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Thanks for these contributions to "Ecology" and the ESA Bulletin!
cassiocp.bsky.social Dr. Cássio Cardoso Pereira @cassiocp.bsky.social · 13h
🐜🌳 Our new open-access article on ant–plant interactions is out! Dive into the fascinating world of extrafloral nectaries and ant behavior. Co-authored with an amazing team! doi.org/10.1002/bes2... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social

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December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Take a peek—the December cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a curious marten photographed as part of a recent study that finds these small carnivores have remarkable foraging and diet flexibility across North American forests

Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Ecosphere
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Thank you for this contribution to "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment"!✨
tatsuya-amano.bsky.social Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 4d
In this new paper led by Marina Corella Tor, we analyzed international migratory bird agreements and found
• Fewer agreements at lower latitudes;
• Only 28% of species have full range coverage; 14% have none. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements
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December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New microbial community ecology research, published #OpenAccess in our journal "Ecology"🦠👇
seacs.bsky.social SEACS Lab (UNSW) @seacs.bsky.social · 7d
New paper alert!! Repetition and order of exposure to salinization and nutrient enrichment drive freshwater microbial community responses, led by PhD student Rose Fuggle with supervisors Mariana Mayer Pinto, Miguel Matias and Ziggy Marzinelli. 🧪🌐🦠

Read here: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

#microbes
Repetition and order of exposure to salinization and nutrient enrichment drive freshwater microbial community responses
Biological systems face multiple stressors that impact biodiversity and ecosystem functions, with complex interactions that vary spatially and temporally leading to unpredictable outcomes. In freshwa...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Discover the latest in ecological research with our new media tip sheet!📰

From urban pollinator pathways to sea urchin halos and migratory bird protections, explore 6 fascinating studies in our November roundup:
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a microscopic photo of mycorrhizae
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The December cover star of "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment"—a young vervet monkey photographed by Graeme Cumming—illustrates Cumming’s study on “spillover effects” when protected species roam beyond park boundaries, bringing benefits and costs

Browse the full issue: tinyurl.com/2stvspyp
December 2025 cover of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Check out recent media coverage for this paper in the ESA research newsletter: esa.org/blog/2025/12...
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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New in Ecosphere's "Microbial Ecology" track!⬇️
crvietorisz.bsky.social Corinne Vietorisz @crvietorisz.bsky.social · 7d
The first chapter of my dissertation is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social! We determined which microbial characteristics best explain soil nutrient cycling and their importance compared to plant and soil factors 🍄🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @nahpo.bsky.social @k8eatherton.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Norman et al. The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AI #ecology #CarbonFootprint
The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
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December 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs?

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The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
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November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A 🆕 Perspective in "Earth Stewardship": From the lab to legislature—scientists are uniquely positioned to turn evidence into policy for restoration, climate action, & more

📄Scientists as policymakers: Greenlighting restoration and climate action
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A case study illustrating how policymaking can intervene to alter the course of climate change.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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🆕 in Ecosphere's #MacrosystemsEcology track: A Cleveland Metroparks study finds deer lean into suburbia for forage (& maybe safety from predators)

📄White-tailed deer preferentially use areas with greater anthropogenic development in a suburban metropark system
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(A) Map of landcover in northeast Ohio according to Landfire National Vegetation Classification (NVC) subclass type with white points indicating camera-trap locations in the Cleveland Metroparks. (B) Enlargement of the area of the white square in (A), displaying a single camera trap location with the 500-m radius buffer that we used to estimate landcover and enhanced vegetation index surrounding each camera station.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Applications": Ocean models, particle tracking, and DNA data reveal marine larval routes linking deep-sea seamounts

📄Seamount larval dispersal networks: A potential strategy for conserving ecological connectivity from deep-sea mining
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Modeled larval dispersal networks. The results for depths of (a) 100 m, (b) 600 m, (c) 1000 m, and (d) 1500 m are shown. Yellow, thicker edges indicate higher dispersal probabilities. The edges with dispersal probabilities of <0.1% are shown in black. The edges are directional, curving counterclockwise from the beginning points to the end points. Red indicates seamounts with contract areas for cobalt-rich crust exploration as of July 2024; magenta indicates seamounts whose contract area was relinquished in July 2024; and blue indicates other seamounts. The bathymetric contours are drawn at intervals of 2000 m
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Monographs": Coexistence in the Serengeti isn’t simple: body size, dental traits, and water needs together shape how herbivores divide space and food

📄Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Multidimensional resource partitioning by large herbivores. Herbivores can reduce interspecific competition for food by selecting different sites (space), different plant taxa, and different plant organs. In this graphic, herbivores partition space, plant species, and organs in relation to three key trade-offs: Grazer-browser continuum, forage quality–quantity continuum, and water requirements continuum. Here, we use functional traits as proxies for the positioning of 15 large-herbivore species along these three axes to integrate multiple dimensions of food partitioning. We investigate their ability to explain partitioning of space and plant taxa (we did not consider partitioning of plant parts in this study). Underlined traits have been used as proxies for the three dimensions in this study
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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🆕 in our #OpenAccess journal "Earth Stewardship"👇
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Thanks for this contribution to "Ecosphere"!👍
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Thanks for this contribution to "Ecosphere"!🙌
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13d
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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#OpenAccess research on plankton biodiversity in our journal "Ecosphere"👇
jcamthrash.bsky.social Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13d
Spatial distribution of rare and common phytoplankton taxa is controlled by geospatial and physicochemical variables esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Happy to finally share this important article on barriers in ecology led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social in the journal Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. The idea for this paper originated at the nice #ANdiNA workshop in Spain a couple of years ago.
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Floodplain inundation and lateral connectivity promote productivity in a managed river ecosystem - Khanna - 2025 - Ecological Applications - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Floodplain inundation and lateral connectivity promote productivity in a managed river ecosystem
River-floodplain ecosystems near urban centers are heavily engineered for flood protection and water delivery, which has led to a loss of lateral hydrologic connectivity between rivers and their floo...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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🆕 in "Ecology": Who spreads more disease - males or females? At least in water fleas, it depends on temperature

📄The sicker sex is plastic: Thermal plasticity determines sex biases in pathogen transmission
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Some possible forms of sex-specific plasticity in each infection component and how they may lead to non-intuitive predictions for sex-biases in pathogen transmission. Using a horizontally transmitted pathogen as an example, transmission capacity through each sex depends on the sex-specific differences in host susceptibility, pathogen loads, and death rates. Hypothetically, each component could have a unique form of sex-specific plasticity – susceptibility might be plastic only for males (i.e., sex-specific), equally plastic in both sexes in the same direction (i.e., equivalent), and equally plastic in both sexes but in opposing directions (i.e., divergent). Yet considering overall disease spread would suggest a strong male-bias in transmission in environment 1, but no bias at all in environment 2, and that this shift in the extent of the ‘sicker sex’ (in regard to the sex where pathogen transmission is highest) would be underpinned entirely by plasticity in male transmission only.
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Thanks for this contribution to "Ecology"!🌟
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Check out the video below ⬇️ and then read the #OpenAccess study in our journal "Ecology"!
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kyle-horton.bsky.social Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 18d
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Great share from @esajournals , managing forest nutrition may be the next frontier in conservation. Grateful for such timely, impactful ecology research! 🌿
#ForestEcology #WildlifeConservation #EcosystemScience #JFR #Forestryresearch 🍁🌺🌱
esajournals.bsky.social ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 19d
🆕 in "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment": Forest recovery isn't just about tree cover—nutrition matters! How managing chemical landscapes could boost wildlife conservation

📄Managing nutritional landscapes as the next frontier in forest ecology and conservation
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A male moose (Alces alces) in a Swedish forest with abundant broadleaf browse (a), and a monoculture ofNorway spruce (Picea abies) (b)
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Thank you for this contribution to "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment"!🙌
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM