Coastal black-carbon budgets need a groundwater pathway
Wet-season measurements in China's Beibu Gulf show rivers dominate dissolved black-carbon transport, while non-riverine routes add a measurable fraction.
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European trees are uncoupling fruit ripening from autumn color
The link between successive phenological events changed across decades of European tree records.
A bat virome's geography tells more than its menu
In global RNA-virus libraries, bat ancestry and sampling location outweighed broad diet as predictors of viral community structure.
Boreal forest succession changes which neighbors help diversity persist
Twenty-five years after fire, demographic density effects shifted differently for recruitment, survival and growth.
The US wind-turbine bat toll is an estimate measured in millions
A national model merging 499 monitoring reports estimates about 18.7 million bat fatalities across ten species from 1981–2024.
Nitrogen's benefit to nitrogen-fixing plants depends on which plants
A 121-experiment synthesis found a modest mean growth gain, enormous dispersion and a strong imprint of phylogeny.
Mizoram's forest map pinpoints fragmentation exposure, not restoration success
A 2005–2025 susceptibility analysis points managers toward road-accessible and agricultural-edge forests for field checks.
Beijing's urban biodiversity signal outgrew its green-space footprint
A 12-year district panel associated biodiversity improvement with carbon-sink estimates even where green-area expansion slowed.
Ancient South Africa may be a reminder that today's ecosystems are not all the possible ones
Plant-wax isotope records reconstructed environmental combinations around early Homo sapiens that have no clear modern analogue.
A forest fungus diagnosis came with an assay warning, not confirmed new disease
Germany's first identified Biscogniauxia rosacearum isolates raised taxonomic and detection questions before pathogenicity could be established.
The rice–turnip microbiome rotation is a hypothesis awaiting field tests
A synthesis of saline soils identifies plausible microbial benefits but acknowledges little consistent direct field validation.
Two viruses were detected in one bobcat; a new transmission cycle was not
A wildlife case report documented H5N1 and SARS-CoV-2 co-detection while linking clinical illness to avian influenza.
Legnano's green network has a modeled benefit, not a delivered one
A peri-urban regeneration framework forecast less runoff and lower heat under proposed land-cover changes.
Seagrass-associated fauna responded to nutrients differently by seascape
A 16-site British Isles comparison found habitat-context effects and few consistent links to simple seagrass leaf dimensions.
South African anti-poaching staff associated community engagement with lower reported poaching
A 49-practitioner survey adds a governance signal but cannot establish that engagement caused fewer incidents.
Europe's future protein-crop map is not one climate story
Fine-scale suitability modeling projected gains for legumes but declines for some other crops, with sharp regional variation.
Farmland carbon gains in Guanzhong came with a modeled future reversal
A cropland carbon-balance reconstruction linked regional changes to management and climate, then forecast declining sink capacity.
Urban pigeon injuries in Namibia varied sharply by land use
Field surveys found foot deformities in 15.3% of 300 pigeons, with the highest proportion in residential areas.
Two aquatic invaders may follow different climate trajectories
Suitability maps suggest expanding golden apple-snail risk but a possible later contraction for water hyacinth in China's Yangtze basin.
Pakistan's fractured aquifers demand more than a promising geological map
Regional fracture mapping identifies exploration targets, while shared-aquifer governance remains an institutional proposal.
The mine footprint was only a fraction of the forest loss
A continent-scale causal-inference study estimated extensive off-site deforestation around mines across sub-Saharan Africa.
A termite mound buffers heat, but not the future climate
Brazilian colonies kept positive modeled thermal safety margins while their physiology and traits remained climate-sensitive.
Light and noise together were not consistently worse than their sum
A synthesis across taxa found harmful individual disturbance effects but no universal direction for their interaction.
Autumn leaves are reading the nutrient balance, not just the weather
Across 25 U.S. forest sites, canopy nitrogen-to-phosphorus and nitrogen-to-potassium ratios helped explain when vegetation senesced.