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Addressing biases in sliding window analysis gives new insight into the response of parturition date to weather in a wild mammal

Oikos, EarlyView.
Animal breeding phenology in temperate and high latitude regions is often predicted by weather variables, such as temperature. Much work on this topic has focused on taxonomic groups that employ adaptive plastic responses to annual variation in an environmental cue, with analytical approaches developed to determine when weather has an effect and the ...
Kirsty H. Macphie, Sean Morris, Alison Morris, Fiona E. Guinness, Timothy H. Clutton‐Brock, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Josephine M. Pemberton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interplay between snow phenology and vegetation phenology in Alaska under climate change

Advances in Climate Change Research
Snow cover is one of the most important factors controlling Arctic ecosystems' microclimate and plant growth conditions in Arctic ecosystems. Climate change has impacted the timing and spatial variability of both snow cover, and worldwide vegetation ...
Ya-Qiong Mu, Tao Che, Li-Yun Dai, Shi-Wei Liu, Gui-Gang Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When species are lost but functions persist: a trait‐based perspective on Wadden Sea bird diversity dynamics

Oikos, EarlyView.
Biodiversity faces several global threats and communities are likely to show complex delayed responses. Accurately measuring these lags is critical to properly understand diversity dynamics. Here, we investigated these delays with minimal data availability and found critical mismatches between the temporal dynamics of taxonomic and functional diversity
Lucie Kuczynski, Ana Maria Bastidas‐Urrutia, Jan Bernhard Kalusche, Christian Hof, Gregor Scheiffarth, Alexey Ryabov, Helmut Hillebrand   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variations in planktonic food web structure affect stability by shifting the distribution of energy fluxes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seasonality in temperate ecosystems shapes species phenology, influencing interactions and food web structure. Variations in species richness and biomass affect trophic interaction strength, a crucial factor for community stability, which can be assessed through energy fluxes – an essential indicator of ecosystem function.
Simon Bazin, Isabelle Domaizon, Cécilia Barouillet, Victor Frossard, Arnaud Sentis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes

Limnology and Oceanography Letters
The phenology of critical biological events in aquatic ecosystems is rapidly shifting due to climate change. Growing variability in phenological cues can increase the likelihood of trophic mismatches (i.e., mismatches in the timing of peak prey and ...
Martha E. Barta, Greg G. Sass, Jeffrey R. Reed, Thomas A. Cichosz, Aaron D. Shultz, Mark Luehring, Zachary S. Feiner   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Population structure, phenology, and fruit yield of Syzygium guineense (Willd.) DC in the dry Afromontane forest of Guangua district, Northwestern Ethiopia [PDF]

Melkamu Abere, Abera Getahun, Ambachew Getnet, Dereje Gasheye, Belayneh Azene, Moyibon Jifar, Zewdu Yilma, Daniel Gebeyeh, Habtamu Achenef Tesema   +8 more
openalex   +1 more source

Predator density outweighs experimental warming effects on short‐term carbon and nitrogen loss from arctic shrub litter

Oikos, EarlyView.
Rapid climate change in the Arctic is altering biological communities and their subsequent effects on ecosystem functioning. For example, warming‐induced shrub expansion accelerates biogeochemical cycles in part by increasing high‐quality litter inputs.
Nevo Sagi, Anna M. Cress, Jennie R. McLaren, Amanda M. Koltz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconsidering climatic predictors for high‐resolution niche models of alpine plants

Oikos, EarlyView.
The increasingly acknowledged and consequently also better understood microclimatic variability in terrestrial ecosystems has motivated a call for finer spatial resolution in species distribution modelling, especially in the case of sedentary low‐stature organisms such as plants.
Kryštof Chytrý, Norbert Helm, Johannes Hausharter, Karl Hülber, Dietmar Moser, Johannes Wessely, Pieter De Frenne, Andreas Kollert, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Andreas Mayr, Harald Pauli, Martin Rutzinger, Patrick Saccone, Manuela Winkler, Stefan Dullinger   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different from the start: key dimensions of seedling traits of central European temperate grassland species

Oikos, EarlyView.
Plant traits and their tradeoffs are major determinants of plant functions. Although trait‐based frameworks should apply to plant functioning at any life stage, they have been primarily established for adult plants. Therefore, we lack comprehensive trait‐based studies of seedlings across multiple species to prove which key dimensions of trait variation
Sarah Martin, Christiane Roscher
wiley   +1 more source

Colours of urban selection: carotenoid‐based signals reveal divergent urban/rural evolutionary trajectories in two closely related passerines

Oikos, EarlyView.
Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change, reshaping ecological and evolutionary processes. Urban‐driven phenotypic differences are increasingly documented, but the underlying role of selection is still understudied. One pattern is the consistent reduction of carotenoid‐based plumage pigmentation in city birds.
Nicolas Bekka, Simon Agostini, Samuel Perret, Clotilde Biard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source