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Counteracting selective pressures: Museum collections show declining Aglais io wing size

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Using museum specimens, we found that forewing and hindwing length of Aglais io declined significantly between 1953 and 1984 across three north‐western German populations. The observed long‐term reduction in wing size in Aglais io is potentially linked to environmental change, with consistent patterns across all studied localities.
Hilke Hollens‐Kuhr, Sascha Buchholz
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Response to equine cardiac adverse events during sports

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Cardiac adverse events and sudden death are a feared scenario for equine veterinarians, with serious consequences for animal health, riders' safety and the social licence to operate equestrian sports. The response to equine cardiac adverse events (CAEs) during sports is poorly defined.
C. Navas de Solis, J. Keen, A. Decloedt, B. Delvescovo, K. Hopster, K. Mitchell, J. Slack, G. van Loon, G. Van Steenkiste, L. Nath   +9 more
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Shelters or ecological traps? Context‐dependent effects of nestboxes on breeding success in a colonial raptor

Ibis, EarlyView.
Artificial breeding structures, such as nestboxes, can potentially influence the population size and conservation status of bird species relying on heavily human‐modified environments such as agroecosystems and urban areas. However, the effectiveness of these interventions may vary, as artificial structures could attract individuals to suboptimal ...
Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro, Alessandro Berlusconi, Jacopo G. Cecere, Sara Cioccarelli, Claudia De Battisti, Andrea Romano, Diego Rubolini, Andrea Pilastro, Michelangelo Morganti   +8 more
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Critical tipping points in dung beetle communities: Implications for conservation in the Atlantic Forest biome

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Minor land‐use changes consistently lead to abrupt biodiversity shifts across all diversity dimensions, favoring generalist dung beetle species while excluding sensitive specialists. These shifts are observed at lower environmental change rates than previously considered, with significant changes apparent after just 25% habitat loss.
Paula Ribeiro Anunciação, André Tavares, Fernando Z. Vaz‐de‐Mello, Milton C. Ribeiro, Raffael Ernst   +4 more
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Warmest spring on record in the United Kingdom provides insights into how a specialist spring‐flying butterfly may respond to future climate change

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Previous work indicates that the Duke of Burgundy butterfly, a specialist spring‐flying species in the United Kingdom, is poor at buffering its thoracic temperature as air temperatures rise. Taking advantage of unusually warm spring weather, we collected new field data and found that the species can lower its thoracic temperature more than expected in ...
Rosa M. Pollard Smith, Matthew P. Hayes, Gwen E. Hitchcock, Josh Hellon, Andrew J. Bladon, Edgar C. Turner   +5 more
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Against the odds: Nesting specialization and foraging ecology provide insights into climate change responses in a mountain bee

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
A unique high‐elevation Exoneura bee defies typical elevation‐driven declines in bee activity, nesting exclusively in dead branches of snow gums near the alpine tree line. Nesting and foraging are tightly linked to snow gum presence, with most activity occurring within 30 m of these trees. Biophysical modelling indicates the bee's thermally constrained
Joshua M. Coates, Noel Takeshima, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Saul A. Cunningham   +3 more
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Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker, Axel Schlindwein, Martin C. Arostegui, Ingrid M. Bruvold, Joel V. Wernström, Montserrat Martin‐Armas, David W. Sims, Nicolas Straube, Andreas Altenburger, Claudia Junge   +9 more
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Arctic lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) show evidence of seasonal acclimation of cardiac adrenergic sensitivity but not heat tolerance

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many Arctic fishes experience prolonged periods of extreme cold and large thermal variation over both rapid and seasonal time scales which challenge critical physiological functions. In the central Canadian Arctic, we caught wild adult lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) acclimatized to winter and summer temperatures to determine the extent to ...
Emily P. Williams, Les N. Harris, Jean‐Sébastien Moore, Ella K. Middleton, Shira A. Berkelhammer, Ben Speers‐Roesch, Matthew J. H. Gilbert   +6 more
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Thermal Ecology of a Central Anatolian Population of <i>Ophisops elegans</i>: Insights From Field Measurements and Microclimate Modeling. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Dıblan S, Kuyucu AC, Şahin MK, Çağlar SS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas, João L. Saraiva, Eliane Gonçalves‐de‐Freitas, Pablo Arechavala‐Lopez, Bernice Bovenkerk, Michael Breen, Steven J. Cooke, Martin Føre, Lene Northwood, Lars Helge Stien, Sunil Kadri, Chris Noble, Jonatan Nilsson, Fernando Rodriguez, Cosme Salas, Peter Sandøe, Hans van de Vis   +16 more
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