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Functional traits predict changes in floral phenology under climate change in a highly diverse Mediterranean community

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1270-1285, May 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plants are shifting their flowering phenology in response to climate change, but trends differ between species and communities. Functional traits can largely explain how different species respond to climate change by shifting their phenology, and can therefore help ...
Daniel Pareja‐Bonilla, Pedro Luis Ortiz, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato, Montserrat Arista   +3 more
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European mistletoe shares a similar demographic strategy with non‐parasitic plants

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2026.
European mistletoe (Viscum album) does not have a distinct demographic strategy from non‐parasitic plants, as quantified by time‐based life history traits. We found that mistletoe vital rates were driven by mistletoe size and position in the host tree.
Oliver G. Spacey, Owen R. Jones, Sydne Record, Sharon D. Janssen, Arya Y. Yue, Wenyi Liu, Alice Rosen, Chris J. Thorogood, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +8 more
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Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment

Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 5, May 2026.
We reveal widespread occurrence of seasonal reproductive plasticity, including reproductive diapause, in Nymphalid butterflies in a seasonal rainforest in the Amazon. This highlights that, not only in temperate but also tropical habitats, seasonality is an important driver of plastic life history strategies. ABSTRACT Seasonality can drive the evolution
Marcus Hicks, Zunilda Escalante‐Arteaga, Lizett Retuerto‐Silva, Jamal Kabir, Tú Minh Au, Sridhar Halali, Geoffrey Gallice, Vicencio Oostra   +7 more
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As above, so below: A perspective into the application of land‐forest monitoring methods for the assessment of marine animal forests

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 1124-1142, April 2026.
Abstract Marine animal forests (MAFs) are benthic ecosystems dominated by vertically structuring filter‐ and suspension‐feeders. As terrestrial forests, they are considered biodiversity hotspots, forming canopies, serving as a refuge, nursery, reproduction and feeding shelters for many species.
Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Camilla Roveta, Martina Coppari, Cristina Gioia Di Camillo, Joaquim Garrabou, Nils Lucas Jacobsen, Marco Palma, Ubaldo Pantaleo, Manuja Promodya Hendawitharana, Carlo Cerrano   +9 more
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Population dynamics of potentially harmful haplotypes: a pedigree analysis

BMC Genomics
Background The identification of low-frequency haplotypes, never observed in homozygous state in a population, is considered informative on the presence of potentially harmful alleles (candidate alleles), putatively involved in inbreeding depression ...
Katherine D. Arias, Iván Fernández, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Isabel Álvarez, Félix Goyache   +4 more
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Social isolation does not inhibit sexual behaviour and testosterone secretion in sexually inexperienced photo-stimulated bucks in contact with seasonally anoestrous goats

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2020
The aims of this study were to determine: (i) whether sexually inexperienced photo-stimulated males housed individually in pens display less intense sexual behaviour than sexually inexperienced photo-stimulated males housed in a group, and (ii) whether ...
Ilda G. Fernández, Jessica Loya-Carrera, Pablo Sifuentes-Lamónt, Gerardo Duarte, J. Alfredo Flores, Erika Grimaldo, Horacio Hernández, Raúl Ulloa-Arvizu, Jennifer D. Andrade-Esparza   +8 more
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The ecology of attraction: Fruit traits and frugivore diversity in neotropical Piper

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 611-623, March 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Fruit traits can benefit plant reproduction by enhancing seed dispersal by mutualistic frugivores (e.g. seed dispersal syndromes), but identifying the role of specific fruit traits in mediating frugivory is challenging because these traits can serve multiple functions ...
Sharlene E. Santana, Anusha Aggarwal, Sneha Sil, Gloriana Chaverri   +3 more
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Drought reduces the value of both artificial and natural wetlands for gulls breeding in the Mediterranean region

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.
The importance of artificial wetlands for waterbird conservation can be easily overestimated from count data alone. The value of extensive fish ponds as a breeding habitat depends on maintaining the availability of natural marshes as a foraging habitat. This requires reducing impacts from groundwater extraction. Given recent abandonment of aquaculture,
Yingjun Wang, Víctor Martín‐Vélez, María J. Navarro‐Ramos, Javier Bustamante, Ursula Höfle, Andy J. Green   +5 more
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A Dominant Founder Lineage Has Possible Fitness Costs for the Endangered Mexican Grey Wolf

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 5, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The Mexican grey wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is an endangered and genetically distinct subspecies of grey wolf adapted to the warm climates of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Following centuries of eradication efforts, Mexican grey wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act in 1976, prompting an international ex situ ...
Yeraldi Loera, Manisha Khakoo, Emily Krueckeberg, Ingrid G. Nilsson, Zehao Wu, Maggie Dwire, Jennifer Adams, Lisette Waits, John K. Oakleaf, Mariel L. Campbell, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Joseph A. Cook, Bridgett M. vonHoldt   +12 more
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Breeding seasonality in Charadriiformes on the Andean Altiplano is influenced by rain and possibly flood risk

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract The Andean Altiplano in South America represents a remarkable mountain ecosystem with unique wildlife. However, knowledge of breeding ecology for birds inhabiting Andean Altiplano is scarce, relying mostly on anecdotal records, and drivers of breeding phenology remain unexplored.
Guillaume Dillenseger, Andreas Rimoldi, Virginia Mosconi, Mauricio Ugarte, Carla Llerena‐Quiroz, Kateřina Kubelková, Renato Condori Ayquipa, Vojtěch Kubelka   +7 more
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