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Population genomics and particle tracking found strong local retention in two topshells while matching genotypes more than 1,000 km apart pointed to human-mediated long-distance transport.
Air–soil measurements across agricultural, urban and industrial landscapes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa found warmer-season POP elevations and fugacity evidence of remobilization from some soils.
Five genetic markers plus systematic photographs of 192 Western Mediterranean Oscarella specimens resolved four species new to science and exposed low resolution in the commonly used COI marker.
Idealized Earth-system experiments found global-mean temperature response scaling with planetary-albedo change even when local hydrologic effects were strong.
MODIS land-surface phenology from 2000–2022 found earlier starts and later ends across arable land, forests and grassland, with the strongest shifts often in arable areas and lower elevations.
Across 12 voluntary credit schemes, baseline/sampling design and co-governance were the two criteria that most consistently structured differences among schemes after multiple-testing correction.
A 4,000-km northern-China survey found plant, bacterial and fungal diversity declining beyond aridity thresholds while archaeal diversity increased and plant–microbe coupling reorganized.
Across 4,351 population-level estimates from 549 species, faster pre-breeding advancement was associated with population benefits while faster post-breeding advancement was associated with costs.
A source-aware screen of public estuarine and coastal monitoring found both rising and falling salinity series—and showed that aggregation and flagged observations can change the trend classification.
Brazilian spotted-fever incidence was highest in less fragmented Atlantic Forest landscapes where riparian forest sat inside pasture–agriculture mosaics—complicating simple “restore more riparian forest” prescriptions.
Across 38 restored central New York wetlands, water depth, open water, mudflat and floral resources explained bee and plant patterns better than simple drawdown categories; at least 109 bee species used the complex.
A new synthesis finds that expanding urban form can modify atmospheric dynamics and intensify short-duration rainfall, making urbanization part of the hazard as well as part of the exposure.
A new review argues that shallow aquifers host diverse microbial food webs and biogeochemical processes while viruses, protists, fungi and in-situ process rates remain poorly characterized.
Seventy years of aerial imagery in northwest Spain show planted maritime pine expansion alongside roughly 61.5% contraction of open dune habitat used by Corema album, with no juveniles found at the plantation edge.
Thirty-seven years of habitat mapping attributed 80% of post-2006 nesting/roosting habitat decline to wildfire, compared with 6% to fuels management, in the southern range of the California spotted owl.
Six hundred ninety samples collected under one-time, monthly and biweekly schedules detected 1,477 fish species and preserved environmental metadata for resolving temporal community change.
Models at South Carolina’s Santee Experimental Forest reconstructed daily water-table depth from sparse observations and gridded climate data, with lagged hydrologic state carrying substantial predictive value.
Chicory–berseem clover intercropping with mycorrhizal inoculation increased soil biological activity, while chemical superphosphate reduced several biological indicators.
Trait comparisons in Telemidae and Ochyroceratidae found greater functional variation among obligate cave morphospecies and a directionally consistent tendency toward overdispersion.
Screening 1,937 sand flies found substantial natural Wolbachia occurrence, while 11 complete profiles from Phlebotomus perniciosus were identical and lacked an exact public-database match.
A continental dataset found no significant measured environmental effects on litter size, while births occurred later and were more synchronized at higher elevations in the available data.
Southern California experiments found activated carbon reduced reproductive potential of invasive black mustard, while greenhouse results also showed costs to native deerweed.
Across five Swedish site pairs, landscape location explained about three times more community variation than stand type, and spruce monocultures were not significantly poorer in stump-associated species richness.
Remote sensing from Dongtan Nature Reserve found mowed areas recovered vegetation faster and mapped mostly synergistic interactions between vegetation management and water-level regulation.