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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Perennial flower margins reduce orchard fruit damage by rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea (Homoptera: Aphididae)
🐘 Animal Behavior
The influence of climate and the presence of predators on the daily activity pattern of collared peccaries (Dicotyles tajacu, Cetartiodactyla)
Sex‐specific resource use by wild turkeys in response to hunting activity
Occurrence in Surface of the Olm (Proteus anguinus) Suggests to Approach Cave Biology Processes with More Flexibility
🦋 Biodiversity
Cliff‐edge forests: Xerothermic hotspots of local biodiversity and models for future climate change
🏝️ Biogeography
Dispersal constrains the biotic connectivity of mountain assemblages
Phase‐dependent red fox expansion into the tundra: implications for management
Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
☀️ Climate
Major changes in fish thermal habitat diversity in Canada’s Arctic lakes due to climate change
Quantifying mangrove carbon assimilation rates using UAV imagery
Rapid sea level rise causes loss of seagrass meadows
🦬 Community Ecology
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs
Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities
Removal of detritivore sea cucumbers from reefs increases coral disease
Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions
🦅 Conservation
Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions
Long‐term occupancy monitoring reveals value of moderate disturbance for an open‐habitat specialist, the Stephens' kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi)
Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming
🐊 Evolution
Fish microbiota repel ovipositing mosquitoes
👨🦳 Human Ecology
The emergence of urban heat traps and human mobility in 20 US cities
Do you have a tree friend?—Human–tree relationships in Finland
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Exposure of Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) to humans reduces behavioural responses to potential threats
Mowing wet meadows reduces the health of their snail communities
Geese migrating over the Pacific Ocean select altitudes coinciding with offshore wind turbine blades
Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability in an avian generalist
🏭 Pollution
High Amounts of Halogenated Natural Products in Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from Two Italian Regions in the Mediterranean Sea
🐟 Population Ecology
High genetic load without purging in caribou, a diverse species at risk