Ade Martin
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Biogeography 🌍 and wildlife 🐾 consultant| Environmental assessment 🌳📋and GIS solutions 🗾
I share scientific articles related to the environment 🌎, ecology 🍁🐾💧, conservation 🌱🦊 and biogeography 🌎🦋🗺️ every day.
I share scientific articles related to the environment 🌎, ecology 🍁🐾💧, conservation 🌱🦊 and biogeography 🌎🦋🗺️ every day.
Good morning people. Today in "one day, one paper", AI-driven BugBox enables rapid arthropod classification, correlating strongly with human expertise and revealing biodiversity gains under regenerative agriculture, offering scalable ecological monitoring tools 🌎
Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI‐assisted bioinventories of arthropods
The BugBox artificial intelligence platform performed reliably on coarse biodiversity analysis of agrobiont arthropods, even while its models were still being developed and trained. This gives scient....
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November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Good morning people. Today in "one day, one paper", AI-driven BugBox enables rapid arthropod classification, correlating strongly with human expertise and revealing biodiversity gains under regenerative agriculture, offering scalable ecological monitoring tools 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", readily available native flowers enhance pollinator abundance but risk functional homogenization, underscoring the need to prioritize unique genera that sustain rare and specialized pollinators for resilient ecosystems 🌎🍁
Flowers for habitat enhancement primarily benefit common insect pollinators across temperate grasslands
Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators. By defining the ecological roles....
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November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", readily available native flowers enhance pollinator abundance but risk functional homogenization, underscoring the need to prioritize unique genera that sustain rare and specialized pollinators for resilient ecosystems 🌎🍁
Hello everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", concert noise and artificial lighting reshape bat activity, reducing foraging minutes and delaying peaks in sensitive species, highlighting urban festivals as overlooked drivers of ecological disturbance 🌎
Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
We investigated how large outdoor music festivals affect bat activity in an urban green spaces. Although total nightly activity did not decline on concert nights, we showed activity during concert ho....
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November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", concert noise and artificial lighting reshape bat activity, reducing foraging minutes and delaying peaks in sensitive species, highlighting urban festivals as overlooked drivers of ecological disturbance 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", community composition and habitat fragmentation jointly reshape bird acoustic niches, driving flexible frequency modulation. Novel evidence highlights decoupled vocal strategies shaped by species richness, body size, and phylogenetic proximity 🌎
Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages
Rapid human expansion worldwide introduces novel acoustic stimuli. We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and hab...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", community composition and habitat fragmentation jointly reshape bird acoustic niches, driving flexible frequency modulation. Novel evidence highlights decoupled vocal strategies shaped by species richness, body size, and phylogenetic proximity 🌎
Hi people. Today in "one day, one paper", thermal tolerance breadth in plants exceeds local climate ranges, shaped mainly by heat, cold, and aridity. Desert species show extreme resilience, revealing partial support for climate variability hypothesis and highlighting microclimate-driven plasticity🌎🍁
Drivers of thermal tolerance breadth of plants across contrasting biomes
The results provide partial support for the climate variability hypothesis in plants: photosystem thermal tolerance breadth was greatest in more thermally variable biomes. This relationship was large....
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November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Hi people. Today in "one day, one paper", thermal tolerance breadth in plants exceeds local climate ranges, shaped mainly by heat, cold, and aridity. Desert species show extreme resilience, revealing partial support for climate variability hypothesis and highlighting microclimate-driven plasticity🌎🍁
Hi. Drought intensifies ecological contrasts: leopards gain energy yet lose cubs to intraguild predation, while lions secure larger prey but face disease outbreaks. These divergent outcomes highlight how carnivore hierarchy mediates climate stress,challenging assumptions of uniform drought benefits🌎
A struggle to survive: Guild hierarchy predicts drought benefit among large carnivores
This study reveals that drought does not uniformly benefit large carnivores. While prey acquisition increased for both leopards and lions, leopard recruitment declined due to higher intraguild predat...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hi. Drought intensifies ecological contrasts: leopards gain energy yet lose cubs to intraguild predation, while lions secure larger prey but face disease outbreaks. These divergent outcomes highlight how carnivore hierarchy mediates climate stress,challenging assumptions of uniform drought benefits🌎
Hi. Sprouting emerges as a survival trait that reduces mortality in saplings and small woody plants, yet declines with trunk size and neighbor competition. This size-dependent strategy highlights sprouting as a dynamic mechanism shaping forest persistence and resilience under ecological pressures 🍁🌎
Sprouting as a survivorship trait for woody plants: The influence of trunk size and neighbourhood competition
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November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hi. Sprouting emerges as a survival trait that reduces mortality in saplings and small woody plants, yet declines with trunk size and neighbor competition. This size-dependent strategy highlights sprouting as a dynamic mechanism shaping forest persistence and resilience under ecological pressures 🍁🌎
Hi. Colonizing colder Arctic zones enables pink-footed geese to realign breeding with spring onset, yet demands greater parental body reserves. Climate change drives and facilitates this shift, producing heterogeneous effects across individuals depending on their physiological quality 🌎
Arctic geese in newly colonised, colder breeding areas have higher spring body mass and breed earlier relative to the onset of spring
Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce the negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions (snow cov...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hi. Colonizing colder Arctic zones enables pink-footed geese to realign breeding with spring onset, yet demands greater parental body reserves. Climate change drives and facilitates this shift, producing heterogeneous effects across individuals depending on their physiological quality 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", two functional indicators from beach-cast macroalgae—community turbidity tolerance and thallus length—correlate with chlorophyll-a concentration, offering a cost-effective and scalable method to monitor coastal eutrophication 🌎
Beach-cast algae communities as a proxy for evaluating coastal water eutrophication
Coastal ecosystems, located at the intersection of land and sea, are subject to multiple human-induced stressors that affect both terrestrial and mari…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", two functional indicators from beach-cast macroalgae—community turbidity tolerance and thallus length—correlate with chlorophyll-a concentration, offering a cost-effective and scalable method to monitor coastal eutrophication 🌎
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", contrasting phenological responses among understorey herb species to warming, light, nitrogen, and land-use legacy reveal shifts in plant competition, with key implications for biodiversity and adaptive forest management 🍁🌎
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change
This study provides new insights into the growth dynamics of forest understorey species and their responses to global change drivers. The findings suggest that global changes, such as climate warming...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", contrasting phenological responses among understorey herb species to warming, light, nitrogen, and land-use legacy reveal shifts in plant competition, with key implications for biodiversity and adaptive forest management 🍁🌎
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, extreme warming of Amazon lakes in 2023 was driven by four key variables: shallow water depth, high solar radiation, low wind speed, and high turbidity. These conditions enhanced heat absorption and reduced nighttime cooling, pushing water temperatures up to 41°C🌎
Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate
In 2023, an unprecedented drought and heat wave severely affected Amazon waters, leading to high mortality of fishes and river dolphins. Five of 10 lakes monitored had exceptionally high daytime…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, extreme warming of Amazon lakes in 2023 was driven by four key variables: shallow water depth, high solar radiation, low wind speed, and high turbidity. These conditions enhanced heat absorption and reduced nighttime cooling, pushing water temperatures up to 41°C🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper” Haminoea vesicula embryos often develop at suboptimal temperatures, yet this thermal mismatch enables survival during seasonal heat spikes. In dynamic habitats, suboptimal can be good enough 🌎
Suboptimal is good enough: Aligning thermal sensitivity to habitat temperature across season
The authors test the assumption that physiological sensitivities for important fitness processes must be well aligned with habitat conditions for organisms to persist. They show that apparently poor ...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper” Haminoea vesicula embryos often develop at suboptimal temperatures, yet this thermal mismatch enables survival during seasonal heat spikes. In dynamic habitats, suboptimal can be good enough 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", agricultural landscape heterogeneity enhances predator diversity in winter, boosting biological control of pests like Chilo suppressalis. Winter crops and forest proximity are key to sustaining ecosystem services 🌎
Landscape composition shapes biological control by promoting off‐season predator diversity
Our work demonstrates how off-season crop management and landscape structure jointly support overwintering predator populations and sustain their biological control potential. Specifically, by enhanc...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", agricultural landscape heterogeneity enhances predator diversity in winter, boosting biological control of pests like Chilo suppressalis. Winter crops and forest proximity are key to sustaining ecosystem services 🌎
Hi. Urbanization alters alpha and beta diversity of macrofungi, reducing taxonomic and functional richness. Large parks and extensive management support conservation. Species replacement and functional convergence reshape composition, driven by habitat structure and management practices 🌎
Urbanization shapes taxonomy‐ and trait‐based alpha and beta diversity of macrofungi in South China
Our study highlights the complementary insights of combining taxonomy- and trait-based alpha and beta methods for a better understanding of the assembly of urban macrofungal communities. Our study un...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hi. Urbanization alters alpha and beta diversity of macrofungi, reducing taxonomic and functional richness. Large parks and extensive management support conservation. Species replacement and functional convergence reshape composition, driven by habitat structure and management practices 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", habitat heterogeneity and predator diversity jointly shape food web structure. Diverse forests enhance predation pressure, niche overlap, and ecosystem resilience, key factors for conservation and biocontrol strategies 🌎
Habitat structure and predator diversity jointly shape the arrangement of predator–prey networks
This is a Research Highlights of the study by Chen et al. (2025). Bottom-up and top-down effects combine to drive predator–prey interactions in a forest biodiversity experiment. Journal of Animal Eco...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", habitat heterogeneity and predator diversity jointly shape food web structure. Diverse forests enhance predation pressure, niche overlap, and ecosystem resilience, key factors for conservation and biocontrol strategies 🌎
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", foliar fungal diversity regulates photosynthesis under nitrogen and water additions. Its reduction enhances CO₂ assimilation and stomatal conductance, revealing a key role in plant responses to global change 🍁🌎
Unveiling the role of foliar fungi in mediating leaf photosynthesis under global change
The findings found that foliar fungi mediate photosynthetic responses to resource enrichment. These findings extend the mechanistic understanding of how foliar fungi mediate leaf photosynthesis and p...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", foliar fungal diversity regulates photosynthesis under nitrogen and water additions. Its reduction enhances CO₂ assimilation and stomatal conductance, revealing a key role in plant responses to global change 🍁🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", the invasion of Spartina alterniflora alters sediment properties, reducing alpha diversity and driving benthic species turnover. These shifts impact food webs and prey availability for migratory birds in intertidal wetlands 🌎
Habitat change driven by plant invasion restructures benthic diversity in intertidal wetlands
Since its introduction to China in 1979, Spartina alterniflora has steadily expanded along the southeast coast of China and reshaped the intertidal ec…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", the invasion of Spartina alterniflora alters sediment properties, reducing alpha diversity and driving benthic species turnover. These shifts impact food webs and prey availability for migratory birds in intertidal wetlands 🌎
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, experimental warming influences plant-mediated methane transport in peatlands and alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Species-specific mechanisms controlling CH₄ emission and oxidation are identified, with key implications for regional climate modeling 🌎
Morphological constraints on plant‐mediated methane release and oxidation under experimental warming in a peatland and meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau
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November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, experimental warming influences plant-mediated methane transport in peatlands and alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Species-specific mechanisms controlling CH₄ emission and oxidation are identified, with key implications for regional climate modeling 🌎
Good morning everyone .Today in “ One day, one paper”, selective extinction in Carcharhinus erodes dental morphological and ecological functional diversity. Species loss threatens key roles in marine ecosystems, driving homogenization and reducing resilience to environmental disturbances 🌎
Extinction threatens to cause morphological and ecological homogenization in sharks
The selective extinction of threatened shark species is poised to drive substantial morphological and ecological homogenization.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good morning everyone .Today in “ One day, one paper”, selective extinction in Carcharhinus erodes dental morphological and ecological functional diversity. Species loss threatens key roles in marine ecosystems, driving homogenization and reducing resilience to environmental disturbances 🌎
Good morning people. Today in "One day, one paper", intraspecific variation in prey energy quality significantly influences marine predator consumption rates, altering foraging strategies and ecosystem dynamics under climate change and fishing pressure 🌎
Intraspecific variation in prey quality affects the consumption rates of top predators
This study reveals overlooked intraspecific variation in prey quality and its influence on predator energy budgets. By identifying key ecological drivers, we emphasize the need to integrate such vari...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Good morning people. Today in "One day, one paper", intraspecific variation in prey energy quality significantly influences marine predator consumption rates, altering foraging strategies and ecosystem dynamics under climate change and fishing pressure 🌎
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", Armillaria speeds up Pinus nigra branch decay by lowering wood density and enriching nitrogen. This post-mortem effect may lead to underestimating carbon emissions in forest models under climate change 🌎
Potential lasting effect of opportunistic parasitic fungi on coarse wood decomposition
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October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", Armillaria speeds up Pinus nigra branch decay by lowering wood density and enriching nitrogen. This post-mortem effect may lead to underestimating carbon emissions in forest models under climate change 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", apex predators like cougars and wolves adjust hunting strategies based on snow depth and density, maximizing their advantage over ungulate prey. Climate change may disrupt these key ecological dynamics 🌎
Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes
Advantageous snow conditions—in terms of snow depth and density—are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. In a warming clim...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", apex predators like cougars and wolves adjust hunting strategies based on snow depth and density, maximizing their advantage over ungulate prey. Climate change may disrupt these key ecological dynamics 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", after seven annual fires in the Cerrado, the grass layer doubled in density, retained its composition, and showed high resilience. Vegetative regeneration and clonality were key to its persistence 🍁🌎
Doubled density and increased resilience: Consequences of seven consecutive annual dry‐season fires to the unburned Cerrado grass layer
The Cerrado grass layer benefits from frequent fires and is resilient even to an extreme fire regime, such as seven annual burns. Recurrent mid-dry-season fires are not harmful to the grass layer and...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", after seven annual fires in the Cerrado, the grass layer doubled in density, retained its composition, and showed high resilience. Vegetative regeneration and clonality were key to its persistence 🍁🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, One paper”, the 2023 marine heatwave caused functional extinction of Acropora corals in Florida. Extreme thermal stress led to mass mortality, eroding key ecological roles. Urgent action is needed to prevent full ecosystem collapse 🌎
Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length…
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October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, One paper”, the 2023 marine heatwave caused functional extinction of Acropora corals in Florida. Extreme thermal stress led to mass mortality, eroding key ecological roles. Urgent action is needed to prevent full ecosystem collapse 🌎
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, hydrological restoration in forestry-drained boreal peatlands promotes the recovery of native plant communities, showing that rewetting restores typical moss and herbaceous species and enhances overall ecosystem functionality 🌎
Relationship between hydrological restoration and the recovery of vegetation communities in boreal forestry‐drained peatlands
The mid-term (2–5 years after restoration) WT level can be used to assess whether hydrological restoration has been successful. A minimum mid-summer WT level should be at least −25 cm from the peatla....
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October 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, hydrological restoration in forestry-drained boreal peatlands promotes the recovery of native plant communities, showing that rewetting restores typical moss and herbaceous species and enhances overall ecosystem functionality 🌎