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cial materials of these nests make their ecosystem functionality questionable.Thoemmes and Cove (Ecosphere,
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report on the use of automated detection devices set up before, during, and aft er the shutdown as one of the primary tools researchers can use to evaluate how urban wildlife have responded to global shift s in human activity due to COVID-…
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used a thermal imaging camera to measure heat transfer between bison and their environment.The authors found that increasing ambient heat loads decreases growth rates and thus decreases body size of bison.Additionally, using Watts of energ…
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These spectacular fi elds of fl owers are oft en the fi rst sign of a site that will transform to new dominance by deciduous trees following a severe burn, as they require the same seedbed conditions as winddispersed aspen and birch.New ev…
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used a hierarchical model to disentangle the eff ects of habitat suitability and phenology on abundance of Arctic fritillaries, and its detectability by sampling diff erent conditions of temperature, wind, cloud cover, and hour of the day.…
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modelling to model the potential distribution of several wild vanilla species native to Costa Rica and combined the resulting distribution maps with recent land use maps of the study region in southwest Costa Rica to predict areas suitable…
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show that in populations of Sitka willow (Salix sitchensis), an early riparian colonist, female willows are colonizing closer to stream edges than males.This infl uences organic matter inputs and the authors found that plant sex infl uence…
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utilized GPS movement data from 40 individuals of four ungulate species in the Gobi-Steppe Ecosystem, calculating displacement distances and recursion metrics and performing a PCA, to quantify the variation in movement patterns.The authors…
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found this invasive annual becomes dominant in communities of native perennial bunchgrasses due to its ability to accumulate dead biomass, change the fi re regime, and suppress the reproduction of native species.The invasion of B. tectorum…
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that wetland buff ers like the one pictured, though promoted in many policies worldwide, do not eff ectively protect wetlands from contamination by agricultural contaminants such as nitrate from fertilizer, the herbicide atrazine, or neoni…
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documented the fi rst observations of a population of European Herring Gulls handling and consuming the widely distributed ascidian Ciona intestinalis.The complex, multi-step behavior involved the separation of the soft inner body of the a…
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the composition of three spider assemblages, those captured by the plant, those residing on or over the plant, and those found nearby and found that, though some families were heavily represented in all three assemblages, the taxonomic mak…
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found that years with regional conditions predicted by continued climate change showed a loss of diversity in both microclimate and phenological events, with a more rapid advancement in bud break occurring at higher elevation sites.
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found that in agonistic encounters, marbled crayfi sh were on average more aggressive than spiny-cheeked crayfi sh (Orconectes limosus) and that aggressiveness and activity were positively correlated.
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COVER PHOTO: Common eider (Somateria mollissima) ducklings on their way to the water just aft er hatching.Many studies report high predation rates for eggs and newly hatched ducklings, but higher survival as soon as they enter the water.Th…
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A Bald Eagle nest
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found that mass mortality occurred due to a combined eff ect of high water temperatures, low oxygen concentrations, water level fl uctuations, and fl ow velocity increases due to passing navigation.
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found that at a larger scale, species from these three diverse functional groups display concordant patterns in community similarity across gradients of elevation, vegetation, and geographic distance.However, diff ering dispersal strategie…
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tested whether this relationship also holds for bacterial communities in soil.Their results suggest that plant invasions associated with soil homogenization may lead to reduced microbial diversity.
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term population dynamics of 13 herbivore species in this unique national park in northern Tanzania.While population densities of some species have increased over the past 58 year, losses in megaherbivores (African elephant, black rhinocero…
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found that although protected areas are eff ective for maintaining breeding populations of Eurasian Eagle-owls and their size can be considered suff icient to off er suitable protection of the foraging habitat, non-protected areas also del…
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conducted a metapopulation viability analysis for Piping Plovers, a threatened disturbance-dependent species, to better understand current and projected future metapopulation dynamics given that natural disturbances have been greatly reduc…