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Timber and trails: Low‐intensity selective logging and elephant trails shape seedling dynamics in an Afrotropical forest

Ecological Applications, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Very low‐intensity selective logging can be a compromise between strict conservation and income‐generating land use in tropical forests. Investigating how selective logging influences the understory environment and seedling dynamics as the forest regenerates offers insights into whether logging alters forest dynamics, influencing the ...
Megan K. Sullivan, Luke Browne, Prince Armel Mouguiama Bissiemou, Raoul Niangadouma, Katharine Abernethy, Simon A. Queenborough, Liza S. Comita   +6 more
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Amphibian Strategies Against Attacks by Flies: Host‐Specificity and Threats

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2026.
Species interactions between Diptera flies and amphibians play a significant role in tropical ecosystems, but their ecology and evolution remain understudied. This review explores the costs flies impose on amphibians, such as pathogen transmission and disruption of communication systems, and highlights the evolutionary strategies employed by both ...
Leonardo Leite Ferraz de Campos, Luiz Carlos Pinho, Selvino Neckel‐Oliveira, Ximena E. Bernal   +3 more
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Ontogenetic shifts in wood anatomy and leaf traits in tropical dry forests

New Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 2, Page 848-859, January 2026.
Summary Trees experience changes in environmental conditions and biophysical constraints as they grow that may lead to shifts in functional traits. While ontogenetic shifts in leaf traits are relatively well understood, changes in wood anatomy traits from seedlings to adults are less clear, especially in tropical dry forests where drought strongly ...
Peter J. Williams, Elise F. Zipkin, Andrés González‐Melo, Beatriz Salgado‐Negret, Roy González‐M., Natalia Norden, Juan Pablo Benavides‐Tocarruncho, Juan Manuel Cely, Julio Abad Ferrer, Daniel García‐Villalobos, Fabián Garzón, Álvaro Idárraga‐Piedrahita, René López‐Camacho, Esteban Moreno, Jhon Nieto, Camila Pizano, Juliana Puentes‐Marín, Nancy Pulido, Katherine Rivera, Felipe Rojas‐Bautista, Viviana Salinas, Juan Felipe Solorzano, María Natalia Umaña   +22 more
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The small state in higher education : a conceptual assessment [PDF]

, 2011
An earlier draft of this paper was presented as a keynote address at an international workshop on mainstreaming small states in higher education, organised by the Islands and Small States Institute at the University of Malta, Msida, Malta, in November ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Density Dependence Promotes Species Coexistence and Provides a Unifying Explanation for Distinct Productivity–Diversity Relationships

Ecology Letters, Volume 28, Issue 12, December 2025.
We develop a mechanistic framework to understand how negative density dependence shapes diversity in complex communities. By modelling resource consumption and species interactions, we show that density‐dependent mortality expands coexistence zones and explains variable productivity–diversity relationships. A derived formula predicts species abundances
Liang Xu, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Emily Zakem   +2 more
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Wet Season Environments Drive Local Adaptation in the Timber Tree Dicorynia guianensis in French Guiana

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 23, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The vast tropical rainforests of the Guiana Shield in Northern South America play a vital role in maintaining the region's ecological balance and economy. Increasing pressure from selective logging, gold mining and climate variability threatens these ecosystems. Sustainable rainforest management requires understanding the genetic diversity and
Julien Bonnier, Enrique Sáez Laguna, Thomas Francisco, Valérie Troispoux, Olivier Brunaux, Sylvain Schmitt, Stéphane Traissac, Niklas Tysklind, Myriam Heuertz   +8 more
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Belomitra comitas Kantor & Puillandre & Rivasseau & Bouchet 2012, new species

, 2012
Belomitra comitas new species Figures 5, 8E–F, 9 Belomitra pacifica (Dall, 1908) — Bouchet and Warén 1986 (part.): 473, fig. 70. Type material: holotype MNHN 24477 (measurements: SL 45.1 mm, BWL 24.0, AL 18.8, SW 12.7 mm). Type locality: North-western Madagascar, 13º01’S, 48º01’E, 1075–1110 m, 21 Jan. 1975 [R / V Vauban sta. 135].
Kantor, Yuri I., Puillandre, Nicolas, Rivasseau, Audrey, Bouchet, Philippe   +3 more
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Senecan Progressor Friendship and the Characterization of Nero in Tacitus' Annals [PDF]

, 2015
Argues that Tacitus’ shaped his account of Seneca and the characterization of Nero within his social environment according to features characteristic of Seneca’s conception of friendship. Surprisingly, Tacitus assigns to Nero an active power: The emperor
Wildberger, Jula
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The other way round : manufacturing as an extension of services in small island states [PDF]

, 1998
An earlier version of this article was presented at the VIIIth Pacific Science Inter-Congress held at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji in July 1997.Try valiantly though they might, small (often island) territories cannot possibly follow the hard-
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Habitat Conditions and Neighborhood Interactions Drive the Phylogenetic Structure of Seedling Assemblages in a Tropical Forest Mosaic

Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 6, November 2025.
In poor, well‐drained sandy soils, we observed the coexistence of more closely related species, suggesting that shared evolutionary history influences which seedlings survive under these restrictive conditions. Contrary to expectations, flooded areas harbored more distantly related species, likely because pathogens and other natural enemies limit the ...
Matheus Guthierris Bitencourt Rosa, Mariana Brando Balázs da Costa Faria, Luisa Truffi, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Adriana Maria Zanforlin Martini   +4 more
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