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On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 5, Page 837-850, May 2026.
What mechanisms shape ecological networks? In Paraná River piscivores, species traits and abundance scaling promote modular structures. Our findings reveal how communities self‐organize and highlight the conditions needed to sustain them. Abstract Modularity and nestedness have been observed recurrently across different ecological networks, including ...
Dalmiro Borzone Mas, Pablo A. Scarabotti, Pablo A. Vaschetto, Patricio Alvarenga, Martin Vazquez, Matías Arim   +5 more
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Environmental correlates of plant and invertebrate species richness in ponds [PDF]

, 2011
Ponds (lentic water bodies
Hassall, C, Hollinshead, J, Hull, A
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The Dairy Ruminant Gut Microbiome: Profile, Responsiveness to Seasonality and Impact on Milk Quality

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 28, Issue 5, May 2026.
The dairy ruminant gut microbiome that is shaped by host and diet is affected by seasonality and rearing. These factors can impact dairy productivity and milk quality potentially through the gut microbiota. ABSTRACT The gut microbiome (GM) and particularly the rumen microbiome (RM) affect the ruminant health and they are associated with milk quality ...
Alexandra Ntemiri, Adamantini Kyriacou, Myrsini Kakagianni   +2 more
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Increased Habitat Connectivity Homogenizes Freshwater Communities: Historical and Landscape Perspectives [PDF]

, 2017
Increases in habitat connectivity can have consequences for taxonomic, functional, and genetic diversity of communities. Previously isolated aquatic habitats were connected with canals and pipelines in the largest water development project in the US ...
Anderson M.J., APHA, Arar E.J., Edmondson W.T., Hammer U.T., Jones J.R., Patalas K., R Development Core Team, Strecker A.L.   +8 more
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops.
Benoît Pichon, Sonia Kéfi, Nicolas Loeuille, Ismaël Lajaaiti, Isabelle Gounand   +4 more
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Taking tadpole biology into the 21st century: a consensus paper from the First Tadpoles International Workshop [PDF]

, 2015
Although tadpoles are common, frequently encountered vertebrates, their natural history is poorly known. Despite the fact that Brazil harbors the highest anuran diversity in the world, with almost a thousand known species (Segalla et  al., 2014), the ...
dos Anjos, Luciano A., Eterovick, Paula C., Garey, Michel V., Haddad, Celio F. B., Juncá, Flora A., Menin, Marcelo, Nomura, Fausto, Rossa Feres, Denise de C., Schiesari, Luis C., Venesky, Matthew, Vera Candioti, María Florencia, Wasserug, Richard   +11 more
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Recurrent patterns of phylogenetic habitat filtering in woody plant communities across phytogeographically distinct grassland-forest ecotones [PDF]

, 2015
The phylogenetic relationship among species may influence the mechanisms controlling local community assembly in ecological time. We analyzed the degree of recurrence of phylogenetic structure patterns in woody plant communities distributed along ...
Debastiani, V. J., Duarte, L. D. S., Muller, S. C., Oliveira, J. M., Rocha, F. S., Sestren-Bastos, M. C.   +5 more
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Stochastic Forces in Microbial Community Assembly: Founding Community Size Governs Divergent Ecological Trajectories

Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 5, May 2026.
The processes driving community assembly are broadly categorised into deterministic and stochastic ones. With a multi‐replicated experimental design, we quantified the extent to which stochasticity at initial stages of community assembly could drive divergence into alternative ecological trajectories.
Ibuki Hayashi, Martina Sánchez‐Pinillos, Hirokazu Toju   +2 more
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Zombies: a simple discrete model of the apocalypse [PDF]

, 2018
A simple discrete-time two-dimensional dynamical system is constructed and analyzed numerically, with modelling motivations drawn from the zombie virus of popular horror fiction, and with suggestions for further exercises or extensions suitable for an ...
Brooks M, Elaydi S, Froyland J, Gavin M. Abernethy, Khoshsiar Ghaziani R, Kuznetsov YA, Munz P, Smith R, Sprott JC   +8 more
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Bee community and trait‐based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 530-547, May 2026.
Fire drives a short‐term increase in bee abundance and diversity, despite its strong negative impact on floral resources. Acting as an environmental filter, fire shapes bee communities as increased post‐fire fine‐scale heterogeneity favors bees with specific functional traits such as ground‐nesting and generalist species.
Georgios Nakas, Aphrodite Kantsa, Lazaros Neokosmidis, Jelle Devalez, Thomas Tscheulin, Nikos Koutsias, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Theodora Petanidou   +8 more
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