bioRxiv Ecology

Integrating functional and phylogenetic perspectives reveals new priorities for bird and mammal conservation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.690976v1

Towards a multi-metric assessment of river restoration ecological outcomes across projects and contexts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693400v1

Optimal Field Sampling Framework for Disease Surveillance of Clonally Propagated Plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693344v1

Dynamic emperor penguin colonies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693874v1

Know Today, Know Tomorrow: Ensemble Forecasting of Wildlife Sightings from Temporal Dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693309v1

Using social network analysis and non-invasive antibody detection to explore pathogen exposure in wildlife communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693199v1

Development and evaluation of a low-cost, automated camera trap for surveying bumble bee communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692866v1

Low quality evidence dominates discussion of carbon benefits of alternative grazing strategies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693242v1

How to Become Invisible to Mosquitoes: A Computational Study of Host Signal Collapse https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693171v1

Diversity and community structure of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria are shaped by the deep chlorophyll maximum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693174v1

Plasticity Associated with Adoption of Social Roles in Clown Anemonefish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693150v1

Modelling temporal shift-invariance in self-supervised generative models improves accuracy and interpretability of species detection in soundscape recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693207v1

High pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 (clade 2.3.4.4b) drives mass mortality in Eurasian crane (Grus grus) populations in Germany, 2025 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692485v1

Culex (Culex) acharistus, Root, 1927 (Diptera: Culicidae), a new record for Bolivia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692992v1

Five years of national airborne pollen monitoring in South Africa: Biome-specific calendars to inform allergy diagnosis and prevention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693198v1

River pollution threatens preferred macroinvertebrate prey of endemic fishes in Aotearoa, New Zealand https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693065v1

Rhizobia independently adapt to soil and legume host environments, but soil conditions influence the abundance of high-quality partners. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692960v1

Elevated CO2 induces phyllosphere community changes in soybean https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693023v1

Apparent failure and cryptic success of disease control via intermediate host population reduction: Density dependence in copepods has implications for Guinea worm disease transmission https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693001v1

Y-linked editors for invasive rodent control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693037v1

Adaptation to heat and ocean fertilization, two keys for understanding the massive Sargassum growth in the Atlantic https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692933v1

Ecology of hydrocarbon degradation in widespread viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692962v1

Out of sight, out of mind: Removal of predators by fisheries alters reef fish behaviour. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692929v1

MacroMove: a global database of animal movement across taxa and movement types https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692918v1

Biological effects of truffle extracts on bacteria, fungi, and microalgae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692890v1

Kin-number distributions over age, sex, and time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692903v1

Deferred mortality: cyclic thermal stress during pupation triggers irreversible carry-over costs in a key pollinator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692821v1

Novel integrated risk index reveals uneven impact of climate change on fascioliasis risk across Africa and Europe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692276v1

Statistics used by ecologists: the rise of R statistical software, GLM(M)s and Networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692382v1

Living on the edge: warmer climate reduces leaf thermal safety margins and causes gas exchange decoupling in Mediterranean shrubs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.06.692718v1