Drone mapping links reindeer browsing during an herbivory pulse to divergent vegetation community responses by Marcus P Spiegel, Jeffrey T Kerby, Dorothée Ehrich, Alexander Volkovitskiy, Alexandra Terekhina, Violetta Filippova, Kirill Shklyar, Natalia Sokolova, Aleksandr A Sokolov, Marc Macias-Fauria

“…Large herbivores regulate ecosystem structure and functioning across Earth’s biomes, but vegetation community responses to herbivory depend on complex interactions involving the timing and intensity of herbivory pressure and other, often abiotic, controls on vegetation. …”
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soundClass: An automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning by Bruno Silva, Frederico Mestre, Sílvia Barreiro, Pedro J. Alves, José M. Herrera

“…Abstract Passive acoustic monitoring, a non‐invasive technique, is increasingly used to study animal populations and habitats at much larger spatial and temporal scales than standard methods. …”
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Sniffing out chemosensory genes from the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. by Paolo Siciliano, Francesca Scolari, Ludvik M Gomulski, Marco Falchetto, Mosè Manni, Paolo Gabrieli, Linda M Field, Jing-Jiang Zhou, Giuliano Gasperi, Anna R Malacrida

“…The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (medfly), is an extremely invasive agricultural pest due to its extremely wide host range and its ability to adapt to a broad range of climatic conditions and habitats. Chemosensory behaviour plays an important role in many crucial stages in the life of this insect, such as the detection of pheromone cues during mate pursuit and odorants during host plant localisation. …”
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Genetic potential for aerobic respiration and denitrification in globally distributed respiratory endosymbionts by Daan R. Speth, Linus M. Zeller, Jon S. Graf, Will A. Overholt, Kirsten Küsel, Jana Milucka

“…Strikingly, all four cMAGs encode a cytochrome cbb 3 oxidase, which indicates that these endosymbionts have the capacity for aerobic respiration. Accordingly, we detect these respiratory endosymbionts in diverse habitats worldwide, thus further expanding the ecological scope of this respiratory symbiosis.…”
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Deepsea fungi of the eastern tropical Pacific of Costa Rica: morphological, genetic, and enzymatic characterization by Ivonne Rodríguez Ramírez, Stefany Solano-González, Jorge Cortés, Jorge Cortés, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

“…IntroductionFungal communities have only been studied in a small portion of the vast variety of habitats that exist in deepsea environments, and studies aimed at understanding fungal diversity and function are minimal.ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to explore both the fungal diversity in deepsea sediments and the enzymatic activities present in them, which are related to the ecological roles of the strains and their biotechnological potential.MethodsEighteen sediment samples from three expeditions to deepsea areas of the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) of Costa Rica were analyzed. …”
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Physiological and Gene Expression Responses of Crassostrea ariakensis to Salinity Stress by Miaomiao YANG, Sudong XIA, Zhihong LIU, Xiujun SUN, Liqing ZHOU, Peizhen MA, Zhuanzhuan LI, Biao WU

“…However, global climate change and increasing human activities have intensified environmental fluctuations in marine habitats, which greatly affect the growth and physiological functions of oysters and other marine organisms. …”
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High diversity of fungal ecological groups from ice-free pristine and disturbed areas in the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica. by Sigisfredo Garnica, Genaro Soto-Rauch, Ellen M Leffler, Christian Núñez, Jonhatan Gómez-Espinoza, Enzo Romero, Ramón Ahumada-Rudolph, Jaime R Cabrera-Pardo

“…Although fungal communities are an important element of these habitats, knowledge of their assemblages and ecological functions is still limited. …”
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Modelling the influence of environmental factors on the acoustic presence of blue whale populations in the southern Indian Ocean by Mathilde Michel, Baptiste Alglave, Maxime Olmos, Maëlle Torterotot, Auriane Virgili, Salomé Martin-Marin, Jean-Yves Royer, Flore Samaran

“…Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) were applied for dimensionality reduction to identify key habitats, including the Kerguelen Plateau and Madagascar Basin, which may serve as important feeding and resting zones based on acoustic presence and environmental data. …”
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Photosynthetic response of Solidago gigantea Aition and Calamagrostis epigejos L. (Roth) to complex environmental stress on heavy metal contaminated sites by Wojciech Bąba, Agnieszka Kompała-Bąba, Edyta Sierka, Wojciech Bierza

“…Abstract Studies of in situ plant response and adaptation to complex environmental stresses, are crucial for understanding the mechanisms of formation and functioning of ecosystems of anthropogenically transformed habitats. …”
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Comparative analysis of the gut microbiota composition among three captive hornbills by Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Song Wang, Huajuan Feng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang

“…The research findings provide a scientific basis for the health management of captive hornbills and the microecological assessment of wild population habitats.…”
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eDNA metabarcoding shows highly diverse but distinct shallow, mid-water, and deep-water eukaryotic communities within a marine biodiversity hotspot by Patricia Cerrillo-Espinosa, Luis Eduardo Calderón-Aguilera, Pedro Medina-Rosas, Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Amílcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Ollin Tezontli González Cuellar, Adrian Munguia-Vega

“…The observation that mid-water and deep-water benthic and pelagic communities were as rich but quite distinct as shallow communities supports extending spatial management and conservation tools to deeper habitats to include a significant fraction of unique phylogenetic and functional diversity.…”
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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Mediterranean sea-rock pool mosquitoes Aedes mariae and Aedes zammitii by Valentina Mastrantonio, Daniele Porretta, Franco Liberati, Roberta Bisconti, Tiziana Castrignanò, Daniele Canestrelli

“…Here, we present the first de novo transcriptomes of the sea-rock pools mosquitoes Aedes mariae and Aedes zammitii, two species adapted to highly variable habitats. Using RNA-seq data obtained from larval stages, we assembled and annotated 95,059,578 reads for Ae. mariae and 101,050,236 reads for Ae. zammitii, detecting 49,352 transcripts with N50 of 2,615 for the former and 43,461 transcripts with N50 of 2,570 for the latter. …”
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Phylogenetic and transcriptomic analysis of chemosensory receptors in a pair of divergent ant species reveals sex-specific signatures of odor coding. by Xiaofan Zhou, Jesse D Slone, Antonis Rokas, Shelley L Berger, Jürgen Liebig, Anandasankar Ray, Danny Reinberg, Laurence J Zwiebel

“…Ants are a highly successful family of insects that thrive in a variety of habitats across the world. Perhaps their best-known features are complex social organization and strict division of labor, separating reproduction from the day-to-day maintenance and care of the colony, as well as strict discrimination against foreign individuals. …”
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Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains by Csaba Domokos, Sebastian Collet, Carsten Nowak, Ferenc Jánoska, Bogdan Cristescu

“…Linear transportation infrastructure threatens terrestrial mammals by altering their habitats, creating barriers to movement and increasing mortality risk. …”
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Characteristics of Microbial Diversity and Metabolic Versatility in Dynamic Mid-Okinawa Trough Subsurface Sediments by Youzhi Xin, Tao Zhang, Ye Chen, Linqiang Wu, Chengzhu Jiang, Nengyou Wu

“…Large-scale and multi-sample datasets have revealed that microbial diversity and geographic distribution patterns are distinct across various habitats, particularly between hydrothermal vent and cold seep ecosystems. …”
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Morphological characterization and DNA barcoding of Ruellia sp. in Saudi Arabia. by Jawaher Saad Almuteri, Mona Soliman Al Wahaibi, Abd El-Zaher Mohamad Mustafa, Manal Abdullah Alshaqhaa, Muhammed Afzal, Manar Dhafer Alshehri

“…For this purpose, plant samples were meticulously collected from eight distinct natural habitats across the region. All vegetative and floral parts were examined using a binocular microscope. …”
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Forest Management Intensity Affects Aquatic Communities in Artificial Tree Holes. by Jana S Petermann, Anja Rohland, Nora Sichardt, Peggy Lade, Brenda Guidetti, Wolfgang W Weisser, Martin M Gossner

“…Forest management could potentially affect organisms in all forest habitats. However, aquatic communities in water-filled tree-holes may be especially sensitive because of small population sizes, the risk of drought and potential dispersal limitation. …”
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Positive Selection of TLR2 and MyD88 Genes Provides Insights Into the Molecular Basis of Immunological Adaptation in Amphibians by Jie Zhang, Ruinan Zhao, Hongyan Bi, Jiaoying He, Yang Guo, Dian Liu, Ganggang Yang, Xiaohong Chen, Zhuo Chen

“…The highly conservation and functional significance of these two genes in amphibians were supported based on the sequence characteristics and evolutionary analyses. …”
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Genomic insights into novel predatory myxobacteria isolated from human feces by Joyasree Das, Shilpee Pal, Anu Negi, Shiva S. Sundharam, Amit Yadav, Srikrishna Subramanian, S. K. Sinha, Jayanta Samanta, Srinivasan Krishnamurthi

“…Based on evidence from detailed structural and functional genomics, we propose the novel species Myxococcus faecalis sp. nov. …”
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Quality evaluation of Polygonatum sibiricum slices from different regions based on appearance traits and multi-index metabolites combined with TOPSIS and gray relation analysis by Cheng Wang, Cheng Wang, Ju Ye, Sisi Jiang, Sisi Jiang, Xuguang He, Xuguang He, Min Ma, Min Ma, Li Yin

“…There were significant differences in traits and metabolite contents among slices from different habitats. OPLS-DA identified differential quality-affecting markers. …”
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