Intertidal habitat heterogeneity can shape macrobenthic communities, but its links to assembly processes and network stability remain uncertain. Macrobenthos were surveyed at 22 sites across muddy sediment (MA), oyster farming (OF), eastern rocky ree...
Subspecies are traditionally defined using phenotypic differences associated with different geographical areas. Yet patterns of morphological and genetic variation may not coincide and thereby fail to reflect species’ evolutionary history. The...
Global climate change and human activities have jointly exacerbated habitat fragmentation and expanded ecotones, significantly increasing the frequency and intensity of cross-habitat litter decomposition. The phenomenon whereby litter decomposes fast...
Xinjiang in China is distinguished by its distinctive regional landscape and high ecological sensitivity. Trollius wildflowers represent a unique and iconic element of the mountain flower landscape in Xinjiang. However, their populations are predomin...
Background/Objectives: Desert plants exhibit remarkable resilience to extreme environments, and their capacity for population establishment is noteworthy. However, the adaptation process mechanisms of those plants to harsh habitats, particularly...
Eriocheir sinensis is an euryhaline crab found from East Asia to Europe and North America. This species can live in freshwater and seawater due to the unique physiological characteristics of their life cycle, which allows them to adapt and inhabit di...
High-altitude ecosystems are characterized by extreme environmental conditions that strongly influence microbial community structure and function. However, whether soil and water microbiomes exhibit similar ecological responses to environmental varia...
Heritage trees have important ecological, historical, and landscape values in cities. Rapid urbanization may cause dramatic change of ecosystem functions of cities, thereby inevitably affecting the growth performance of ancient trees. However, few st...
The genus Dysosma, a group of perennial herbaceous plants with significant medicinal value and a relatively narrow ecological niche, is potentially at risk due to the combined pressures of habitat degradation and climate change. As their habitats con...
Climate change and intensified human activity have altered the landscape pattern of nature reserves and are expected to induce persistent changes in habitat quality. Using GIS technology and landscape ecological theories, we quantitatively analyzed l...
In wild boar, Sus scrofa, from Europe, domestic pig-typical ancestry is traced at varying levels. We hypothesised wild boar with pig-typical gene pool characteristics, i.e., “introgression”, congregate more in peri-urban habitats, because...
Human activity often has profound effects on plant growth and evolution. Orchids are the most diverse group of flowering plants and are threatened by habitat fragmentation, over-harvesting, and urbanization. A population of Phaius flavus from Beikeng...
Astragalus exscapus L. subsp. transsilvanicus (Schur) Nyár. (Fabaceae) is a rare plant endemic to the Transylvanian Plateau, represented by 24 identified populations. Limited information on the genetic variation and population structure is ava...
Optimizing the habitat quality (HQ) assessment and revealing its nonlinear influence mechanisms, particularly by considering the mountain micro-topographic characteristics, are critically important for promoting sustainable development and safeguardi...
The Brazilian subterranean ichthyofauna is distinguished worldwide by high taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity, involving at least 30 exclusively subterranean (troglobitic) lineages. This may be explained by high native epigean diversty, allied to o...
Studying the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of territorial space development intensity (TSDI) and its habitat quality (HQ) response is of substantial theoretical and practical significance to optimize regional development patterns and co...
Revealing the relationship between the mating system (i.e., the outcrossing/inbreeding degree) and the fitness of seeds in tree species under wild conditions is essential for understanding the ecological adaptability and evolutionary stability of the...
The spatio-temporal evolution of land use/land cover (LULC) and habitat quality (HQ) is vital to maintaining ecological balance and realizing regional sustainable development. Using the InVEST and CA-Markov model, with the Kendall coefficient as the...
The degradation and loss of global urban habitat and biodiversity have been extensively studied as a global issue. Urban heat islands caused by abnormal land surface temperature (LST) have been shown to be the main reason for this problem. With the a...
Recently, the Census of Marine Life has explored methods to assess coral reef diversity by combining standardized sampling (to permit comparison across sites) with molecular techniques (to make rapid counts of species possible). To date, this approac...
Estuaries support distinct spawning and nursery habitats for migratory fishes, yet the differential environmental response patterns between these two critical early life habitats remain poorly understood from a spatial non-stationarity perspective. B...
Hangzhou Bay is an estuarine ecosystem on the Yangtze River Delta and a key wintering habitat for waterbirds. However, suitable waterbird habitats have been degrading and fracturing. Therefore, we aimed to assess waterbird habitat suitability and ide...
Xinjiang, northwestern China, encompasses sharply contrasting desert–wetland and montane forest ecosystems, providing a natural setting to study species limits and habitat-associated morphological variation in Agaricus subgen. Pseudochitonia. W...
Climate change and human activities have caused dramatic impacts on biodiversity. Although a number of international agreements or initiatives have been launched to mitigate the biodiversity loss, the erosion of terrestrial biome habitats is inevitab...
Understanding the integration of newly recorded species into forest ecosystems is essential for evaluating their ecological impacts on native wildlife diversity. In this study, we examined the spatial and temporal niche dynamics of three sympatric sq...
Underground bud banks play a critical role in vegetative regeneration of alpine grassland plants, but how species-level underground regenerative structures vary across contrasting habitats remains unclear. This study investigated the widely distribut...
Balkan lowlands bordering with the Pannonia region are inhabited by diverse riparian forests that support production of different truffle species, predominantly the most prized white truffle of Piedmont (Tuber magnatum Pico), but also other commercia...
Planform evolution and terrestrial habitat health of two representative mid-channel bars (Baishazhou bar and Tianxingzhou bar) in the urban reach of the Middle Yangtze River in Wuhan City have not been understood under the combined influences of natu...
Understanding the salt tolerance mechanism in obligate halophytes provides valuable information for conservation and re-habitation of saline areas. Here, we investigated the responses of three obligate halophytes namely Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, Sa...
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that enable vertebrate adaptation to deep-water environments remains a central goal in evolutionary biology. This study used comparative transcriptomics of skeletal muscle tissue to investigate these mechanisms...
Megalurothrips usitatus (Bagrall 1913) (MTU) is a major pest of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) and shows a strong preference for floral tissues. To clarify the spatiotemporal distribution of thrips, we conducted a detailed survey of their abun...
Using six years of remote sensing data, we estimated land and forest degradation inside 1788 protected areas across 19 countries in Latin America. From 2004–2009, the rate of land and forest degradation increased by 250% inside the protected areas, a...
Global urbanization has caused widespread ecological degradation, yet habitat quality in agricultural plains remains understudied. This study addresses this gap by assessing and predicting land use and habitat quality changes in the Northern Anhui Pl...
Upon exploring the mitotype diversity of the aphid-hunting wasp, Diodontus tristis, we revealed specimens with highly divergent mitotypes from two localities in Lithuania and nesting in clayey substrate, while the specimens with typical mitotypes wer...
The fluctuating temperature poses challenges to the survival of amphibians. This study employed two cold-adapted brown frog species, Rana dybowskii and Rana amurensis, from high-latitude cold regions as research models. We explored the mechanism by w...
The evolution, habitat, and lifestyle of the cryptic clade II of Escherichia, which were first recovered at low frequency from non-human hosts and later from external environments, were poorly understood. Here, the genomes of selected strains were an...
Urban ecosystem dysfunction, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity loss caused by rapid urbanization have threatened sustainable urban development. Urban habitat quality is one of the important indicators for assessing the urban ecological environm...
Population genetics can reveal whether colonization of created habitats has been successful and inform future strategies for habitat creation. We used genetic analysis to investigate spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) colonization of created ve...
Globally, natural habitats have suffered tremendous damage from human activities, a phenomenon that is increasingly evident in basin regions. The management of natural habitats in basin regions is dependent on understanding of the various impacts of...
We studied the genetic differentiation in budburst timing among Fagus crenata populations along spatial gradients in late frost timing in the Hakkoda Mountains, northern Japan, by focusing on last fatal frost day and topography. For budburst timing,...
Selenium (Se)-enriched habitats have led to chronic selenosis, seriously affecting the health and survival of Procapra przewalskii (P. przewalskii). Our targets were to explore the molecular mechanisms of chronic selenosis and to look for a new way t...
Habitat transition can reorganize plant-associated microbial communities, yet whether rhizosphere bacteria and fungi respond similarly to the transition from native to introduced habitats remains unclear. Here, we investigated this question in the en...
Although urbanization is a major threat to biodiversity, some native species have managed to persist in urban areas. Populations of such species often show phenotypic differences with their rural counterparts. A crucial question is whether such diffe...
The Mediterranean pond turtle (Mauremys leprosa) is a native semi-aquatic species of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and North Africa, widely distributed across Mediterranean aquatic systems. Within these environments, M. leprosa inhabits a m...
Although research on wildlife species across taxa has shown that males and females may differentially select habitat, sex-specific habitat suitability models for endangered species are uncommon. We developed sex-specific models for Bengal tigers (Pan...
Dipsacus asperoides is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with beneficial health properties. To date, the quality of D. asperoides from different habitats has shown significant differences. However, the molecular differences in D. asperoides from diff...
In this study, the InVEST model, GTWR, and the Geodetector were comprehensively employed to systematically assess the spatiotemporal dynamics of habitat quality in Wuyishan National Park and to reveal its response patterns to changes in precipitation...
Habitat destruction is a major driver of biodiversity decline, yet how it reshapes multispecies coexistence by altering interaction structure remains unclear. We adopt a spatially explicit metacommunity model framework under a homogeneity assumption...
Sandy coastal ecosystems are among the most widespread yet ecologically simplified marine habitats, particularly where anthropogenic pressures and the scarcity of structurally complex habitats limit biodiversity. This study evaluated the ecological e...
Differences in snake venom composition occur across all taxonomic levels and it has been argued that this variation represents an adaptation that has evolved to facilitate the capture and digestion of prey and evasion of predators. Bothrops atrox is...
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