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New and Notable Research:
🦋 Biodiversity
Overcoming biodiversity blindness: Secondary data in primary citizen science observations
What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species?
How and why species are rare: towards an understanding of the ecological causes of rarity
🏝️ Biogeography
Seed flotation in some widespread, oceanic‐dispersed trees and their island‐endemic congeners
☀️ Climate
Climate change impacts on Antarctic krill behaviour and population dynamics
Impact of climate on a host–hyperparasite interaction on Arabica coffee in its native range
🦬 Community Ecology
Predator mass mortality events restructure food webs through trophic decoupling
Shoreline armoring potentially diminishes the ecological roles of parrotfishes in urban coral reefs
🦅 Conservation
Flagship events and biodiversity conservation
Modelling the probability of meeting IUCN Red List criteria to support reassessments
Climate and human stressors on global penguin hotspots: Current assessments for future conservation
🐊 Evolution
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments
Afromontane understory birds increase in body size over four decades
Photographic documentation of melanism in bobcats (Lynx rufus) in the Greater Everglades
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Engaging urban residents in the appropriate actions to mitigate human–wildlife conflicts
Effects of captions on viewers’ perceptions of images depicting human−primate interaction
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Urbanization reduces gut bacterial microbiome diversity in a specialist ground beetle, Carabus convexus
Roadside habitat: Boon or bane for pollinating insects?
The global distribution of plants used by humans
Naegleria fowleri Detected in Grand Teton National Park Hot Springs
🏭 Pollution
Pervasive sublethal effects of agrochemicals as contributing factors to insect decline
🐟 Population Ecology
Plumage coloration differs between offspring raised in natural cavities and nestboxes
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Importance of restoration of dung beetles in the maintenance of ecosystem services