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Quantification of field earthworm burrowing rates using repeated X-ray scanning of open soil cores

Geoderma
Earthworms contribute to soil functioning by burrowing through soil, but quantitative knowledge of their burrowing activities and how environmental factors influence it under field conditions is still limited.
Rebecca Naomi ter Borg, Mats Larsbo, Yvan Capowiez, Pascal Benard, Astrid Taylor, Daniel Iseskog, Thomas Keller   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Supplementary feeding for declining hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus populations is popular in Great Britain and has been suggested as an important factor in explaining higher densities in urban areas compared with rural ones. Occupancy modelling was used to test whether spatial variation in supplementary feeding, natural food, habitat, or predator ...
Eleanor S. Benjamin, Adam Bates, Robert Davis, Anthony Sévêque, Jonathan Wild, Ben Clutterbuck, Richard W. Yarnell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le lombricomposteur d'appartement, les déchets et la terre urbaine

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2015
Swiss authorities are becoming stricter and stricter about imposing the sorting out of domestic waste, the prepaid bin bags as well as the handling of organic leftovers whose organised recycling begins in a closed circuit with the use of worms (Eisenia ...
Jacqueline Milliet
doaj   +1 more source

Nocturnal neighbors: exploring residents' perceptions of urban wildlife related to animal traits identified by camera traps and literature

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wildlife in urban areas is often a source of conflict, yet relatively few efforts have been directed toward fostering coexistence in these human‐dominated landscapes. While previous research has focused on socio‐demographic factors influencing perceptions of wildlife, the role of specific animal traits in shaping acceptance remains underexplored.
Simon S. Moesch, Marufa Sultana, Geva Peerenboom, Ilse Storch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Molecular Insights into Developmental and Behavioral Toxicity Induced by Octocrylene and Ethylhexyl Salicylate Exposure on Zebrafish

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study compared the ecological toxicity of organic ultraviolet filters, octocrylene (OC) and ethylhexyl salicylate (EHS), on zebrafish embryos and larvae. EHS exhibited higher acute toxicity, causing increased mortality, hypoactive behavior at 50 mg/L, and disruptions in lipid homeostasis, while OC primarily affected hypoxia response and ...
Xiaoyang Lu, Li Sun, Jiao Chen, Jing Wang, Miao Guan, Shixia Xu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed affects coprophagous beetles' dung use

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed reduced the attractiveness of dung for a common dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis). Dietary supplementation with brown seaweed appeared to reduce the proportion of major males in the F1 generation.
Samantha Bennett, Rhea Lumactud, Ghader Manafiazar, Paul Manning   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Trends in Metabolomics by NMR Spectroscopy

Angewandte Chemie, Volume 138, Issue 24, 8 June 2026.
AI tools were applied to analyze more than 5 000 publications indexed in Scopus (2018–2025), identifying key trends and research directions in NMR‐based metabolomics. The artificial intelligence‐assisted workflow classified papers into six main fields of application, human health, food and nutrition, veterinary science, plants, environment, and ...
Giorgio Di Paco, Gaia Meoni, Veronica Ghini, Alessia Vignoli, Leonardo Tenori, Paola Turano, Claudio Luchinat   +6 more
wiley   +2 more sources

An overview of Mass Accumulation Rates in key Polish loess–palaeosol sequences derived from luminescence chronologies

Boreas, EarlyView.
Loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) represent one of the most important continental archives of late Quaternary environmental change in Europe. Establishing reliable chronologies is essential for reconstructing dust dynamics and for correlating regional loess stratigraphies. In this study, we present the first systematically derived mass accumulation rate (
Maksymilian Jędrzejowski, Zoran M. Perić, Zdzisław Jary, Slobodan Marković, Piotr Moska, Grzegorz Poręba, Agnieszka Szymak, Andrzej Wojtalak   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fractal trace of earthworms

Physical Review E, 2013
We investigate a process of random walks of a point particle on a two-dimensional square lattice of size n×n with periodic boundary conditions. A fraction p≤20% of the lattice is occupied by holes (p represents macroporosity). A site not occupied by a hole is occupied by an obstacle.
Krzysztof, Burdzy, Robert, Hołyst, Łukasz, Pruski   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources