Had to take off last week, so a super-hefty list this week! Will have one more next Friday before the end of the year.
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New and Notable Research:
🐘 Animal Behavior
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise
Insectivorous bats alter their flight and feeding behaviour at ground‐mounted solar farms
Outstanding issues in the study of antipredator defenses
🦋 Biodiversity
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
Make global biodiversity information useful to national decision-makers
Seabirds boost coral reef resilience
Decline in small mammal species richness in coastal‐central California, 1997–2013
🏝️ Biogeography
Snow patch refugia benefits for species of periglacial zones—Evidence from a high-elevation obligate
Bobcat occupancy, tree islands, and invasive Burmese pythons in an Everglades conservation area
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees
A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests
☀️ Climate
Carbon opportunity cost increases carbon footprint advantage of grain-finished beef
Drought sensitivity in mesic forests heightens their vulnerability to climate change
Phenotypic adaptation to temperature in the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti
Sixty years of glacial retreat behind Palmer Station, Antarctica
Megafire: An ambiguous and emotive term best avoided by science
When rivers run dry: Perennial pools as ecological refuges for freshwater mussels during drought
44% of steep slope cropland in Europe vulnerable to drought
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna
Climate change threatens the future viability of translocated populations
🦬 Community Ecology
A fiddler crab reduces plant growth in its expanded range
Loss of sea turtle eggs drives the collapse of an insular reptile community
🦅 Conservation
Threats to conservation from national security interests
Genetic support to uplist an African cheetah subspecies, Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii, imperiled by illegal trade
🐊 Evolution
Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world's skinks
Chipping in: functional morphology of the American beaver under range expansion
Odorant detection in a locust exhibits unusually low redundancy
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Solution to what? Global review of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes
Farming on the Ocean via Desalination (FOOD)
Giant anteaters as bad omens: Determinants and implications of wildlife superstitions
Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Forest loss during 2000–2019 in pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) habitats was driven by shifting agriculture
Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern United States
A bibliometric literature review in beaver management: when does the beaver become a resource?
Livestock activity shifts large herbivore temporal distributions to their crepuscular edges
Habitat suitability as an indicator of urbanisation potential in four UK mammals
Biocrusts protect the Great Wall of China from erosion
The impact of urbanisation on chipmunks, arboreal and flying squirrels: a global systematic review
Low foraging rates drive large insectivorous bats away from urban areas
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs
🐸 Invasive Species
Eastern redcedar roots create legacy effects that suppresses growth of prairie species
🏭 Pollution
Snowmobile noise alters bird vocalization patterns during winter and pre‐breeding season
🐟 Population Ecology
Anchovy boom and bust linked to trophic shifts in larval diet
Large females connect Atlantic cod spawning sites
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration