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Foraging ecology drives viral community structure in New Zealand’s aquatic birds

Waller SJ, Wierenga JR, Heremia L, Darnley JA, de Vries I, Dubrulle J, Robinson Z, Miller AK, Niebuhr CN, Melville DS, Schuckard R, Battley PF, Wille M, Alai B, Cole R, Cooper J, Ellenberg U, Elliott G, Faulkner J, Fischer JH, Hay L, Houston D, Keys BC, Long J, Long R, Mattern T, McNutt L, Moore P, Neil O, Osborne J, Pagé A, Parker KA, Perry M, Philp B, Rexer-Huber K, Russell JC, Sagar R, Ruru TT, Thompson T, Thomson L, Tinnemans J, Uddstrom L, Waipoua TA, Walker K, Whitehead E, Wickes C, Young MJ, Winter D, McInnes K, Holmes EC, Geoghegan JL.   +50 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The disruption of seed dispersal networks: disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seed dispersal by frugivores is a central process linking plant reproduction, animal foraging, population persistence, and ecosystem resilience. Currently, the spatial template sustaining these interactions is rapidly reconfigured by habitat loss and fragmentation promoted by human activity.
Eliana Cazetta, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr
wiley   +1 more source

Population recovery of an endangered macaw enhances long‐distance seed dispersal via stomatochory

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seed dispersal by large, mobile vertebrates plays a key role in shaping plant spatial dynamics and community structure. However, how variation in animal population size influences the magnitude and spatial scale of seed dispersal remains poorly understood.
Giulyana A. Benedicto, Erica C. Pacífico, Mathias M. Pires   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greater future range expansions in alien than native ant species

Oikos, EarlyView.
There is growing concern that many species may not be able to track suitable conditions under climate change and suffer range contractions as a result. At the same time, alien species introduced to novel geographic ranges are often assumed to benefit from climate change.
Tongyi Liu, Sébastien Ollier, Cleo Bertelsmeier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water Level Regulation Regime Shifts Drive Divergent Foraging Habitat Use by Wintering Hooded Cranes (<i>Grus monacha</i>) in Shallow Gate-controlled Lakes of the Yangtze Floodplain. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Fang Y, Zhong Y, Zhou L, Liang M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Warming modifies trophic impacts of invading shrimp with impact varying among primary producers

Oikos, EarlyView.
Environmental change drivers, such as climate change and species invasions, can disrupt biological networks and weaken ecosystem stability. Acting together, these drivers may interact and alter the effects on the ecosystem. However, few studies have examined the interactive effects of climate change and species invasions, particularly in aquatic ...
Stefanie Coxe, Linnea Kivelä, Tawfiqur Rahman, Ulrika Candolin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stable Isotope Composition of Skin Layers Confirms Trophic Differentiation of Baird's and Sato's Beaked Whales (Berardius spp.) in the Western North Pacific. [PDF]

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
Filatova OA, Fedutin ID, Bobyr IG, Titova OV, Ragimov MO, Hoyt E, Tsurikov SM, Tiunov AV.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonstationarity in wildlife disease dynamics: insights from the prairie dog–plague system

Oikos, EarlyView.
Ecological relationships often vary in strength and direction across ecosystems, a pattern that has become increasingly evident as ecology expands to broader spatial and temporal scales. Although such nonstationarity – the changing effect of predictor variables across spatiotemporal contexts – is widely acknowledged in ecological research, it has ...
Gabriel M. Barrile, Joshua F. Layfield, David J. Augustine, Lauren M. Porensky, Courtney J. Duchardt, Imtiaz Rangwala, Ana D. Davidson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Variation in the Optimal Spatial Structure of Collective Information Gatherers. [PDF]

Bull Math Biol
Walker RS, Ramos-Fernandez G, Boyer D, Smith-Aguilar SE, O'Neill X, Silk MJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Experimental and field evidence indicate that islet‐nesting tundra birds experience reduced nest predation and benefit indirectly from high snow goose densities

Oikos, EarlyView.
Landscape features can shape the occurrence and strength of predator–prey interactions by influencing predation risk and prey distribution. In the High Arctic, some bird species select nesting sites with physical features that impede access for their main terrestrial predator, the Arctic fox.
Marylou Beaudoin, Andréanne Beardsell, Éliane Duchesne, Madeleine‐Zoé Corbeil‐Robitaille, Pierre Legagneux, Dominique Berteaux, Joël Bêty   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source