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Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Michael R. Silverstein, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Daniel Segrè
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Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Carolyn J. Hogg, Richard J. Edwards, Katherine A. Farquharson, Luke W. Silver, Parice Brandies, Emma Peel, Merly Escalona, Frederick R. Jaya, Rujiporn Thavornkanlapachai, Kimberley Batley, Tessa M. Bradford, J. King Chang, Zhiliang Chen, Nandan Deshpande, Martin Dziminski, Kyle M. Ewart, Oliver W. Griffith, Laia Marin Gual, Katherine L. Moon, Kenny J. Travouillon, Paul Waters, Camilla M. Whittington
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Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Baoliang Tian, Yingchun Pei, Weiqiang Li, Junli Zhang, Shulin Zhang, Jianqing Ding, Xuebin Zhang, Evan Siemann
Chemical signals are crucial in mediating ecological and evolutionary adaptation of plants to their environments. Indeed, invasive plants may produce greater amounts of chemical metabolites in their new ranges. Some of these chemicals can enhance their mutualistic interactions and improve invasive plant performance, but genetic mechanisms of such adaptations are unexplored. We used Triadica sebifera
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Competition intensity is linked to the co‐occurrence status and height differences of plant species found growing together in an old‐field community J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Riley Gridzak, Thomas Michael Lavender, Lonnie W. Aarssen, Brandon S. Schamp
Experimental evidence suggests that larger plant species generally have a competitive advantage and thus should dominate communities where competition for limiting resources (i.e. water, soil nutrients, light, space and/or mutualists) is intense. Additionally, researchers have postulated that competition can generate negative co‐occurrence patterns. However, neither expectation is strongly supported
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Habitat quality or quantity? Niche marginality across 21 plants and animals suggests differential responses between highland and lowland species to past climatic changes Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Raúl Araya-Donoso, Austin Biddy, Adrián Munguía-Vega, Andrés Lira-Noriega, Greer A. Dolby
Climatic changes can affect species distributions, population abundance, and evolution. Such organismal responses could be determined by the amount and quality of available habitats, which can vary independently. In this study, we assessed changes in habitat quantity and quality independently to generate explicit predictions of the species' responses to climatic changes between Last Glacial Maximum
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Species–environment sorting explains latitudinal patterns in spatiotemporal β‐diversity for freshwater macroinvertebrates Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Siwen He, Beixin Wang, Kai Chen, Ning Li, Janne Soininen
Understanding how and why β‐diversity varies along latitude is a long‐standing challenge in community ecology and rarely addressed in both space and time. We aimed to explore the spatiotemporal variations in macroinvertebrate β‐diversity and their underlying drivers in eight biogeographic regions covering a substantial latitudinal gradient of more than 40 degrees. By combining β‐diversity partitioning
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Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Lu Sun, Yunyun He, Min Cao, Xuezhao Wang, Xiang Zhou, Jie Yang, Nathan G. Swenson
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The anthropocene biogeography of alien birds on islands: Drivers of their functional and phylogenetic diversities Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Clara Marino, Lysandre Journiac, Chunlong Liu, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Céline Bellard
A branch of island biogeography has emerged to explain alien species diversity in the light of the biogeographic and anthropogenic context, yet overlooking the functional and phylogenetic facets. Evaluating alien and native birds of 407 oceanic islands worldwide, we built structural equation models to assess the direct and indirect influence of biotic, geographic, and anthropogenic contexts on alien
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Scatterhoarder abundance and advantages of seed burial drive dynamics of a tree–rodent interaction J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Rafał Zwolak, Paulina Celebias, Milena Zduniak, Michał Bogdziewicz, Aleksandra Wróbel
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Coral hosts provide more than shelter to boring bivalves Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Tal Amit, Peter G. Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya
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Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 James A. Orr, Samuel J. Macaulay, Adriana Mordente, Benjamin Burgess, Dania Albini, Julia G. Hunn, Katherin Restrepo‐Sulez, Ramesh Wilson, Anne Schechner, Aoife M. Robertson, Bethany Lee, Blake R. Stuparyk, Delezia Singh, Isobel O'Loughlin, Jeremy J. Piggott, Jiangqiu Zhu, Khuong V. Dinh, Louise C. Archer, Marcin Penk, Minh Thi Thuy Vu, Noël P. D. Juvigny‐Khenafou, Peiyu Zhang, Philip Sanders, Ralf
Understanding the interactions among anthropogenic stressors is critical for effective conservation and management of ecosystems. Freshwater scientists have invested considerable resources in conducting factorial experiments to disentangle stressor interactions by testing their individual and combined effects. However, the diversity of stressors and systems studied has hindered previous syntheses of
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High temperatures reduce growth, infection, and transmission of a naturally occurring fungal plant pathogen Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Dalia V. Chen, Samuel P. Slowinski, Allyson K. Kido, Emily L. Bruns
Climate change is rapidly altering the distribution of suitable habitats for many species as well as their pathogenic microbes. For many pathogens, including vector‐borne diseases of humans and agricultural pathogens, climate change is expected to increase transmission and lead to pathogen range expansions. However, if pathogens have a lower heat tolerance than their host, increased warming could generate
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Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Zhenhong Hu, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Qinsi He, Zhiyuan Xu, Lin Jiang, Guiyao Zhou, Ji Chen, Ming Nie, Qiang Yu, Hao Feng, Zhiqun Huang, Sean T. Michaletz
Fungi are key decomposers of deadwood, but the impact of anthropogenic changes in nutrients and temperature on fungal community and its consequences for wood microbial respiration are not well understood. Here, we examined how nitrogen and phosphorus additions (field experiment) and warming (laboratory experiment) together influence fungal composition and microbial respiration from decomposing wood
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Bottom‐up effects drive the dynamic of an Antarctic seabird predator–prey system Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Lise Viollat, Maud Quéroué, Karine Delord, Olivier Gimenez, Christophe Barbraud
Understanding how populations respond to variability in environmental conditions and interspecific interactions is one of the biggest challenges of population ecology, particularly in the context of global change. Although many studies have investigated population responses to climate change, very few have explicitly integrated interspecific relationships when studying these responses. In this study
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Disturbance‐mediated changes to boreal mammal spatial networks in industrializing landscapes Ecol. Appl. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Gonçalo Curveira‐Santos, Solène Marion, Chris Sutherland, Christopher Beirne, Emily J. Herdman, Erin R. Tattersall, Joanna M. Burgar, Jason T. Fisher, A. Cole Burton
Compound effects of anthropogenic disturbances on wildlife emerge through a complex network of direct responses and species interactions. Land‐use changes driven by energy and forestry industries are known to disrupt predator–prey dynamics in boreal ecosystems, yet how these disturbance effects propagate across mammal communities remains uncertain. Using structural equation modeling, we tested disturbance‐mediated
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Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Calum X. Cunningham, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman
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Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Gemma Carroll, Briana Abrahms, Stephanie Brodie, Megan A. Cimino
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Habitat amount modulates biodiversity responses to fragmentation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Helin Zhang, Jonathan M. Chase, Jinbao Liao
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Climate change is aggravating dengue and yellow fever transmission risk Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Alisa Aliaga‐Samanez, David Romero, Kris Murray, Marina Cobos‐Mayo, Marina Segura, Raimundo Real, Jesús Olivero
Dengue and yellow fever have complex cycles, involving urban and sylvatic mosquitoes, and non‐human primate hosts. To date, efforts to assess the effect of climate change on these diseases have neglected the combination of such crucial factors. Recent studies only considered urban vectors. This is the first study to include them together with sylvatic vectors and the distribution of primates to analyse
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climetrics: an R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Shirin Taheri, Babak Naimi, Miguel B. Araújo
Climate change affects biodiversity in a variety of ways, necessitating the exploration of multiple climate dimensions using appropriate metrics. Despite the existence of several climate change metrics tools for comparing alternative climate change metrics on the same footing are lacking. To address this gap, we developed ‘climetrics' which is an extensible and reproducible R package to spatially quantify
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Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Francesca Jaroszynska, Siri Lie Olsen, Ragnhild Gya, Kari Klanderud, Richard Telford, Vigdis Vandvik
Plant–plant interactions regulate plant community structure and function. Shifts in these interactions due to global climate change, mediated through disproportional increases of certain species or functional groups, may strongly affect plant community properties. Still, we lack knowledge of community‐level effects of climate‐driven changes in biotic interactions. We examined plant community interactions
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A tree's view of the terrain: downscaling bioclimate variables to high resolution using a novel multi‐level species distribution model Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Matthew M. Kling, Kathryn C. Baer, David D. Ackerly
Fine‐scale spatial climate variation fosters biodiversity and buffers it from climate change, but ecological studies are constrained by the limited accessibility of relevant fine‐scale climate data. In this paper we introduce a novel form of species distribution model that uses species occurrences to predict high‐resolution climate variation. This new category of ‘bioclimate' data, representing micro‐scale
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Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring Ecol. Appl. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Anya Dunham, Josephine C. Iacarella, Karen L. Hunter, Sarah C. Davies, Sarah Dudas, Katie S. P. Gale, Emily Rubidge, Stephanie K. Archer
Global policies increasingly focus on the importance of maintaining or improving the integrity of ecosystems, but defining, assessing, and monitoring integrity in marine protected areas (MPAs) remains a challenge. In this paper, we conceptualized ecological integrity along dimensions of heterogeneity and stability containing seven components: physical structure, diversity, function, persistence, resistance
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Female‐biased population sex ratios caused by genetic rather than ecological mechanisms in dwarf willow (Salix herbacea L.) J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Xiaomeng Mao, Andrés J. Cortés, Christian Rixen, Sophie Karrenberg
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Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Nicole E. Rafferty, Christopher T. Cosma
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Similar climate–growth relationships but divergent drought resilience strategies in coexisting Mediterranean shrubs J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Elisa Tamudo, Antonio Gazol, Cristina Valeriano, Ester González, Michele Colangelo, J. Julio Camarero
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Selection against domestication alleles in introduced rabbit populations Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Pedro Andrade, Joel M. Alves, Paulo Pereira, Carl-Johan Rubin, Eugénio Silva, C. Grace Sprehn, Erik Enbody, Sandra Afonso, Rui Faria, Yexin Zhang, Never Bonino, Janine A. Duckworth, Hervé Garreau, Mike Letnic, Tanja Strive, Carl-Gustaf Thulin, Guillaume Queney, Rafael Villafuerte, Francis M. Jiggins, Nuno Ferrand, Leif Andersson, Miguel Carneiro
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Lysogeny destabilizes computationally simulated microbiomes Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 R. Tucker Gilman, Mark R. Muldoon, Spyridon Megremis, David L. Robertson, Nina Chanishvili, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos
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Heterogenous effects of bat declines from white‐nose syndrome on arthropods Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Amy K. Wray, Marcus Z. Peery, Jade M. Kochanski, Emma Pelton, Daniel L. Lindner, Claudio Gratton
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Population and community consequences of perceived risk from humans in wildlife Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Justine A. Smith, Megan E. McDaniels, Scott D. Peacor, Ellen C. Bolas, Michael J. Cherry, Nathan J. Dorn, Olivia K. Feldman, David L. Kimbro, Emily K. Leonhardt, Nicole E. Peckham, Michael J. Sheriff, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor
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Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate-driven range shifts Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Nathalie Isabelle Chardon, Lauren McBurnie, Katie J. A. Goodwin, Kavya Pradhan, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Amy L. Angert
Climate change is causing geographic range shifts globally, and understanding the factors that influence species' range expansions is crucial for predicting future biodiversity changes. A common, yet untested, assumption in forecasting approaches is that species will shift beyond current range edges into new habitats as they become macroclimatically suitable, even though microhabitat variability could
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Southern breeding populations drive declining migration distances in Arctic and subarctic geese Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Shannon R. Curley, José R. Ramírez-Garofalo, Michael C. Allen
Migration is a prevalent strategy among birds used to track seasonal resources throughout the year. Individual and population-level migratory movements provide insight to life-history variation, carry-over effects, and impacts of climate change. Our understanding of how geographic variation in a species' breeding or wintering grounds can impact migration distances is limited. However, changes in migration
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The abundant fraction of soil microbiomes regulates the rhizosphere function in crop wild progenitors Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Miguel de Celis, María José Fernández‐Alonso, Ignacio Belda, Carlos García, Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso, Javier Palomino, Brajesh K. Singh, Yue Yin, Jun‐Tao Wang, Luis Abdala‐Roberts, Fernando D. Alfaro, Diego Angulo‐Pérez, Manoj‐Kumar Arthikala, Jason Corwin, Duan Gui‐Lan, Antonio Hernandez‐Lopez, Kalpana Nanjareddy, Babak Pasari, Teresa Quijano‐Medina, Daniela S. Rivera, Salar Shaaf, Pankaj Trivedi, Qingwen
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Neutral interactions among three nonindigenous coral species in a tropical marine fouling community Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Bert W. Hoeksema, Kaveh Samimi‐Namin, Mark J. A. Vermeij
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Decadal‐scale time series highlight the role of chronic disturbances in driving ecosystem collapse in the Anthropocene Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Peter J. Edmunds
Biome degradation characterizes the Anthropocene Epoch, and modern ecology is deeply involved with describing the changes underway. Most research has focused on the role of acute disturbances in causing conspicuous changes in ecosystem structure, which leads to an underappreciation of the chronic effects causing large changes through the cumulative effects of small perturbations over decades. Coral
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Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model Ecology (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Christopher A. Custer, Joshua S. North, Erin M. Schliep, Michael R. Verhoeven, Gretchen J. A. Hansen, Tyler Wagner
Predicting the effects of warming temperatures on the abundance and distribution of organisms under future climate scenarios often requires extrapolating species–environment correlations to climatic conditions not currently experienced by a species, which can result in unrealistic predictions. For poikilotherms, incorporating species' thermal physiology to inform extrapolations under novel thermal
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Mycorrhizal-herbivore interactions and the competitive release of subdominant tallgrass prairie species J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Eric B. Duell, Timothy C. Todd, Gail W. T. Wilson
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Fungi and deadwood diversity: A test of the area-heterogeneity trade-off hypothesis J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Max Zibold, Claus Bässler, Markus Hauck, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
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Climate interacts with the trait structure of tree communities to influence forest productivity J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Laurie Dupont-Leduc, Hugues Power, Mathieu Fortin, Robert Schneider
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Measuring metrics: what diversity indicators are most appropriate for different forms of data bias? Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Huijie Qiao, Michael C. Orr, Alice C. Hughes
Biodiversity metrics have become a ubiquitous component of conservation assessments across scales. However, whilst indices have become increasingly widely used, their ability to perform in the face of different biases has remained largely untested under realistic conditions. Citizen science data are increasingly available, but present new challenges and biases, thus understanding how to use them effectively
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Rate of permafrost thaw and associated plant community dynamics in peatlands of northwestern Canada J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Ruth C. Errington, S. Ellen Macdonald, Jagtar S. Bhatti
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Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Federico Riva, Nick Haddad, Lenore Fahrig, Cristina Banks-Leite
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Dynamics of tree stems and biomass in old-growth and secondary forests along gradients in liana dominance, elevation and soil J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Alain Senghor K. Ngute, Marion Pfeifer, David S. Schoeman, Roy E. Gereau, Hamidu R. Mnendendo, Herman M. Lyatuu, Hamidu A. Seki, Deo D. Shirima, Andrew R. Marshall
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When can higher-order interactions produce stable coexistence? Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Theo L. Gibbs, Gabriel Gellner, Simon A. Levin, Kevin S. McCann, Alan Hastings, Jonathan M. Levine
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Mast seeding in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is associated with reduced fungal sporocarp production and community diversity Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Talia J. Michaud, Ian S. Pearse, Håvard Kauserud, Carrie J. Andrew, Peter G. Kennedy
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Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Mara Knüsel, Roman Alther, Florian Altermatt
Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity within the context of long-term climatic shifts is of high importance, particularly in the face of contemporary climate change. In comparison to aboveground taxa, subterranean organisms respond to changing climates with generally much lower dispersal and recolonization potential, yet possible persistence in refugial groundwater habitats under ice-shields
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Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time Ecography (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Brent S. Pease
The spatial scale at which an environmental variable is summarized can have considerable impacts on ecological inference of species distribution and abundance. While several analytical approaches have emerged to determine biologically relevant spatial scales – the spatial scale that most strongly influences the ecological patterns observed – identifying key ecological drivers of scale of effect is
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Contrasting mechanisms of non-vascular and vascular plants on spatial turnover in multifunctionality in the Antarctic continent J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Hanwen Cui, Shuyan Chen, Hongxian Song, Ziyang Liu, Jingwei Chen, Anning Zhang, Sa Xiao, Xiaoxuan Jiang, Zi Yang, Xin Li, Lizhe An, Haitao Ding, Fons van der Plas
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Big rodents disperse small seeds and spores in Neotropical wetlands J. Ecol. (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Hoffmann, Andressa Adolfo, Andy J. Green, Cristina Stenert, Giliandro Gonçalves Silva, Vinicius Weber, Leonardo Maltchik
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Response to von Schmalensee et al. Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Guillermo Garcia-Costoya, Claire E. Williams, Trevor M. Faske, Jacob D. Moorman, Michael L. Logan
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Methodological artefacts cause counter-intuitive evolutionary conclusions in a simulation study Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Loke von Schmalensee, Mats Ittonen, Anna Brødsgaard Shoshan, Kevin T. Roberts, Isabelle Siemers, Philip Süess, Christer Wiklund, Karl Gotthard
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Transformation of β-sheets into disordered structures during the fossilization of feathers Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Tao Zhao, Yanhong Pan
arising from: T. S. Slater et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02177-8 (2023) Slater et al.1 analysed the chemical composition of untreated and experimentally degraded feathers from extant birds and fossils. The authors concluded that the dominant β-sheet structure of corneous β-proteins progressively undergoes alteration to α-helices with increasing temperature and
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Reply to: Transformation of β-sheets into disordered structures during the fossilization of feathers Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Tiffany S. Slater, Nicholas P. Edwards, Samuel M. Webb, Fucheng Zhang, Maria E. McNamara
reply to: T. Zhao & Y. Pan Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02432-6 (2024) Our recent study1 presents evidence for the preservation of remnant corneous β-proteins (CBPs) in experimentally matured and Mesozoic fossil feathers. This evidence was obtained using infrared spectroscopy and synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy. We argue that these analytical techniques, when combined
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Gaps and opportunities in modelling human influence on species distributions in the Anthropocene Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Veronica F. Frans, Jianguo Liu
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Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Nile P. Stephenson, Katie M. Delahooke, Nicole Barnes, Benjamin W. T. Rideout, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Andrea Manica, Emily G. Mitchell