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This study uses a mechanistic species distribution model to predict current and future ranges of the common waxbill, identifying climate-driven expansion risks in Europe.

The paper tracks changes in macrofungal alpha diversity across Europe from the 1980s to 2010s, finding weak positive trends and identifying environmental factors influencing diversity.

The paper compares ecological communities in rice paddy fields under conventional and no-fertilizer farming practices, finding that microbial and plant taxa abundances influence rice growth and yield differences.

The paper examines how shorebird abundance and behaviors respond to restoration and habitat factors in coastal Louisiana using remote sensing data and boosted regression tree models.

The paper compares plant diversity in single large habitat patches versus multiple smaller ones of equal total area, finding greater diversity in smaller patches.

This study examines how climate variability affects thermal tolerance in plants across three biomes, finding that thermal variability increases cold tolerance but not heat tolerance.

This study shows that longevity can hinder evolutionary rescue by slowing growth but not necessarily adaptation, depending on heritability and selection dynamics.

The paper describes a large aggregation of co-occurring cold-water coral species in the mesophotic zone of the northern Bay of Biscay, highlighting their distribution and ecological significance.

This study models current and future dengue risk in California by integrating vector presence, temperature suitability, and travel-associated cases, finding that 18.2 million residents are at risk now and an additional 4.1 million may be at risk by mid-century under climate warming and urban expansion.

This paper extends close-kin mark-recapture methods to estimate mosquito dispersal parameters and barrier strength using simulations of Aedes aegypti populations.

This paper develops a theoretical framework to explore how microbial interactions influence biological invasions, identifying pathways through which microbes can facilitate or hinder invasion dynamics.

This paper shows that integrating fish into rice fields reduces schistosomiasis risk, improves soil nutrients, and increases rice yields with economic benefits.

The paper introduces a Bayesian model called mixglm to analyze ecological stability landscapes and identify stable states, demonstrating its application to tree cover data in South America.

This study shows that increasing spatial resolution in ecological models can reduce prediction quality for some species, highlighting the need for careful spatial complexity selection.

The paper reconstructs the historical distribution and loss of oyster reefs in China over 7600 years, linking their decline to millennial-scale overexploitation and societal shifts.

This study uses DNA amplification to detect trophic interactions between sea urchin settlers and macroinvertebrates in algal forests, finding that 17% of invertebrates tested contained sea urchin DNA.

CODABEILLES improves DNA barcode coverage for French wild bees, reaching 94% of species through collaborative efforts, enhancing species identification and pollinator monitoring.

The paper evaluates 27 forest cover datasets to identify differences in their estimates of forest extent and change, highlighting the importance of careful dataset selection.

The paper demonstrates that environmental DNA (eDNA) methods can sensitively detect bumble bee species, including rare ones, comparable to traditional netting surveys.

The paper predicts lead hotspots in urban stormwater ponds by analyzing sediment, water, and soil lead levels across the Twin Cities Metro, finding that pond age and stratification are key predictors.