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    Can information from citizen science data be used to predict biodiversity in stormwater ponds?

    1. Venter, O. et al. Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications 7, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12558. (2016). 2. Troudet, J. et al. Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences. Scientific Reports 7, 9132 (2017). ADS  Article  Google Scholar  3. Dickinson, J. L., Zuckerberg, B. & Bonter, […] More

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    Competitive traits of coral symbionts may alter the structure and function of the microbiome

    1. Bestion E, García-Carreras B, Schaum C-E, Pawar S, Yvon-Durocher G. Metabolic traits predict the effects of warming on phytoplankton competition. Ecol Lett. 2018;21:655–64. PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  2. Burson A, Stomp M, Greenwell E, Grosse J, Huisman J. Competition for nutrients and light: testing advances in resource competition with a natural phytoplankton community. […] More

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    Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire

    SGEFA-based quantification of environmental controls The multivariate statistical approach, SGEFA, assesses the response of a rapidly changing atmospheric or ecological variable, such as fire carbon emission and burned area fraction (Supplementary Fig. 3), to a set of slowly changing environmental forcings, such as SST, soil moisture, or LAI17,18,24,25,26. At timescale, τ (currently assigned to 1 month), […] More

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    Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

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    Can Mitogenomes of the Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) Reconstruct Its Phylogeography and Reveal the Origin of Migrant Birds?

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    The propensity for re-triggered predation fear in a prey fish

    1. Zanette, L. Y. & Clinchy, M. In APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology Vol. 1 (ed. J. Call) 815–831 (APA Books, 2017). 2. Crane, A. L., Brown, G. E., Chivers, D. P. & Ferrari, M. C. O. An ecological framework of neophobia: from cells to organisms to populations. Biol Rev 95, 218–231 (2020). Google Scholar  […] More