Dog attacks on wild desert tortoises: A risk model
The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 4, May 2026.Domestic dogs attack and severely injure wild desert tortoises at the urban and ex‐urban interface with deserts. Severe trauma to tortoises increased 4 times to shell and limbs and 16.5 times to the gular horn over the decades between the 1970s and 2000s. Tortoises were at exponential risk of severe trauma when living within 12 km of settlements, towns,
Andrea S. Carlson +2 more
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A framework linking silicon fertilisation, plant silicification and soil carbon cycling
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 861-870, May 2026.Soil organic carbon (SOC) is vital for soil health, food security, and climate change mitigation. We reviewed how silicon (Si) fertilisers, commonly used to improve plant health, may also influence SOC dynamics. We developed a framework linking Si and SOC and discussed the possibility of Si‐mediated plant changes contributing to SOC sequestration.
Xuqing Li +2 more
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Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1491-1503, May 2026.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Despite the importance of flowers to plant fitness, it remains unclear whether flowers display ecophysiological strategies and how floral traits are associated with leaf economic traits.
Dario C. Paiva, Adam B. Roddy
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An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles
Integrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 709-719, May 2026.We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
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Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, Volume 55, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT The southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) is a species vulnerable to environmental disturbances, largely due to increasing overlap between its natural habitat and anthropogenically modified landscapes. Detailed anatomical knowledge of the eye and orbital structures, supported by imaging and histological analyses, is essential to improve ...
Estela Larissa Silva dos Santos +10 more
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Histopathological effects of the fruit extract of Citrullus colocynthis on the integument of the female tick Hyalomma dromedarii. [PDF]
Sci RepMontasser AA, Mohamed SNA, Ali AAB.
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Assessment of Chlorella vulgaris as a biological control agent against tortoise tick Hyalomma aegyptium (Acari: Ixodidae) in Egypt. [PDF]
Sci RepOkely M, Ali AAB.
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Totipotency and high plasticity in an embryo with an invariant, fate-specifying cleavage program. [PDF]
Curr BiolRock AQ, Srivastava M.
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Hesperidin methyl chalcone alleviates imiquimod-induced psoriasis in mice: effects alone and in combination with methotrexate. [PDF]
Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch PharmacolAbdelrahman HW +3 more
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Induction of high numbers of T<sub>reg</sub> cells post treatment with anti-IL-2/IL-2 complex associates with alleviation of experimental psoriasis-like skin inflammation. [PDF]
BMC ImmunolSalman S +4 more
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