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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Long‐term tropospheric ozone pollution disrupts plant‐microbe‐soil interactions in the agroecosystem
Effects of different shading levels on the growth of Bornmuellera emarginata, a nickel hyperaccumulator for use in agromining
🐘 Animal Behavior
Hissing as part of threat display in the Australian Owlet‐nightjar Aegotheles cristatus
Do seabirds dream of artificial lights? Understanding light preferences of Procellariiformes
🦋 Biodiversity
Local people enhance our understanding of Afrotropical frugivory networks
Selecting umbrella species as mammal biodiversity indicators in tropical forest
🏝️ Biogeography
A species distribution model of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera: Worldwide changes and a focus on the Southeast Pacific
☀️ Climate
Declining potential nectar production of the herb layer in temperate forests under global change
Drought influences habitat associations and abundances of birds in California's Central Valley
🦬 Community Ecology
🦅 Conservation
Review of small cat ecology and status within India
Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment
Assessing habitat connectivity of rare species to inform urban conservation planning
🐊 Evolution
Report of abnormal tail regeneration of Eremias yarkandensis (Sauria: Lacertidae) and its locomotor performance
The first living cervid species described in the 21st century and revalidation of Pudella (Artiodactyla)
Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales
👨🦳 Human Ecology
The influence of social identity on attitudes toward wildlife
Acknowledging and understanding the contributions of nature to human sense of time
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Geophagy by a large herbivore (capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) driven by a human sodium supply
🏭 Pollution
Photoaged Tire Wear Particles Leading to the Oxidative Damage on Earthworms (Eisenia fetida) by Disrupting the Antioxidant Defense System: The Definitive Role of Environmental Free Radicals
Plastic Paradox in Blue Carbon Ecosystems
🐟 Population Ecology
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology