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#ConspecificNegativeDensityDependence #JanzenConnellHypothesis #MycorrhizalAssociation #SeedlingSurvival #SoilNutrientAvailability #TemperateForest

🌱Seedling survival response to neighborhood density associated with mycorrhizal type and soil nutrients availability in a warm temperate forest

📷 Yan Zhu

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Cover | The Herbal Nest Sanitizer — NSO Journals A study of Corsican blue tits shows that adding aromatic plants to nests can reduce bacterial diversity supporting that birds use these plants to protect their offspring from harmful microbes. Illustration by Hélène Dion-Phénix.

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A study of Corsican blue tits by Dion-Phénix et al. shows that adding aromatic plants to nests can reduce bacterial diversity, providing experimental support for the idea that birds use these plants to protect their offspring.

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🎨 Hèléne Dion-Phénix

🕳️💧Identifying knowledge gaps about context dependency in freshwater species invasions

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#Facilitation #IndirectInteractions #Mutualism #Parasitism #Spatial #Temporal

🧩🧬The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level

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#InSituDiversification #LineageDispersal #ColonizationAge #BiogeographicalStochasticMapping #DiversityPatterns #Myrtaceae

🦌🌱Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site

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#LargeHerbivore #NutrientCycling #PSorptionIndex #Reindeer #WaterExtractableN #WaterExtractableP

📊🔗Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross

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#Boldness #Demography #MatrixPopulationModel #Personality #PopulationDynamicsSensitivity

🔄🏠The interplay between landscape change and plasticity in habitat selection determines dispersal movements and settlement in small non-flying vertebrates

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#DispersalStages #Fragmentation #HabitatLoss #SmallMammals

🦭📉Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines

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#CumulativePreyCurves #DietDiversity #NicheBreadth #NicheOverlap #PreyCompetition #PreyHardParts

🌿Phenotypic plasticity in amphibious plants across a latitudinal (climatic) gradient

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#ClimateGradient #FunctionalTraits #LocalAdaptation #NorthAfrica #Plants #TemporaryWetlands

🌡️🦋Increasing temperatures and heatwave durations negatively affect the performance of a dietary generalist

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#ClimateChange #DietBreadth #ExtremeHeatEvent #FallWebworm #HyphantriaCunea #InsectFitness #TemperatureSizeRule

🔍🗺️Multi-omics insights into environmental adaptation and invasion potential of the ascidian Molgula manhattensis

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#BiologicalInvasion #Climate #Mal #Adaptation #EnvironmentalHeterogeneity #EpigeneticVariation #GeneticVariation #MultiOmics

💥Ignite: 🥬Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting Mediterranean shrub

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#AnthyllisCytisoides #CombinedDisturbances #Drought #Fitness #PostFireResprouting

📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

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#GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities

🌼🐝Floral resource diversity drives spatiotemporal variation in plant–pollinator network structure

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#FloralRewards #FunctionalTraits #Modularity #MutualisticInteractions #Nestedness #NetworkMotifs

🦇🍇Stratified sampling enhances the understanding of bat–fruit networks in the southern Atlantic Forest

📷 Fernando Carvalho

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#EcologicalNetworks #Frugivory #PlantAnimalInteractions #SeedDispersal #VerticalSpace #Zoochory

👩‍🔬📑Expert-led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology

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#EcologicalStability #ExpertSurvey #FreeTextAnalysis #FunctionalDiversity #HorizonScan #QualitativeCoding #ResearchPrioritisation #ResponseDiversity

🚜🐦Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long-term clustering and multi-scale effects of land use on avian communities

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#AgriculturalLandscapes #AvianCommunity #FunctionalDiversity #LandUse #SpatialScales #TraitClustering

🔵🐟A case of the blues: linking guild coloration to service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism

📷 Patrick Vetter

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#CleanerGobies #Cleaning Mutualisms #GuildColoration #ReefEcology #Signaling #StandardizedPhotography #SymbioticRelationships #VisualEcology

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A study of Brazilian savannas by Manzan et al. shows that fuel traits strongly shape fire behavior, with vegetation structure and environmental conditions influencing flammability and helping predict where fires are most likely to occur.

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🫒🌴Seed dispersal and seed predation networks highlight important dual roles for plants and terrestrial vertebrates in a tropical forest

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#AntagonisticNetwork #FunctionalTraits #MutualisticNetwork #SouthEastAsia #Versatility

💥⛓️Overexploitation can counteract top-down control and the paradox of enrichment in simple food chains

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#BottomUpControl #Enrichment #Overexploitation #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #Stability #TopDownControl

🐝🌼Shifts in phenology influence synchrony of flowering plants and their pollinators along an elevation gradient

📷 Mikko Tiusanen

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#PlantPollinatorInteractions #FloweringPhenology #PhenologyShift #NicheOverlap #ElevationGradient

Forum 📜: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter

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#CommunityWeightedMean #GeometricMean #LogNormalDistribution #PlantFunctionalTraits #TraitBasedEcology #TraitEnvironmentRelationship

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🧬🧫Cross-feeding constrains the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli

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#AdaptiveCapacity #AntibioticTolerance #AuxotrophicBacteria #BacteriaInteraction #CrossFeeding

Society publishers are learned societies publishing research for their scholarly communities. At the NSO, publishing is mission-driven: we reinvest in our members, support their research through our journals and uphold research integrity. 🌿🔬 #SocietyPublishing #OpenScience

🪲🌿Epichloë endophytes impair performance and preference of Rhopalosiphum padi by disrupting aphid feeding behaviour in tall fescue

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#AphidFeeding #Endophyte #EPGTechnique #InsectBehaviour #Symbiosis

🐠🪸Habitat characteristics and priority effects shape fish and invertebrate assemblages inhabiting the coral Pocillopora grandis in Hawaiʻi

📷 Erik G. Brush

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#CommunityEcology #PriorityEffects #Hawaiʻi #HabitatEffects #CoralReefs

⬜◻️◽Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems

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#AllochthonousInput #Disturbance #Landscape #Scaling #SpeciesAreaRelationship #Subsidies