413 papers
By analyzing global eddy-covariance data, this study reveals that the ecosystem-level maximum quantum yield of photosynthesis follows a universal temperature-dependent bell-shaped curve that varies with aridity and growth temperature, offering a refined mechanism to improve terrestrial biosphere models under climate warming.
This paper introduces a simple, low-cost, and accessible liquid handling methodology for constructing combinatorially complete synthetic microbial communities, demonstrating its utility by assembling all possible combinations of eight *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* strains to identify optimal consortia and dissect their interactions.
The paper introduces ecoTolerance, an open-source R package that calculates Road Tolerance Index (RTI) and Human-Footprint Tolerance Index (HFTI) metrics to automate the assessment of wildlife species' tolerance to human pressures, thereby aiding in the identification of vulnerable species for conservation planning.
This study demonstrates that landscape composition and species-specific traits jointly shape nectar preferences, sucrose responsiveness, and foraging task partitioning among three co-occurring Asian honey bee species (*Apis florea*, *Apis cerana*, and *Apis mellifera*) in India.
This study demonstrates that autonomous video-acoustic monitoring in a Greenlandic glacial fjord effectively characterizes a turbulent, particle-rich seafloor environment and documents diverse biodiversity, including hyperbenthos, backward-swimming fish, and narwhals.
This study demonstrates that under stressful mean temperatures, the impact of thermal variability on host-parasite interactions is not uniform but depends on specific combinations of heatwave duration, predictability, and parasite identity, suggesting that increasing climatic variability will reshape disease outcomes in complex, species-specific ways.
Using vertical-looking radars across diverse Swiss habitats, researchers estimated that approximately 10,000 tons of insect biomass migrate annually over Switzerland, revealing that massive, synchronized aerial movements occur even in complex mountainous terrain and at low temperatures.
This paper demonstrates that while dispersal limitation can weaken Janzen-Connell effects, the synergistic interaction between Janzen-Connell effects and habitat partitioning in spatially autocorrelated environments significantly enhances species coexistence, a dynamic quantified by a novel spatial JC-HP covariance metric.
By applying a variational autoencoder to the WorldClim dataset, this study demonstrates that the 19 standard bioclimatic variables can be effectively reduced to just five uncorrelated synthetic dimensions that capture the full range of climatic variation and produce species distribution models as effective as, or better than, those using the original variables.
This study demonstrates that widespread internal methanogenesis by heartwood microbes, rather than soil transport, is the primary driver of methane emissions in upland forests, with net flux determined by the species-specific balance between microbial production and consumption.
This study reveals that while the algal symbionts of *Siderastrea siderea* corals in urban Miami remain stable, their bacterial communities exhibit significant seasonal and spatial plasticity, shifting in composition and function to enhance stress tolerance and nutrient acquisition in polluted environments.
This paper reports the first documented case in Europe of a live *Hospesneotomae protracta* triatomine bug, a vector for Chagas disease, found engorged in a Lisbon hotel room in August 2025, highlighting the risks of accidental global transport of medical arthropods despite the specimen testing negative for *Trypanosoma cruzi*.
This study of an Eastern Himalayan tropical forest reveals that long-term tree flowering and fruiting patterns exhibit significant nonlinearity, with fruit production specifically driven by a lagged response to solar irradiance while flowering peaks during El Niño events independent of direct climate mediation.
Based on a pan-European analysis of over 2,900 trees across sixteen species, this study reveals that tree-level drought resilience is inherently difficult to predict using local attributes like size or competition, as responses are primarily driven by species-specific traits and topographic variation rather than stand-level factors.
This study demonstrates that in a 16-species synthetic microbial community, total carbon availability is a more critical driver of compositional dynamics and tristable state transitions than resource complexity, with competitive success shifting from being determined by lag phase duration at low carbon levels to maximum growth rate at high levels.
This study demonstrates that rising temperatures in Oman's hyper-arid desert have driven Golden Eagles toward functional extinction by triggering a sharp, non-linear collapse in reproductive success once a critical thermal threshold of approximately 28.3–28.6°C is exceeded, highlighting severe climate-driven demographic erosion in marginal raptor populations before adult disappearance occurs.
By analyzing satellite imagery from 18 tropical swidden societies, this study demonstrates that vegetation diversity is driven by the spatial configuration of agricultural mosaics rather than just disturbance intensity, revealing that intermediate levels of spatially dispersed swidden can enhance rather than degrade biodiversity.
This study utilizes genome-resolved metagenomics to identify a globally distributed, phylogenetically cohesive complex of four novel *Lactobacillaceae* species closely related to *Nicoliella* and *Acetilactobacillus* that dominate the microbiome of stingless bee pot honey.
Through long-term field experiments in mature oak forests, this study demonstrates that while both drought and elevated CO2 slow litter decomposition, drought exerts a stronger influence by altering the decomposition environment, whereas elevated CO2 primarily affects decomposability through changes in initial litter properties.
This paper proposes the Extinction Potential Metric (EPM), a quantitative framework that estimates the number of current and future species extinctions attributable to invasive alien species over the next 50 years, revealing that the most impactful invaders cause vastly disproportionate damage and offering a standardized tool to guide global conservation policy.