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This study develops an eco-evolutionary model showing how microbial dormancy and exoenzyme production affect soil carbon dynamics and feedbacks to climate.

The paper develops a size-structured multispecies bioeconomic model integrated into an ecosystem model to assess sustainable fisheries management under climate change.

The paper develops a workflow to reduce index misassignment in Nanopore-based eDNA metabarcoding, applied to a decadal coastal time series showing seasonal fish taxa patterns.

This study compares supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to model current and future habitat of Peruvian anchovy under climate change scenarios.

The paper examines rhizosphere microbiome dynamics in plant mixtures and finds non-additive effects in legume-grass combinations under nitrogen addition.

This study quantifies intraspecific and interspecific variation in root traits of tree seedlings and finds that intraspecific variability often exceeds interspecific differences, highlighting the importance of plasticity in root traits for regeneration under climate change.

The study examines how climate gradients affect Populus trichocarpa stress responses and microbial communities across different soil niches.

The paper shows that sediment depth-dependent trait expression influences nutrient cycling in marine invertebrates, with specific trait combinations better explaining nutrient concentrations than categorical bioturbation modes.

This study examines how anthropogenic nitrogen deposition affects microbial communities and soil organic matter (SOM) molecular composition during root decomposition.

This study examines age-related gut microbiota changes in Atlantic puffins, finding population-level structuring in chicks that disappears in adults, with contrasting patterns compared to mammals.

The paper investigates community assembly in mesophotic coral ecosystems, finding that environmental filtering, particularly turbidity from benthic nepheloid layers, shapes community composition more than geographic distance or dispersal limitation.

The paper predicts taxon-specific benthic cyanobacterial cover and anatoxin concentrations in northern California rivers using predictive models incorporating biotic and abiotic predictors.

The paper measures the growth rate of parasitised and non-parasitised caterpillars feeding on oak trees and finds parasitoids reduce growth rate on average across six Lepidoptera species.

The paper shows climate change drives lineage replacement in Phragmites australis through thermal tolerance, biomass, and asymmetric gene flow among polyploid lineages.

This study links human disturbances to pathogen prevalence in seabirds, showing diet and transmission routes mediate these effects across marine and terrestrial environments.

The paper develops a theoretical framework to study resource competition between buoyancy-regulating and sinking phytoplankton species in a stratified water column, showing coexistence depends on resource-use efficiencies.

This study examines pollination traits and interactions of Haageocereus acranthus in a lomas desert ecosystem, finding no differences in floral traits or pollinator interactions between white and pink-red flower morphotypes, supporting a mixed pollination system with hummingbirds and bats.

This study assesses the toxicity of bio-sourced nanoplastics on micro-algae and a freshwater bivalve, finding growth inhibition and gene expression changes in response to exposure.

The paper analyzes thermal performance curves across species to identify ecological and evolutionary drivers of thermal adaptation.

The paper shows host immune strategies affect parasite transmission timing and magnitude in a helminth parasite, with intermediate parasite burdens maximizing transmission potential.