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The paper studies invertebrate succession on fallen guava fruits in a tropical grove, finding that decomposition stages strongly influence diversity and community composition.

This study examines heat-induced fertility loss and recovery across seven Drosophila species, finding similar initial losses but distinct recovery patterns.

This study assesses social risks to forest carbon projects and finds they significantly underestimate failure risks, potentially undermining carbon credit reliability.

This paper introduces a Phenological Threshold Model to quantify latent responses to seasonal environmental changes and demonstrates its application to black-legged kittiwake breeding data.

The paper estimates leopard and striped hyena densities in an urban protected area using camera-traps and spatial capture-recapture models, finding high densities and significant temporal overlap.

This study uses a Bayesian hierarchical regression framework to detect increasing permutation entropy in UK butterfly populations over four decades, suggesting greater environmental stochasticity.

The paper introduces causal effect transportability for ecological research, enabling the transfer of causal findings between domains using structural causal models and R software.

This study examines how heat shock and smoke affect germination in twelve woody species from tropical dry forests, finding trait-based differences in heat tolerance and limited smoke effects.

This study examines the trade-off between arbuscular mycorrhiza and root hair traits across multiple scales in grassland plants, finding consistent patterns at community and interspecific levels but not at intraspecific or intra-individual levels.

The paper examines spatiotemporal distance-decay relationships in alpine plant diversity across elevation gradients, finding no temporal change in spatial decay patterns.

This study shows that early-season inoculation of Methylobacterium strains on tree leaves significantly alters bacterial community composition, while late-season inoculation has no effect, highlighting the role of priority effects in phyllosphere assembly.

The paper examines how agrointensive habitats affect puparial size and parasitoidism risk in Protocalliphora sialia, finding selective mortality shapes trait distributions in agricultural landscapes.

This study examines carabid beetle communities across different agricultural systems, finding that organic certification has a stronger impact on community composition than conservation agriculture practices.

The paper shows orangutan mothers adjust their ranging behavior to increase offspring social play, at an energetic cost.

The paper evaluates functional diversity along a north-south gradient in the Veracruz Reef System National Park, finding that environmental factors and protection levels shape ecosystem resilience.

This study shows that yeast species alter the sugar gradient in nectar of Gladiolus illyricus inflorescences, overriding plant-intrinsic patterns.

The paper develops a sampling-theory framework to analyze richness-uniqueness relationships, showing that negative slopes can arise from neutral processes rather than ecological uniqueness.

This study shows that baseline growth rate in Microcystis affects antibiotic-induced hormetic responses, with slow-growing populations showing greater growth enhancement at low antibiotic concentrations.

The paper examines spatial concordance of Mycobacterium bovis genotypes between cattle and badgers at different scales and finds it varies by genotype combination and spatial scale.

The paper identifies genomically discrete and ecologically cohesive subspecies in the global ocean microbiome, showing they are biologically meaningful units driven by environmental factors.