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Species Interactions Determine the Importance of Response Diversity for Community Stability to Pulse Disturbances 物种间的相互作用决定了响应多样性对脉冲扰动群落稳定性的重要性。

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70299

Charlotte Kunze, Owen L. Petchey, Shyamolina Ghosh, Helmut Hillebrand

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Plants Anticipating Help: A New Hypothesis in Plant Defence Theory 植物期待帮助：植物防御理论的一个新假说。

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70305

Michael S. Singer, Tamara M. Kancoglu, Hartmut A. Doerwaldt, Alesandra G. Fairchild, Isabelle E. Harper, Harmony S. Lemire, Caitlin McNamara, Isaac McPherson, Mariema Tall

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Variability, Drivers, and Utility of Genetic Diversity-Area Relationships in Terrestrial Vertebrates 陆地脊椎动物遗传多样性区域关系的变异、驱动因素和效用。

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70306

Chloé Schmidt, Sean Hoban, Deborah M. Leigh, Walter Jetz, Colin J. Garroway

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How do Empirical Metacommunity Ecologists (not) Define Local Communities and How Could These be Better Defined? 经验元群落生态学家（非）如何定义本地群落？如何更好地定义这些群落？

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70298

Lluís Serra-Domínguez, Otso Ovaskainen, Nerea Abrego

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Foundation Species Modulate Microbial Benthic–Pelagic Coupling in the Rocky Intertidal 基岩物种调节岩石潮间带底-上层微生物耦合

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70301

Nyssa J. Silbiger, Jennifer B. Fields, Craig E. Nelson, Linda Wegley Kelly

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High Quality, Granular, Timely, Trustworthy and Efficient Vertebrate Species Distribution Data Across a 30,000 km2 Protected Area Complex 高质量、细粒度、及时、可靠、高效的3万公里保护区脊椎动物物种分布数据

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70302

Yinqiu Ji, Alex Diana, Xueyou Li, Eleni Matechou, Jim E. Griffin, Shuwei Liu, Mingjie Luo, Chunying Wu, Ru Bai, Chenyang Yao, Tingting Yin, Feng Dong, Fei Wu, Kai Wang, Zhongbin Yu, Xiaoyong Chen, Xuelong Jiang, Jing Che, Douglas W. Yu, Viorel D. Popescu

{"title":"High Quality, Granular, Timely, Trustworthy and Efficient Vertebrate Species Distribution Data Across a 30,000 km2 Protected Area Complex","authors":"Yinqiu Ji, Alex Diana, Xueyou Li, Eleni Matechou, Jim E. Griffin, Shuwei Liu, Mingjie Luo, Chunying Wu, Ru Bai, Chenyang Yao, Tingting Yin, Feng Dong, Fei Wu, Kai Wang, Zhongbin Yu, Xiaoyong Chen, Xuelong Jiang, Jing Che, Douglas W. Yu, Viorel D. Popescu","doi":"10.1111/ele.70302","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.70302","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The routine generation of species distribution data at scale remains a challenge. We used aquatic environmental DNA metabarcoding to sample vertebrate species across the 30,000 km<sup>2</sup> Gaoligongshan region along the China–Myanmar border. In just 56 calendar days (33 researcher-field-days + 69 researcher-lab-days), we detected 389 vertebrate species, of which 35 are Red-Listed. We introduce the ‘eDNA-aware’ OccPlus occupancy model, which accounts for false-negative and false-positive error in the field and lab. OccPlus leverages the taxonomic breadth of eDNA datasets by using ordination to estimate species occupancies. We recover known biogeographic patterns and find that native terrestrial and fish species have higher occupancies inside protected areas while domesticated species and non-native fishes have higher occupancies outside them. Our study demonstrates how eDNA metabarcoding can obtain high-quality, granular, timely, trustworthy and efficient species distribution data to facilitate nature conservation and restoration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interspecific Competition Reduces Energy Expenditure by Decreasing Intragroup Conflict in a Social Burying Beetle 种间竞争通过减少群内冲突减少能量消耗

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70300

Bo-Fei Chen, Yi-Ching Li, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Angèle Rolland, Syuan-Jyun Sun, Mark Liu, De-Pei Chen, Sheng-Feng Shen

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Spatial Factors Shape Taxonomic and Functional Beta-Diversity in Water-Filled Tree Holes in Different Biogeographical Regions 空间因子影响不同生物地理区域充水树洞的分类和功能多样性

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70294

Francesca Cerroti, Thibaut Rota, Francisco Valente-Neto, K. T. Fahis, Red Calore, Gustavo Q. Romero, Karumampoyil Sakthidas Anoop Das, Andreas Bruder, Martin M. Gossner

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Are Human Super-Predators Always Super-Scary? A Meta-Analysis of Wild Animal Behavioural Responses to Human Interactions 人类的超级捕食者总是超级可怕吗？野生动物对人类互动行为反应的荟萃分析

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70287

Shawn Dsouza, Kartik Shanker, Maria Thaker

{"title":"Are Human Super-Predators Always Super-Scary? A Meta-Analysis of Wild Animal Behavioural Responses to Human Interactions","authors":"Shawn Dsouza, Kartik Shanker, Maria Thaker","doi":"10.1111/ele.70287","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ele.70287","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Humans interact with wild animals through lethal and non-lethal activities. While theory predicts that these interactions should alter animal behaviour, the relative magnitude of impact is not well understood. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the past 30 years of research, focusing on changes in foraging, vigilance and movement behaviours in wild animals. We found that lethal human activities (e.g., hunting) cause significant behavioural changes, with targeted species increasing vigilance and reducing foraging in affected areas. Active non-lethal activities (e.g., tourism) elicited similar but weaker patterns, with many species showing little to no change in their behavioural responses. In contrast, passive non-lethal interactions (e.g., roads) produced highly variable responses. Overall, human-induced fear elicits responses in wild animals that broadly align with predictions from the risk allocation hypothesis. However, the magnitude and direction of animal responses depend on the type of human activity and the ecological context. The most pronounced behavioural changes occur where humans pose a direct lethal threat. Gaps in the literature, uneven data within and across species, and limited information on the history or context of interactions currently limit our ability to better predict when and why animals change their behaviour in response to humans.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145829888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Choices to Landscapes: Mechanisms of Animal Movement Scale to Landscape Patterns of Space Use 景观选择：动物运动尺度对空间利用景观格局的影响机制

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70279

Will Rogers, Scott Yanco, Walter Jetz

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