{"title":"ITSxRust: ITS Region extraction with partial-chain recovery and structured diagnostics for long-read amplicon sequencing","authors":"Aaron O'Brien, Catalina Lagos, Kiara Fernández, Bárbara Ojeda, Pilar Parada","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70393","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 10","pages":"2843-2853"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Nahian Ahmed, Mark Roth, Tyler A. Hallman, W. Douglas Robinson, Rebecca A. Hutchinson
{"title":"A comparison of clustering approaches to create sites for occupancy models from opportunistic biodiversity surveys","authors":"Nahian Ahmed, Mark Roth, Tyler A. Hallman, W. Douglas Robinson, Rebecca A. Hutchinson","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70395","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 10","pages":"2977-2993"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Man Qi, Alice Rosen, Yadvinder Malhi, Roberto Salguero-Gómez
{"title":"Context-engineering large language models for scalable structured metadata extraction in ecological literature reviews","authors":"Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Man Qi, Alice Rosen, Yadvinder Malhi, Roberto Salguero-Gómez","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 10","pages":"3006-3018"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Emilie Cathelin, Sébastien Lefebvre, Carolina Giraldo, Andrew Parnell
{"title":"Embracing uncertainty in time: A Bayesian dynamic mixing model for isotopic diet estimation","authors":"Emilie Cathelin, Sébastien Lefebvre, Carolina Giraldo, Andrew Parnell","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70391","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 10","pages":"2928-2942"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Aaron I. Plex Sulá, Krishna Keshav, Ashish Adhikari, Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda, Jacobo Robledo, Stavan Nikhilchandra Shah, Karen A. Garrett
{"title":"geohabnet: An R package for mapping habitat connectivity for biosecurity and conservation","authors":"Aaron I. Plex Sulá, Krishna Keshav, Ashish Adhikari, Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda, Jacobo Robledo, Stavan Nikhilchandra Shah, Karen A. Garrett","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70377","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 10","pages":"2862-2872"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Valentina Simonetti, Bianca Bonato, Silvia Guerra, Sara Avesani, Luca Semenzato, Maria Bulgheroni, Gabriela Gjinaj, Laura Ravazzolo, Marco Dadda, Umberto Castiello
{"title":"Mind(the)Plant: An expandable multimodal facility for the integrated characterization of plant behaviour.","authors":"Valentina Simonetti, Bianca Bonato, Silvia Guerra, Sara Avesani, Luca Semenzato, Maria Bulgheroni, Gabriela Gjinaj, Laura Ravazzolo, Marco Dadda, Umberto Castiello","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/2041-210x.70411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding plant behaviour requires the integration of multiple phenotypic and physiological signals measured over time under controlled conditions. However, different plant signals are typically studied using separate experimental setups, limiting temporal alignment and integrative analyses.We present Mind(the)Plant, a modular experimental facility designed for the synchronized, long-term acquisition of multimodal plant data, including three-dimensional shoot kinematics, above- and below-ground volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and root imaging. Its modular architecture is designed to accommodate additional acquisition modules, such as electrophysiological signalling, as future extensions. The platform integrates a controlled growth environment with stereovision imaging, high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry and custom rhizocameras. These components are connected through a unified network infrastructure that ensures synchronized acquisition and centralized data handling.We validate the performance of each acquisition module through multi-week recordings, demonstrating high-temporal stability, reliable stereovision synchronization, effective isolation of VOCs signals and robust operation of below-ground imaging. We further illustrate the analytical potential of the platform using a one-day continuous multimodal acquisition combining shoot kinematics, above-ground VOC emissions, rhizocameras observations and environmental data.Mind(the)Plant provides a novel methodological framework for studying plant behaviour, signalling and phenotypic plasticity in ecological and evolutionary research. By enabling coordinated measurements of multiple plant response modalities, the platform supports investigations of dynamic plant-environment and plant-plant interactions from a behavioural perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7619469/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148910129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Johanna Orsholm, Alessandro Zito, Panu Somervuo, Jesse P. Harrison, Markus Koskela, Otso Ovaskainen, Mariana P. Braga, Nicolas Chazot, Tomas Roslin, Brendan Furneaux
{"title":"Discovering the unseen: A performance comparison of taxonomic classification methods for unknown DNA barcodes","authors":"Johanna Orsholm, Alessandro Zito, Panu Somervuo, Jesse P. Harrison, Markus Koskela, Otso Ovaskainen, Mariana P. Braga, Nicolas Chazot, Tomas Roslin, Brendan Furneaux","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 9","pages":"2574-2593"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148862469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Novel class identification: A human-in-the-loop approach for efficient species recognition in bioacoustic data","authors":"Hannes Kath, Thiago S. Gouvêa, Daniel Sonntag","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70373","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 9","pages":"2683-2700"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70373","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148862530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Marta Gómez-Recio, Markus Bastir, Gael Deboeck, Antonella LoMauro, Andrea Aliverti, Véronique Feipel, Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker, Benoit Beyer
{"title":"A 4D geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motion","authors":"Marta Gómez-Recio, Markus Bastir, Gael Deboeck, Antonella LoMauro, Andrea Aliverti, Véronique Feipel, Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker, Benoit Beyer","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 9","pages":"2616-2628"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148862256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Antica Culina, Dugald Foster, Matthew Grainger, Rose E. O'Dea, Oliver L. Pescott, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Robin J. Boyd, Julia Koricheva, Shinichi Nakagawa, Gavin Stewart
{"title":"Elevating the importance of Risk of Bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology","authors":"Antica Culina, Dugald Foster, Matthew Grainger, Rose E. O'Dea, Oliver L. Pescott, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Robin J. Boyd, Julia Koricheva, Shinichi Nakagawa, Gavin Stewart","doi":"10.1111/2041-210x.70356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70356","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":208,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"17 9","pages":"2559-2573"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148862443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}