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Climate‐driven resource availability drives medium‐ and broad‐scale temporal changes in owl–prey interactions over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem

Ecography, EarlyView.
Predator–prey interactions are vital to ecosystem functioning but may be disrupted by climate change. We investigated a food‐web network involving three owl species over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem at Bosque Fray Jorge National Park, Chile.
Jazmin M. Quiroz‐Calizaya, Adriana Lozada, Douglas A. Kelt, Alejandra J. Troncoso, Peter L. Meserve, M. Andrea Previtali, W. Bryan Milstead, Julio R. Gutiérrez, Craig Weideman, Nicolas Gouin, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Karin Maldonado, Angéline Bertin   +12 more
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Global distribution of avian plumage coloration and patterning: the relative influence of climate, ecology, and sexual selection

Ecography, EarlyView.
Animal coloration exhibits substantial biogeographic variation, reflecting complex adaptations to both abiotic and biotic environments. Although the evolutionary mechanisms underlying avian plumage coloration have been widely studied, geographic variation in plumage patterning has received far less attention.
Yuqing Han, Ying Zeng, Tien Ming Lee, Long Wang, Chen Zeng, Pengfei Fan, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, Weini Huang, Yang Liu   +8 more
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Taxon‐dependent multisite species turnover in fragmented habitats: comparing zeta diversity across birds, butterflies, and cursorial hunting spiders

Ecography, EarlyView.
Habitat fragmentation alters species diversity and reshapes community composition. However, conventional pairwise approaches to compositional variation (i.e. beta diversity metrics) do not explicitly characterize how species sharing or turnover change with the number of habitat patches.
Shirui Yu, Yufeng Zhou, Qiyu Jiang, Jie Xie, Yan Wang, Qiwen Du, Shang Sheng, Yaqian Cui, Kai Zhang, Zhixin Wen, Hao Yu, Yu Xu   +11 more
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Butterfly abundances but not patch occupancy buffered by vegetation heterogeneity during climatic extremes

Ecography, EarlyView.
As extreme climatic events are becoming more frequent, we need to understand what mechanisms could buffer populations to ensure their persistence. Fragmented populations may be especially vulnerable, as exemplified by species with metapopulation dynamics whose persistence is determined by a precarious balance between frequent local extinctions and ...
Natalie E. van Dis, Mirkka M. Jones, Pekka Niittynen, Miska Luoto, Jukka Sirén, Marjo Saastamoinen   +5 more
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Thermal niche breadth shapes regional elevational range sizes of tropical‐like mountain stream insects: evidence for Janzen's tropical mountain passes hypothesis

Ecography, EarlyView.
The core of Janzen's tropical mountain passes hypothesis is that relatively stable annual temperature variation limits species' thermal tolerances breadth, which, in combination with steep elevational temperature gradients, constrains the elevational distributions of these species. In addition to thermal niche breadth, elevational ranges were shaped by
Tingting Zhou, Ramiro Martín‐ Devasa, Xiaodan Chen, Haojie Wang, Yuxin Tan, Zhifa Liu, Bo‐Ping Han, Lu Wang, Zhenyuan Liu, Janne Soininen   +9 more
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An effective BiLSTM-CNN model for predicting large-scale temporal-spatial dynamics of normalized difference vegetation index. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Soula A, Zayas AD, Ksantini R, Gomez PM.
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Normalized difference vegetation index as the dominant predicting factor of groundwater recharge in phreatic aquifers: case studies across Iran. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Parizi E, Hosseini SM, Ataie-Ashtiani B, Simmons CT.   +3 more
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Wolves and humans both shape patterns of deer browsing in a temperate forest ecosystem of Central Europe

Ecography, EarlyView.
Predator–prey interactions can trigger behavioural responses in ungulates, influencing their space‐use and foraging behaviour and, in turn, indirectly affecting browsing pressure. Changes in browsing pressure can affect plant recruitment and species composition, shaping forest regeneration through predator‐mediated trophic cascades.
Walter Di Nicola, Henrich Maik, Hannah Pepe, Marc Velling, Ye Htet Lwin, Suzanne Theresia van van Beeck Calkoen, Vorel Ales, Chris Smit, Dries Kuijper, Marco Heurich   +9 more
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Joint effects of residential greenness and genetic susceptibility on type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study using satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. [PDF]

Life Metab
Yu Y, Fan J, Cao Q, Li D, Lin H, Ye Z, Zheng R, Xu Y, Xu M, Li M, Zhou L, Wang S, Wang T, Zhao Z, Zheng J, Ning G, Wang W, Hu R, Bi Y, Lu J.   +19 more
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Hippocampal network activity changes during early epileptogenesis predict subsequent epilepsy

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Despite decades of research, the circuit mechanisms that underlie focal epileptogenesis remain incompletely understood. In this study, we aimed to characterize the changes in hippocampal network activity induced by an epileptogenic insult.
Michael Strüber, Tristan Manfred Stöber, Vanessa Schütz, Lara Costard, Valentin Neubert, Sebastian Bauer, Parsa Gharavi, Julika Pitsch, Nico Melzer, Adam Strzelczyk, Jochen Triesch, Kai Siebenbrodt, Felix Rosenow, Ricardo Kienitz   +13 more
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