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Zagros Restoration: Smart Choices for Oak Forests
Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 14, Page 10284-10307, 30 August 2026.ABSTRACT Widespread forest degradation across the northern Zagros region of Iran driven by both human activity and natural processes has created an urgent need for targeted afforestation and forest enrichment strategies. Hence, the aim of this study was identifying the most suitable native tree and shrub species for restoring degraded forest areas in ...
Farzad Yavari +6 more
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Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT Global climate change disproportionately threatens island endemics because their restricted ranges and limited dispersal opportunities constrain their ability to shift their distributions. Therefore, when developing conservation strategies for species, it is crucial to incorporate population genomics data with ecological information to ...
Zong‐Yu Shen +8 more
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The Impact of Climate Change and Human Habitation on Long‐Term Ecological Stability
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Direct human impacts and climate change jeopardise the stability of ecological systems. Recent trends are built atop a long history of vegetation change from the Pleistocene deglaciation and Holocene human population expansion. We aimed to model a long‐term measure of ecological stability over the last 20,000 years, a period that includes ...
Timothy L. Staples +2 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 15, August 2026.ABSTRACT In forest tree populations, the timing of budbreak (TBB) depends on several factors, both environmental and genetic. The genomic architecture underlying this trait is still not fully characterized. So far, common garden experiments have highlighted a few genomic regions with little heritability, while the whole spectrum of TBB variation ...
Lauren Clément +23 more
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Plant Biology, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 1315-1329, August 2026.Isoprene emission in oaks originated from convergent adaptive evolution of terpene synthases, involving a substrate shift from monoterpene to isoprene production within a Fagaceae‐specific TPS lineage. Abstract Plants emit a wide range of volatile organic compounds, among which isoprene is the most abundant and atmospherically influential. Although oak
Y. Ikezaki +11 more
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Molecular Genetic Characterization of the Diet of Limestone and Rainforest Langurs
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.Using DNA metabarcoding of 419 fecal samples collected over 1 year, we characterized and compared the diets of four Trachypithecus species from rainforest and limestone habitats in Vietnam. Langurs consumed a remarkably high diversity of plants (122–129 genera across 59–73 families), with clear interspecific differences in dietary composition and ...
N. Van Truong +12 more
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Nature‐Positive Materials Engineering: Carbon Electrodes from Satoyama Biomass
The Chemical Record, Volume 26, Issue 7, July 2026.Nature‐positive materials engineering can link satoyama forest stewardship with the design of carbon electrodes for batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalysis. By turning underused firewood and charcoal resources into functional carbons, this approach reduces mining footprints while supporting biodiversity, landscape resilience, and regional ...
Yuta Nakayasu
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Entomological Research, Volume 56, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Gall mites (superfamily Eriophyoidea) are highly specialized phytophagous arthropods with extreme host plant specificity and marked morphological diversity. Despite extensive taxonomic and molecular research, phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily remain unresolved, largely due to persistent polyphyly among several families.
Jae Wook Jung, Ui Wook Hwang
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 7, Page 2123-2134, July 2026.Abstract Elliptic Fourier analysis (EFA) is often employed in geometric morphometrics (GM), but the normalization of elliptic Fourier descriptor (EFD) has persistently posed challenges for obtaining unique and comparable results, especially in the application of outline‐based GM methods, which limits the implementation in automated analysis of numerous,
Hui Wu +6 more
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Latitudinal Gradients in Position and Climatology of Upper Tree Limits Across Europe
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Aim The upper tree limit (UTL) marks the upper boundary of the realized niche of trees. It is commonly located below the treeline, which represents the cold boundary of the fundamental niche of trees. We hypothesized that the elevational offset between the UTL and the treeline is partly systematic and can be predicted using topographic and ...
Václav Treml +6 more
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