403 papers
This study demonstrates that in the monomorphic enantiostylous species *Didymocarpus podocarpus*, biased morph ratios within individual plants, combined with disassortative pollinator behavior, effectively reduce geitonogamy and thereby enhance overall pollination success.
This study utilizes an agent-based model to demonstrate that while gradual protection measures have reduced New Zealand dolphin mortality, current efforts remain insufficient to meet conservation goals due to Allee effects, suggesting that a ban on gillnet and trawl fisheries in waters shallower than 100 meters would effectively safeguard most populations.
This study demonstrates that the environmental axes driving ecological niche reorganisation in invasive freshwater crayfish systematically differ by invasion pathway, with intercontinental invasions primarily distinguished by climatic variables while within-continent invasions are driven by a balanced mix of climate and topographic factors.
This study demonstrates that while environmental temperature exerts a stronger influence than host genotype on the house fly microbiome, the specific cool and warm temperature ranges tested do not induce dysbiosis.
This study utilizes autonomous cameras and AI to demonstrate that high population density in Antarctic fur seal colonies effectively limits predator access and reduces predation risk for pups through spatial exclusion, while scavenger overlap remains unaffected by density differences.
This paper proposes and models a theoretical framework demonstrating how adaptive aggressive interference functions as a leverage mechanism to maximize resource gain, predicting specific thresholds for its expression and cessation based on tradeoffs involving resource availability, consumer density, and leverage.
This study demonstrates that the close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) method can be successfully adapted to estimate the adult census size of the malaria mosquito *Anopheles gambiae* by incorporating specific life-history traits, such as extreme variance in reproductive success and high clutch failure rates, into the statistical model.
Multi-year surveys of western monarch butterflies reveal that their spring recolonization follows a diffusion-like expansion model with overlapping breeding periods rather than the discrete successive broods pattern observed in eastern populations, challenging existing migration paradigms and highlighting significant regional differences in how a single species tracks seasonal resources.
By analyzing data from 19 NEON sites across the United States, this study identifies distinct taxonomic and functional groups of fungi and bacteria that are specifically linked to net ammonification versus nitrification rates under varying environmental conditions, providing a crucial foundation for developing microbial-explicit biogeochemical models.
This study uses a spatially explicit tri-trophic model to demonstrate that optimizing marine protected area (MPA) placement for kelp forest resilience against heatwaves requires balancing trade-offs between protecting climate refugia, maintaining predator biomass through connectivity and spillover, and accounting for recovery timescales, rather than simply prioritizing refugia locations.
This study of black and grizzly bears in Mount Robson Park reveals that while neither species spatially avoids high-recreation areas, both employ temporal partitioning to avoid direct encounters with humans, suggesting that moderate, predictable recreation levels combined with sufficient space can facilitate successful human-bear coexistence.
A study across 21 midwestern US maize farms reveals that in agricultural settings, soil microbial communities rarely facilitate plant acclimation to drought and instead frequently cause mal-acclimation, often reducing plant performance regardless of management practices, climate, or soil characteristics.
This study leverages COVID-19 park closures to demonstrate that increased outdoor recreation negatively impacts mammal habitat use and diversity, particularly for rare species, highlighting the need for adaptive management to balance recreation with conservation goals.
This study establishes that Usutu virus has a shorter temperature-dependent extrinsic incubation period in *Culex pipiens molestus* than West Nile virus, explaining its earlier emergence and broader transmission potential in temperate Europe while highlighting future climate-driven risks for West Nile virus.
This paper introduces "Synchrony Genetics," a framework that reinterprets genetic structure as an emergent indicator of ecological coupling mechanisms—such as environmental correlation, dispersal, and species interactions—rather than a static equilibrium property, thereby enabling the inference of spatial population dynamics from genetic data in systems where demographic independence is violated.
By combining spatially-explicit modeling with laboratory experiments on *Paramecium* and bacterial parasites, this study demonstrates that within-host interactions altering host susceptibility have the most significant impact on parasite spatial epidemiology, particularly by amplifying spatial priority effects during sequential invasions.
This study reveals that during a heatwave at Heron Island, the survival of *Stylophora pistillata* corals is driven primarily by intrinsic biological differences among cryptic taxa and individual colonies rather than environmental exposure, with some locally common corals from historically warmer habitats surprisingly proving more susceptible to bleaching.
This paper presents a high-accuracy framework for mapping small-scale ephemeral surface water across the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area using Sentinel-2 imagery, demonstrating that these fine-scale datasets significantly outperform existing global products in predicting African elephant movement patterns and are essential for effective transfrontier conservation planning under climate change.
By deploying autonomous cameras and AI-driven analysis to track over 4 million detections in an Antarctic fur seal colony, this study reveals how fine-scale spatiotemporal density patterns and the proximity of adult seals significantly reduce pup predation risk from avian predators.
This study demonstrates that in the aquatic plant *Spirodela polyrhiza*, rapid accumulation of niche differences among nascent lineages enables coexistence well before speciation is complete, suggesting that such ecological divergence contributes to time-lags in the speciation process.