Scorpionfish, Swainson's Warbler, Fox Cannibalism
This week in new and notable research
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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Human influence on the distribution of cacao: insights from remote sensing and biogeography
🐘 Animal Behavior
Red fox cannibalism in a temperate forest ecosystem
Social Play In African Savannah Elephants May Inform Selection Against Aggression
Elk Balance Threats from Humans, Cougars, and Wolves by Shifting Habitat use Between Day and Night
Filling the gap of phonation in reptiles: First record of oral emission of the worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance
Isochrony in barks of Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) pups and adults
🦋 Biodiversity
Recognizing Agricultural Headwaters as Critical Ecosystems
Clarifying the definition of common mycorrhizal networks
Shifts of forest resilience after seismic disturbances in tectonically active regions
🏝️ Biogeography
Unravelling the role of tropical cyclones in shaping present species distributions
Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
☀️ Climate
Conservation Mitonuclear Replacement: Facilitated mitochondrial adaptation for a changing world
Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux
Fire sparks upslope range shifts of North Cascades plant species
Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution
🦬 Community Ecology
Dangerous neighbours: Birds and bird‐eating bats sharing tree cavities
Diversity begets stability: Sublinear growth and competitive coexistence across ecosystems
Pre‐loved home: Egg clutches of the striped marsh frog, Limnodynastes peronii, detected in water‐filled burrows created by the hunter hairy crayfish, Cherax setosus
🦅 Conservation
Exposure of protected areas in Central America to extreme weather events
Three major steps toward the conservation of freshwater and riparian biodiversity
No recruits for an ageing population: First signs of probable population extinction in one of the last reservoirs of the Critically Endangered species Pinna nobilis
Rediscovery of the Neotropical orchid Porroglossum parsonsii and recommendations for its conservation
Using historical habitat loss to predict contemporary mammal extirpations in Neotropical forests
Species and ecological communities as management surrogates for threatened biodiversity
Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure
Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
🐊 Evolution
Milk provisioning in oviparous caecilian amphibians
Sperm storage organs change with female age and mating history in the Golden Silk spider Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae)
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world
Scorpionfish adjust skin pattern contrast on different backgrounds
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Towards a more robust, inclusive and socially relevant ecology
Policy and market forces delay real estate price declines on the US coast
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape
Adoption by olive baboons (Papio anubis) of newly constructed electricity pylons as sleeping sites in Laikipia, Kenya
Freshwater salinization and the evolved tolerance of amphibians
🐸 Invasive Species
Non-native ants are breaking down biogeographic boundaries and homogenizing community assemblages
🏭 Pollution
The impact of floods on plastic pollution
Tree removal regulation mitigates light pollution in suburban communities
Effects of insecticide spray drift on arthropod prey resources of birds in grasslands in Minnesota
Seabirds from the poles: microplastics pollution sentinels
🐟 Population Ecology
Feralization: A threat to conservation of wild reindeer
Catastrophic storms, forest disturbance, and the natural history of Swainson's warbler
Giraffe lineages are shaped by major ancient admixture events