413 papers
By integrating climate-driven fish biomass projections with fishing effort and socioeconomic vulnerability, this study identifies Southeast Asia, western Africa, and the West Pacific as critical risk hotspots where nations with low adaptive capacity face disproportionate threats, suggesting that targeted area-based interventions and improved governance are essential to mitigate these socioeconomic risks.
This study demonstrates that although the imperiled Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant and Mountain Purple Pitcher Plant are sympatric in southern Appalachia, they occupy distinct climatic niches with divergent future vulnerabilities, as the former faces significant habitat loss under climate change while the latter's suitable habitat remains stable or expands.
This study synthesizes long-term field data to document the successful, conservation-driven recovery of the critically endangered Sino-Mongolian beaver in China while highlighting its strong preference for undisturbed habitats and projecting the imminent loss of all highly suitable climate conditions by the 2050s, thereby underscoring the urgent need for adaptive management strategies.
This study demonstrates that *Zostera noltei* seagrass meadows in Arcachon Bay enhance both methane emissions and methanotroph diversity compared to bare sediments, suggesting that microbial functional diversity plays a critical role in mitigating methane release within these blue carbon ecosystems.
This study demonstrates that while invasive quagga mussels can effectively reduce harmful cyanobacteria blooms in temperate lakes, their filtration capacity and survival are critically limited by high summer temperatures, suggesting that global warming may exacerbate algal blooms by simultaneously boosting cyanobacteria growth and suppressing mussel grazing.
Through a combination of in vitro experiments and mathematical modeling, this study demonstrates that higher-order interactions and density-dependent feedback mechanisms, such as infection attenuation at high viral densities, enable the stable coexistence of diverse phage and bacterial communities, challenging the limitations of traditional pairwise infection models.
This study reveals that the widespread C4 grass *Themeda triandra* employs distinct intraspecific hydraulic strategies linked to its climate of origin, utilizing conservative water use and drought avoidance in drier environments while prioritizing embolism resistance and hydraulic efficiency in warmer climates.
This study reveals that the widespread establishment of the invasive land snail *Rumina decollata* in Argentina resulted from multiple introduction events from Southern Europe, followed by extensive secondary spread and successful colonization of diverse environments likely facilitated by self-fertilization, despite low mitochondrial genetic diversity.
This study demonstrates that winter warming induces directional dysbiosis and shifts in gut microbiome composition in temperate lizards, with constant mild temperatures promoting potentially harmful taxa while fluctuating temperatures better preserve microbial stability.
While soil physicochemistry, vegetation, and prokaryotic communities in a wet peatland rapidly recovered following a wildfire, fungal communities exhibited a significantly slower and more persistent recovery trajectory, revealing a temporary decoupling between above- and belowground ecosystems that may mask prolonged disruptions to nutrient cycling and plant-microbe interactions.
This study demonstrates that satellite imagery can effectively detect significant reductions in beaver pond surface water area on Michipicoten Island following a major beaver population decline caused by grey wolves, establishing a cost-effective method for monitoring large-scale beaver population trends in the boreal zone.
This study identifies key rearing practices, including burying puparia in soil, optimizing cold exposure duration, and manipulating spring temperatures and adult diets, to significantly improve the overwintering survival, emergence timing, and longevity of the Japanese beetle parasitoid *Istocheta aldrichi* for biological control applications.
This study demonstrates that while environmental DNA (eDNA) is an effective tool for monitoring freshwater unionid mussels and generally aligns with visual survey results, its detection efficiency is significantly influenced by seasonal factors such as reproductive behaviors, burial patterns, and hydrological conditions, necessitating that sampling timing be adjusted based on local environmental variables.
This study demonstrates that detecting male-specific mitochondrial DNA in environmental samples serves as a promising non-invasive indicator for tracking the seasonal reproductive phenology of freshwater mussels, with male-to-female mitotype ratios offering a refined proxy for identifying sperm release events despite challenges posed by reference database limitations.
This study demonstrates that macrophyte establishment is the primary local driver accelerating cladoceran species richness build-up in newly created pondscapes, with *Daphnia obtusa* typically being the first colonizer and vegetated ponds supporting faster accumulation of chydorid and other macrophyte-associated species.
This study presents the first reward-ring analysis of European ducks, revealing that approximately two-thirds of standard rings are reported and that harvest mortality is highest immediately after ringing before declining in subsequent years due to selective survival and behavioral adaptation.
This study demonstrates that climate change has significantly lengthened the West Nile virus transmission season in New York State by an average of 20 days over the past 25 years, a trend driven by human-induced warming that is strongly associated with increased disease prevalence in both mosquitoes and humans.
The paper presents the design, assembly, and field validation of ALANizer, a novel, low-cost, and scalable open-source tool for introducing and monitoring artificial light at night in ecosystems to study its impacts on arthropods.
This two-year study of a mixed forest demonstrates that while soil temperature and moisture are fundamental drivers of soil respiration, atmospheric vapour pressure is a critical predictor for capturing drought-induced collapses and rewetting responses, alongside significant spatial variations driven by tree species composition.
This study demonstrates that fences and roads in the hyper-arid Greater Sossusvlei Namib Landscape significantly restrict ungulate movements and reduce home ranges, with varying degrees of impact across species like springbok and gemsbok, thereby highlighting specific barriers that require modification to restore habitat connectivity.