Diversified strawberry farms showed smaller nitrous-oxide pulses after irrigation
A California Central Coast farm comparison points to a measurable emissions contrast, not yet an isolated causal practice.
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Ecology, evidence and perspective.
Kuala Lumpur heat-model optimization is a design hypothesis, not built cooling
An urban-landscape simulation suggested different land-cover layouts could cut predicted extreme surface heat.
Climate-envelope maps for edible blue milkcap point to shrinking mycoforestry options
A Mexico–southern US suitability model suggests the cultivation landscape may contract sharply this century.
Ash decline and shrub treatment had few immediate direct understory effects
A local Illinois field test undercuts the expectation that canopy gaps or shrub removal rapidly reset the forest floor.
Genome sequencing confirmed shrew-associated Regana virus in archived Swiss specimens
Three historical shrew specimens yielded orthonairovirus sequences, not evidence of human infection.
Stranded frogfish records offer a small Japanese coastal surveillance signal
Five spring strandings establish occurrence, not a demonstrated mortality driver.
Tierra del Fuego food-web reconstruction highlighted coastal carrion subsidies
An archaeological trait-based network model put guanaco and marine resources at the center of long-term trophic structure.
Forest-to-food learning reshaped how participants described Atlantic Forest stewardship
Interviews in southern Brazil captured changed environmental relationships, not measured forest recovery.
Brazilian bat testing found no confirmed arbovirus infections in the sampled cohort
A surveillance null result draws a line between suggestive antibody reactions and proven infection.
Himalayan alpine grazing intensity tracked sharp soil-carbon contrasts
A single-season Indian grassland survey tested inexpensive soil measurements as disturbance classifiers.
Chestnut trunk injections suppressed infection but damaged some saplings
A two-year sapling trial revealed a treatment-dose tradeoff in protecting chestnut against Phytophthora.
Coastal soil chemistry exposed differences that bulk carbon stocks conceal
Wet mangrove and saltmarsh soils resembled each other more than supratidal paperbark soils in infrared chemistry.
Romanian wood-pasture trees changed soil conditions more clearly than worm totals
Earthworm abundance varied across oak-canopy distances but the overall trend was not statistically robust.
Young Peruvian silvopastures had richer vegetation and higher forage output
High-Andean tree-retaining pastures differed from open grazing in soil, plant composition and dry-season productivity.
In a soil resistance trial, seasonality outweighed experimental warming
A Spanish field experiment found time within the growing season a stronger resistance-gene signal than tested warming or crop biocides.
Disturbed Nigerian lowland forest regained vegetation without reference structure
A Niger Delta forest inventory found more grasses and fewer trees at a historically disturbed site than in two reference forests.
Horticultural intercropping gained land-use efficiency across experiments
A new synthesis reports a mean land-equivalent ratio of 1.41, but crop mix and management change the advantage.
Beavers, development and trout do not share one watershed response
A long Pennsylvania fish record found opposite associations for juvenile trout, adult trout and different land-cover drivers.
Peatland plants began recovering long before reference communities returned
Minnesota rewetted bogs gained characteristic vegetation after moss transfer, but reference similarity remained low.
Urban greenery has a chemical structure beyond canopy cover
Five Oxford sites linked plant diversity and low vegetation to airborne natural scent compounds.
Algal symbiosis reorganized the bacteria inside a model sea anemone
Tissue-level work raises a hypothesis about nitrogen metabolism in marine host-microbe partnerships.
Salmon habitat restoration did not normalize stream decomposition
A Vancouver-area evaluation found habitat changes but no relationship between restoration intensity and one ecosystem function.
Benguela twilight-zone fish tracked krill and low-oxygen boundaries
Namibian hydroacoustic surveys showed prey coupling and a daily association with the oxygen-minimum zone.
Mine reclamation reduced erosion more consistently than runoff
A 58-study synthesis found strong average sediment benefits from conservation measures but important hydrological variation.