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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.

This paper assesses the risk of functional extinction for the spinetail devil ray and shows that integrated bycatch mitigation and nursery area protection are needed for population recovery.

This study investigates how seasonal changes affect sarcoptic mange in wombats, showing that seasonal environments limit parasite persistence and influence disease prevalence and population dynamics.

This study assesses biodiversity recovery in secondary forests around Taï National Park, finding faster recovery of diversity than floristic composition, with remnant trees and prior land use influencing recovery rates.

The paper assesses wildfire impacts on microhabitat structure around amphibian breeding ponds using before-after-control-impact data, finding significant changes in microhabitat composition at different distances from pond edges.

The paper investigates how motility affects cross-feeding mutualisms between E. coli and S. enterica, finding that spatial structure and metabolic dynamics determine the selective advantage of motility.

This study uses eagle flight data to assess how high-resolution weather models capture atmospheric dynamics, revealing gaps in thermal resolution and the need for better model accuracy.

This study uses targeted hybridization capture to detect freshwater macroinvertebrates from eDNA, recovering 450 genera across 8 phyla with high taxonomic resolution.

This study examines how hydropeaking intensity affects riparian soil seed bank composition and self-restoration potential in Sweden, finding negative impacts on large graminoid seeds and suggesting the need for seed supplementation in restoration efforts.

This study shows that red maple pollen improves reproductive success and brood production in bumble bee queens, with carry-over effects on worker performance.

The paper uses Bayesian network models to show that food webs with high maximum trophic level are most vulnerable to coextinctions, outperforming other structural metrics in predicting ecosystem susceptibility.