417 papers
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.
This study demonstrates that while rainforest ants generally exhibit limited temporal flexibility, shifting their foraging activity to cooler vertical or nocturnal niches significantly improves their thermal safety margins—particularly in lowland environments—thereby highlighting spatiotemporal niche flexibility as a crucial climate change mitigation strategy, though diurnal canopy specialists remain highly vulnerable.
This study demonstrates that navigating *Myrmecia midas* ants continuously update their life-long visual memories through time-dependent online extinction during travel, a process that can be reversed by brief exposure to novel visual scenes, revealing a dynamic memory system distinct from classic reinforcement-based models.
This preliminary study leverages a decade of iNaturalist observations to map a generalized Lepidopteran-flower network in Metro Manila, revealing that exotic and ruderal plants serve as crucial hubs for sustaining endemic butterflies and demonstrating the value of citizen science for informing urban pollinator conservation.
This study demonstrates that real-time closures (RTCs) are more effective than static closures for managing the Gulf of Thailand's short mackerel fishery, as they offer greater flexibility, require smaller closure areas, and successfully mitigate fishing mortality for migratory species by utilizing near real-time surveillance data.
This study provides empirical evidence that compensatory density-dependent mortality commonly regulates early-life survival across diverse fish taxa in the Gulf of Thailand, suggesting that juvenile removal via trash fish catches does not necessarily reduce long-term productivity due to these self-regulating mechanisms.
This study reveals that anglers in Northern Spain, despite reporting higher self-perceived knowledge, exhibit lower awareness of the ecological impacts of river barriers and are more prone to misconceptions about their removal compared to non-anglers, highlighting the need for targeted engagement to improve social acceptance of restoration efforts.
This study demonstrates a strong correlation between laboratory-measured thermal performance and field-observed occurrence patterns across 39 marine phytoplankton species, suggesting that simple experimental data can reliably predict species distributions and range shifts under global warming.
This study experimentally disentangles the effects of species richness and interaction frequency in wood-decay fungi, revealing that while competitive interactions generally accelerate decomposition through complementarity, specific deadlock interactions can accumulate recalcitrant fungal compounds that may ultimately slow decay, leading to the proposal of an "accumulated inhibitor hypothesis" to explain contrasting biodiversity-decomposition relationships.
Based on long-term surveys in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, this study reveals that while marine fish have experienced substantial warming in their realized thermal niches over the past three decades, their spatial redistributions across latitude, longitude, and depth have been generally small and region-specific, challenging the assumption that species can effectively shift their ranges to escape rising ocean temperatures.
This study evaluates how collection timing, methods, and rearing conditions affect the successful collection and pupariation of the Japanese beetle parasitoid *Istocheta aldrichi*, ultimately providing optimized guidelines for its use in biological control programs.
This study reveals that in durum wheat fields, Mucoromycotina fine root endophytes and Glomeromycotina arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are governed by distinct biotic and abiotic drivers, with the former showing stress-induced declines in diversity and a specific link to nutrient uptake under combined water and nitrogen limitation, while the latter remains stable and more influenced by host genotype.
By integrating historical ecological records with stakeholder perspectives, this study demonstrates how fire-induced vegetation shifts in UK peatlands threaten carbon balance and argues for a management strategy that combines habitat restoration, hydrological improvement, and careful controlled burning to enhance resilience against climate-driven wildfire risks.
This study demonstrates that prophage activity critically shapes the thermal ecology and evolution of a marine bacterium by reducing host performance across temperatures and serving as a primary target for evolutionary rescue, where adaptation to high temperatures is achieved through the suppression of prophage induction.
This systematic review evaluates the conceptual and methodological convergence between field-based ecology and remote sensing, highlighting their growing alignment on key functional traits while identifying persistent gaps in biome coverage and emphasizing the need for harmonized definitions and scaling assumptions to create a unified framework for monitoring plant functional diversity.
This study utilizes phase-shifted time-series analysis to demonstrate that mating activity in black soldier flies is highly correlated with subsequent reproductive metrics, specifically peaking at a 2-day lag for trap oviposition and a 3-day lag for other fertility indicators, thereby revealing the predictable temporal dynamics of their reproductive cycle.
This two-decade longitudinal study identifies persistent technical, economic, and institutional barriers hindering the adoption of organic farming in Jordan's arid regions and recommends policy reforms, subsidies, and streamlined certification to overcome these challenges.
This study introduces "dynamic response traits" derived from population-level, state-dependent environmental responses to demonstrate that species' local reactions to warming effectively predict their poleward range shift velocities, offering a novel framework for understanding and conserving biodiversity under climate change.