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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Enhancing crop growth with bioelectronic soil
Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally
🐘 Animal Behavior
Artificial light at night affects the timing of roosting by Chimney Swifts
Semelparous marsupials reduce sleep for sex
🦋 Biodiversity
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds
Four unreported emperor penguin colonies discovered by satellite
Leakage of biodiversity risks under the European Union Biodiversity Strategy 2030
🏝️ Biogeography
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees
☀️ Climate
Snow cover‐related camouflage mismatch increases detection by predators
Wildfire‐induced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America
Assessing the global vulnerability of dryland birds to heatwaves
🦬 Community Ecology
Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography
Ant protection effectiveness in myrmecophytes and extrafloral nectary plants
🦅 Conservation
What, where, and how: a spatiotemporally explicit analysis of the drivers of habitat loss within the range of maned three‐toed sloths (Bradypus torquatus and Bradypus crinitus)
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies
Rates of tree cover loss in Key Biodiversity Areas on Indigenous Peoples’ lands
🐊 Evolution
Unraveling stress resilience: Insights from adaptations to extreme environments by Astyanax mexicanus cavefish
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Global reductions in manual agricultural work capacity due to climate change
Diminishing returns on labour in the global marine food system
Perceptions and reality in fisher coexistence with aquatic predators in the Peruvian Amazon
The importance of equity in payments to encourage coexistence with large mammals
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Impacts of livestock grazing on blue‐eared pheasants (Crossoptilon auritum) survival in subalpine forests of Southwest China
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies
Unravelling unique responses of mammal abundance to road proximity in agricultural landscapes
🐸 Invasive Species
🏭 Pollution
Concentrations of 45 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in North American River Otters (Lontra canadensis) from West Virginia, USA
🐟 Population Ecology
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Herbivore exclusion stabilizes alpine grassland biomass production across spatial scales