T. Amano

Synaptic plasticity in the medial preoptic area of male mice encodes social experiences with female and regulates behavior toward young

This study identifies synaptic plasticity in the medial preoptic area of male mice as critical for shifting from aggressive to paternal behavior after mating and interaction with pups.

Controllable self-replicating RNA vaccine delivered intradermally elicits predominantly cellular immunity

This paper develops a temperature-controlled self-replicating RNA vaccine that elicits cellular immunity and can be used as a pan-coronavirus booster.

Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity

This study shows non-English-language science provides crucial evidence for global biodiversity conservation, expanding geographical and taxonomic coverage but often with less robust study designs.

Language barriers in global bird conservation

The paper identifies bird species with high language diversity in their distributions, highlighting regions where language barriers may hinder conservation efforts.

Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation

The paper assesses the availability of context-specific evidence for amphibian and bird conservation, finding it extremely low and unevenly distributed.

Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science

This study analyzes 3,245 SCCS conference applications to show increased focus on human-nature benefits and social science integration in tropical field research by early-career conservationists.

The challenge of heterogeneous evidence in conservation

This paper assesses biases and gaps in conservation literature for amphibians and birds, highlighting geographic and taxonomic disparities in study coverage and effectiveness metrics.

Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude

This study quantifies how waterbird abundance responds to climate change across latitudes, finding declines in the tropics and increases at higher latitudes.

Simple study designs in ecology produce inaccurate estimates of biodiversity responses

This study compares the accuracy of different ecological study designs in estimating biodiversity responses to environmental impacts and finds that more robust designs like BACI are significantly more accurate than simpler designs.

Vulnerable species interactions are important for the stability of mutualistic networks

The paper quantifies the risk of mutualistic interactions based on vulnerability and importance across 41 pollination and seed dispersal networks, finding that more vulnerable interactions are also more important for network stability.

When can we trust population trends? A method for quantifying the effects of sampling interval and duration

This paper quantifies how sampling interval and duration affect confidence in species population trends, finding that significant declines are reliable but insignificant trends require more data.