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Saving Water to Survive: Alternative Water Loss Strategies Could Explain Color Polymorphism Maintenance in a Lacertid Lizard

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We demonstrate that red male Podarcis muralis exhibit higher evaporative water loss compared to other morphs, indicating a physiological strategy that prioritizes hydroregulation over fine thermoregulation. This suggests red morphs are adapted to cooler, wetter niches, while white and yellow morphs possess superior water conservation mechanisms to ...
Roberto Sacchi, Stefano Scali, Thomas Dadda, Federico Storniolo, Marco A. L. Zuffi, Andrea Melotto, Stéphanie Sherpa, Federica Frongia, Danny Tassi, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Marco Mangiacotti   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the efficacy of tagging adhesives for insect tracking

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Two‐part epoxy resin delivered the strongest RFID tag adhesion on carabid beetles, exceeding polyvinyl acetate, cosmetic latex and cyanoacrylate adhesives. Adhesive performance was consistent across Harpalus, Leistus and Poecilus; species effects were non‐significant, supporting a broadly applicable protocol for carabid RFID tagging studies.
Leona C. R. Breen, Joe M. Roberts, Tom W. Pope   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Status of ash (Fraxinus spp.) in mixed hardwood post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer invasion

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
The persistence and health of ash populations were characterized in post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer (EAB) invasion in North America. Regenerating ash remained abundant, but densities of understory ash were higher in wetlands (hydric), while ash remained at the seedling stage in riparian (mesic) and upland (xeric ...
Aaron Tayal, Kayla I. Perry
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive framework for assessing and optimizing existing research networks

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation, monitoring, and research networks, or collections of ecological research sites unified under a common mission of data collection or a research mission, are essential infrastructure for understanding large landscapes. However, most networks developed opportunistically over decades rather than through systematic design, creating ...
Alyson East, Jitendra Kumar, William Hargrove   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating traditional practices, livelihoods, and conservation with Indigenous‐led furbearer camera trapping

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary conservation goals have a greater chance of success when practitioners collaborate with Indigenous communities. The importance of such collaborations has spurred calls by Western and Indigenous researchers to engage in equitable coproduction of ecological research that integrates multiple ways of knowing.
Kathleen A. Carroll, Fabian Grey, Nicholas Anderson, Nelson Anderson, Jason T. Fisher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greater sage‐grouse dynamics are influenced by winter temperature rather than indices of grazing, drought, and breeding season weather in a northern Great Plains population

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We evaluated the impacts of grazing, climatic variability, and vegetation productivity on the population dynamics of a northern Great Plains greater sage‐grouse population. We found winter temperature influenced annual population growth rates, but did not detect influences of drought, breeding season weather, vegetation productivity or short‐term ...
David Messmer, Kaitlyn Reintsma, Lorelle Berkeley, Jennifer Helm, Mark Szczypinski, Victoria Dreitz, Justin Gude   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What controls forest litter decomposition? A coordinated distributed teabag experiment across ten mountains

Ecography, EarlyView.
Litter decomposition in mountainous forest ecosystems is an essential process that affects carbon and nutrient cycling. However, the contribution of litter decomposition to terrestrial ecosystems is difficult to estimate accurately because of the limited comparability of different studies and limited data on local microclimatic and non‐climatic factors.
Shiyu Ma, Shengbin Chen, Yi Ding, Zhongsheng He, Gang Hu, Jie Liu, Ya‐huang Luo, Kun Song, Yongchuan Yang, Xiaolei Huang, Meixiang Gao, Lan Liu, Bo Chen, Xianjin He, Xiaorong Lu, Bingwei Lv, Liang‐Liang Ma, Yani Meng, Zhongping Tian, Hong‐wei Zhang, Xijin Zhang, Yansong Zhang, Zhaochen Zhang, Shaopeng Li, Jian Zhang   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
wiley   +1 more source

Not only reseeder or resprouter plants: Trait syndromes and post‐fire responses of three iconic Mediterranean woody species

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Post‐fire plant functional strategies of Mediterranean woody species can be less fixed than often thought when intraspecific variability of fire‐related traits is considered. Abstract Fire can profoundly affect ecosystem dynamics, species distribution and plant traits, especially in open biomes.
G. Ottaviani, H. Beckett, J. M. Costa‐Saura, E. Agrillo, G. Bonari, C. Calfapietra, E. D'Andrea, P. Fiorucci, M. Lo Cascio, M. Magnani, S. Portarena, C. Sirca, M. Baudena, M. Millan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scrutinizing Dark-Matter Scenarios with B → (K,$K^{\ast }$)$\overline{\mathit{\nu }}$ν Decays

Universe
Conceivable explanations of Belle-II measurements of a (surprising) excess of missing energy decays of the B meson to the K meson not covered by standard model neutrino–antineutrino pairs might be offered by additional contributions of dark matter ...
Alexander Berezhnoy, Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source