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Coping with change: Interactive effects of anthropogenic change influence the breeding success and survival of a desert‐dwelling cooperative breeder

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 2038-2052, July 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Habitat modification and climate change are major threats to biodiversity. Using 38 years of data (1985–2023), we examined their combined influence on a desert‐dwelling cooperative breeder's reproductive success and projected the likely magnitude of future effects of ...
Alejandro Alaman, Amanda Ridley, Martha Nelson‐Flower, Lee Koren, Oded Keynan   +4 more
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Prescribed burning shows minor impacts on black pine needle terpenes and pine processionary moth larval survival

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.
Our results highlight that prescribed burning in sub‐Mediterranean pine forests does not affect their resistance to PPM in the short term, either positively or negatively, indicating that it can be implemented to reduce wildfire hazard without influencing forest susceptibility to future PPM outbreaks.
Lena Vilà‐Vilardell, Joan Llusià, José Hódar, Teresa Valor, Míriam Piqué, Josep Peñuelas, Pere Casals   +6 more
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The Rise of Environmental Scarcity and the Global Security Implications: The Cases of Darfur, Syria, and India–Pakistan Water Conflicts

World Affairs, Volume 189, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores how global governance affects environmental security in three cases where environmental scarcity interacted with weak governance to produce conflict: the Darfur water crisis, the role of drought in the Syrian civil war, and the India–Pakistan water conflict over the Indus River.
Osman Antwi‐Boateng, Taha Yahya Abdulrahman   +1 more
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Forest type and leaf habit mediate thermal and drought tolerance across a tropical elevational gradient

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1933-1945, June 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understanding how local climate patterns select for thermal and drought tolerance traits is needed to predict differential responses to climate change across complex ecosystems.
Caitlin N. Terry, Perla Ortiz‐Colín, Jennifer S. Powers, German Vargas G., Adrián Guadamúz, Catherine M. Hulshof   +5 more
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Simulating drying and human impacts on river networks to evaluate biological quality indices performance through the lens of metacommunity theory

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026.
This work constitutes a first step towards developing simulation‐based assessments that incorporate catchment drying patterns to support biomonitoring of drying river networks. Our approach can inform stakeholders when current methods are likely to fail and contribute to decision‐making on whether adapting current methods is possible or developing new ...
Zeynep Ersoy, David Cunillera‐Montcusí, Martí Piñero‐Fernández, Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles, María Mar Sánchez‐Montoya, Núria Bonada, Núria Cid   +6 more
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Effects of Warming on Growth and Leaf Colonization by Litter Mat‐Forming Fungi in a Wet Tropical Forest in Puerto Rico

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
We took advantage of a long‐running field warming experiment, the Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) located in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico to evaluate the effects of +4°C warming on relative growth rates (RGR) and time to leaf colonization of a recently senesced leaf for drought‐tolerant species Marasmius ...
Ari E. Puentes, D. Jean Lodge, Deyaneira A. Ortiz‐Iglesias, Tatiana Barreto‐Vélez, Laura C. Rubio‐Lebrón, Hieu Chu, Christine S. O'Connell, Sasha C. Reed, Tana E. Wood   +8 more
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Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa.
Daniel A. Cossey, Maria Urbańska, Ronaldo Sousa, Juergen Geist, Anna Maria Labecka, Şebnem Atasaral, Maciej Bonk, Liliya Bylyna, Frank P. L. Collas, Daniel Daill, Andreas H. Dobler, Noé Ferreira‐Rodríguez, Dariusz Halabowski, Martina I. Ilarri, Jasna Lajtner, Jon H. Mageroy, Evelyn A. Moorkens, Javier Morales, William H. Morgan, Grégory Motte, Keiko Nakamura, Paz Ondina, Martin Österling, Małgorzata Ożgo, Momir Paunović, Vincent Prié, Maja Raković, Larysa Shevchuk, Spase Shumka, Mikhail O. Son, Jouni Taskinen, Frankie Thielen, Henn Timm, Jelena Tomović, Dariusz Ulikowski, Gorazd Urbanič, Simone Varandas, Agnieszka Izolda Wasilewska, Niklas Wengström, David C. Aldridge   +39 more
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Electrified rhythms: How hydropower infrastructure transforms hydrosocial relations of riverine communities in the Lower Sogamoso River, Colombia

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 782-796, March 2026.
Abstract Hydropower dams regulate water flows for millions of downstream inhabitants worldwide, altering water availability. Under a changing climate, flow control is often framed technically and politically as being essential for reducing drought and flood risks. However, it can also disrupt ecological flows, impact livelihoods and erode environmental
Laura Betancur‐Alarcón, Laura Pulgarín‐Morales, Camila Jiménez‐Saénz, Rossella Alba, Tobias Krueger   +4 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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Long‐term comparison shows protected and non‐protected forests differ in harvesting, but not in wildfires or drought‐driven dieback

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 2, February 2026.
Lower forest harvesting in Natura 2000 sites may align with socio‐economic barriers often claimed by local communities, but protection does not influence vulnerability to other disturbances. In a general scenario of reduced forest harvesting in the region, we argue that differences in harvesting due to protection are statistically significant but ...
Josep Maria Espelta, Alba Viana‐Soto, Roberto Molowny‐Horas, Miquel de Caceres, Miriam Selwyn, Mireia Banqué, Lluís Brotons, Francisco Lloret, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Miriam Piqué, Cornelius Senf   +10 more
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