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Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Hong-Tu Zhang, Otso Ovaskainen, Xiulian Chi, Qiang Guo, Zhiyao Tang
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Hotter drought and trade-off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree-ring growth variability of global conifers J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Xuemei Wang, Xiangping Wang
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Preservation of proteins in the geosphere Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Raman Umamaheswaran, Suryendu Dutta
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Range expansion is both slower and more variable with rapid evolution across a spatial gradient in temperature Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Takuji Usui, Amy L. Angert
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Extinction drives the climate-change-induced reshuffling of forest plant communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
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Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rozenn M. Pineau, Eric Libby, David Demory, Dung T. Lac, Thomas C. Day, Pablo Bravo, Peter J. Yunker, Joshua S. Weitz, G. Ozan Bozdag, William C. Ratcliff
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Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Audrey Barker Plotkin, David A. Orwig, Meghan Graham MacLean, Aaron M. Ellison
Forest insect outbreaks cause large changes in ecosystem structure, composition, and function. Humans often respond to insect outbreaks by conducting salvage logging, which can amplify the immediate effects, but it is unclear whether logging will result in lasting differences in forest structure and dynamics when compared with forests affected only by insect outbreaks. We used 15 years of data from
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Nonrandom foraging and resource distributions affect the relationships between host density, contact rates and parasite transmission Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Zachary Gajewski, Philip McElmurray, Jeremy Wojdak, Cari McGregor, Lily Zeller, Hannah Cooper, Lisa K. Belden, Skylar Hopkins
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Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Tara Christensen, Lee A. Dyer, Matthew L. Forister, M. Deane Bowers, Adrian Carper, Mike B. Teglas, Paul Hurtado, Angela M. Smilanich
Pathogens play a key role in insect population dynamics, contributing to short‐term fluctuations in abundance as well as long‐term demographic trends. Two key factors that influence the effects of entomopathogens on herbivorous insect populations are modes of pathogen transmission and larval host plants. In this study, we examined tritrophic interactions between a sequestering specialist lepidopteran
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Inherited challenges in the pursuit of an academic career abroad Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Farid Saleh
Scholars from the Global South face inherited challenges in working internationally as academic researchers, argues Farid Saleh.
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The demise of enemy release associated with the invasion of specialist folivores on an invasive tree Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Vladimír Medzihorský, Richard Mally, Jiří Trombik, Marek Turčáni, Michaela Medzihorská, Etsuko Shoda‐Kagaya, Grant D. Martin, Stephanie Sopow, Kaori Kochi, Andrew M. Liebhold
There is a long history of humans either intentionally or accidentally moving plant species to areas outside of their native ranges. In novel environments, populations of many of these plant species exhibit explosive population growth and spread, in part due to the absence of coevolved enemies such as herbivorous insects. However, over time such enemies can ‘catch up' with their host and re‐establish
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Unveiling the impacts of land use on the phylogeography of zoonotic New World Hantaviruses Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gabriel E. García‐Peña, André V. Rubio
Billions of genomic sequences and records of species occurrence are available in public repositories (e.g. National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF). By implementing analytical tools from different scientific disciplines, data mining these databases can aid in the global surveillance of zoonotic pathogens that circulate among wildlife
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Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Annise Dobson, Audrey Bowe, Victoria Nuzzo, Andrea Dávalos, Timothy Fahey, Bernd Blossey
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Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Heather L. Bateman, Margaret A. Huck, Heidi Klingel, David M. Merritt
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nicolò Tellini, Matteo De Chiara, Simone Mozzachiodi, Lorenzo Tattini, Chiara Vischioni, Elena S. Naumova, Jonas Warringer, Anders Bergström, Gianni Liti
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Extinction drives recent thermophilization but does not trigger homogenization in forest understorey Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jeremy Borderieux, Jean-Claude Gégout, Josep M. Serra-Diaz
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David versus Goliath: Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Aurore Receveur, Jonathan Bonfanti, Stephanie D'Agata, Andrew J. Helmstetter, Nikki A. Moore, Brunno F. Oliveira, Cathleen Petit‐Cailleux, Erica Rievrs Borges, Marieke Schultz, Aaron N. Sexton, Devi Veytia
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Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Daniel C. Allen, James Larson, Christina A. Murphy, Erica A. Garcia, Kurt E. Anderson, Michelle H. Busch, Alba Argerich, Alice M. Belskis, Kierstyn T. Higgins, Brooke E. Penaluna, Veronica Saenz, Jay Jones, Matt R. Whiles
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Plant responses to elevated CO2 under competing hypotheses of nitrogen and phosphorus limitations Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Qing Zhu, William J. Riley, Jinyun Tang, Nicholas J. Bouskill
The future ecosystem carbon cycle has important implications for biosphere‐climate feedback. The magnitude of future plant growth and carbon accumulation depends on plant strategies for nutrient uptake under the stresses of nitrogen (N) versus phosphorus (P) limitations. Two archetypal theories have been widely acknowledged in the literature to represent N and P limitations on ecosystem processes:
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One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John Ethan Householder, Florian Wittmann, Jochen Schöngart, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Wolfgang J. Junk, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Layon O. Demarchi, Guilherme de S. Lobo, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Rafael L. Assis, Aline Lopes, Pia Parolin, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina
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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao, William M. Hammond, Anping Chen, Songbai Hong, Hao Xu, Seth M. Munson, Ranga B. Myneni, Craig D. Allen
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Erratum Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11
Errata for Friend, A.D., Shugart, H.H. and Running, S.W. 1993. “ A Physiology-Based Gap Model of Forest Dynamics.” Ecology 74(3): 792–797. https://doi.org/10.2307/1940806 The last name of the second author was incorrectly published as ‘Schugart’. The correct name should be ‘H. H. Shugart’. We apologize for this error.
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Snakes’ tape of life Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Vera Domingues
Snakes and lizards (Squamata) are a diverse group, and represent one third of terrestrial vertebrates. Although both have tremendous morphological variation associated with feeding and locomotion, snakes show unique ecomorphological diversity and specialization. Writing in Science, Title et al. constructed a time-calibrated genomic phylogeny for 6,886 species of squamates that they use — together with
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Rapid range shifters show unexpected population dynamics Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jonathan Lenoir, Lise Comte
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Marine fishes experiencing high-velocity range shifts may not be climate change winners Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Shahar Chaikin, Federico Riva, Katie E. Marshall, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Jonathan Belmaker
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Fungi on film Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Simon Harold
The film begins in Kew Gardens, UK, with Sheldrake rummaging among the shelves of the fungarium, where — with the help of Kew’s collection team — he uncovers treasures such as specimens collected by Darwin from Tierra del Fuego. From here, we are transported down the lens of a microscope into the tangled world of hyphae and mycelia, whose growth is shown in glorious high-resolution time lapse and envelopes
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Intraspecific variability of leaf form and function across habitat types Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Giacomo Puglielli, Alessandro Bricca, Stefano Chelli, Francesco Petruzzellis, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Giovanni Bacaro, Eleonora Beccari, Liliana Bernardo, Gianmaria Bonari, Rossano Bolpagni, Francesco Boscutti, Giacomo Calvia, Giandiego Campetella, Laura Cancellieri, Roberto Canullo, Michele Carbognani, Marta Carboni, Maria Laura Carranza, Maria Beatrice Castellani, Daniela Ciccarelli, Andrea Coppi, Maurizio
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Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Andrea Paz, Thomas Lauber, Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen
Over the past decade, the use of future climate projections from the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP) has become central in biodiversity science. Pre‐packaged datasets containing future projections of the widely used bioclimatic variables, for different times and socio‐economic pathways, have contributed immensely to the study of climate change implications for biodiversity. However, these
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Unravelling the biogeographic determinants of tree growth sensitivity to freeze and drought in Canada's forests J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Martin P. Girardin, Xiao Jing Guo, William Marchand, Claire Depardieu
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Ecology and methodology of comparing traits and decomposition rates of green leaves versus senesced litter across plant species and types J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Chao Guo, Bin Tuo, Sebastian Seibold, Bi‐Le Sai, Han‐Tang Qin, En‐Rong Yan, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
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Declining potential nectar production of the herb layer in temperate forests under global change J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Wim De Schuyter, Emiel De Lombaerde, Leen Depauw, Pallieter De Smedt, Alina Stachurska‐Swakoń, Anna Orczewska, Balázs Teleki, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Déborah Closset, František Máliš, Fraser Mitchell, Fride Høistad Schei, George Peterken, Guillaume Decocq, Hans Van Calster, Jan Šebesta, Jonathan Lenoir, Jörg Brunet, Kamila Reczyńska, Krzysztof Świerkosz, Martin Diekmann, Martin Kopecký, Markéta Chudomelová
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Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
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Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Alfred Burian, Claire Kremen, James Shyan-Tau Wu, Michael Beckmann, Mark Bulling, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Tamás Krisztin, Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty, Ralf Seppelt
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Contrasting depth‐related fine root plastic responses to soil warming in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Linqiao Jia, Qi Jiang, Jie Sun, David Robinson, Zhijie Yang, Xiaodong Yao, Xiaohong Wang, Xilin Dai, Tingting Chen, Dongmei Wu, Ailian Fan, Liuming Yang, Guangshui Chen, Yusheng Yang
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Gypsum lichens: A global data set of lichen species from gypsum ecosystems Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sergio Muriel, Gregorio Aragón, Isabel Martínez, María Prieto
Lichens are significant components of the biological soil crust communities in gypsum ecosystems and are involved in several processes related to ecosystem functioning, such as water and nutrient cycles or protection against soil erosion. Although numerous studies centered on lichen taxonomy and ecology have been performed in these habitats, global information about lichen species from gypsum substrates
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A global survey of prokaryotic genomes reveals the eco-evolutionary pressures driving horizontal gene transfer Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Marija Dmitrijeva, Janko Tackmann, João Frederico Matias Rodrigues, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Luis Pedro Coelho, Christian von Mering
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Osmotic responses and oceanic dispersal of upper brackish nemertean: Ecophysiology from field to in vitro observation Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Natsumi Hookabe, Yuma Fujino, Hikaru Nagano
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Luigi Cao Pinna, Laure Gallien, Laura J. Pollock, Irena Axmanová, Milan Chytrý, Marco Malavasi, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Juan Antonio Campos, Marta Carboni
The Mediterranean Basin has historically been subject to alien plant invasions that threaten its unique biodiversity. This seasonally dry and densely populated region is undergoing severe climatic and socioeconomic changes, and it is unclear whether these changes will worsen or mitigate plant invasions. Predictions are often biased, as species may not be in equilibrium in the invaded environment, depending
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Potential use of poultry farms by wild waterfowl in California's Central Valley varies across space, times of day, and species: implications for influenza transmission risk Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Claire S. Teitelbaum, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Elliott L. Matchett, Fiona McDuie, Austen A. Lorenz, Joshua T. Ackerman, Susan E. W. De La Cruz, Diann J. Prosser
Interactions between wildlife and livestock can lead to cross‐species disease transmission, which incurs economic costs and threatens wildlife conservation. Wild waterfowl are natural hosts of avian influenza viruses (AIVs), are often abundant near poultry farms, and have been linked to outbreaks of AIVs in poultry. Interspecific and seasonal variation in waterfowl movement and habitat use means that
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Nitrogen and phosphorus availability alters tree‐grass competition intensity in savannas J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Arielle Biro, Michelle Y. Wong, Yong Zhou, Sarah A. Batterman, A. Carla Staver
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Widespread agrochemicals differentially affect zooplankton biomass and community structure: Comment Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rebecca C. Rooney, Jose Luis Rodriguez‐Gil
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Arrive and wait: Inactive bacterial taxa contribute to perceived soil microbiome resilience after a multidecadal press disturbance Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Samuel E. Barnett, Ashley Shade
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How widespread use of generative AI for images and video can affect the environment and the science of ecology Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Matthias C. Rillig, India Mansour, Stefan Hempel, Mohan Bi, Birgitta König‐Ries, Atoosa Kasirzadeh
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Genotype diversity enhances invasion resistance of native plants via soil biotic feedbacks Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Cai Cheng, Zekang Liu, Qun Zhang, Xing Tian, Ruiting Ju, Bo Li, Mark van Kleunen, Jonathan M. Chase, Jihua Wu
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Functional traits are more strongly correlated with biomass than diameter growth J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Yue Bin, Sabrina E. Russo, Jiantan Zhang, Yanpeng Li, Honglin Cao, Wanhui Ye, Juyu Lian
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Biotic interactions in soil and dung shape parasite transmission in temperate ruminant systems: An integrative framework Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Christopher J. Boughton, Lesley T. Lancaster, Eric R. Morgan
Gastrointestinal helminth parasites undergo part of their life cycle outside their host, such that developmental stages interact with the soil and dung fauna. These interactions are capable of affecting parasite transmission on pastures yet are generally ignored in current models, empirical studies and practical management. Dominant methods of parasite control, which rely on anthelmintic medications
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Recolonization of secondary forests by a locally extinct Caribbean anole through the lens of range expansion theory Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Miguel A. Acevedo, Carly Fankhauser, Luis González, Marné Quigg, Bella Gonzalez, Riccardo Papa
Disturbance and recovery dynamics are characteristic features of many ecosystems. Disturbance dynamics are widely studied in ecology and conservation biology. Still, we know less about the ecological processes that drive ecosystem recovery. The ecological processes that mediate ecosystem recovery stand at the intersection of many theoretical frameworks. Range expansion theory is one of these complementary
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Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Daniel Houle, Jean‐David Moore, Marie Renaudin
The boreal forest is one of the world's largest terrestrial biome and plays crucial roles in global biogeochemical cycles, such as carbon (C) sequestration in vegetation and soil. However, the impacts of decades of N deposition on N‐limited ecosystems, like the eastern Canadian boreal forest, remain unclear. For 13 years, N deposition was simulated by periodically adding ammonium nitrate on soils of
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Brown bear digging decreases tree growth: Implication for ecological role of top predators in anthropogenic landscapes Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kanji M. Tomita, Tsutom Hiura
Large carnivores have recently increased in number and recolonized in human‐dominated landscapes; however, their ecological roles in these landscapes have not been well studied. In the Shiretoko World Heritage (SWH) site, brown bears have recolonized a previously abandoned mosaic landscape of natural forests and conifer plantations after land abandonment. We previously reported that the bears had recently
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Restoring spatiotemporal variability to enhance the capacity for dispersal‐limited species to track climate change Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gregory A. Backus, Christopher F. Clements, Marissa L. Baskett
Climate refugia are areas where species can persist through climate change with little to no movement. Among the factors associated with climate refugia are high spatial heterogeneity, such that there is only a short distance between current and future optimal climates, as well as biotic or abiotic environmental factors that buffer against variability in time. However, these types of climate refugia
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Trade-offs in biodiversity and ecosystem services between edges and interiors in European forests Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Thomas Vanneste, Leen Depauw, Emiel De Lombaerde, Camille Meeussen, Sanne Govaert, Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, Kurt Bollmann, Jörg Brunet, Kim Calders, Sara A. O. Cousins, Martin Diekmann, Cristina Gasperini, Bente J. Graae, Per-Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, Sigrid Lindmo, Anna Orczewska, Quentin Ponette, Jan Plue, Federico Selvi, Fabien Spicher, Hans Verbeeck, Florian Zellweger
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Prioritizing biodiversity in extreme events Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marian Turner
Emergency situations often entail agonizing choices over what to save when time and resources are limited. Writing in Conservation Biology, Woinarski et al. suggest that some assumptions about societal priorities during responses to natural disasters may need revisiting. The authors surveyed 2,139 adult Australians who were randomly selected to reflect the country’s population. Respondents were asked
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Local and regional‐scale effects of hedgerows on grassland‐ and forest‐associated bird populations within agroecosystems Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Devin R. de Zwaan, Kevin C. Hannah, Niloofar Alavi, Greg W. Mitchell, David R. Lapen, Jason Duffe, Scott Wilson
Linear woody features (LWFs), like hedgerows along field edges, provide wildlife habitat and support biodiversity in agroecosystems. Assessments of LWFs usually focus on community‐level indices, such as species richness. However, effective conservation actions need to balance the contrasting habitat preferences of different wildlife species, necessitating a focus on population‐level effects in working
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Evaluating top‐down, bottom‐up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Tanya L. Rogers, Samuel M. Bashevkin, Christina E. Burdi, Denise D. Colombano, Peter N. Dudley, Brian Mahardja, Lara Mitchell, Sarah Perry, Parsa Saffarinia
Identification of the key biotic and abiotic drivers within food webs is important for understanding species abundance changes in ecosystems, particularly across ecotones where there may be strong variation in interaction strengths. Using structural equation models (SEMs) and four decades of integrated data from the San Francisco Estuary, we investigated the relative effects of top‐down, bottom‐up
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