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A UAV-LiDAR model in southern China paired probabilistic stock-volume estimates with interpretability, showing that predictors of the mean estimate were not the same as predictors of uncertainty.
A new review catalogs insect roles in shelter, sanitation, medicine, nesting material, protection and other relationships that conventional food-web framing can miss.
A three-bird proof of concept found roughly 4 m mean flight heights but a clearer right-skew in altimeter data, potentially improving collision-risk inputs for offshore wind assessments.
Wave-buoy observations and two decades of satellite records show locally generated waves in Vincennes Bay can fracture sea ice outward from a coastal polynya, with concentration losses persisting at least a week.
A qualitative case study traces how rights, compensation, ranger work, local forest–tea knowledge and ecological observations feed back into national-park governance.
Playback and camera monitoring on Oʻahu showed ʻapapane presence shifted ʻamakihi visitation timing and frequency at an endangered aster, revealing native–native interaction risk inside an already invaded system.
A China-wide spatial framework identifies 14.67% of cropland as fallow-priority under its assumptions, with most proposed area in northern zones where productivity and land-condition tradeoffs differ from the south.
A synthesis of more than 3,400 quantitative networks finds climate and taxon-specific responses explain global specialization better than a simple latitudinal gradient.
Across 79 lakes, methane oxidation strengthened with productivity and accounted for more than 70% of dissolved methane removal in the mixed layer, while photosynthesis-driven oxic methane production was comparatively small.
In Clarion–Clipperton sediments, more than 99% of recovered viral clusters were absent from current reference databases, with inferred hosts spanning microbes involved in major nutrient and metal cycles.
A Lake Minnetonka field treatment sharply reduced veligers and settlement; a companion study found short-term zooplankton declines, mussel copper uptake and other transient effects that managers have to weigh against the control objective.
Passive recorders along a farm-to-city riparian gradient found reduced avian acoustic activity in more urban settings, while manual checks showed the Acoustic Complexity Index was not tracking the ecological signal the team needed.
A newly accepted Systematic Biology paper generalizes HED/HEDGE-style phylogenetic measures to networks, discrete features and broader biodiversity measures while deriving their expected value and variance.
Across 22 Central European parks, forage-plant cover predicted wild-bee abundance and richness; landscape type and several broader gradients were not significant predictors of the analyzed metrics.
In Mobile Bay simulations, marsh roughness changed flood intensity little under the Hurricane Isaac baseline but reduced modeled energy by about 21% under a reduced-forcing storm.
An environment-only classification missed latitudinal benthic patterns that appeared when biological occurrence records were added—but spatial-block performance remained weak.
Across four forefields, host or source identity explained microbial diversity and composition more strongly than moraine age alone, while succession acted indirectly through colonization and soil development.
Summer captures fell steeply for WNS-susceptible Myotis after the fungus became established, while captures of less-susceptible taxa increased.
A systematic review found 88% of studies focused on aquatic systems, 48% targeted fish, and 68% reported incomplete reference libraries as a barrier to species-level identification.
For Brazil’s vulnerable Melanoxylum brauna, soil collected near parent trees produced the best 150-day seedling survival and growth, while an organic substrate led several soil-enzyme measures.
WHO validated Bhutan as the first country in its South-East Asia Region to eliminate dog-mediated human rabies as a public-health problem after reviewing surveillance, field implementation and programme records.
Remote-sensing indicators flagged declining vegetation resilience in about 42% of the study area, including places that still looked relatively low-risk under a pressure–state–response framework.
Across 23 months in southeastern Brazil, persistent local sediment and salinity conditions explained benthic-community structure more strongly than most temporal variation.
A review of 544 studies found only 16.2% used spatial replication, with strong mammal and North America/Europe biases.