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This paper translates Tilman's resource-ratio model to the metacommunity scale, introducing MetcommR and Patchwork Biplot to analyze ecological dynamics in the Cerrado.

This study uses machine learning to predict multi-strain microbial community growth from monoculture data, finding that simpler models often suffice.

This study tracks reproductive effort and output in two pitcher plants, showing phenological overlap enables hybridization and that seed production per flower varies between species.

This study quantifies how eDNA concentration declines with depth and productivity, deriving sampling targets to improve deep-sea biodiversity assessments.

This study examines sexual size dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster and finds that SSD increases with body size, reversing Rensch's rule, driven by female growth rates and temperature effects.

This study develops PondSentry, a time-series anomaly detection method, to predict algal pond crashes three days in advance using ecological data from Arizona cultivation trials.

This study validates the Polovodova method for mosquito age-grading, finding high accuracy for parity but declining precision for later gonotrophic cycles in both lab and field settings.

This paper develops a machine-vision workflow to convert video footage of salmonids into individual encounter histories for capture-recapture analysis, achieving high accuracy in fish detection and re-identification.

The paper develops and tests a DNA-based monitoring protocol for deadwood-associated species in boreal forests, finding that DNA methods detect different species than morphological methods.

The paper examines how different landscape elements respond to global change factors, finding divergent responses and highlighting the need for landscape-specific management strategies.

This study examines how wildfire and post-fire reseeding affect Sin Nombre virus prevalence in western deer mice, finding higher prevalence in reseeded sites and increased transmission linked to resource pulses from reseeding and ENSO cycles.

AWET estimates fresh body weight and morphometrics of arthropods from images, enabling non-destructive, high-throughput phenotyping for biodiversity studies.

The paper examines microbial community assembly on reef substrates, finding stochastic processes dominate despite differences in diversity and environmental correlations.

The paper provides an analytical framework for cross-scale mutualistic networks, showing how nestedness stabilizes communities and connectance destabilizes them, unifying native persistence and invasion thresholds.

This study uses proteomic analysis to show that SCTLD in corals involves immune suppression, coral-algal dysbiosis, oxidative stress, and wound-healing responses.

This study examines how understory trees in a temperate rainforest acclimate to reduced precipitation, finding they adopt water-spending strategies rather than conservative ones.

This study tracks green turtles from Tortuguero to assess protection in reproductive and foraging areas, finding insufficient MPA coverage at both stages.

This study examines how thermal tolerance varies with geographic location and division of labor in a paper wasp, finding that cold tolerance is more influenced by environmental temperature than heat tolerance.

This study identifies financial and non-financial motivations for retaining manta and devil ray bycatch in Indian fisheries and provides context-specific conservation recommendations.

This study evaluates the impact of replication on sedimentary DNA metabarcoding by analyzing variation in community composition across biological, technical, and stratigraphic replicates.