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The paper investigates parasite infections in Nile tilapia aquaculture, finding that monopisthocotylan parasites are prevalent and linked to gill lesions, while stakeholders rarely identify parasites as a health cause.

The paper quantifies how human ignitions and herbaceous fuels drive fire regime changes in the Sonoran Desert, showing human-caused fires dominate and spread more with increased vegetation cover.

This study evaluates polymerase and primer biases in ultra-long-read metabarcoding for soil eukaryotes, finding that certain polymerases and primer pairs improve data quality and biodiversity recovery.

The paper develops an R-based workflow to aggregate, clean, and standardize species occurrence records for conservation, demonstrating its utility with Texas native bee data.

This study identifies contrast sensitivity as a key perceptual constraint affecting collision risk for Bearded Vultures with human-made aerial structures.

The paper uses high-density eDNA metabarcoding to reveal three-dimensional fish community structure in a semi-closed bay, showing significant horizontal and vertical variation not fully explained by environmental variables.

The paper investigates resting patch selection in cattle using GPS data and a model showing social copying drives spatial allocation.

The paper uses Empirical Dynamic Modelling to show atmospheric pollution destabilized a small mammal community over 39 years in the Black Triangle of Europe.

This study shows habitat degradation shifts metacommunities from stable to unstable regimes, increasing extinction risk, and highlights dispersal's role in stabilizing ecosystems.

This study investigates how larval competition affects gene drive performance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes using agent-based models and Bayesian optimization.

This study investigates plant-plant communication in tomato by analyzing metabolomic and volatile emissions changes in response to herbivory, showing mirror effects in immune system reprogramming between sender and receiver plants.

This study shows that climate change and urbanization together reduce plant biodiversity in urban green spaces, with allotments and ruderal areas being most affected.

The paper quantifies algal turf and sediment dynamics across four reef positions in the Florida Reef Tract, finding higher sediment loads and longer turfs nearshore compared to offshore.

This study investigates virus coinfection in plants by analyzing environmental and ecological factors across multiple host species and communities, finding that most coinfections are random interactions driven by environmental responses.

The paper investigates how visual gene expression changes in green chromides under different light environments and how these changes relate to stable conspecific preferences.

The paper examines colony shape variation in Caribbean octocorals, finding that species identity, not colony size, primarily determines shape differences.

This study compares Eulerian and Lagrangian models of phytoplankton communities in an ocean circulation model, showing that particle-based methods produce distinct biogeography and diversity patterns.

The paper shows that greater intraspecific morphological variation in bulbuls predicts broader ecological niches and larger geographic ranges.

This study identifies spatio-temporal dynamics and ecological niche factors influencing Theileria equi infection in Portugal using field-surveillance data and environmental variables.

This paper develops a method to predict seabird-vessel interactions using only seabird telemetry data, showing high accuracy but limitations in distinguishing fishing from nonfishing vessels.