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The paper examines how functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity affect exotic plant invasion success at different spatial scales, finding support for pre-adaptation at the site scale and limiting similarity at the neighbourhood scale.

This study shows response diversity drives community stability in food webs, with food web structure playing a secondary role.

The paper evaluates the accuracy of drone-based thermal videography for estimating large mammal populations, finding that optimal timing and averaging across days improve accuracy.

This study evaluates the sensitivity of multispectral vegetation indices to leaf water and carotenoid content across biomes and finds that leaf area index explains most of the variability.

This study investigates how elevated temperature affects intracellular pH and calcification in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata, finding no pH or calcification changes despite tissue damage, contrasting with tropical cnidarians.

This study examines how fish predation affects drift and emergence behaviors of aquatic invertebrates in a mesocosm system, showing significant responses to both indirect and direct predation.

The paper identifies a novel brevetoxin-producing Karenia cristata causing a large marine mortality event in South Australia, with distinct toxin profiles compared to K. brevis.

This study shows that oil palm plantation age affects microclimate and biodiversity, with older plantations being cooler, more humid, and supporting different species abundances and diversity.

The paper investigates how native community resistance affects the spread of non-native species along Mediterranean mountain roads under global change, finding that native biotic resistance is a strong driver of non-native species occurrence and abundance.

The paper identifies agricultural regions with closer future climate analogues, suggesting they may serve as refugia for agrobiodiversity.

The paper assesses the invasiveness of barred owls in the western U.S. by analyzing their diet and finds they threaten native species and amphibian communities, supporting lethal management.

This study links terrigenous nutrient inputs to microbial community structure and nutrient dynamics in tropical lagoons through analysis of macroalgal nitrogen content and water chemistry.

ALGR generates realistic agricultural landscapes using a three-step approach, enabling flexible integration into R-based modeling workflows.

This study develops a qPCR assay to detect Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin eDNA in Hong Kong waters, demonstrating its effectiveness in environmental monitoring.

The paper uses CARD-FISH and sequencing to study microbial food web dynamics in the Baltic Sea, finding that omnivorous and predatory HNF dominate during phytoplankton blooms.

This study examines how early-life food shortage and elevated temperature interact to affect female guppy life history traits, finding that higher temperatures reduce reproduction and increase mortality, with limited effects from food restriction.

The paper analyzes pollinator biodiversity in Mexico and adjacent areas, revealing exceptions to global diversity trends and highlighting the need for region-specific conservation strategies.

The paper introduces a functional Red List Index (fRLI) to monitor functional diversity trends by weighting species by morphological uniqueness, finding higher extinction risk for locally unique species.

This study quantifies the global invasion risks of seven farmed insect species using species distribution models, identifying high-risk regions and emphasizing the need for biosecurity measures.