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Population structure and foraging ecology of juvenile black sea bass, tautog, and cunner in a southern New England estuary: Habitat and trophic niche overlap amid a species geographic range expansion. [PDF]

Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 2023
Taylor DL, Pearson C, Green-Gavrielidis L, Hobbs NV, Thornber C, Cicchetti G, Gerber-Williams A, McManus MC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions

Ecography, EarlyView.
Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey, Brian D. Gerber, Adam S. Hadley, Hankyu Kim, Madison Sutton, Nina C. Ferrari, Matthew G. Betts   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foraging Ecology Differentiates Life Stages and Mercury Exposure in Common Terns (Sterna hirundo). [PDF]

Integr Environ Assess Manag, 2021
Bracey AM, Etterson MA, Strand FC, Matteson SW, Niemi GJ, Cuthbert FJ, Hoffman JC.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global distribution of avian plumage coloration and patterning: the relative influence of climate, ecology, and sexual selection

Ecography, EarlyView.
Animal coloration exhibits substantial biogeographic variation, reflecting complex adaptations to both abiotic and biotic environments. Although the evolutionary mechanisms underlying avian plumage coloration have been widely studied, geographic variation in plumage patterning has received far less attention.
Yuqing Han, Ying Zeng, Tien Ming Lee, Long Wang, Chen Zeng, Pengfei Fan, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, Weini Huang, Yang Liu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population-specific sex and size variation in long-term foraging ecology of belugas and narwhals. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2021
Louis M, Skovrind M, Garde E, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Szpak P, Lorenzen ED.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Continental scale metagenomics reveals Microcystis‐induced synchrony among aquatic taxa is exacerbated by trophic cascades

Ecography, EarlyView.
Harmful Microcystis proliferation severely threatens aquatic ecosystems globally, but its impacts on food‐web stability remain poorly understood. Here, we analyzed 1309 metagenomic samples from freshwater ecosystems across China to investigate how Microcystis abundance affects synchrony among taxa in multi‐trophic food webs (from bacteriophages to ...
Lemian Liu, Siqi Zhu, Xiaoqin Huang, Wenjia Hu, Lixiang Luo, Xiusong Pan, Jianfeng Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic mechanisms foster declines in native fish community stability following the introduction of non‐native species

Ecography, EarlyView.
Non‐native species introductions profoundly alter freshwater communities, yet the mechanisms by which non‐native fishes affect native community stability remain unclear. Using a multi‐decadal dataset on fish community composition and abundance collected across France, we quantified native community stability and decomposed this metric into its main ...
Chengzong Tian, Mengzhen Xu, Congcong Wang, Wei Xin, Xiongdong Zhou, Jorge García‐Girón   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Ecologists often aim to reduce conceptual ambiguity by attempting to create rigid shared lexicons. These efforts imply that ambiguity is undesirable. In some contexts, however, conceptual flexibility comes with under‐discussed benefits. Here, we use the lens of pollinator gardening to explore how conceptual flexibility is built into participatory ...
Atticus W Murphy, Nicholas N Dorian, Emily Minor, Paul J CaraDonna, Sean R Griffin, Heather Holm, Amy M Iler, Gwen E Kirschke, J Scott MacIvor, Katherine R Urban‐Mead, Elsa Youngsteadt, Elizabeth E Crone   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal foraging strategies can be learned

New Journal of Physics
The foraging behavior of animals is a paradigm of target search in nature. Understanding which foraging strategies are optimal and how animals learn them are central challenges in modeling animal foraging.
Gorka Muñoz-Gil, Andrea López-Incera, Lukas J Fiderer, Hans J Briegel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential for conflict between urban coyotes and people experiencing unsheltered homelessness

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Across North America, both unsheltered homelessness and human–coyote (Canis latrans) conflict are increasing, but the relationship between these phenomena has not been thoroughly explored. We synthesize literature‐based evidence with anecdotal observations that occurred during a 15‐year study of coyotes in Edmonton, Canada, to describe three likely ...
Sage Raymond, Jeff Rose, Colleen Cassady St Clair   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source