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The paper quantifies how bacterial abundance on flowers changes with age and how abiotic factors influence flower longevity and bacterial accumulation across 8 plant species.

The paper models how adult mosquito emergence affects age distribution and surveillance metrics, showing emergence variability drives age structure heterogeneity.

This study examines the effects of forest structural heterogeneity on dung beetle diversity and ecosystem function in Central Europe, finding no benefit to dung beetle diversity or dung removal rates in more heterogeneous forests.

This study evaluates a smartphone app for self-reporting fishing data in a recreational fishery, comparing it to traditional creel surveys and finding mixed reliability across metrics and species.

The paper develops a morpho-functional classification framework to assess deep-sea sponge and cnidarian assemblages using image-based traits, revealing greater spatial variability and environmental associations than traditional taxonomy.

This study identifies heat-resistant coral populations in Belize to guide conservation and restoration efforts under climate change.

The paper examines how changes in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance relate to water uptake patterns in beech forests under different moisture conditions.

This paper introduces a method to reconstruct directed microbial interaction networks from static compositional data, revealing ecological dynamics and keystone taxa.

The paper investigates community ecology dynamics on Fiji reefs, finding depth and soft coral density influence benthic community structure and diversity.

The paper shows predator-driven local convergence and global divergence in microbial communities, revealing trait-based filtering mechanisms and implications for microbiome engineering.

The paper examines whether defensive ant-plant mutualisms mediated by extrafloral nectaries affect island biogeography, finding that these mutualisms do not limit colonization and may strengthen the latitudinal diversity gradient.

This study shows that laboratory evolution of Chlorella sorokiniana under cold and warm temperatures can increase cell yield and lipid production, with trade-offs between traits.

The paper shows that barley plants use constitutive VOCs from undamaged neighbors to adjust their growth-defense trade-off based on neighbor growth rate.

This study analyzes human-leopard conflict in Pauri Garhwal, India, over 20 years, showing that ecological restoration reduces conflict while reactive measures like lethal control are less effective.

This study examines how fire severity affects ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and Douglas-fir seedling performance, finding that high-severity burns reduce fungal diversity and seedling growth, while low-severity burns support better outcomes.

The paper investigates how soil pH affects phage communities infecting two closely related Bacillus strains across a pH gradient, finding that phage composition varies with pH but pH alone does not block phage distribution to individual hosts.

This study uses genomic data and a particle-tracking model to investigate the dispersal and stranding dynamics of Physalia physalis along the US East Coast.

The paper compares eDNA metabarcoding and community science for monitoring Odonata in urban ecosystems, finding both methods have distinct strengths and limitations.

This study examines how urbanization affects soil and root microbiome diversity and assembly in white clover, finding distinct responses between soil and root communities.

This study examines wetland vegetation and its relationship with Rift Valley Fever virus vectors in South Africa, finding changes in plant communities linked to drought and livestock grazing.