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A diversity of diversities: Do complex environmental effects underpin associations between below- and above-ground taxa? J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Fiona M. Seaton, Paul B. L. George, Jamie Alison, Davey L. Jones, Simon Creer, Simon M. Smart, Bridget A. Emmett, David A. Robinson
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Planning for the future: Grasslands, herbivores, and nature-based solutions J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Elizabeth T. Borer, Anita C. Risch
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Soil and climate-dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Roman Flury, Jeanne Portier, Brigitte Rohner, Andri Baltensweiler, Katrin Di Bella Meusburger, Daniel Scherrer, Esther Thürig, Golo Stadelmann
Forests provide essential ecosystem services that range from the production of timber to the mitigation of natural hazards. Rapid environmental changes, such as climate warming or the intensification of disturbance regimes, threaten forests and endanger forest ecosystem services. In light of these challenges, it is essential to understand forests' demographic processes of regeneration, growth, and
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Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jonathan Schurman, Pavel Janda, Myloš Rydval, Martin Mikolaš, Miroslav Svoboda, Flurin Babst
Basic ecological theory suggests that a tradeoff between competitiveness and stress tolerance dictates species range limits at regional extents. However, empirical support for this key theory remains deficient because the necessary spatial and temporal coverage and scalability of field observations has rarely been achieved. We harnessed an extensive dendroecological network (> 22 000 tree-ring samples
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Global variation in ecoregion flammability thresholds Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Todd M. Ellis, David M. J. S. Bowman, Grant J. Williamson
Anthropogenic climate change is altering the state of worldwide fire regimes, including by increasing the number of days per year when vegetation is dry enough to burn. Indices representing the percent moisture content of dead fine fuels as derived from meteorological data have been used to assess geographic patterns and temporal trends in vegetation flammability. To date, this approach has assumed
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Evaluating the predictors of habitat use and successful reproduction in a model bird species using a large-scale automated acoustic array Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Lauren M. Chronister, Jeffery T. Larkin, Tessa A. Rhinehart, David King, Jeffery L. Larkin, Justin Kitzes
The emergence of continental to global scale biodiversity data has led to growing understanding of patterns in species distributions, and the determinants of these distributions, at large spatial scales. However, identifying the specific mechanisms, including demographic processes, determining species distributions remains difficult, as large-scale data are typically restricted to observations of only
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Jury remains out on decline of non-avian dinosaurs Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Luíseach Nic Eoin
In recent years there has been considerable interest in determining whether dinosaurs were in decline in the run up to the asteroid impact that probably caused their mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago. Although birds (a dinosaur subclade) survived into the ensuing Palaeogene, non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out. Environmental changes and trophic restructuring have
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Advancing ocean equity at the nexus of development, climate and conservation policy Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Joachim Claudet, Jessica Blythe, David A. Gill, Nathan J. Bennett, Georgina G. Gurney, Louisa Evans, Shauna L. Mahajan, Rachel A. Turner, Gabby N. Ahmadia, Natalie C. Ban, Graham Epstein, Stacy D. Jupiter, Jacqueline Lau, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Natali Lazzari, Jacopo A. Baggio, Miranda L. Bernard, Victor Brun, Stephanie D’Agata, Antonio Di Franco, Rebecca Horan, Josheena Naggea
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Ankylosaurus magniventris Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Verónica Díez Díaz
Sauropod specialist Verónica Díez Díaz retains a fondness for an armoured giant.
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A panoply of pangenomes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Pangenomics enables us to trace the evolutionary history of clades and offers new perspectives on sources of genomic variation and adaptation of organisms.
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Andrew S. Brierley (1967–2024) Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Tom B. Letessier, Martin J. Cox, Inigo Everson, Keith Reid, Alex D. Rogers
Quantitative field ecologist who contributed to the fundamentals of polar science and pelagic ecology.
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Diversity inhibits foliar fungal diseases in grasslands: Potential mechanisms and temperature dependence Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Peng Zhang, Hongying Jiang, Xiang Liu
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Range‐wide intraspecific variation reflects past adaptation to climate in a gypsophile Mediterranean shrub J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Mario Blanco‐Sánchez, José Alberto Ramírez‐Valiente, Marina Ramos‐Muñoz, Beatriz Pías, Steven J. Franks, Adrián Escudero, Silvia Matesanz
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Prairie restoration promotes the abundance and diversity of mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Kevin A. MacColl, Micaela Tosi, Pierre‐Luc Chagnon, Andrew S. MacDougall, Kari E. Dunfield, Hafiz Maherali
Predicting how biological communities assemble in restored ecosystems can assist in conservation efforts, but most research has focused on plants, with relatively little attention paid to soil microbial organisms that plants interact with. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are an ecologically significant functional group of soil microbes that form mutualistic symbioses with plants and could therefore
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A century of statistical Ecology Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Neil A. Gilbert, Bruna R. Amaral, Olivia M. Smith, Peter J. Williams, Sydney Ceyzyk, Samuel Ayebare, Kayla L. Davis, Wendy Leuenberger, Jeffrey W. Doser, Elise F. Zipkin
As data and computing power have surged in recent decades, statistical modeling has become an important tool for understanding ecological patterns and processes. Statistical modeling in ecology faces two major challenges. First, ecological data may not conform to traditional methods, and second, professional ecologists often do not receive extensive statistical training. In response to these challenges
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Secondary production of the central rangeland region of the United States Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Edward J. Raynor, Justin D. Derner, Melannie D. Hartman, Christopher D. Dorich, William J. Parton, John R. Hendrickson, Keith R. Harmoney, Jameson R. Brennan, Clenton E. Owensby, Nicole E. Kaplan, Susan M. Lutz, David L. Hoover, David J. Augustine
Rangelands are the dominant land use across a broad swath of central North America where they span a wide gradient, from <350 to >900 mm, in mean annual precipitation. Substantial efforts have examined temporal and spatial variation in aboveground net primary production (ANPP) to precipitation (PPT) across this gradient. In contrast, net secondary productivity (NSP, e.g., primary consumer production)
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Land‐use homogenization reduces the occurrence and diversity of frugivorous birds in a tropical biodiversity hotspot Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Fernando César Gonçalves Bonfim, Mauro Galetti, Maíra Benchimol, José Carlos Morante‐Filho, Marcelo Magioli, Eliana Cazetta
Understanding how human‐modified landscapes maintain biodiversity and provide ecosystem services is crucial for establishing conservation practices. Given that responses to land‐use are species‐specific, it is crucial to understand how land‐use changes may shape patterns of species diversity and persistence in human‐modified landscapes. Here, we used a comprehensive data set on bird distribution from
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Deer grazing drove an assemblage‐level evolution of plant dwarfism in an insular system J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Daiki Takahashi, Yoshihisa Suyama, Keitaro Fukushima, Hiroaki Setoguchi, Shota Sakaguchi
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ToTE: A global database on trees of the treeline ecotone Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Firdous Ahmad Dar, Maroof Hamid, Rayees Ahmad Malik, Sajad Ahmad Wani, Chandra Prakash Singh, Manzoor Ahmad Shah, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo
Globally, treelines form a transition zone between tree‐dominated forest downslope and treeless alpine vegetation upslope. Treelines represent the highest boundary of “tree” life form in high‐elevation mountains and at high latitudes. Recently, treelines have been shifting upslope in response to climate warming, so it has become important to understand global tree diversity and treeline distributions
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Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sabrina M. McNew, Conor C. Taff, Cedric Zimmer, Jennifer J. Uehling, Thomas A. Ryan, David Chang van Oordt, Jennifer L. Houtz, Allison S. Injaian, Maren N. Vitousek
The risk of predation directly affects the physiology, behavior, and fitness of wild birds. Strong social connections with conspecifics could help individuals recover from a stressful experience such as a predation event; however, competitive interactions also have the potential to exacerbate stress. Few studies have investigated the interaction between environmental stressors and the social landscape
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Hunt and pollinate: Hornet pollination of the putative generalist genus Angelica Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Ko Mochizuki
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Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait‐mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Kailing Huang, Jonathan R. De Long, Xuebin Yan, Xiaoyi Wang, Chunlong Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Peng Wang, Guozhen Du, Mark van Kleunen, Hui Guo
Species traits may determine plant interactions along with soil microbiome, further shaping plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs). However, how plant traits modulate PSFs and, consequently, the dominance of plant functional groups remains unclear. We used a combination of field surveys and a two‐phase PSF experiment to investigate whether forbs and graminoids differed in PSFs and in their trait–PSF associations
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Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Alejandro Alamán, Enrique Casas, Manuel Arbelo, Oded Keynan, Lee Koren
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Functional reorganization of North American wintering avifauna Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Juan P. Quimbayo, Stephen J. Murphy, Marta A. Jarzyna
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Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Erin L. Sauer, Matthew D. Venesky, Taegan A. McMahon, Jeremy M. Cohen, Scott Bessler, Laura A. Brannelly, Forrest Brem, Allison Q. Byrne, Neal Halstead, Oliver Hyman, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Corinne L. Richards‐Zawacki, Samantha L. Rumschlag, Brittany Sears, Jason R. Rohr
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Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Judith M. Sarneel, Mariet M. Hefting, Taru Sandén, Johan van den Hoogen, Devin Routh, Bhupendra S. Adhikari, Juha M. Alatalo, Alla Aleksanyan, Inge H. J. Althuizen, Mohammed H. S. A. Alsafran, Jeff W. Atkins, Laurent Augusto, Mika Aurela, Aleksej V. Azarov, Isabel C. Barrio, Claus Beier, María D. Bejarano, Sue E. Benham, Björn Berg, Nadezhda V. Bezler, Katrín Björnsdóttir, Martin A. Bolinder, Michele
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Cooperative interactions between invader and resident microbial community members weaken the negative diversity‐invasion relationship Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Johanna Vandermaesen, Aisling J. Daly, Panji Cahya Mawarda, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets, Nico Boon, Dirk Springael
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Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of waterfowl productivity are synchronous across species, space, and time Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Mitch D. Weegman, James H. Devries, Robert G. Clark, David W. Howerter, Daniel Gibson, J. Patrick Donnelly, Todd W. Arnold
Knowledge of interspecific and spatiotemporal variation in demography–environment relationships is key for understanding the population dynamics of sympatric species and developing multispecies conservation strategies. We used hierarchical random‐effects models to examine interspecific and spatial variation in annual productivity in six migratory ducks (i.e., American wigeon [Mareca americana], blue‐winged
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Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 James R. Junker, Wyatt F. Cross, James M. Hood, Jonathan P. Benstead, Alexander D. Huryn, Daniel Nelson, Jón S. Ólafsson, Gísli M. Gíslason
Warming temperatures are altering communities and trophic networks across Earth's ecosystems. While the overall influence of warming on food webs is often context‐dependent, increasing temperatures are predicted to change communities in two fundamental ways: (1) by reducing average body size and (2) by increasing individual metabolic rates. These warming‐induced changes have the potential to influence
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‘cito': an R package for training neural networks using ‘torch' Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Christian Amesöder, Florian Hartig, Maximilian Pichler
Deep neural networks (DNN) have become a central method in ecology. To build and train DNNs in deep learning (DL) applications, most users rely on one of the major deep learning frameworks, in particular PyTorch or TensorFlow. Using these frameworks, however, requires substantial experience and time. Here, we present ‘cito', a user‐friendly R package for DL that allows specifying DNNs in the familiar
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Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Melina de Souza Leite, Sean M. McMahon, Paulo Inácio Prado, Stuart J. Davies, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Hannes P. De Deurwaerder, Salomón Aguilar, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Nurfarah Aqilah, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Nicolas Castaño, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, Yu‐Yun Chen, George Chuyong, Keith Clay, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Gregory Gilbert, I. A. U
The future trajectory of global forests is closely intertwined with tree demography, and a major fundamental goal in ecology is to understand the key mechanisms governing spatio‐temporal patterns in tree population dynamics. While previous research has made substantial progress in identifying the mechanisms individually, their relative importance among forests remains unclear mainly due to practical
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Combining mesocosms with models reveals effects of global warming and ocean acidification on a temperate marine ecosystem Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Hadayet Ullah, Damien A. Fordham, Silvan U. Goldenberg, Ivan Nagelkerken
Ocean warming and species exploitation have already caused large‐scale reorganization of biological communities across the world. Accurate projections of future biodiversity change require a comprehensive understanding of how entire communities respond to global change. We combined a time‐dynamic integrated food web modeling approach (Ecosim) with previous data from community‐level mesocosm experiments
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Effects of microclimate on disease prevalence across an urbanization gradient Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Quinn N. Fox, Keiko N. Farah, Olivia S. Shaw, Michelle Pollowitz, Armando Sánchez‐Conde, Carrie Goodson, Rachel M. Penczykowski
Increased temperatures associated with urbanization (the “urban heat island” effect) have been shown to impact a wide range of traits across diverse taxa. At the same time, climatic conditions vary at fine spatial scales within habitats due to factors including shade from shrubs, trees, and built structures. Patches of shade may function as microclimate refugia that allow species to occur in habitats
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Gap expansion is the dominant driver of canopy openings in a temperate mountain forest landscape J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Kirsten Krüger, Cornelius Senf, Tommaso Jucker, Dirk Pflugmacher, Rupert Seidl
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Herbivores can benefit both plants and their pathogens through selective herbivory on diseased tissue J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Naomi A. Murray, Katherine DuBois, John J. Stachowicz
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Cold shocks at range edges Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Marian Turner
Climate change is causing marked warming of the world’s oceans, which results in shifting species distributions and heatwave-induced mortality. Yet, climate change is also altering the marine environment in other ways, including through the winds and currents that cause cold upwellings. Writing in Nature Climate Change, Lubitz et al. report on carcasses of at least 260 individual marine animals of
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Time‐dependent interaction modification generated from plant–soil feedback Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Heng‐Xing Zou, Xinyi Yan, Volker H. W. Rudolf
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Tree diversity enhances predation by birds but not by arthropods across climate gradients Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Carla Vázquez‐González, Bastien Castagneyrol, Evalyne W. Muiruri, Luc Barbaro, Luis Abdala‐Roberts, Nadia Barsoum, Jochen Fründ, Carolyn Glynn, Hervé Jactel, William J. McShea, Simone Mereu, Kailen A. Mooney, Lourdes Morillas, Charles A. Nock, Alain Paquette, John D. Parker, William C. Parker, Javier Roales, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Andreas Schuldt, Kris Verheyen, Martin Weih, Bo Yang, Julia Koricheva
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Improving distribution models of sparsely documented disease vectors by incorporating information on related species via joint modeling Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Stacy Mowry, Sean Moore, Nicole L. Achee, Benedicte Fustec, T. Alex Perkins
A necessary component of understanding vector‐borne disease risk is accurate characterization of the distributions of their vectors. Species distribution models have been successfully applied to data‐rich species but may produce inaccurate results for sparsely documented vectors. In light of global change, vectors that are currently not well‐documented could become increasingly important, requiring
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Modelling 21st century refugia and impact of climate change on Amazonia's largest primates Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Thiago Cavalcante, Adrian A. Barnett, Jasper Van doninck, Hanna Tuomisto
Edaphic and vegetation conditions can render climatically suitable sites inadequate for a species to persist, constraining the amount of suitable habitat and the possibilities of tracking preferred climatic conditions as they shift in response to climate change. We combined climatic and remotely sensed data to model current and future distributions of nine extant taxa of ateline primates across the
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Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Eike Corina Albrecht, Svenja Dobbert, Roland Pape, Jörg Löffler
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Gymnosperms demonstrate patterns of fine‐root trait coordination consistent with the global root economics space J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Jessica R. Langguth, Marcin Zadworny, Karl Andraczek, Marvin Lo, Newton Tran, Kelsey Patrick, Joanna Mucha, Kevin E. Mueller, M. Luke McCormack
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Phenological mismatch between trees and wildflowers: Reconciling divergent findings in two recent analyses J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Benjamin R. Lee, Evelyn F. Alecrim, Tara K. Miller, Jessica R. K. Forrest, J. Mason Heberling, Richard B. Primack, Risa D. Sargent
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Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Kaggie Orrick, Nathalie Sommer, Freya Rowland, Kristy Ferraro
Predator–prey interactions are a fundamental part of community ecology, yet the relative importance of consumptive and nonconsumptive effects (NCEs) (defined as a risk‐induced response that alters prey fitness) has not been resolved. Theory suggests that the emergence and subsequent predominance of consumptive or NCEs depend on the given habitat's complexity as well as predator hunting mode and spatial
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SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Hila Shamon, Roi Maor, Michael V. Cove, Roland Kays, Jessie Adley, Peter D. Alexander, David N. Allen, Maximilian L. Allen, Cara L. Appel, Evan Barr, Erika L. Barthelmess, Carolina Baruzzi, Kelli Bashaw, Guillaume Bastille‐Rousseau, Madison E. Baugh, Jerrold Belant, John F. Benson, Bethany A. Bespoyasny, Tori Bird, Daniel A. Bogan, LaRoy S. E. Brandt, Claire E. Bresnan, Jarred M. Brooke, Frances E
SNAPSHOT USA is a multicontributor, long‐term camera trap survey designed to survey mammals across the United States. Participants are recruited through community networks and directly through a website application (https://www.snapshot-usa.org/). The growing Snapshot dataset is useful, for example, for tracking wildlife population responses to land use, land cover, and climate changes across spatial
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Social and environmental transmission spread different sets of gut microbes in wild mice Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Aura Raulo, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Genevieve E. Finerty, Jarrah Dale, Eveliina Hanski, Holly M. English, Curt Lamberth, Josh A. Firth, Tim Coulson, Sarah C. L. Knowles
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Should I stay or should I go? Coral bleaching from the symbionts' perspective Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Carly B. Scott, Annette Ostling, Mikhail V. Matz
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Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Zineb Moubtahij, Jeremy McCormack, Nicolas Bourgon, Manuel Trost, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Benjamin T. Fuller, Geoff M. Smith, Heiko Temming, Sven Steinbrenner, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Elaine Turner, Klervia Jaouen
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A climate-induced tree species bottleneck for forest management in Europe Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Johannes Wessely, Franz Essl, Konrad Fiedler, Andreas Gattringer, Bernhard Hülber, Olesia Ignateva, Dietmar Moser, Werner Rammer, Stefan Dullinger, Rupert Seidl
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Higher‐order species interactions cause time‐dependent niche and fitness differences: Experimental evidence in plant‐feeding arthropods Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Agnieszka Majer, Anna Skoracka, Jürg Spaak, Lechosław Kuczyński
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Benoît Pichon, Sonia Kéfi, Nicolas Loeuille, Ismaël Lajaaiti, Isabelle Gounand
In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops. This contributes to creating a nested set of ecological feedbacks operating at different organizational
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Evaluating the impact of historical climate and early human groups in the Araucaria Forest of eastern South America Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Mariana M. Vasconcellos, Sara Varela, Marcelo Reginato, Marcelo Gehara, Ana C. Carnaval, Fabián A. Michelangeli
It has been hypothesized that the Araucaria Forest in southern Brazil underwent expansions in the past, driven either by human groups or by climate fluctuations of the Holocene and Pleistocene. Fossil pollen records of the Paraná pine Araucaria angustifolia, a dominant tree in that forest, provide some insights into when those may have occurred. Still, the timing of those expansions has never been
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Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Pedro Cardoso, Thomas Guillerme, Stefano Mammola, Thomas J. Matthews, Francois Rigal, Caio Graco‐Roza, Gunilla Stahls, Jose Carlos Carvalho
The study of functional diversity (FD) provides ways to understand phenomena as complex as community assembly or the dynamics of biodiversity change under multiple pressures. Different frameworks are used to quantify FD, either based on dissimilarity matrices (e.g. Rao entropy, functional dendrograms) or multidimensional spaces (e.g. convex hulls, kernel‐density hypervolumes), each with their own strengths
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Allometric relationships and trade‐offs in 11 common Mediterranean‐climate grasses Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Xiulin Gao, Charles D. Koven, Lara M. Kueppers
Biomass allocation in plants is the foundation for understanding dynamics in ecosystem carbon balance, species competition, and plant–environment interactions. However, existing work on plant allometry has mainly focused on trees, with fewer studies having developed allometric equations for grasses. Grasses with different life histories can vary in their carbon investment by prioritizing the growth
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Ecology of fear alters behavior of grizzly bears exposed to bear‐viewing ecotourism Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Monica L. Short, Christina N. Service, Justin P. Suraci, Kyle A. Artelle, Kate A. Field, Chris T. Darimont
Humans are perceived as predators by many species and may generate landscapes of fear, influencing spatiotemporal activity of wildlife. Additionally, wildlife might seek out human activity when faced with predation risks (human shield hypothesis). We used the anthropause, a decrease in human activity resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic, to test ecology of fear and human shield hypotheses and quantify
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Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Joshua I. Brian, Harry E. R. Shepherd, María Á. Pérez‐Navarro, Jane A. Catford