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The paper examines how moonlight and rainfall affect the activity of a cave-roosting bat in arid environments, showing context-dependent patterns across different roosts.

The paper develops a workflow for designing and validating STR multiplex panels for HTS-based genotyping of low-template and degraded DNA, demonstrating high performance in three large carnivore species.

This paper analyzes the growth, themes, and geographic distribution of jaguar research from 1946-2024, finding strong regional concentration and underrepresentation in certain areas.

The paper shows that nutrient enrichment, especially with nitrogen and phosphorus, reduces C4 plant cover in grasslands, disrupting climate-driven C3-C4 balance globally.

This study compares the functional stability of vertebrate communities in two Cote dIvoire national parks over a decade, finding PNTAI has higher resilience and diversity than PNCOMOE.

The paper assesses leaf-litter invertebrate biodiversity using high-throughput sequencing, finding that the Qiagen Blood and Tissue Kit is most effective and that temperature influences community composition.

This paper evaluates global mosquito predation by aquatic predators, finding that dietary specialization, not taxonomy, predicts predation efficacy, and that body size and experimental duration significantly affect consumption rates.

This study examines plant-pollinator interactions across an elevational gradient in Central European forests, finding increased network specialisation at higher elevations and shifts in pollinator composition.

This study compares biodiversity-temperature relationships across space and time using planktonic foraminifera data, finding that space-for-time substitution captures the direction but not the magnitude of biodiversity change.

The paper simulates eco-evolutionary dynamics in one- and two-species systems, showing evolution can enable rescue in single-species systems but lead to evolutionary murder in multi-species systems.

The paper shows that phyllosphere microbiomes decouple nutrient enrichment from plant productivity in duckweed, with biofilm formation and nutrient immobilization reducing productivity despite available nutrients.

The paper introduces a simplified hyperbolic equation to model non-linear tree growth responses to environmental factors, identifies threshold effects in forest species, and provides implementation code.

This study shows thermal stress increases corallicolid abundance in Pocillopora damicornis, suggesting a shift from commensal to parasitic role, contributing to coral mortality.

The paper investigates how urbanization affects insectivory in birds by analyzing community composition, prey availability, and foraging behavior across urban gradients.

The paper introduces WIO-ReefFish, a high-resolution dataset for coral reef fish detection in the Western Indian Ocean, showing that taxonomic detection is more challenging than localization.

This paper develops a theoretical model to understand how deployment duration affects eDNA accumulation in passive samplers, showing that recovery dynamics depend on DNA input, degradation, and substrate capacity.

The paper develops a murburn formalism to explain how redox heterogeneity in micro-oxic environments drives biodiversity through dynamic fitness landscapes and coexistence.

This study shows that different macronutrient balances affect growth, immunity, and oxidative stress in Plutella xylostella, with no single ratio supporting all traits.

This paper develops an R-based adaptive quadtree spatial tiling workflow to accurately query GBIF species occurrences within arbitrary KML polygons, validated on two distinct sites.

This study analyzes trends in mesic resource productivity in western U.S. rangelands using Landsat data and identifies shifts in drought response and predictors of productivity.