ecology & biodiversity

This paper evaluates tabular foundation models as species distribution models, finding they perform competitively without per-dataset tuning but are sensitive to biased data.

This study shows that two decades of EU pesticide substitution have not reduced environmental harm to stream invertebrates, as toxic pressure and impairment remained stable over time.

This study evaluates polymerase and primer biases in ultra-long-read metabarcoding for soil eukaryotes, finding that certain polymerases and primer pairs improve data quality and biodiversity recovery.

The paper uses Empirical Dynamic Modelling to show atmospheric pollution destabilized a small mammal community over 39 years in the Black Triangle of Europe.

This study identifies spatio-temporal dynamics and ecological niche factors influencing Theileria equi infection in Portugal using field-surveillance data and environmental variables.

This study compares ecological and governance trends in Spanish clam fisheries, finding that adaptive management in Andalusia led to more resilient outcomes compared to fragmented governance in the northwest Mediterranean.

This study evaluates how fishing bans may counteract nutrient control efforts in Lake Hongze, showing increased nutrient levels and reduced biodiversity under continued bans.

The paper assesses progress toward global biodiversity targets on islands, finding insufficient progress and major gaps in indicators and objectives.

This study uses multi-species qPCR to identify human and animal fecal sources in Mobile Bay, finding human waste as a major contributor.

This paper uses large language models to extract species interaction data from citizen science comments, expanding ecological data coverage and enabling new ecological research.

This study tests mixotrophic fermentation of biomass and syngas, finding reduced CO2 emissions and increased production of C4 and C6 carboxylates.

This paper develops a framework to assess explainable ML sensitivity by comparing consensus across model architectures, using synthetic coral data to demonstrate its utility in ecological modeling.

The paper develops a model to predict mammalian extinction risks under climate change and identifies high-risk areas for biodiversity and Nature's Contributions to People.

The paper summarizes the distribution and historical sampling of small mammals across the Madrean Sky Islands, highlighting gaps in data and the need for improved specimen preservation and future fieldwork.

The paper models climate impacts on 11 threatened tropical tree species in the Western Ghats, predicting range reductions or extinctions under future climate scenarios.

The paper analyzes fish community changes in prairie streams, finding that 56% turnover occurred due to species loss and colonization, with cool water temperatures mitigating impacts of agriculture.

This paper introduces dynamic structural equation models (DSEM) for ecosystem-based fisheries management, presenting case studies and a workflow to guide their application in understanding and predicting ecosystem dynamics.

This paper introduces a state-space multispecies production model to improve population estimates by accounting for species interactions and environmental effects, showing increased accuracy in biomass estimates and revealing common environmental drivers of population collapses.

CoralBlox is a computationally efficient coral ecology model that supports rapid scenario exploration and decision making for reef management.

The paper shows that genomic diversity metrics vary in their ability to detect phylogenetic and ecological patterns in saproxylic beetles, emphasizing the importance of denominator choice.

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

The paper introduces HRIC to restore local-regional diversity structure in microbiomes and shows its application across environmental and clinical datasets.

This study examines the variability in the phytoplankton diversity-carbon biomass relationship across different measurement methods and scales using in situ data.

The paper evaluates England's biodiversity offset market after 16 months, finding limited habitat diversity and low sales of offset units, highlighting design flaws in the BNG metric.

This paper introduces a dynamic biomass framework to assess food-web robustness, identifying vital species sets and cluster influence effects under species removal.

This study evaluates a high-volume air sampling approach to detect bioaerosols in indoor environments, showing its sensitivity and association with human activity and AMR transmission risks.

The paper estimates lynx population density in Valais, Switzerland, showing it is lower than politically cited figures, highlighting the need for science-based management.

This study demonstrates that dietary DNA can quantitatively estimate fish proportions in seabird diets, showing high correlation with biomass observations and outperforming presence/absence metrics.

The paper uses a global dataset of urban alien plants to test island biogeography theory, finding that city size and geographic isolation interact to influence alien plant richness, with hub-dependent variations.