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Hello everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, Range-wide full-cycle modeling reveals that subadult winter survival drives long-term decline of tōrea, showing productivity gains alone cannot offset mortality; integrated strategies across seasons are essential 🌎

Are diverse forests thirstier? A meta‐analysis reveals no evidence for a consistent effect of species or functional diversity on tree transpiration This study found that neither species nor functional diversity had a systematic influence on the effect of diversity on transpiration. Instead, only functional identity was found to exert a driving…

Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, functional identity, not species or richness, drives variability in tree transpiration under drought, highlighting wood density and gymnosperm traits as key predictors of water-use responses 🌎🍁

Dynamic visual effects enhance flower conspicuousness but compromise color perception Dynamic visual signaling has evolved in flowers to exploit perceptual constraints in pollinators.

Today in "one day one paper"glossy floral surfaces enhance long-distance detectability for pollinators but hinder fine color discrimination.This optical trade-off, widespread across angiosperms, reveals how dynamic visual effects balance visibility and signal reliability in ecological interactions🍁🌎

Belowground effects of ground‐dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally. Effects are context-dependent, vary among species and forest types, and remain poorly studied in tropic....

Hi.Today in "one day one paper", large terrestrial herbivores reshape forest nutrient cycling, with ruminants often slowing litter decomposition while non-ruminants and frugivores enhance soil fertility.Context dependency and tropical forest gaps highlight urgent need for long-term diverse research🌎

A comparison of water use strategies between pure and mixed forests on the Chinese Loess Plateau Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, mixed forests in China’s Loess Plateau show deeper water uptake and stricter stomatal regulation, enhancing resilience under drought and offering key insights for sustainable afforestation 🌎

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…

Good morning everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", community-level indices from beach-cast macroalgae—turbidity tolerance and thallus length—correlate with coastal chlorophyll-a, providing functional trait-based, scalable proxies for eutrophication monitoring within ecological frameworks 🌎

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Plant litter effects on soil carbon stabilization and nitrogen availability: A trade‐off and some versatile species Among plant species, litter inputs to soil typically favour substantially either soil carbon stabilization or soil nitrogen availability, rarely both. Similarly, within species, roots contribute 33% ...

Good mornig everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", leaf and root litter drive complementary soil functions: roots enhance carbon stabilization, leaves boost nitrogen availability. Versatile species break trade-offs, offering pathways to agroecosystem multifunctionality 🌎🍁

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....

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 🌎

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....

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 🌎🍁

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....

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎

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....

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🌎🍁

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...

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🌎

Sprouting as a survivorship trait for woody plants: The influence of trunk size and neighbourhood competition Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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 🍁🌎

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...

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 🌎

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…

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 🌎

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...

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 🍁🌎

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…

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🌎

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 ...

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎

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...

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 🍁🌎

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…

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 🌎

Morphological constraints on plant‐mediated methane release and oxidation under experimental warming in a peatland and meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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 🌎

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.

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎

Potential lasting effect of opportunistic parasitic fungi on coarse wood decomposition Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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 🌎

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...

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 🌎