403 papers
An analysis of extensive camera trap data across four African savanna sites reveals that neither chacma nor olive baboons exhibit reactive avoidance by temporarily vacating areas following predator encounters, suggesting they rely on alternative strategies like proactive avoidance or aggressive retaliation to manage predation risk.
This study uses individual-based modeling to demonstrate that while inadvertent social information use and pesticide-induced foraging biases independently alter bumblebee crop visitation patterns without affecting overall colony growth, these behavioral shifts likely modify pesticide exposure risks and should be integrated into risk assessment frameworks.
A study in urban Ontario found that professional second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide baiting causes sublethal spillover exposure in non-target white-footed mice, suggesting these rodents may act as vectors for predators and highlighting the need to avoid such treatments near naturalized landscapes.
This study demonstrates that temperate tree foliage acts as a consistent methane sink and nitrous oxide source, with species-specific methane uptake rates driven largely by foliar microbial community composition and plant traits, ultimately suggesting that tree diversity plays a critical role in the global terrestrial methane sink.
This study demonstrates that delayed predator responses to environmental shifts can render ecosystems vulnerable to catastrophic collapse even under relatively slow and small-magnitude changes, highlighting the critical need to incorporate predator responsiveness and the rate of environmental change into resilience assessments.
This study introduces a mathematical framework demonstrating that even minor shifts in the phenological timing of species can disrupt ecosystem resilience and functioning, independent of changes in species density.
By combining high-resolution mapping with behavioral observations, this study reveals that fish in intermittent river refuge pools exhibit size-dependent microhabitat preferences and movement patterns that persist through drying and leave lasting behavioral imprints even after rewetting, highlighting the critical conservation value of these structurally complex habitats.
This study demonstrates that macroalgae from southeastern Spain, particularly the invasive species *Rugulopteryx okamurae*, possess significant antioxidant and antifungal activities against *Fusarium oxysporum* TR4, supporting the potential valorization of invasive algal biomass as a source of bioactive compounds.
Although current biodiversity loss rates may already align with the criteria for a mass extinction, the authors argue that the long timescales required for such events to fully materialize and the lag in species discovery mean humanity is at high risk of failing to recognize the crisis as it unfolds, potentially absolving current society of responsibility for catastrophic future consequences.
A study of urban and garden ponds in Budapest reveals that fish presence is the primary factor suppressing mosquito abundance, while urbanization levels and invasive species occurrence play minimal roles in driving mosquito populations.
This long-term study of wild red deer reveals that the fitness costs of parasitism are synergistically exacerbated by high population density and resource scarcity in calves, but these interactions fade or reverse in older age groups due to selection biases.
This paper introduces a new Poisson-extended latent multinomial model that accurately estimates population size in capture-recapture studies by simultaneously accounting for misidentification risks and repeated sampling of individuals within the same occasion, a scenario where existing models fail.
This paper introduces the Mothbox and Mothbot, an open-source, low-cost automated light trap and machine learning system that enables scalable, high-resolution insect monitoring and biodiversity conservation by making data collection accessible to non-specialists and ensuring quality through human-in-the-loop validation.
This systematic review of 124 studies on wild large herbivores confirms that seasonality and predation are the primary drivers of birth timing and synchrony, respectively, while highlighting significant gaps in research regarding other biological factors and understudied geographic regions in Asia and the Americas.
This study demonstrates that the performance of the wild legume *Calicotome villosa* is better predicted by the collective functional composition of its nodule microbiome—including non-rhizobial endophytes—than by the primary nitrogen-fixing symbiont alone, supporting a broader view of nodules as multipartite microbial communities.
By integrating fine-scale microclimate data with species-specific thermal traits, this study reveals that while the tropical agamid *Calotes versicolor* tolerates urban thermal mosaics well, *Psammophilus dorsalis* is more susceptible to thermal constraints in human-modified landscapes, highlighting the critical need to account for microclimatic heterogeneity and species-specific traits when predicting responses to environmental change.
This study analyzes over 35,000 community science records to reveal that monarch butterflies utilize more than 70 milkweed species with distinct seasonal shifts in host preference, while demonstrating that non-native horticultural milkweeds have expanded the species' winter breeding range by over 60%.
Field-based microcosm experiments at Shiraho Reef demonstrate that combined nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment drives short-term shifts from picophytoplankton dominance to larger phytoplankton groups, highlighting the critical role of pelagic processes in coral reef carbon dynamics under nutrient stress.
This study demonstrates that on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, moderate populations of plateau pikas facilitate livestock by selectively removing poisonous plants to improve forage quality and yak weight gain, revealing a density-dependent shift from competition to mutualism between small and large herbivores.
Although honeypot ants exhibit convergent evolution in their specialized repletes, this study reveals that they do not share the same environmental niches or respond to identical contemporary climatic drivers, suggesting that current environmental factors alone cannot explain their convergent evolution.