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Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 4, Page 1629-1648, October 2026.Mountain ecosystems are under strong environmental pressure and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, which is likely to lead to forest expansion and loss of open alpine grasslands, threatening many specialized species. However, for most alpine birds, even basic ecological knowledge, such as their diet, remains limited, restricting our ...
Camille Mermillon +6 more
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Consistent root microbiomes across contrasting habitats in a wild perennial vine
Plant Biology, Volume 28, Issue 6, Page 1880-1898, October 2026.Communities of bacteria and fungi associated with the roots are similar across diverse habitats in a wild plant. Abstract While we are beginning to understand that the plant microbiome is important for plant health, we still lack information about how plant microbiomes are shaped across environments and how they influence plant performance, in ...
K. Aleklett +6 more
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Aggregate, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2026.Biological function arises from aggregates rather than from molecules. Comparing biomimetic systems on a common basis reveals three transferable design rules governing hierarchical assembly, interfacial gradients, and stimulus‐coupled anisotropy, and identifies self‐healing and single‐step multiscale integration as properties that do not transfer to ...
Nafeesa Sarfraz +7 more
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Spider (Araneae) Abundance and Diversity Across Land‐Use Gradients
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2026.We sampled spider populations in economically important kiwifruit orchards that are adjacent to either low‐disturbance ecosystems (native forest) or high‐disturbance ecosystems (maize), using pitfall traps and active sampling. A total of 2710 spiders were collected from 27 families, representing 64 species and eight functional guilds.
Nicola J. Sullivan +5 more
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Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2026.We show that impacts of agriculture on arthropod biodiversity are notably less negative in Europe than in other regions, which we find is driven by a degraded baseline, a selection bias of reference sites, and novel species compositions in agriculture that favour widespread habitat generalists and non‐native species.
Daan Scheepens +3 more
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2026.Velvet worms and vagrant spiders are two predatory invertebrate taxa that can occupy urban forests, but understanding their habitat associations in these environments has been hampered by a lack of effective monitoring methods. We assessed how forest age and type affected the numbers of velvet worms and vagrant spiders detected within leaf litter ...
Dan Moskovitz +4 more
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EcosphereAlien plants have generally been shown to support reduced arthropod abundance, biomass, and diversity compared to native plant species, but inferences have typically come from studies limited in taxonomic and geographic scope.
Colleen Whitener, Allen H. Hurlbert
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Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 9, Page 1793-1806, September 2026.In a large‐scale German forest experiment, habitat heterogeneity increased spider turnover but reduced local alpha diversity through habitat filtering. Together, these effects lowered landscape‐scale spider diversity. As such, the study shows whether environmental heterogeneity increases or decreases biodiversity depends on the balance between habitat ...
Jean‐Léonard Stör +10 more
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Entomological Research, Volume 56, Issue 9, September 2026.ABSTRACT Body mass is widely used as an indicator of physiological condition and ecological fitness in spiders. However, directly measuring the mass of small, live individuals remains technically challenging. In this study, we evaluated a non‐invasive approach for predicting body mass in Eresus kollari using machine learning‐based (ML) models derived ...
Jin Hyeok Choi +2 more
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Land Use Mediates Long‐Term Arthropod Functional Change
Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2026.Using > 1.3 million carabid and spider records, we reveal contrasting long‐term trajectories of arthropod functional diversity across land‐use types in Switzerland. Functional richness increased in forests and grasslands but declined sharply in croplands, where communities became functionally homogenised and lost key, often unique, trait combinations ...
Carlos Martínez‐Núñez +10 more
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