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Behaviour of Brown Bears Under Fluctuating Resource Availability

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
Using a 20‐year period of observations from different sources, this article examines the spatial and temporal patterns of beech masting in relation to brown bear movement and damage to livestock and human property. Standardised damages to beehive and livestock decreased during mast years, suggesting that bears met their trophic needs through natural ...
Clara Tattoni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Organization Is Associated With Relaxed Selection on Worker Genes in Highly Polygyne Ants

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Ants display a diversity of social structures reflected by differences in caste, nest, and colony organization. Previous research has shown that highly eusocial insects (Hymenoptera) exhibit genome‐wide signatures of relaxed selection due to their smaller effective population sizes.
Kailey Ferger, Neil D. Tsutsui
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape‐Wide Metabarcoding Shows Interactions Among the Gut Microbiome and Pollen Diversity in the Invasive Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
The study examines how environmental factors and dietary diversity influence the gut microbiome of the invasive European buff‐tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in Tasmania. We found that gut bacterial composition and diversity were significantly affected by annual precipitation, pasture percentage, temperature and interactions between pollen ...
Sabrina Haque   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nitrogen Isotopes Suggest Sex‐Based Diet Differences on the Breeding Grounds for a Sexually Monomorphic Migratory Passerine

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
Differential foraging by sex can have important implications for understanding the ecology of a species. Using stable isotope values from feathers, we found evidence that female Golden‐crowned Sparrows are eating at a higher trophic level than males during the breeding season molt, which may reflect a physiological need to replace lost nutrients from ...
Autumn R. Iverson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genome assembly of the winter ant, Prenolepis imparis. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Hered
Cash EI   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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