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This paper introduces FORWS and FORWC methods for causal inference in high-dimensional time series, showing improved forecasting and noise resilience using forest weights instead of Euclidean metrics.

This paper develops a decision-support framework to assess seabird and shorebird vulnerability to offshore wind farms in Brazil using biological traits, spatial data, and expert knowledge.

The paper examines root-associated fungal communities of white spruce trees across Alaskan treelines, finding that site and soil pH strongly influence fungal composition, while treeline effects are context-dependent and not linked to tree growth.

The paper examines microbiome instability in red flour beetles, showing ecological drift driven by environmental factors and its impact on host fitness benefits.

The paper investigates how varying patch sizes affect beta diversity using tree community data from Barro Colorado Island, finding higher beta diversity with unequal grain divisions.

The paper shows that treeline ecotone shifts in the Italian Alps are driven by land abandonment rather than climate change, with land-use variables explaining more variance than climatic ones.

This paper shows that soil carbon gains in Neotropical agroforestry depend on initial soil carbon and climate, not system characteristics.

The paper analyzes long-term estuarine community stability using diversity metrics and shows that evenness, not richness, drives stability through portfolio effects and species variance scaling.

TPCdesign is an R package that optimizes temperature treatments for thermal performance experiments to improve accuracy of thermal response curve estimation.

This study shows that intense grazing reduces biomass, starch, and water in Eucomis autumnalis bulbs, leading to energy depletion and potential extinction.

The paper evaluates using indicator species from co-occurrence networks to predict biodiversity, finding they can reconstruct species assemblages but are often outperformed by climate-based models.

The paper investigates how host self-regulation affects the persistence of hyperparasitoids in a trophic system using mathematical modeling.

This study compares plant-frugivore network structures derived from camera trap visitation and intake data in a tropical dry forest, finding significant differences in modularity, niche overlap, and species degree.

This paper develops and evaluates an AI toolkit for detecting and mapping ragweed under climate change, showing improved performance with multi-domain training and satellite-based models.

This paper demonstrates how open data and models can be used to create a farm context for decision-making in regenerative agriculture, highlighting variations in GPP and soil loss.

This study examines how extreme snow conditions affect mountain chickadee reproduction across different elevations in the Sierra Nevada, revealing spatially variable responses to snow drought and deluge.

This study evaluates how different extraction methods and sequencing protocols affect nematode biodiversity metrics in soil samples.

The paper infers resting metabolic rates for 18,214 marine fish species using phylogenetic structural equation modeling, revealing metabolic rates are linked to both life-history strategies and reproductive strategies.

This study examines the combined effects of multiple global change perturbations on grassland ecosystems, finding that most combinations have negative impacts, with drought being a dominant factor.

The paper standardizes sample coverage to compare saproxylic beetle diversity across European tree genera, finding oak supports higher richness while resource availability and tree height are key drivers.