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New and Notable Research:
🐘 Animal Behavior
Ritualized ink use during visual courtship display by males of the sexually dimorphic cuttlefish Sepia andreana
Condors scavenge on fish at the land–water interface in the Andean foothill of southern Bolivia
Infection‐related sexual conflict in mating behaviors of wolf spiders
Behavioral response of polar bears to aircraft activity on the northern coast of Alaska
🦋 Biodiversity
Synchrony of Bird Migration with Global Dispersal of Avian Influenza Reveals Exposed Bird Orders
Climate change and the biodiversity of alpine ponds: Challenges and perspectives
🏝️ Biogeography
Mean reef fish body size decreases towards warmer waters
Wandering outside of the Styx: Surface activity of an iconic subterranean vertebrate, the olm (Proteus anguinus)
☀️ Climate
Wing lengths of three Arctic butterfly species decrease as summers warm in Alaska
Effects of burn severity and postfire salvage logging on carnivore communities in montane forests
Extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations in Southern Texas, USA
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world
Extinction of experience due to climate change
Linking weather conditions and winter tick abundance in moose
🦬 Community Ecology
Strawberry varieties differ in pollinator‐relevant floral traits
Predator mass mortality events restructure food webs through trophic decoupling
🦅 Conservation
Beaver dam analogs did not improve beaver translocation outcomes in a desert river
🐊 Evolution
Evolutionary and ecological trends in the Neotropical cycad genus Dioon (Zamiaceae): An example of success of evolutionary stasis
Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora
👨🦳 Human Ecology
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Threats of dams to the persistence of the world's freshwater fishes
From the forest to the city: the persistence of dragonflies and damselflies in the urban jungle
Geographic source of bats killed at wind-energy facilities in the eastern United States
Hydropower expansion in eco-sensitive river basins under global energy-economic change
🐸 Invasive Species
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa
An outsider on the Antarctic Peninsula: A new record of the non‐native moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
🏭 Pollution
Olfaction in the Anthropocene: NO3 negatively affects floral scent and nocturnal pollination
A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution
🐟 Population Ecology
Climate is changing, are European bats too? A multispecies analysis of trends in body size
Short‐time exposure to light at night affects incubation patterns and correlates with subsequent body weight in great tits (Parus major)
Heterozygosity is low where rare color variants in wild carnivores prevail
Fluctuating salinity during development impacts fish productivity
Diminishing numbers of male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina Pinnipedia: Phocidae, Linnaeus, 1758) at the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica (1957–2022)
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Belowground foundations of tropical forest restoration
Rewilding in cold blood: restoring functionality in degraded ecosystems using herbivorous reptiles