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The paper shows that demographic stochasticity can cause population variability even in large populations when reproductive success is uneven, linking genetic measures to population dynamics.

This study shows land use and climate warming interact to reshape avian biodiversity through ecological filtering and homogenisation, with distinct effects across different land-use types and warming levels.

The paper introduces StatClim, a Bayesian hierarchical model that identifies ecologically relevant climatic windows and summaries to better predict biological responses.

This paper shows that methodological choices can inflate acoustic re-identification accuracy across species and studies, and proposes diagnostics to assess true performance.

The paper uses ITS2 metabarcoding to analyze fungal eDNA in stemflow from three tree species, finding distinct communities influenced by host species and storm events.

This study assesses the conservation value of secondary and plantation forests for fruit-feeding butterflies in northern Vietnam, finding that primary forests support higher species richness than secondary or plantation forests.

The paper investigates whether carcasses contribute to environmental RNA/DNA contamination and its implications for interpreting survey results.

The study shows that habitat modification reduces Argentine ant abundance and allows native ants to recover, but does not fully eradicate the invader.

This study compares dry and mucoid Sinorhizobium meliloti isolates, finding dry strains have higher soil fitness but mucoid strains provide greater host benefits.

This paper uses large language models to extract species interaction data from citizen science comments, expanding ecological data coverage and enabling new ecological research.

This paper develops an automated pipeline for 3D localization of bird vocalizations using small passive acoustic arrays in complex soundscapes, achieving reliable spatial estimates for a majority of detections.

This paper introduces FORCC, a causal inference framework for ecological time series, which identifies directional causality and reduces false positives from synchronization, revealing ecological interactions in marine data.

The paper examines how long-term land-use changes in Texas have shaped vertebrate species distribution dynamics over nearly two centuries.

This paper develops a deep-learning pipeline for automated harbor seal detection and size-classification from drone imagery, showing high accuracy but variability in thermal vs. RGB performance.

The paper quantifies how agricultural intensity affects host-parasite-parasitoid interactions across three trophic levels in a bird-insect system, showing indirect mitigation of parasitoid pressure on host populations.

This study identifies proteomic changes in European earwig females exposed to sublethal deltamethrin, revealing molecular stress without detectable phenotypic effects.

The paper investigates carbon-water coupling by analyzing water-use efficiency metrics across biological scales in a forest, finding discrepancies between model and observational data.

The paper examines how moisture affects nesting diversity of bees, wasps, and parasitoids in deadwood, finding that lying deadwood has lower diversity due to higher moisture retention.

The paper characterizes microbial communities and AMR genes in Chennai Metro surfaces, finding distinct profiles and low AMR prevalence.

This review identifies annual plant species suitable for extensive green roofs and highlights functional traits important for their success in rooftop conditions.