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How dispersal and habitat quality shape aquatic–terrestrial metacommunities

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Current changes in land use, predominantly from agriculture and urbanization, affect both habitat quality and species dispersal ability. Understanding how these factors influence species distributions in aquatic–terrestrial metacommunities is critical for predicting community dynamics.
Tobias Elsässer, Shawn J. Leroux, Ralf B. Schäfer, Jürg W. Spaak   +3 more
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Odonate diversity of Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary - a Ramsar site in Gujarat, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
Odonate diversity of Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, a Ramsar site in Gujarat, was studied between January 2015 and July 2017.  A total of 46 species belonging to two suborders, six families, and 27 genera were recorded, which included 14 species of Zygoptera
Darshana M. Rathod, B. M. Parasharya
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Watershed land cover predicts the abundance of macroplastic and other anthropogenic litter in streams

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 6, June 2026.
Macroplastic and other types of macroscopic anthropogenic litter (AL; trash, particles > 5 mm) are pervasive across ecosystems, persistent in the environment, increasing in abundance, and can degrade into microplastics (particles < 5 mm). Rivers retain and transform AL prior to export downstream, but improved predictions of AL distribution and movement
Bailey A. Schwenk, Elizabeth M. Kazmierczak, Fritz Petersen, Jacob Haney, Xia Zhu, Shan Zuidema, Emily K. Lever, Richard B. Lammers, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Chelsea M. Rochman, Timothy J. Hoellein   +10 more
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Allochthonous chemical cues drive predation by a top carnivore

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1698-1708, June 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Identifying the mechanisms by which mobile predators detect and select prey remains a central challenge in sensory biology and functional ecology. This study provides the first direct evidence that chemical cues associated with allochthonous organic matter (e.g.
Ryan P. Ferrer, Richard K. Zimmer
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Rewilding beyond the wilderness: Beavers can restore stream biodiversity from urban to agricultural to natural landscapes

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 6, June 2026.
Our findings show that beaver‐engineering significantly enhances local biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, even at sites with high land‐use intensity. Hence, beavers can effectively restore stream biodiversity across a range of urban to agricultural to natural ecosystems.
Valentin Moser, Silvan Minnig, Leonardo Capitani, Steffen Boch, Nina Cramer, Oriana Edman, Patrick Hofmann, Alex Hürbin, Martin K. Obrist, Christopher Robinson, Dominic Tinner, Luca Zehnder, Christof Angst, Francesco Pomati, Anita C. Risch   +14 more
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A preliminary investigation on wing morphology, flight patterns, and flight heights of selected odonates

Journal of Threatened Taxa
Wing shape and its individual structural components are a major contributor to the flight performance of odonates. Two essential components of wing structure are the nodus and the pterostigma.
Ananditha Pascal, Chelmala Srinivasulu
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The Recovery of Predators Modulates Prey Community Organization Through Concomitant Changes in Aquatic Trophic Networks

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim Restoring predator populations can generate cascading effects on their prey by reshaping ecosystem food webs, yet its consequences for prey community organization and multi‐trophic dynamics remain poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate how native predator recovery shapes prey biodiversity, assembly processes, and trophic dependencies, and
Yihao Ge, Yuzhou Zhang, Jorge García‐Girón, Chen Zhang, Zhiwen Gan, Zhengfei Li, Jani Heino, Zhicai Xie, Yunzhi Yan   +8 more
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Mecistogaster linearis (Fabricius) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae): First Record from Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

EntomoBrasilis, 2016
Commonly called “helicopter damselflies”, Mecistogaster species (Coenagrionidae) are recognized by their large body size in comparison with other Odonata species, ability to flap both anterior and posterior wings in opposite directions, and preference ...
Marciel Elio Rodrigues, Ricardo Koroiva, Eric Ragalzi-da-Silva, Emanuelle Batista de Moura   +3 more
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Flooding affects fluctuating asymmetry but not growth of a riparian orbweaving spider

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 547-557, June 2026.
In a mesocosm experiment we assessed the impact of flood on aquatic insect emergence and on spider development using geometric morphometric analysis of fluctuating asymmetry. We observed 45% higher emergence in flooded mesocosm throughout the season. Spiders did not grow bigger but exhibited ~15% lower fluctuating asymmetry than in controls.
Stephane Mutel, Martin H. Entling, Ken M. Mauser, Federica Spani, Celia Thomas, Collins Ogbeide, Mirco Bundschuh, Franziska Fiolka, Franziska Middendorf, Ralf Schulz, Alessandro Manfrin   +10 more
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A molecular phylogeny of Zygopterans (Insecta, Odonata) of Kerala, India [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
Molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of the suborder Zygoptera based on sequences of the nuclear ribosomal gene 18S and mitochondrial gene COI was carried out using species collected from India.
C. Nitha Bose, Anu Boswell, Francy K. Kakkassery   +2 more
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