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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
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Climate‐driven intraspecific shifts in seed germination phenology: Consequences for native temperate woodland restoration and regeneration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As climate change alters seasonal patterns, temperate tree populations face a growing risk of phenological mismatch, where seed dispersal and germination no longer align with favourable conditions for survival. This study predicted how warming by the end of the century will affect seed dormancy breaking and germination in populations of three UK tree ...
Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Charlotte E. Seal, Kaitalin White, Elena Fouce Hernandez, Pablo Gómez Barreiro, Lee Oliver, Adam Donaldson, Ted Chapman, Efisio Mattana   +8 more
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Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 different drones across 11 countries. We labelled 4824 of these images, detailing the location, species, posture category, age category, and sex of 49 990 birds
Joshua P. Wilson, Tatsuya Amano, Thomas Bregnballe, Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro, Roxane Francis, Diego Gallego‐García, Jarrod C. Hodgson, Landon R. Jones, César R. Luque‐Fernández, Dominik Marchowski, John McEvoy, Ann E. McKellar, W. Chris Oosthuizen, Christian Pfeifer, Martin Renner, José Hernán Sarasola, Mateo Sokač, Roberto Valle, Adam Zbyryt, Richard A. Fuller   +19 more
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Accounting for animal movement during aerial imaging surveys

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Animals are not stationary during aerial surveys; if their movements are related to the movement of the aerial platform, then bias can be introduced into subsequent population count estimates. We sought to establish a framework for assessing the impacts of animal movement on count error and platform bias by comparing aggregated counts and relative ...
Rowan L. Converse, Christopher D. Lippitt, Steven E. Sesnie, David R. Stewart, Matthew J. Butler, Grant M. Harris   +5 more
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OTUD1 regulates cytokine expression and related pathways in goose fatty liver by promoting deubiquitination of its target proteins

Poultry Science
: Goose fatty liver (or foie gras) does not develop inflammation even in severe steatosis, which is different from human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and it is considered as a unique model for NAFLD study.
Xiaoyi Zhou, Ya Xing, Yuqing Wang, Mengqing Lv, Pei Zhang, Suyan Zhu, Jing Ge, Long Liu, Minmeng Zhao, Haizhou Gong, Daoqing Gong, Tuoyu Geng   +11 more
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Supporting Sustainability Through Pensions: The Sustainability Preferences of Pension Beneficiaries in the United Kingdom Defined Contributions Pension Schemes

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pension funds are the largest combined institutional investors in the world. The integration of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria into defined contribution (DC) pension investments by pension funds can result in sustainable pensions that are in line with pension beneficiary preferences and help achieve Sustainable Development
Doran Bairbre, Morse Stephen, Wehrmeyer Walter, Chenoweth Jonathan, Jonathan Williams   +4 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Genetic assessment and Identification of genes related to characterization of Guangdong local goose breeds based on modern and historical genomes

Communications Biology
Guangdong province has diverse local goose breeds with unique characteristics, but there is limited research on their genetic diversity, formation history and breed-specific genes.
Xing Zhang, Guiling Qiu, Dechun Huang, Zheng Ma, Jixiang Wei, Richeng Zhong, Ruirui Li, Miaoxing Huang, Junwei Gou, Fei Ye, Qiqiong Zhang, Qingyou Liu, Hai Xiang, Hua Li   +13 more
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Novel reference gene microseminoprotein‐beta based prostate cancer antigen 3 urine test: Enhanced diagnostic performance for prostate cancer and feasibility of non‐digital rectal examination urine sampling

UroPrecision, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) is limited by low specificity and invasiveness. This study aims to establish a highly accurate, noninvasive reverse transcription‐quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT‐qPCR)‐based urinary prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) assay system and explore the feasibility of using first‐morning urine
Jianglei Xu, Lu Yang, Cong Shi, Yiwei Jiang, Jing Chen, Xiaoxiao Sun, Xuejuan Gao, Xian Wang, Jianzhong Jiang, Xiuzhi Duan, Xuchu Wang, Yiyi Xie, Zhixian Yu, Zhihua Tao, Xiaobing Dou, Chunyu Jin   +15 more
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Progress in bone tissue engineering biomaterials: Development, challenges, and prospects

VIEW, EarlyView.
Scheme 1 Application of biomaterials in immunomodulation during bone tissue engineering. Abstract Bone defect repair remains a major clinical challenge in orthopedics. Over 2 million cases caused by trauma, tumors, and other factors occur annually, with large‐scale defects posing a particular bottleneck due to limited self‐healing capacity.
Yuanbin Zhang, Junlei Chai, Quanwei Ding, Luping Liu, Kejie Zhang, Jie Lin, Jianhua Zhang, Youju Huang   +7 more
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