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The paper uses leaf-derived eDNA to study arthropod community structure and invasion dynamics on Oahu, Hawaii, revealing elevation-based transitions and plant species effects.

The paper quantifies vertical variation in oak canopy caterpillar communities across three years, finding no consistent stratification but strong inter-annual and tree-level variation.

The paper integrates genotype-to-phenotype maps into ecological models to develop an ecology of metagenomes, revealing gene-level dynamics and metagenomic hitchhiking.

This paper examines the Indonesian songbird trade through a political ecology lens, highlighting animal welfare harms and their social and cultural drivers.

The paper studies fish behavior in drying refuge pools of intermittent rivers, finding that body size influences habitat use and movement patterns, with drying history affecting behavior even after rewetting.

Legally traded wild mammals have higher odds (OR 2.72) of sharing pathogens with humans, and each 9 years in global trade adds roughly one human-shared pathogen.

The paper shows that slow predator responses to environmental changes can lead to ecosystem collapse, even with small changes if the rate exceeds a threshold.

The paper examines when and if we will detect a current mass extinction by analyzing extinction rates, species discovery rates, and future loss scenarios.

The paper develops a mathematical framework to assess ecosystem resilience to phenological shifts using an empirical dataset on plant-pollinator interactions.

The paper detects non-indigenous species in Mediterranean marine protected areas using eDNA and UVC, finding that aqueous eDNA metabarcoding provides the most comprehensive species list.

This study measures ibuprofen accumulation in Lake Baikal amphipods, finding species-specific, seasonal, and size-related variation in contamination.

This study examines how parasitism, density, and resource availability interact to affect survival and fecundity in wild red deer across their lifespan.

This paper introduces an information-theoretic framework to quantify emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems, showing that increased community richness enhances predictive power of simple compositional descriptions.

This study assesses how urbanization affects thermal tolerance in two tropical lizards by analyzing microhabitat temperatures and physiological responses.

This study shows that exposure to (Z)-3-hexenol primes tobacco plants for stronger defense against herbivores without reducing their growth or reproductive success.

This study shows that the functional composition of the nodule microbiome, not just the primary symbiont, better predicts legume performance in wild plants.

This paper analyzes over 35,000 community science records to document monarch butterfly host plant interactions, revealing seasonal host shifts and the impact of non-native milkweeds on breeding range.

This study examines how temperature and host genotype influence the microbiome of house flies, finding temperature has a stronger effect than genotype, but no dysbiosis was observed.

The paper develops an agent-based model to evaluate how fishing method restrictions impact dolphin mortality and population decline, finding that current protections are insufficient and recommending expanded bans on certain fisheries.

This study shows that invasive crayfish species reorganize their ecological niches along different environmental axes depending on their invasion pathway, with intercontinental invaders shifting more along climate variables and within-continent invaders showing balanced climate and topographic influences.