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The paper evaluates kelp restoration strategies under environmental variability, finding grazing intensity and introduction life stages most influence outcomes.

The paper investigates how salinity affects algal growth, grazer survival, and interaction strength in a hypersaline system, finding that ecological responses to salinity are evolvable and influence the relationship between fundamental and realized niches.

The study examines how tree species composition and water availability affect soil nutrient availability through different temporal dynamics in a mixed-species forest.

The paper tests if climate-associated genomic variation predicts phenotypic adaptation in European wild apple, finding genomic offsets link to bud-break timing but not other traits.

Across 1,569 food-web, mutualistic and host–parasite networks, connectance falls as S^−0.65 while links per species rise; a diffusion-efficiency metric places networks near a local optimum.

This study tests if trait differentiation in invasive Centaurea melitensis across urban environments follows the Plant Economic Spectrum predictions, finding no multivariate trait strategies as expected.

The paper integrates conventional tagging and acoustic telemetry to estimate post-release survival of reef fish, finding survival declines with capture depth due to barotrauma.

This study shows fuel treatments reduce wildfire impacts but do not restore fire-adapted forests, as benefits for fire-intolerant trees fade within nine years without seedling shifts.

The paper identifies highly pathogenic Fusarium lineages in natural habitats that can infect wheat, highlighting regional variation in pathogenicity and colonization patterns.

This study recovers ancient DNA from extinct species and human remains on Columbretes Island, revealing biogeographic origins and human-mediated introductions.

This study examines how temperature-dependent changes in herbivore nutrient and carbon requirements affect population dynamics and persistence in herbivore-autotroph systems.

This study examines how host plant, season, and urbanization affect the gut microbiome of soapberry bugs, finding that host plant is the primary driver of microbial community structure.

This study uses FLIM to reveal the complexity of photosymbiosis in Retaria by distinguishing chlorophyll autofluorescence from FISH signals in environmental samples.

The paper examines how bacterial and fungal biofilm communities respond to salinity gradients, finding distinct patterns in diversity and environmental drivers between the two groups.

This study examines how goat grazing affects ant community richness and functional traits in a tropical dry forest, finding reduced species richness and shifts in functional composition with higher degradation.

The paper identifies high-risk areas for invasive species spread by analyzing transport infrastructure and correcting sampling bias using historical data on Lycorma delicatula.

The paper develops spatial models to predict West Nile virus activity in Arizona using mosquito data and weather patterns, finding drought-monsoon cycles drive outbreaks and climate change will intensify them.

Q-niche estimates ecological hypervolumes using a quantum mechanics-inspired algorithm, preserving topological features better than existing methods in synthetic and empirical data.

This paper evaluates how grain size and window extent affect Deep SDMs for predicting aquatic insect distributions, finding significant performance variations with different resolutions and extents.