Novel field observations of coral reef fishes feeding on epiphytic and epizoic organisms associated with the allelopathic seaweed Galaxaura divaricata by Carolin Nieder, Chen‐Pan Liao, Chen‐Lu Lee, Kendall D. Clements, Shao‐Lun Liu

“…Abstract In degraded coral reef ecosystems, allelopathic macroalgae have received increasing attention from marine ecologists because their secondary metabolites (also known as allelochemicals) kill corals that grow adjacent to them and weaken the recovery of degraded reefs. …”
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Using local ecological knowledge to determine the status of Cantor's giant softshell turtle Pelochelys cantorii in Kerala, India by Ayushi Jain, V.A. Akshay, V. Deepak, Abhijit Das, Paul Barnes, Benjamin Tapley, Francoise Cavada-Blanco

“…This lack of data hinders strategic conservation planning. Ecologists and conservationists increasingly utilize local ecological knowledge to determine the status and gain insights into the ecology of threatened and rare species that are difficult to detect in field studies. …”
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East‒West genetic differentiation across the Indo-Burma hotspot: evidence from two closely related dioecious figs by Jian-Feng Huang, Shu-Qiong Li, Rui Xu, Yan-Qiong Peng

“…Abstract Background Understanding biodiversity patterns and their underlying mechanisms is of interest to ecologists, biogeographers and conservationists and is critically important for conservation efforts. …”
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Is New Always Better? Frontiers in Global Climate Datasets for Modeling Treeline Species in the Himalayas by Maria Bobrowski, Johannes Weidinger, Udo Schickhoff

“…The results illustrate the inevitable need for interdisciplinary investigations and collaboration between climate scientists and ecologists to enhance climate-based ecological model quality at meso- to local-scales by accounting for local-scale physical features at high temporal and spatial resolution.…”
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Plastic Responses Contribute to Explaining Altitudinal and Temporal Variation in Potential Flower Longevity in High Andean Rhodolirion montanum. by Diego Andrés Pacheco, Leah S Dudley, Josefina Cabezas, Lohengrin A Cavieres, Mary T K Arroyo

“…The tendency for flower longevity to increase with altitude is believed by many alpine ecologists to play an important role in compensating for low pollination rates at high altitudes due to cold and variable weather conditions. …”
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Efficient, Sustainable, and Multifunctional Carbon Offsetting to Boost Forest Management: A Comparative Case Study by Timothée Fouqueray, Lucile Génin, Michel Trommetter, Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste

“…Materials and methods: We assembled an interdisciplinary research team comprising two ecologists, a social scientist, and an economist. Drawing on a conceptual framework of ecosystem services, social interdependencies, and collective action, we based our qualitative analysis on semi-structured interviews from two French case studies. …”
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Economic valuation of the ecosystem of the high Andean hydrographic basin tributary of the Chumbao River, through multicriteria analysis by A. I. Barrial-Lujan, G. Rodríguez, M. L. Huamán-Carrión, F. Espinoza-Montes, D. Barrial-Acosta, M. C. Delgado Laime, J. C. Arevalo-Quijano, W. G. Castro-Paniagua, C. Barrial-Lujan, D. D. Reynoso-Canicani

“…The valuation procedure consisted of using the analytical method of multicriteria valuation applying the concept of Total Economic Value, which involved direct and indirect uses related to environmental assets, in which a collective panel of people from different training disciplines (experts) participated, which were made up of researchers, engineers, public officials, farmers and ecologists who had extensive knowledge about the environmental asset. of the geographical area in reference; and once the paired comparison survey was done, the total economic value was quantified up to three amounts, so the respondents were formed into three statistically significant segments (SIG<0.05). …”
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Exploring the impact of data curation criteria on the observed geographical distribution of mosses by Cristina Ronquillo, Juliana Stropp, Nagore G. Medina, Joaquin Hortal

“…To overcome this limitation and establish robust geographic patterns, ecologists often curate records keeping those that are most suitable for their analyses. …”
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plantR: An R package and workflow for managing species records from biological collections by Renato A. F. deLima, Andrea Sánchez‐Tapia, Sara R. Mortara, Hans terSteege, Marinez F. deSiqueira

“…For different reasons, neither collections nor data repositories perform the editing, formatting and standardisation of the data, leaving these tasks to the final users of the species records (e.g. taxonomists, ecologists and conservationists). These tasks are challenging, particularly when working with millions of records from hundreds of biological collections. …”
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GC–MS analysis of soil faecal biomarkers uncovers mammalian species and the economic management of the archeological site "Le Colombare di Negrar" by Chiara Reggio, Erika Palmisano, Umberto Tecchiati, Alessandro Ravelli, Roberta F. Bergamaschi, Paola Salzani, Cristiano Putzolu, Sara Casati, Marica Orioli

“…Abstract The identification of the mammalian species based on faecal sediments in modern and ancient environments is the aim of the research of archaeologists, forensic scientists and ecologists. Here, we set up and validated an optimized gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) method, characterized by a time-saving sample preparation protocol, for the simultaneous analysis of faecal biomarkers (6 sterols/stanols and 5 bile acids) in 14 soil samples from the archaeological site of “Le Colombare di Negrar” in northern Italy. …”
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X-Polli:Nation: Contributing Towards Sustainable Development Goals Through School-Based Pollinator Citizen Science by Poppy Lakeman Fraser, Laura Colucci-Gray, Annie Robinson, Andrea Sforzi, Ruth Staples-Rolfe, Julie Newman, Richard Gill, Nirwan Sharma, Stefan Rueger, Advaith Siddharthan

“…Through the lens of one CS case study, the X-Polli:Nation project, we report on how technologists, ecologists, and education specialists repurposed older projects by cross-pollinating ideas with children and teachers in the UK and in Italy to create Artificial Intelligence–enhanced tools appropriate for teaching sustainability in schools. …”
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Evaluation of commercial traits in the accessions of the wheatgrass genus (<i>Agropyron</i> Gaertn.) under the conditions of Central Yakutia by A. A. Kochegina, V. M. Koryakina

“…Studying plants of the wheatgrass genus as a unique and valuable fodder and phytomeliorating perennial arid xerophytic crop is of great interest to plant breeders, geneticists, biologists, ecologists, agriculturists, and forestry experts in southern regions of Russia, the ex-USSR republics, a number of European and Asia Minor countries, the U. …”
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ECOGEN: Bird sounds generation using deep learning by Axel‐Christian Guei, Sylvain Christin, Nicolas Lecomte, Éric Hervet

“…We present ECOGEN, a novel deep learning approach designed to generate realistic bird songs for biologists and ecologists. The primary objective of ECOGEN is to enhance the number of samples in under‐represented bird song classes, thereby improving the performance and robustness of classifiers in ecological research.The ECOGEN framework employs spectrograms as a representation of bird songs and leverages proven image generation techniques to create new spectrograms, subsequently converted back to digital audio signals. …”
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Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution Using Acanthocephalans Parasite in Ecosystem: An Updated Overview by El-Sayed E. Mehana, Asmaa F. Khafaga, Samar S. Elblehi, Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack, Mohammed A.E. Naiel, May Bin-Jumah, Sarah I. Othman, Ahmed A. Allam

“…Parasites have attracted intense interest from parasitic ecologists, because of the variety of different ways in which they respond to human activity contamination as prospective indices of environmental quality. …”
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Ecology of palustrine wetlands in Lesotho: Vegetation classification, description and environmental factors by Peter Chatanga, Erwin J.J. Sieben

“…Conservation implications: The study can be invaluable to wetland scientists, managers, biodiversity conservationists, water resource managers and planners and vegetation ecologists in Southern Africa. About 70% of Lesotho falls in the Maloti-Drakensberg, accounting for about 60% of the region, and this makes the study important in biodiversity conservation planning, particularly in the Highlands. …”
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Replication in field ecology: Identifying challenges and proposing solutions by Alessandro Filazzola, James F. Cahill Jr

“…Furthermore, conducting experiments under the high variability of natural field conditions reduces the capacity for replication relative to other biological disciplines working under controlled conditions. Field ecologists are therefore facing a significant challenge in assessing the replicability of their research with implications for overall confidence in study outcomes. …”
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Ketoprofen as an emerging contaminant: occurrence, ecotoxicity and (bio)removal by Elena Tyumina, Elena Tyumina, Maria Subbotina, Maria Subbotina, Maxim Polygalov, Maxim Polygalov, Semyon Tyan, Semyon Tyan, Irina Ivshina, Irina Ivshina

“…This review will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including ecologists, microbiologists, policymakers, and those concerned about pharmaceutical pollution.…”
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Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot by Jasper A. Slingsby, Adam M. Wilson, Brian Maitner, Glenn R. Moncrieff

“…Comparing or coupling ecological forecasts from different scales within the same domain has much potential to provide new insights for decision‐makers and ecologists alike. They allow us to quantitatively link processes in space and time, potentially revealing feedbacks, interconnections and emergent properties, while providing powerful tools for testing decision scenarios and identifying trade‐offs or unanticipated outcomes. …”
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Metatranscriptome analyses indicate resource partitioning between diatoms in the field by Alexander, Harriet, Jenkins, Bethany D., Rynearson, Tatiana A., Dyhrman, Sonya T.

“…The vast diversity of the phytoplankton has long perplexed ecologists because these organisms coexist in an isotropic environment while competing for the same basic resources (e.g., inorganic nutrients). …”
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Invertebrate-mediated ecosystem processes are resilient to disturbance across a land-use gradient in Borneo by Chiew, Li Yuen, Brodie, Jedediah F., Burslem, David F. R. P., Reynolds, Glen, Vairappan, Charles S., Slade, Eleanor M.

“…A fundamental challenge for ecologists is to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on ecosystem processes and functions. …”
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