Extra long list this week because of the holiday last week! Enjoy!
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New and Notable Research:
🐘 Animal Behavior
They chew by night? Nighttime behaviour in a ‘ruminating’ primate, the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)
Innovative problem solving by wild falcons
Successful reproduction of female loggerhead sea turtles with severe limb amputations
A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal
🦋 Biodiversity
Angiosperm phylogenetic diversity is lower in Africa than South America
Bottom‐up global biodiversity metrics needed for businesses to assess and manage their impact
Reporting the biodiversity impacts of greenhouse gas emissions
The overlooked role of landscape dynamics in steering biodiversity
🏝️ Biogeography
Major shifts in biogeographic regions of freshwater fishes as evidence of the Anthropocene epoch
Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories
☀️ Climate
Effects of storms on fisheries and aquaculture: An Icelandic case study on climate change adaptation
Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Heat wave‐induced microbial thermal trait adaptation and its reversal in the Subarctic
Dust storms increase the tolerance of phytoplankton to thermal and pH changes
Heat wave‐induced microbial thermal trait adaptation and its reversal in the Subarctic
🦬 Community Ecology
Seabird nutrient subsidies enrich mangrove ecosystems and are exported to nearby coastal habitats
🦅 Conservation
Reduction of coastal lighting decreases seabird strandings
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife
A murky ruling threatens the fate of millions of US wetlands
Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika) survives in the Zaira Community Resource Management Area, Solomon Islands
Shipwrecks act as de facto Marine Protected Areas in areas of heavy fishing pressure
Anticipating anthropogenic threats in acquiring new protected areas
🐊 Evolution
Long wings and small eyes help tropical birds traverse gaps in fragmented forests
Color morphs of the fire salamander are discriminated at night by conspecifics and predators
The ecological and evolutionary consequences of tropicalisation
Petal-shaped femoral lobes facilitate gliding in orchid mantises
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Towards richer knowledge partnerships between ecology and ethnoecology
What drives our aesthetic attraction to birds?
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Grizzly bear responses to restrictions of recreation in Yellowstone National Park
🐸 Invasive Species
Climate change alters global invasion vulnerability among ecoregions
Cascading effects of earthworm invasion increase graminoid density and rodent grazing intensities
🏭 Pollution
Crude Oil and Its Burnt Residues Induce Metamorphosis in Marine Invertebrates
Artificial light affects foraging behavior of a synanthropic bat
Pesticide cocktails harm bumblebees in European fields
Better red than dead: plasticine moths are attacked less under HPS streetlights than LEDs
🐟 Population Ecology
Ecological effects of a declining red wolf population
Multilevel Bayesian analysis of monk parakeet contact calls shows dialects between European cities
Shrinking body size of European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay