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This study shows that swidden agriculture can enhance vegetation diversity when disturbance is spatially configured in certain ways, rather than always causing degradation.

This study projects declines in plant-frugivore interaction diversity under climate change, with potential mitigation through bird dispersal and dietary flexibility.

The paper models how microbial intake affects gut microbiome diversity and identifies an optimal feeding strategy to maximize time-averaged Shannon diversity.

This study uses a spatio-temporal structural equation model to analyze how environmental factors affect vegetation in wet heathlands over 15 years, finding significant effects of nitrogen deposition and precipitation on key species.

The paper evaluates co-occurrence networks from eDNA metabarcoding data to infer species interactions in a coastal marine ecosystem, finding limited trophic interactions and methodological challenges.

This study assesses earthworm diversity in French Guiana, finding that regional mechanisms drive diversity while local environmental factors shape community composition.

The paper compares tree community and carbon dynamics in mature and secondary rainforests over five years, finding higher carbon stocks and diversity in mature forests but greater carbon accrual in secondary forests.

The paper examines how tansy chemotypes and terpenoid mixture evenness affect aphid colony size and herbivore interactions.

This study shows that past temperature environments influence the thermal plasticity of Acadian redfish, with higher acclimation temperatures leading to increased stress responses to acute temperature changes.

This study examines how shifting flood regimes affect microbial iron-sulfur metabolism and greenhouse gas emissions in coastal wetland soils.

The paper examines how road density affects food web complexity in Europe by analyzing species vulnerability and trophic interaction loss.

This study tests the thermal tolerance of Acropora palmata corals produced via assisted gene flow, finding that hybrid cohorts show novel alleles and gene expression patterns but limited phenotypic response to heat stress.

The paper examines the impact of copper mill waste (stamp sands) on benthic invertebrates and zooplankton in Lake Superior, finding reduced diversity and abundance in areas with higher copper concentrations.

This study examines greenness distribution in Chilean cities and finds socioeconomic segregation in green infrastructure access and usage patterns.

This paper refines the resistance-to-damage (RD) score to better predict ITN lifespan and identifies key innovation targets by improving the weighting of physical attributes.

The paper reports HPAIV A/H5 infections in skuas along the West Antarctic Peninsula and beyond the Antarctic Polar Circle, linking them to mortalities and marking the southernmost record of such events.

This study examines how resource availability and territoriality affect foraging behaviors in Arctic foxes based on encounters with conspecifics.

This study shows that forest structural stability, influenced by diversity and composition, enhances productivity through species complementarity and temporal stability of forest structure.

This study examines the dietary niches and fish consumption of three Myotis bat species in a subtropical East Asian region, revealing that M. pilosus consumes marine fish and that M. horsfieldii may also be piscivorous.

The paper quantifies aggregation patterns of the fungal pathogen Bd in amphibians, showing higher aggregation than macroparasites and linking it to biological processes.