2026 June - 30 articles
Post-fire rehabilitation structures are widely used in Mediterranean burned landscapes to reduce runoff and sediment transfer, yet their ecological associations with early vegetation recovery remain insufficiently documented. This observational study...
Understanding dietary patterns and trophic (food) resources partitioning among sympatric mesocarnivores is important for explaining species coexistence through niche differentiation and their roles in ecosystem functioning. We analyzed the feeding ec...
A central goal in ecology is to understand whether community assembly follows deterministic rules or is of a stochastic nature. Although species co-occurrence is extensively documented and studied for vertebrates, applying these frameworks to soil Co...
The Biological Monitoring Working Party (BMWP) and Average Score Per Taxon (ASPT) indices, which rely on family-level environmental sensitivity values (FESVs), are widely used in freshwater bioassessment. However, regional differences in taxonomic co...
The yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor, Linnaeus) is a cosmopolitan pest of stored grains, causing losses up to 15%. Due to the environmental and health risks of synthetic fumigants, botanical alternatives are needed, but their ecotoxicological assess...
The African jacana (Actophilornis africanus, family Jacanidae) is a sex-role-reversed waterbird inhabiting tropical and subtropical open wetlands across Africa. Identifying environmental factors that influence nest site distribution and suitable nest...
Information on factors influencing fitness, flowering, and fruit production in Cyclamen species remains limited. This study evaluated these traits throughout the growing season in three populations of Cyclamen purpurascens subsp. immaculatum under co...
The reconstruction of the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof railway junction, known as Stuttgart 21, is a very large and long-term infrastructure project. The gradual extension of the project implementation creates a specific time period during which atypical v...
Sorghum halepense is widely recognised as one of the most aggressive invasive perennial grasses affecting agricultural ecosystems worldwide. This systematic review synthesises existing scientific evidence on the ecological invasion dynamics, origin,...
Effective management and conservation of sea turtles is often constrained by a lack of knowledge of at-sea distribution and abundance. While abundance estimates of nesting females are typically well-documented on nesting beaches, counting sea turtles...
In transitional tropical ecosystems such as the Amazonia–Cerrado ecotone, dominant tree species experience strong environmental heterogeneity, requiring coordinated functional strategies to cope with drought, nutrient limitation, and disturbanc...
The San Juan Islands are one of the few places where native temperate grasslands are found in western Washington State. These ecosystems are important reservoirs of biodiversity and sources of ecosystem services, support many rare and endemic species...
The Shymkent–Saryagash–Abay (A-15) international highway is a major Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan freight corridor that runs through the irrigated horticultural belt of the Turkestan Region in South Kazakhstan, where adjacent fields supply...
Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller), the date moth, is a major pest of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), responsible for severe post-harvest losses in arid and Mediterranean regions. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is an environmentally friendly con...
Plant–animal interactions have shaped much of Earth’s biodiversity. Their structure probably results from a combination of neutrality and constraints imposed by species’ traits, such as phenotypes, phenologies, and spatial distribut...
(1) Pholidoptera griseoaptera (De Geer, 1773) (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) is a common and widespread inhabitant of forest edges in Europe and may therefore serve as a suitable model species for understanding past and future changes in forest wildlife...
Dozer lines can play a key role in the containment of a wildfire; they can also result in long-lasting impacts to vegetation and soils. Despite this, their post-fire ecological impacts are understudied. I assessed vegetation recovery associated with...
High-Andean grasslands in the Central Andes of Peru are severely degraded by Lepidium meyenii (maca) cultivation, compromising pasture structure and forage availability for sustainable livestock production. A factorial field experiment evaluated rest...
The last native population of Barbary deer (Cervus elaphus barbarus) lives across the northern border of Algeria and Tunisia; its small population size and global-change pressures limit conservation options, and basic habitat requirements, including...
The present research provides the first quantitative comparison of the hidden fish assemblages in Posidonia meadows and neighboring non-Posidonia habitats. The data and samples were collected at sixty sampling points at three locations on the south s...
Effective wolf monitoring is more critical than ever for supporting robust population estimates, identifying breeding packs, and anticipating and mitigating attacks on livestock. This study evaluates bioacoustic monitoring to estimate wolf population...
An association between long-term climatic stability and endemism has been suggested, but it has been tested in plants and vertebrates rather than invertebrates. Using high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions (CHELSA-TraCE21k; 21,000 BP–pres...
Parasitic plants are ecologically important because they can exert a profound influence on the surrounding ecosystem. Yet the ecology and host specificity of most parasitic plant species remain poorly known or undocumented. Cistanche phelypaea is a l...
This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of zooplankton communities in the tropical low-latitude Northwestern Pacific Ocean based on field surveys conducted in August 2021 and November 2022. Redundancy analysis identified nitrate, silicate...
Wetlands are ecosystems with critical functions. However, the accelerated progression of global urbanization and human activities, including agricultural encroachment, has resulted in a notable decline in wetland areas and the degradation of wetland...
The daily activity patterns of wild animal species are driven by environmental conditions and plant productivity although the degree of dependence varies according to their ecological niche. Bear ecology is intrinsically linked to seasonal vegetative...
Most cycad seeds germinate under the parent plant, and seedlings die before recruitment to the juvenile stage. Decomposition of the senesced organs releases the nutrients to influence nutrient cycling. The aim of this study was to quantify the soil n...
The radial growth of the tree stem reflects tree responses to climate change. This study examines the response of Fagus orientalis to more than half a century of climate dynamics in Armenia using a dendrochronological approach. Two forest stands were...
This review examines the role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons in marine sediments, where they contribute to the mineralization of organic matter under anoxic conditions. The metabolic diversity of these micro...
This study analyzed seven foliar traits of Cedrela odorata L. (Meliaceae) in 87 individuals across three germplasm movement zones in Tabasco, Mexico (VIII: humid; XIV: intermediate; XXI: dry) to assess differentiation and climatic relationships. Leaf...
