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Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
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Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Data Reveal the Key Metabolic Pathways Affecting Streltzoviella insularis (Staudinger) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) Larvae During Overwintering

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
Streltzoviella insularis (Staudinger) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) is a woodboring insect feeding on Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Sophora japonica, and Ginkgo biloba, as well as many other species used for urban greening and plain afforestation in northern China ...
Jiahe Pei, Yabei Xu, Shixiang Zong, Lili Ren   +3 more
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Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Overwintering of Tomato Mosaic [PDF]

Botanical Gazette, 1922
1. Tomato mosaic may be carried over winter in hothouse tomato crops, but this does not account for the great bulk of mosaic infection in the canning crop. 2. In a total of 22,944 tomato plants grown from seed from mosaic plants, no evidence of seed transmission of the disease was obtained. 3. The mosaic disease has been found occurring in the field on
Gardner, Max William, Kendrick, James B. (James Blair)   +1 more
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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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Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Ecologists often aim to reduce conceptual ambiguity by attempting to create rigid shared lexicons. These efforts imply that ambiguity is undesirable. In some contexts, however, conceptual flexibility comes with under‐discussed benefits. Here, we use the lens of pollinator gardening to explore how conceptual flexibility is built into participatory ...
Atticus W Murphy, Nicholas N Dorian, Emily Minor, Paul J CaraDonna, Sean R Griffin, Heather Holm, Amy M Iler, Gwen E Kirschke, J Scott MacIvor, Katherine R Urban‐Mead, Elsa Youngsteadt, Elizabeth E Crone   +11 more
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Overwintering Habits of the Social Wasp, Parapolybia crocea Saito-Morooka, Nguyen & Kojima, 2015 (Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini)

Sociobiology
Overwintering behavior and relatedness between females within an overwintering cluster of social wasps, Parapolybia crocea, were examined. The overwintering cluster consisted of both related and unrelated females, including gynes and workers.
Fuki Morooka
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Optimization of moisture content and application rate of hay preservative during high‐moisture alfalfa hay baling in northwestern China

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Leaf shatter during low‐moisture baling and mold proliferation under high‐moisture conditions pose major challenges in alfalfa hay production. A proprietary propionic acid‐based hay preservative product, LZP, effectively inhibits microbial reproduction in high‐moisture alfalfa bales; however, its optimal moisture thresholds and ...
Zulin Yuan, Fuhou Li, Jing Li, Dongmei Xu, Samaila Usman, Xusheng Guo, Yingwen Yu   +6 more
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Identification of cyanobacteria overwintering cells and environmental conditions causing growth: Application for preventative management

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) formed by freshwater cyanobacteria pose risks to human and ecological health globally. Some cyanobacteria form overwintering cells that remain in the sediment during non‐ideal growth conditions and provide an inoculum for HABs
Alyssa J. Calomeni‐Eck, Andrew D. McQueen, Ciera M. Kinley‐Baird, Tony Clyde Jr.   +3 more
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