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Consumer diversity drives stronger predation in tropical marine communities

Ecography, EarlyView.
Biotic interactions are predicted to be stronger in the tropics compared to higher latitudes, contributing to observed patterns of global biodiversity. While increased consumer diversity and more complex food webs are expected in tropical communities, the trophic dynamics underlying strong regional effects of predation are not well understood.
Michele F. Repetto, Gregory M. Ruiz, Mark E. Torchin, Mariana Bonfim, Amy L. Freestone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

Ecography, EarlyView.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng, Nicoletta Riccardi, Pin Nie, Maria Urbańska, Timo J. Marjomäki, Wojciech Andrzejewski, Małgorzata Ożgo, Keiko Nakamura, Jouni Taskinen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

亲代抚育导致具有隐蔽巢的雀形目鸟类巢捕食率升高

Wildlife Letters
Nest predation critically influences avian reproduction, with concealed nests typically assumed to be safer from nest predators. However, the expected positive relationship between nest concealment and survival has not been consistently observed across ...
Yifei Wang, Yunbiao Hu, Yingqiang Lou, Kai Song, Yun Fang, Yuehua Sun   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing the power of machine and deep learning for transferring joint species distribution models considering the structure of biotic interactions

Ecography, EarlyView.
The transferability of single or joint species distribution models ((j)SDMs) depends on their ability to predict beyond the observed environmental range and to remain consistent despite shifts in biotic interactions. Transfer accuracy may be improved by recent advances in the application of deep learning that provide greater flexibility and potentially
Marco Basile, Maximilian Pichler, Francesco Valerio, Lorenzo Balducci, Francesco Chianucci, Sérgio Godinho, Francesco Rota, Frédéric Archaux, Christophe Bouget, Gediminas Brazaitis, Thomas Campagnaro, Ettore D'Andrea, Luc De Keersmaeker, Wouter Dekoninck, Pallieter De Smedt, Zoltán Elek, Itziar García‐ Mijangos, Frédéric Gosselin, Marion Gosselin, Andrin Gross, Elena Haeler, Sebastian Kepfer‐ Rojas, Nathalie Korboulewsky, Daniel Kozák, Thibault Lachat, Carlos Miguel Landivar Albis, Anja Leyman, Xiang Liu, Anders Mårell, Radim Matula, Martin Mikoláš, Péter Ódor, Yoan Paillet, Kastytis Šimkevičius, Tommaso Sitzia, Silvia Stofer, Nicolas Strebel, Miroslav Svoboda, Flóra Tinya, Mariana Ujházyová, Kris Vandekerkhove, Kris Verheyen, Michael Wohlwend, Fotios Xystrakis, Sabina Burrascano   +44 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predation of eggs and incubating females in willow ptarmigan Lagopus l. lagopus

Fauna Norvegica
Nest predation is a major cause of reproductive loss in many ground-nesting birds. During 15 consecutive years the predation of nests and females throughout the incubation season were recorded in a willow ptarmigan Lagopus l.
Eli Munkebye, Hans Chr. Pedersen, Johan B. Steen, Henrik Brøseth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, threaten water quality globally. In the European Union (EU), until the adoption of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive in 2024, a regulatory gap had left the member states and the municipalities in them without binding removal standards ...
Simon Bulian, Jale Tosun, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Theresa Baur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving the Finite Sample Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using Double/Debiased Machine Learning With Propensity Score Calibration

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Double/debiased machine learning (DML) uses for estimating an average treatment effect (ATE) a double‐robust score function that relies on the prediction of nuisance functions, such as the propensity score, which is the probability of treatment assignment given covariates.
Daniele Ballinari, Nora Bearth
wiley   +1 more source

Fence and plough for Lapwings: Nest protection to improve nest and chick survival in Swiss farmland [PDF]

, 2013
Switzerland had up to 1000 Lapwing pairs breeding in the 1970s. Actually, there are some 200. The crash was mainly due to a poor productivity of 0.2 to 0.4 fledglings per pair and year.
Koller, Andreia, Schifferli, Luc, Spaar, Reto   +2 more
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Decision‐making and risk‐taking as predictors of health risk behaviors in the Millennium Cohort Study

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Facets of decision‐making and risk‐taking are implicated in adolescent health risk behaviors; however, whether they may lead to adolescent engagement in substance use, gambling, and self‐harm is unknown. Methods We used the Millennium Cohort Study to test whether a task‐based measure of decision‐making and risk‐taking predicts ...
Nicole G. Hammond, Georgia Condran, Elise E. DeVito, Marie‐Claude Geoffroy, Ian Colman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial and temporal variation in survival of female wild turkeys

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
We monitored 370 female wild turkeys across North Carolina's 3 ecoregions from 2020‐2022 to understand factors influencing their survival. Female survival varied by ecoregion and behavior state, with the incubation period having the lowest survival rates. None of the land cover variables affected survival.
David J. Moscicki, Christopher E. Moorman, Bret A. Collier, Christopher Kreh, Hannah Plumpton, Krishna Pacifici   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source