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Differentiation of Ecological Niches in Trophic Specialists From a Disturbed Lacustrine Ecosystem: Insights from the Sympatric Lake Tana Labeobarbs (Cyprinidae)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
Lake Tana harbors the world's most complex adaptive radiation of cyprinids in the world. Although trophic specialization has been proven to drive this diversification, the diet of endemics has been studied using only traditional stomach content analysis.
Evgeny V. Esin, Anastasia D. Kudryavtseva, Boris A. Levin, Belay Abdissa, Benyam Hailu, Fedor N. Shkil, Axel Meyer   +6 more
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A graduated nativeness definition for overcoming dilemmas and difficulties of vascular plant species

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 2, February 2026.
Nativeness is a concept central to biodiversity conservation and invasion biology, but there are several problems related to a classic binary nativeness definition. Dilemmas arise from the dynamic nature of species' distribution ranges on longer time scales, and difficulties arise in the application to smaller regions defined by arbitrary borders, and ...
Camilla T. Colding‐Jørgensen, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Hans Henrik Bruun   +3 more
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Cold-storage of Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) eggs for rearing Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) [PDF]

, 2015
Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is an important soybean pest, and one of its main natural enemies is Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae).
Cingolani, Maria Fernanda, Greco, Nancy Mabel, Liljesthrom, Gerardo Gustavo   +2 more
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High β‐diversity in fig wasp communities driven by species turnover in widely distributed Neotropical fig trees

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 2, February 2026.
Wasp communities associated with fig trees, Ficus spp., are a model system to investigate how local and regional processes shape biodiversity across large geographical ranges. We investigated the β‐diversity of fig wasp assemblages associated with three widely distributed Neotropical fig species – F. citrifolia, F. obtusifolia and F. pertusa – using 27
Elmecelli Moraes de Castro Souza, Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache, Luis Francisco Mello Coelho, Finn Kjellberg, Astrid Cruaud, Jean‐Yves Rasplus, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira   +6 more
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Leaf‐chewing but not sap‐feeding herbivores create soil legacies that shape plant resistance through trait‐mediated, guild‐specific effects in Baccharis salicifolia

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 486-500, February 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Herbivory can affect the soil microbiome, creating legacies that affect plant resistance, but how these effects vary by feeding guild and the plant traits involved remain underexplored. We tested how soil legacies created by a leaf‐chewing caterpillar (Spodoptera exigua)
Carla Vázquez‐González, Kristin M. Barbour, Beatriz Lago‐Núñez, Beatriz Rodriguez‐Garrido, Lydia S. Dean, Ignacio Vicente‐Díez, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Kailen A. Mooney   +7 more
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum*

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 2, February 2026.
Geranium sylvaticum is a perennial forb of upland grasslands, woodlands and riverbanks in northern Britain, with scattered native occurrences also in Wales, central England and Northern Ireland. It has an extensive native range in Europe and Asia. The species is gynodioecious, with individual plants typically female or hermaphrodite.
Markus Wagner, Richard G. Jefferson, Ruth E. Starr‐Keddle, Sandra Varga, Irina Tatarenko, Duncan B. Westbury, Lucy Hulmes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of mitochondrial complex I genes in host plant expansion of Bactrocera tau (Tephritidae: Diptera) by CRISPR/Cas9 system

Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 147-158, February 2026.
The role of 3 mitochondrial complex I gene in host expansion of Bactrocera tau was verified by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system. A stable homogenous strain (Btndufa7‐/‐) of B.tau was established after silencing Ndufa7. The reduced size of larvae and pupae of Ndufa7 knockout strain was first found.Then different levels of fitness and relative expression ...
Wei Shi, Linsheng He, Ruixiang Li, Jun Cao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using artificial neural networks to explain the attraction of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) to colored traps

Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 325-335, February 2026.
Jewel beetles can discriminate leaf feeding sites and bark oviposition sites based upon the opponent comparison of their blue, green, and red photoreceptor signals. Through this mechanism, green traps resemble leaves, and purple traps resemble bark, explaining their different attractiveness to males and females.
Roger D. Santer, Otar Akanyeti
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Chemical Defense of Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius) Leaves against Phytophagous Insects: Insect Antifeedants from Yacón Leaf Trichomes. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2020
Tsunaki K, Morimoto M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Kateretidae and Nitidulidae of the Maltese Archipelago (Coleoptera) [PDF]

, 2008
In the present work, a total of 3 Kateretidae and 26 Nitidulidae are recorded from the Maltese Islands. Of these, 14 Nitidulidae (Epuraea luteola, Epuraea ocularis, Carpophilus bifenestratus, Carpophilus marginellus, Carpophilus quadrisignatus ...
Audisio, Paolo, Mifsud, David
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