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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Farming practices to enhance biodiversity across biomes: a systematic review
Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction
Rangeland Pitting for Revegetation and Annual Weed Control
Potential unintended consequences of agricultural land use change driven by dietary transitions
🐘 Animal Behavior
Why the brown ghost chirps at night
Cooler and drier conditions increase parasitism in a subtropical damselfly population
Tongue flicking heralds flight behaviour following passive antipredator displays in dice snakes
🦋 Biodiversity
Are fecal samples an appropriate proxy for amphibian intestinal microbiota?
Assessing adequacy of citizen science datasets for biodiversity monitoring
🏝️ Biogeography
Incidental pinnipeds at high latitudes of the Vestfold Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica
☀️ Climate
Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century
Wetlands as a potential multifunctioning tool to mitigate eutrophication and brownification
Permafrost extent sets drainage density in the Arctic
Projected amplification of summer marine heatwaves in a warming Northeast Pacific Ocean
Historical and future maximum sea surface temperatures
Skin microbiome disturbance linked to drought‐associated amphibian disease
🦬 Community Ecology
Top-predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem
🦅 Conservation
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish
Perspectives and pitfalls in preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas
🐊 Evolution
Red vision in animals is broadly associated with lighting environment but not types of visual task
Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient
👨🦳 Human Ecology
‘I want you to want me’: How owners value cats' choices has implications for cat containment
Catching Dory: selling aquarium fish supports coastal livelihoods in Indonesia
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Humans drive spatial variation in mortality risk for a threatened wolf population in a Canis hybrid zone
Bear deterrence with scare devices, a non‐lethal tool in the use‐of‐force continuum
🏭 Pollution
🐟 Population Ecology
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches
A palaeogenomic investigation of overharvest implications in an endemic wild reindeer subspecies
Global mesozooplankton communities show lower connectivity in deep oceanic layers
Impact assessment of the Australian 2019-20 megafires on roost sites of the vulnerable grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
Pregnancy complications in wild vervet monkeys in an urban mosaic landscape