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New and Notable Research:
🐘 Animal Behavior
Migratory herbivorous waterfowl track multiple resource waves during spring migration
🦋 Biodiversity
Butterfly loss in urban landscapes and nature reserves
🏝️ Biogeography
The geographic extent of bird populations affected by renewable‐energy development
☀️ Climate
A simulated natural heatwave perturbs bumblebee immunity and resistance to infection
Declining coupling between vegetation and drought over the past three decades
Functional changes across marine habitats due to ocean acidification
Targeted rainfall enhancement as an objective of forestation
Climatic variation influences annual survival of an island‐breeding tropical shorebird
🦬 Community Ecology
Pollination of Chamaepentas nobilis (Rubiaceae) by long‐proboscid hawkmoths in south‐central Africa: Trait mismatching and floral scent chemistry
🦅 Conservation
Automated identification of African carnivores: conservation applications
Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees
🐊 Evolution
Homology and the evolution of vocal folds in the novel avian voice box
Cold‐induced skin darkening does not protect amphibian larvae from UV‐associated DNA damage
👨🦳 Human Ecology
The potential of wealth taxation to address the triple climate inequality crisis
The agency of urban carnivores in human politics: leopards in Mumbai, India
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
A multisensory approach to understanding bat responses to wind energy developments
Supplemental nesting habitat increases bee abundance in apple orchards
Agricultural habitat use affects infant survivorship in an endangered macaque species
🐸 Invasive Species
Climate-driven invasion and incipient warnings of kelp ecosystem collapse
High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China
First evidence of mouse predation killing adult great albatrosses
Systematic and persistent bias against introduced species
🏭 Pollution
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife
Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination
Differential impact of anthropogenic noise during the acoustic development of begging calls in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season
🐟 Population Ecology
Wood warbler population dynamics in response to mast seeding regimes in Europe
Protecting and connecting landscapes stabilizes populations of the Endangered savannah elephant
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Past disturbances and local conditions influence the recovery rates of coral reefs