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This study assesses genetic connectivity in the dune-specialist wasp Bembix rostrata across an urbanised coastal landscape, finding urban features facilitate gene flow despite larger-scale fragmentation.

This study examines reproductive traits of non-native European catfish in the Lower Tagus River, finding variations in maturity size, spawning season, and fecundity influenced by environmental factors.

This study identifies 80 Gy as the optimal irradiation dose for D. melanogaster males to suppress D. suzukii populations by balancing sterility, longevity, and mating performance.

This paper uses a sonotype classifier to study year-round bat activity in data-deficient regions, finding that activity peaks in evening/morning and increases during rainy seasons linked to reproduction.

This study examines landscape partitioning in Guinea baboon parties and finds high home range overlap and low resource competition between neighboring groups.

The paper creates a large dataset of canopy height models paired with aerial imagery to improve large-scale CHM production.

The paper characterizes the microbiome of the nitrogen-fixing fern Azolla, revealing multiple endosymbionts with varying transmission modes and stages of symbiosis evolution.

The paper evaluates how coffee farming affects bird communities in Jardin, Colombia, finding that it homogenizes communities by favoring non-forest birds and reducing diversity.

This study quantifies how urban tree health-related ecosystem services and disservices changed over decades in Ithaca, New York, showing shifts in air pollution removal, allergenic pollen, hydrology, and heat effects.

This study identifies intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping the gut microbiome of blackbuck across their range, finding host genetic diversity more influential than environmental factors.

The paper confirms the robustness of findings from a large dryland plant trait database, showing arid regions host high phenotypic diversity despite harsh conditions.

This study tests whether an economic spectrum explains variation in ant ecological strategies, finding parallels with plant leaf economics spectra.

This study uses ecological niche models with global occurrence data to predict suitable habitats for marine species in data-scarce regions, focusing on sharks in the Southwest Atlantic.

The paper analyzes global ocean data to show that physical and biological patchiness are decoupled, using variance slope to quantify spatial patterns.

This study compares transect- and point-based sampling designs for quantifying urbanization across 136 cities, finding that sampling design significantly affects environmental variable capture.

The paper develops a habitat suitability model for marbled murrelets using LiDAR-derived tree metrics to identify suitable nesting patches and individual trees in redwood timberlands.

This study examines how changes in food abundance affect search and attack behaviors of three insectivorous bird species in the Monte Desert, Argentina, over three years.

This study compares environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding with hand-sorting to evaluate earthworm biodiversity recovery in regenerative agriculture, finding eDNA more effective in detecting anecic species and quantifying richness.

The paper shows that tree species' resource economics influence soil food web multifunctionality in European forests, with acquisitive species promoting higher metabolic activity and multifunctionality.

This study investigates phage-cyanobacteria interactions in Lake Champlain over a decade, finding that phages share environmental niches with bacteria but exhibit distinct dynamics and co-variation patterns.