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This paper revises the Community Conservation Index by updating species scores using current Red List data and distribution information, improving its accuracy and relevance for freshwater conservation assessments.

The paper uses decision analysis to evaluate proactive strategies for preventing Chronic Wasting Disease in Vermont, finding that early surveillance is the most critical proactive action.

This study uses coastal bird fecal fatty acids to monitor seagrass meadow health by tracing lipids from seagrasses and pathogens through the food chain.

AberTrap is a low-cost, open-source bioaerosol sampler that improves capture efficiency through paddle design, detecting 78.9% of fungal richness in field tests.

This study links bacterial environmental sensing capacity to ecological strategies and environmental preferences by analyzing sensor domains across genomes and metagenomes.

The paper presents a geometric model explaining species range size patterns through dispersal barriers, showing it aligns with observed distributions in amphibians, birds, and mammals.

The paper models how soil microsite structure influences microbial evolution and carbon dynamics under warming, showing that microsite density can shift carbon loss from buffering to amplifying.

The paper develops a stage-structured population model to explain masting reproduction, showing it produces masting-like patterns and compares it to resource budget models and empirical data.

This study examines how laboratory burns affect microbial community resistance, resilience, and function in two boreal forest soil types, finding variable responses and links to carbon use efficiency.

The paper shows that deep sequencing increases artificial diversity estimates in microbial studies and suggests using no-diversity amplicons to optimize sequencing parameters.

The paper tests how warm temperatures affect the spread of heritable symbionts in spider populations, finding that warm conditions reduce symbiont spread and disrupt co-infections.

This study uses multi-scalar analysis of butterfly count data to reveal masked declines in diversity and species-specific population trends that traditional metrics fail to capture.

This study shows that young European beech seedlings have different genetic profiles than mature trees, likely due to environmental filtering during early establishment.

This study examines population changes in sea trout across different spatial scales in Scotland over 72 years, finding significant national declines but varied regional and district patterns.

This study uses airborne DNA metagenomics to monitor biodiversity across time and space, revealing seasonal and spatial shifts in species composition.

This study uses population genomics and larval dispersal modeling to show that Swiftia exserta relies on clonal propagation within mesophotic banks and episodic larval exchange between them.

This study develops allometric equations for estimating tree volume and aboveground biomass of Acacia mangium in the Bateke Plateau, Republic of Congo, using destructive sampling of 54 trees.

This study develops a mathematical model to show how resource contrasts and bee traits influence pollinator spillover from floral plantings to crops, identifying context-dependent concentration and export outcomes.

The paper assesses medium-capacity fishing vessels' impact on mobulid bycatch and recommends reclassifying fisheries to improve elasmobranch conservation.

The paper tracks harbor seal populations in Alaska from 1996 to 2023, finding varied trends with some stocks increasing and others declining, linked to climate anomalies and glacier retreat.