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This study models how social information use and pesticide-induced foraging bias affect bumblebee crop visitation patterns and resource collection.

This study examines how environmental factors affect body condition in European robins, finding sex- and age-specific declines linked to temperature and soil moisture, with impacts on survival and population trends.

The paper examines ecological drivers of distribution in four mouse lemur species, finding niche size, habitat adaptability, and heterothermy influence sympatric and allopatric ranges.

The paper investigates whether Fusarium xyrophilum pseudoflowers attract insects for dispersal by analyzing insect visitation, fungal DNA on insects, and volatile compounds.

The paper investigates memory effects in ecological systems, showing they enhance stability and short-term recovery but delay full restoration.

The paper develops a statistical framework to estimate different sources of variation in prey-predator interactions, showing how experimental design affects parameter identifiability.

This study compares bacterial biofilms, macroinvertebrate colonization, and degradation patterns on biodegradable and non-biodegradable plastics and natural substrates over 22 weeks.

This paper shows that ENSO-driven temperature variability shifts dengue transmission to higher altitudes in the Andes, increasing risk for previously unaffected populations.

The paper shows that lake-reared salmonine embryos gain more thiamine from natural sources than lab-reared embryos, potentially reducing TDC symptoms.

This study evaluates how different species-filtering strategies affect BirdNET's performance in bird community monitoring, finding that spatio-temporal filtering provides the best balance of precision and recall.

The paper compares yield stability between organic and conventional farming systems, finding that differences in mean productivity explain most of the variation in yield stability.

The paper develops a hierarchical Bayesian agent-based model for binary spatio-temporal data and shows its scaling to a PDE, applying it to predator-prey cycles.

The paper uses a decade of sporocarp observations to identify temperature and precipitation triggers for Boletus edulis fruiting in central European beech forests.

The paper examines how foraging behavior, rather than prey identity, influences niche packing in tropical montane birds across an elevational gradient.

This study uses DNA metabarcoding to survey insect biodiversity in Crete, revealing many new species and highlighting gaps in reference databases.

This study uses environmental DNA to map prey diversity in bottlenose dolphins, showing how prey specialization influences social structure and ecological niche differentiation.

The paper estimates insect density in boreal forests using a mark-recapture experiment with Malaise traps, finding 4 million individuals per hectare.

The paper documents a 90.1% decline in Egyptian fruit bats in Cyprus between 2024 and 2026, suggesting an acute mortality event and urging immediate conservation action.

The paper assesses how habitat transformation affects amphibian and reptile diversity and community structure in the Eastern Andes, finding reduced richness and simplified assemblages in disturbed habitats.

This study analyzes how resilience is defined and measured across 594 ecological studies, finding that while metrics vary, most studies use a shared set of six quantitative dimensions.