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A mixed-methods assessment of human-elephant conflict trends in the Western Okavango Panhandle

A multi-year assessment of zooplankton community assembly in a newly constructed permanent pond

A novel approach to determining maturity and reproduction for walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) using Raman spectroscopy

Across their species ranges, native legumes Acmispon wrangelianus and A. brachycarpus share a diverse species pool of nitrogen-fixing Mesorhizobium symbionts

Adaptive capacity of producers in a grassland social-ecological system: A social network approach

An integrated resource selection model to predict avian habitat use from grassland vegetation structure

Assessing drivers of dispersal for bees in fragmented landscapes

Assessing intraspecific trait variation and covariation across the temperate-boreal ecotone of the northeastern United States

Assessment of the heavy metal extractive abilities of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)

Autoecological and environmental factors influencing mussel survival over a 13-week period during the drawdown of Gantt Reservoir, AL

Bedrock meadows in the interior Pacific Northwest, an overlooked habitat type?

Behavioral consequences of a rampant mitochondrial introgression in the Italian fire salamander Salamandra salamandra

Belowground differences in the biotic structure of natural and managed coastal foredunes

Big cats, big data: Spatial coexistence of jaguars (Panthera onca) and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis)

Biogeographical patterns in morphological traits of insect host-parasitoid communities provide open niche opportunities for a range-expanding host

Butterflies species abundance dynamics and distribution under forest composition (Souk Ahras, Algeria)

Cacao pollination services are driven by pollen deposition, shade management and forest proximity

Causes and consequences of pair-bond disruption in a sex-skewed population of a long-lived monogamous seabird

Cereal rye mulch biomass and soybean density affect weed suppression and community assembly in an organic no-till system

Community assembly of earthworms in previously glaciated regions of North America

Community assembly processes in soil: Mixing it up

Community constrains in adaptation to stressors

Comparing flooding tolerance in two loosestrife species

Comparison of image processing methods for better point clouds of sagebrush

Concurrent climate induced range contraction in herbivore and primary producer

Connecting pest management with behavioral autorecognition of pheromone lures in insects

Conserving regional amphibian populations: Assessing how water quality and land use may affect frog populations in Lehigh Valley, PA

Constructed hibernacula support biodiversity at a coastal restoration project

Controls on methane and carbon dioxide exchange in a Phragmites-invaded, impounded coastal wetland

Corydalis incisa: A new non-native herb is spreading through an urbanized riparian watershed in NY and negatively impacting native spring ephemerals

Daphnia magna survival and body length differ over short-term and long-term exposure to different concentrations of cyanobacterial neurotoxin BMAA

Decadal changes in reef fish diversity in the Philippines

Decomposition of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) leaf litter in litterbags

Deep soil sorption dynamics across fertility and precipitation gradients in lowland tropical forests

Defining invasiveness and its inheritance using growth and reproductive traits of an invasive grass

Design/implementation of a novel insect exclosure and addressing issues regarding methodology in pollination ecology

Different sampling designs to improve jaguar (Panthera onca) population estimates by SECR in one of the smallest viable populations of the species: simulations and first field results

Dispersal-induced resilience to stochastic environmental fluctuations in populations with Allee effect

Dissecting fine-scale climate vulnerability for freshwater fish in Illinois: Overlap between climate exposure, warming tolerance and adaptive capacity

Does the burrowing activity of the fossorial rodent Ctenomys haigi (Ctenomyidae) have a great impact on the soil in northwestern Patagonian grasslands?

Drought tolerant seed use in the Eastern Corn Belt: Using seed dealer interviews to understand the lack of adoption

Earlier snowmelt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

Ecological and genetic connectivity of a protected butterfly metapopulation: Zerynthia polyxena

Ecological characterization and photosynthetic pigment assessment of environmental indicator species of Utricularia

Effects of burning and timber harvest treatments on oak and maple populations in temperate mixed forest

Effects of intense storm events on a marine top predator’s occurrence and foraging behavior

Effects of small-scale habitat restoration on genetic diversity and connectivity in bee populations

Effects of temperature and moon phase on the winter activity patterns of a tropical ungulate

Elucidating the effects of diversion-relevant salinity and hydrologic regimes on biogeochemical responses and growth of foundational plant species (Spartina patens, Spartina alterniflora, Typha latifolia) in a mesocosm setting

Engaging citizen scientists in El Yunque National Forest: Results from the Vegetation Monitoring Project

Environmental and economic analysis of small-scale wood energy systems within Alaska’s Native communities

Estimating fish age from otolith near infrared spectra and deep neural network modeling

Evaluating Janzen-Connell dynamics as a potential driver of evolutionarily stable coexistence

Evaluating the contribution of tree-based land uses to carbon stocks and biodiversity in an Andean agricultural landscape

Evaluating the impacts of seagrass restoration on ecosystem carbon storage

Examining the effects of urbanization on arthropods communities within urban gardens and pocket prairies in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA)

Exploring effects of arthropod-infecting pathogens on pollination: A meta-analysis

Feeding ecology and maternal effects impact reproductive success in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

Flash drought alters the nonstructural carbohydrate pool composition of mature red maple (Acer rubrum) and red oak (Quercus rubra) trees

Fostering science: Using science education to empower youth in foster care

Freeze-thaw responses of soil microbial communities from contrasting elevations

Functional differences in fine root morphology of savanna trees and grasses

Global classification of mammalian herbivores coupled with a mechanistic eco-physiological model for macro ecology and Earth System applications

Good (de)fences make good neighbors: Diffuse coevolution and community assembly in tropical forests

Ground arthropod communities in urban and rural riparian forests

Habitat-dependent delayed effects of climate on demographic vital rates in a fragmented Amazonian landscape

Hosts exert absolute and relative discrimination mechanisms against symbionts that differ continuously in quality

How diverse botanical collections and citizen science inform predictions of tree phenology and vulnerability

How spatial structure impacts biodiversity patterns: Linking species-sorting and mass-effect archetypes

How to describe and measure phenology? An investigation of the diversity of metrics using phenology of births in large herbivores as a case study

Hybridization and invasiveness in Eurasian watermilfoil: Is prioritizing hybrids in management justified?

Identification of snails and Schistosoma of medical importance via convolutional neural networks: A proof-of-concept application for human schistosomiasis

Identifying hotspots of beta diversity of fishes on the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes

Identifying ontogenetic shifts in primary energy pathways of invasive red lionfish, Pterois volitans, in the Florida Keys via stable isotope and otolith analysis

Identifying spurious variables in overfit spatial models

Identifying the relative contribution of climate change, land-use and alien species on community reshuffling

Impact of Human footprint on the climate: FAPAR relationships across Colombia’s ecosystems over the last 21 years

Impact of restoration and habitat type on small mammal abundance and bat occupancy in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Impacts of urban land cover on the distribution of emerald ash borer associated parasitoids

Increased burn severity and simulated climate warming drive shifts in ecosystem function and understory plant traits one year post-fire in northern Arizona

Increasing trends in fire severity and drought conditions in west-central Spain (1985-2017)

Influence of deer browsing on invasive and native vegetation in a maritime forest

Interactions of food resource variability with eco-evolutionary harvest impacts

Intraguild predation and trophic transfer drive parasite abundance patterns in larval dragonfly communities

Investigation of glyphosate resistance in Phragmites australis

Is there a latitudinal gradient in sapling growth strategies?

Island-mainland variation in bees: Applying geometric morphometrics to wing venation in one species

Land use and local species richness are a more important determinant of Mediterranean ecosystems´ multifunctionality than landscape diversity and habitat size

Landscape affects the composition but not functionality of tropical bird communities in cacao agroforestry

Landscape modulation by a mound-building bird; creating novel, high-resource patches in a semi-arid woodland

Landscape-scale floral resources: A critical component of pollinator conservation?

Latitudinal variation in plant defense against herbivory in a marine foundation species does not follow a linear pattern: The importance of resource availability

Lead exposure by the brown anole (Anolis sagrei) in New Orleans, Louisiana

Legume-rhizobia symbiosis: How do plant traits influence number of nodules in the longleaf pine

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Dynamic time warping as a tool for temporally structured ecological data

Leveraging large biological interaction datasets to quantify plant specialization by bees

Leveraging place-based learning at biological field stations to advance science literacy among different audiences

Lichen biomonitoring in Northern Utah

Life on the rocks: Small-scale primary succession in an abandoned limestone quarry

Linking enzymatic activities in soil and deadwood in a managed northeastern forest

Litter quality predicts ground beetle communities more than tree diversity across eastern temperate forests

Long-term bird population trends at a San Francisco Bay Area preserve

Managing monecious hydrilla with drawdowns

Mapping Invasions: Examining the spread of purple loosestrife in the St. Lawrence River Valley

Mapping oyster reefs with open data and artificial intelligence

Marine Habitat Protection Indexes to understand the local and global conservation of marine habitats

Measurement of root traits using 3D photogrammetric computational models

Meta-analysis of organic matter amendments for urban soil carbon sequestration and soil health improvements

Modeling the potential impact of climate change on range expansion in Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides (Anura)

New, publicly-available source of phenological data reveals intraspecific variation in the sensitivity of flowering date to climate change: A case study of the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Nine years of liana removal does not alter a tropical rainforest’s fine root biomass or morphology

Nitrogen fertilization affects plant decomposition both directly and through driving evolutionary shifts in rhizobium quality

Novel indicators of biodiversity status based on financial portfolio metrics

Optimal allocation ratios: A square root relationship between the ratios of symbiotic costs and benefits

Outbreaks of disease in native species can reduce invasion success

Owners’ perception does not match actual ground-dwelling invertebrate diversity in their garden

Parasites and plastics in seabirds of the North Pacific

Partitioning evapotranspiration in drylands using eddy covariance fluxes and ECOSTRESS data

Passive acoustic monitoring reveals cryptic species colonization following introduction of an artificial reef

Patch characteristics and domestic dogs differentially affect carnivore space use in fragmented landscapes in Southern Chile

Plant species over-occupancy indicates river valleys are natural corridors for migration

Plant traits, range position, and flowering phenology in the Southern Rockies

Population protecting implants: Targeted control of problem individuals to mitigate cat-astrophic predation

Predicted thresholds for natural vegetation cover to safeguard pollination services to crops in agricultural landscapes

Predicting root architecture and the water balance in Eucalyptus stands

Prey response to predation risk under chronic road noise

Protected areas as last bulwark against deforestation in Madagascar

Rainfall, native vegetation and agricultural land uses influencing water quality in subtropical agricultural catchments

Rapid spread of Phragmites australis in an abandoned limestone quarry

Reduced competition enhances community temporal stability under conditions of increasing environmental stress

Reflections on restoration: The importance of human connections, networking, and knowledge transfer

Relating song to morphology, ecology, and phylogeny in the avian genus Vireo

Relationship between structural complexity, refuge abundance, and species diversity in an oyster reef system

Restoring ecological processes after wildfire: The key to contemporary forest management in an era of global change?

Risk modeling to predict outbreaks and establishment of invasive plant pathogens: A case study of boxwood blight

Riverine biodiversity in space and time: Effects of network position and hydrologic connectivity

Seagrasses support marine fauna across functional groups in the Yellow Sea

Seasonality of 4 prevalent flea species (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae, Leptopsyllidae) on North American deer-mice Peromyscus maniculatus (Mammalia: Rodentia) due to possible thermal-niche partitioning

Seeing the light from a different angle: creating new tools tom manipulate light environments and testing the effects on plant carbon and water fluxes

Simulating forest roads is necessary to determine the impacts of forest management on habitat amount and fragmentation

Site-specific advantages of using different species predator cues to enhance oysters for restoration and aquaculture

Size compartmentalisation of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs

Soil-litter mixing reduces importance of solar radiation and increases microbial decomposition of litter in drylands

Spatial patterns of differentiation in background matching strategies along the Quaternary range expansion route of the cryptic tree frog Hyla sarda

Spatial scales of population synchrony in predator-prey systems

Species composition and climate dynamics drive aboveground wood productivity in tropical forests of Colombia

Standing genetic variation in the effect of a locus negotiating mutualism outcomes in wild rhizobia on their natural host plant

Swimming against the tide: Patterns of genetic connectivity and discontinuity among Vallisneria americana populations of a periodically disturbed riverbed

Testing a new passive acoustic recording unit to monitor wolves

The ecology of spider sociality: A spatial model

The effect of domestication on the legume-rhizobia mutualism

The effect of ecosystem engineering on community structure in the Ediacaran Period

The effect of habitat fragmentation on frugivores and seed dispersers in fossil forests of the Western Ghats, India

The effects of fertilization and host plant on variability in herbivory and herbivore growth of the generalist Spodoptera exigua on the crop Brassica oleracea

The effects of spatial network topology on metacommunity dynamics

The impact of climate-soil-vegetation-human interaction on SOC change over 30 years across the National Ecological Observatory Network, USA

The impacts of copper contamination on aquatic predator-prey interactions

The influence of manganese redox dynamics on soil carbon stability

The influence of prairie restoration on Hemiptera composition

The influence of role-playing games on student engagement with scientific data and decision making processes

The removal of invasive woodland leads to community shifts in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

The role of plants and animals in transferring atmospheric mercury deposition within alpine ecosystems

The role of spatial complexity in population dynamics under climate change

The sociality of Atlantic sturgeon and sand tiger shark in dynamic bay environments

The soil biotic community protects Rhododendron spp. across multiple clades from the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi at a cost to plant growth

The vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates

Top-down control of biotic stability mechanisms by large mammalian herbivores

Traditional field metrics and terrestrial LiDAR predict plant richness in southern pine forests

Tree species diversity and conservation priorities of the tropical dry forest of Ankarafantsika National Park, NW Madagascar

Urban environment leads to functionally diverse but vulnerable avian assemblages

Using drone technology to investigate topographic effects on plant phenology at small spatial scales across multiple elevation gradients

Using geographic range data to support the extinction risk assessment of an endangered species via the IUCN’s and Mexico’s National Risk Assessment Method

Using occupancy modeling to estimate American marten distribution in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula

Using unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) to reveal sex-specific strategies of sea turtles for informed conservation action

Variation in seed mass and seed fill in Western US plants, traits important for habitat restoration

Virulence and genetic variation of Mycoplasma agassizii in the threatened Mojave desert tortoise

What are the specific ecological settings in a novel, invasive landscape that permit native avian succession?

Where to restore: Using regional and local soil maps to identify potential pine barren and sand plain habitat

White-tailed deer harvest success and its impact on forest understory vegetation: Evaluating management program efficacy in southeastern New York

You startle me, you don’t: Antipredatory behaviour differs within populations in an aposematic toad species