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    1. Monk, J. D., Giglio, E., Kamath, A., Lambert, M. R. & McDonough, C. E. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3, 1622–1631 (2019). Article Google Scholar 2. Dickins, T. E. & Rahman, Q. Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1187-5 (2020). 3. Clive, J., Flintham, […] More

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    New freshwater mussel taxa discoveries clarify biogeographic division of Southeast Asia

    New Unionidae genera and species from Southeast Asia Our multi-locus phylogenies were constructed using BEAST v2.6.1, MrBayes v3.2.6 and IQ-TREE v1.6.11 based on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), small ribosomal RNA (16 S rRNA), and the nuclear large ribosomal RNA (28 S rRNA) gene fragments. These analyses returned well-resolved consensus phylogenies having a similar […] More

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    Host-microbiota interaction helps to explain the bottom-up effects of climate change on a small rodent species

    Bottom-up effects of precipitation manipulation on Brandt’s voles To confirm the bottom-up effects of precipitation on small mammal, we monitored the vole population and plant community in a rainfall simulation experiment. We first assessed whether the plant community differed between rainfall treatment and control. In enclosures, the plant community structure mainly comprised of species such […] More

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    Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches

    Sampling design The Asinara National Park (http://www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.asinara/Eindex.php), located at the island of Asinara in the North-Western tip of Sardinia, Italy, covers a Marine Protected Area of about 110 km2. Before a National Park was established in 1997, the island hosted a hospital in the nineteenth century and then a prisoner camp and a maximum-security prison from […] More

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    Heavy reliance on plants for Romanian cave bears evidenced by amino acid nitrogen isotope analysis

    1. Bocherens, H. et al. The last of its kind? Radiocarbon, ancient DNA and stable isotope evidence from a late cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER, 1794) from Rochedane (France). Quat. Int. 339–340, 179–188 (2014). Article Google Scholar 2. Baca, M. et al. Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeus sensu lato). […] More

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    Accounting for detection unveils the intricacy of wild boar and rabbit co-occurrence patterns in a Mediterranean landscape

    1. Rich, L. N., Miller, D. A. W., Robinson, H. S., Mcnutt, J. W. & Kelly, M. J. Using camera trapping and hierarchical occupancy modelling to evaluate the spatial ecology of an African mammal community. J. Appl. Ecol. 53, 1225–1235 (2016). Article Google Scholar 2. Haynes, T. B. et al. Occupancy of yellow-billed and Pacific […] More

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    Digital agriculture to design sustainable agricultural systems

    This research was supported by the US Department of Agriculture/National Institute for Food and Agriculture (awards 2015-68007-23133 and 2018-67003-27406), US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (awards DESC0018409 and DE-FC02-07ER64494) and Michigan State University AgBioResearch. We thank G. P. Robertson, P. Grace, S. Swinton, J. Hatfield, R. Martinez-Feria, S. […] More

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    Soil bacterial community structure of mixed bamboo and broad-leaved forest based on tree crown width ratio

    1. Grayston, S. J. et al. Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques. Applied Soil Ecology 25, 63–84 (2004). Article Google Scholar 2. Ansola, G., Arroyo, P. & Miera, L. E. S. D. Characterisation of the soil bacterial community structure […] More