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This study shows that the African fig fly Zaprionus indianus benefits from enemy release against parasitoids, but this advantage depends on competitor species and larval density.

This study examines how prey availability affects the movement, activity, and growth of European catfish in different aquatic environments.

The paper assesses bird diversity in evergreen and deciduous forests of South Andaman Island, finding deciduous forests support higher taxonomic diversity and are preferred by several endemic and threatened species.

This paper introduces a framework to quantify non-random contributions to beta-diversity using rarefaction curves and a coverage-standardized metric, applied to avian species composition in engineered and natural riparian areas.

This study uses genetic analysis of ancient seal samples to show that southern elephant seals recolonized the Southern Ocean from multiple glacial refugia during postglacial periods.

This paper quantifies bottom contact areas of longline fishing gear in the Sablefish fishery, finding low habitat risk due to minimal contact in most areas.

This study shows coevolution enhances robustness in mutualistic communities but reduces it in antagonistic ones, due to changes in interaction density.

The paper assesses Key Biodiversity Areas for bumblebees over three decades, finding high spatial instability due to incomplete data.

This paper develops a deep learning model to detect invasive frogs on Iriomote Island using acoustic data from nearby Ishigaki Island, achieving high precision and recall for wild and playback sounds.

This study investigates how selection in diverse plant communities affects plant performance across different environments, finding evidence of adaptive responses linked to community history and plant-soil feedbacks.

The paper modifies a capture-recapture model to account for delayed marking in North Atlantic right whales, improving population estimates by incorporating known births and initial offspring mortality.

A-Islands is a curated dataset of plant species occurrences on Australian islands, enabling biodiversity research and ecological monitoring across diverse island environments.

This study shows resource quality differentially affects Daphnia interactions with two parasites, influencing infection and proliferation processes but not immune responses.

This study uses high-resolution airborne imaging spectroscopy to analyze functional trait variation and drought responses across topographic gradients in a heterogeneous grassland.

The paper examines spatial differences in regime shifts among three Atlantic cod populations in the North Sea, finding varying recovery potential and management implications.

The paper identifies microbial functional traits linked to environmental adaptation and develops an index to quantify species-level adaptive capacity across different stress gradients.

The paper examines how plains zebra survival and reproduction are affected by seasonal changes, finding that reproductive females and their dependent young cope better with longer dry seasons.

This study examines how the order of plant species arrival and year effects influence plant diversity, productivity, and root distribution in a grassland experiment.

The paper uses an agent-based model to evaluate how sampling strategies affect the accuracy of social network metrics in animal studies, identifying optimal trade-offs between coverage, frequency, and duration.

The paper evaluates five methods for detecting ecological interactions from sedimentary ancient DNA data and finds high false discovery rates and poor detection performance under realistic conditions.