduced survival, elevated stress responses, and diminished acclimation capacity—that may ultimately limit population persistence under climate warming.
This study demonstrates that while large, aggregated protected areas best support diversity within reserves, optimizing overall conservation outcomes across multiple trophic levels and spatial scales requires high protection effectiveness and enhanced connectivity to leverage spillover benefits for species outside reserves.
This study demonstrates that in coastal guava agroforestry systems in Odisha, India, selecting the superior 'Utkal Madhuri' brinjal genotype combined with an optimized nutrient regime (200:50:50 kg ha⁻¹ N:P₂O₅:K₂O) significantly maximizes carbon sequestration and restores soil fertility through a critical genotype-nutrient interaction.
Over four decades of warming in the southern Gulf of Maine, sessile rock wall communities have undergone a dramatic shift from cool-water dominant species to thermally tolerant, often non-native species, as rising summer temperatures exceeding 17.4°C have driven the decline of cold-affinity organisms that cannot easily migrate laterally.
This study demonstrates that while both Gradient Forest and Canonical Correlation Analysis methods yield spatially congruent genomic offset predictions validated by phenotypic traits in perennial ryegrass, the non-linear Gradient Forest approach is more robust to variations in sample size and geographic distribution, offering practical guidance for designing climate maladaptation assessments.