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Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long-Term Data 对长期数据支持的空间同步的洞察

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70112

Daniel C. Reuman, Jonathan A. Walter, Lawrence W. Sheppard, Vadim A. Karatayev, Ethan S. Kadiyala, Amanda C. Lohmann, Thomas L. Anderson, Nat J. Coombs, Kyle J. Haynes, Lauren M. Hallett, Max C. N. Castorani

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Correction to “A Non-Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories” 修正“非平衡物种分布模型揭示了对过去环境变化轨迹的空前深度的时间滞后响应”

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70123

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Causal Effects Versus Causal Mechanisms: Two Traditions With Different Requirements and Contributions Towards Causal Understanding 因果效应与因果机制：两种不同要求的传统及其对因果理解的贡献

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70029

James B. Grace, Nick Huntington-Klein, E. William Schweiger, Melinda Martinez, Michael J. Osland, Laura C. Feher, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Karen M. Thorne

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Networks in Aquatic Communities Collapse Upon Neonicotinoid-Induced Stress 水生生物群落网络在新烟碱引发的压力下崩溃

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70121

S. Henrik Barmentlo, Maarten Schrama, Ellen Cieraad, Geert R. de Snoo, C. J. M. Musters, Peter M. van Bodegom, Martina G. Vijver

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The Release of Non-Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk 非本地野禽的释放与人畜共患疾病风险增加有关

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70115

Emile Michels, Kayleigh Hansford, Sarah E. Perkins, Robbie A. McDonald, Jolyon M. Medlock, Barbara Tschirren

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Tea Bag Index Revisited: Risks of Misleading Decomposition Patterns 茶袋指数重温：误导性分解模式的风险

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70010

Taiki Mori

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The Assumptions of the Tea Bag Index and Their Implications: A Reply to Mori 2025 茶包指数的假设及其意义——对Mori 2025的答复

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70117

Judith M. Sarneel, Jeff W. Atkins, Laurent Augusto, Janna M. Barel, Sarah Duddigan, Nicolas Fanin, Mariet M. Hefting, Jonas J. Lembrechts, César Marín, Marshall D. McDaniel, Leonardo Montagnani, Tina Parkhurst, Matteo Petit Bon, Adriano Sofo, Joost A. Keuskamp

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Ecosystem Models Can Predict the Consequences of Conservation Management Decisions 生态系统模型可以预测保护管理决策的后果

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70116

Matthew S. Woodstock, Holden E. Harris

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Local Stabilising Density Effects in the Context of Ecological Disturbance and Community Assembly 生态干扰与群落聚集背景下的局部稳定密度效应

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70118

Cole J. Doolittle, Joseph A. LaManna

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Secondary Sympatry as a Sorting Process 次级共情作为分类过程

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70108

Sean A. S. Anderson, Daniel R. Matute

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