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This study compares microbial communities in conventional and organic agriculture using Raman spectroscopy and 16S rRNA sequencing, finding distinct phenotypic adaptations linked to management practices.

The paper estimates rangeland fractional cover and canopy gap classes using Sentinel-2 satellite data for the western United States from 2018 to 2024.

The paper examines the dilution effect of host diversity on small mammal-borne pathogens, finding pathogen-specific patterns influenced by host competence and abundance.

The paper compares detection probabilities of nearshore fish using eDNA and seine nets, finding trait-specific selectivity differences.

This study shows that fish ageing methods affect growth parameter estimates, highlighting the need for method reporting and accounting in comparative analyses.

This paper develops machine learning classifiers to detect coral seeding devices in reef imagery, achieving high accuracy with minimal manual annotation.

The paper quantifies coevolutionary temperature across geographic landscapes using reciprocity and strength metrics, revealing hotspots and coldspots in plant-pollinator networks.

This study identifies 9,697 novel archaeal proviruses across 19 phyla, revealing broad host infectivity, antiviral systems, and auxiliary metabolic genes that impact biogeochemical cycles.

The paper develops a model to predict sedimentation and drag of macrophytes and plastic objects by approximating them as ellipsoids and using shape descriptors.

The paper constructs a database of organohalide-cycling genes and microorganisms in marine metagenomes, revealing new insights into halogenation-dehalogenation cycling and its microbial diversity.

This study examines how winter temperature regimes affect survival, energy stores, and gene expression in a cold-adapted spider population, finding plasticity but potential metabolic costs in warmer conditions.

This study evaluates drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors for detecting macropods in Tasmania, finding optimal flight parameters for detection accuracy and survey efficiency.

A field survey in California failed to recover the introduced parasitoid P. digoneutis, confirming P. relictus as the dominant parasitoid of Lygus hesperus in the region.

The paper examines microbial communities in Phragmites australis biofilms and planktonic fractions across lakes with different trophic states, finding distinct biofilm communities with unique core microbiomes and higher physiological activity.

This paper develops a CNN-based model for detecting macropods in drone imagery, achieving high recall across diverse habitats and demonstrating the feasibility of deep learning for wildlife monitoring.

This study examines how vector diversity affects malaria prevalence globally, finding that the relationship varies by latitude and is influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors.

The paper quantifies primary productivity and nitrogen fixation in the eastern Indian Ocean, showing nitrogen recycling and N2 fixation support ecosystem productivity.

The paper uses environmental DNA to study invertebrate communities in arid-land rock-holes, finding seasonal and spatial variability in species richness and composition.

This paper improves animal movement modeling using particle algorithms to enhance MPA design and conservation efforts for flapper skates.

Across 1281 bird assemblages and 3696 species, land-use change lowers functional redundancy and resistance to simulated extinctions despite lower vulnerability, hitting frugivores and invertivores hardest.