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Semi‐Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural LandscapesNARA Subscribed
Crop diversification is a promising strategy to strengthen pest control services in agricultural landscapes. Diversifying crops may limit pests through host crop dilution or by enhancing top‐down control by their enemies. However, crop diversification may also benefit generalist pests through higher resource continuity. Using a large‐scale dataset encompassing 742 landscapes across 13 countries, we assessed the impact of lands...
Background and aims Agricultural soils in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa are often low in soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (N), making them vulnerable to degradation and threatening food security of smallholder farmers. Conservation agriculture practices such as mulching are promoted as climate-resilient strategies to improve soil fertility, but it remains unclear whether these practices improve soil biogeochemical propert...
Trait‐based approaches are key to understanding eco‐evolutionary processes but rarely account for animal behaviour despite its central role in ecosystem dynamics. We propose integrating behaviour into trait‐based ecology through movement traits—standardised and comparable measures of animal movement derived from biologging data, such as daily displacements or range sizes. Accounting for animal behaviour will advance trait‐base...
Urbanisation Is Related to the Prevalence of Threatened Species on Islands Across the GlobeNARA Subscribed
Aim To assess how environmental characteristics and human impacts contribute to the global prevalence of threatened bird species on islands (the ratio of threatened to non‐threatened species per island), and to identify which types of land use are most strongly associated with extinction risk on islands. Location Global. Time Period Present‐day extant species and land‐use patterns. Major Taxa Studied Terrestrial birds. Methods...
Informatics for toxicokineticsNARA Subscribed
Trophic Interactions Are Key to Understanding the Effects of Global Change on the Distribution and Functional Role of the Brown BearNARA Subscribed
Biotic interactions are expected to influence species' responses to global changes, but they are rarely considered across broad spatial extents. Abiotic factors are thought to operate at larger spatial scales, while biotic factors, such as species interactions, are considered more important at local scales within communities, in part because of the knowledge gap on species interactions at large spatial scales (i.e., the Eltoni...
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human‐induced environmental changes are compromising the long‐term persistence of plant‐pollinator interactions. Unfortunately, we lack robust, generalisable data capturing how plant‐pollinator communities are structured across space and time. Here, we present the EuPPollNet (European Plant‐Pollinator Networks) database,...
The biogeochemical boomerang: Site fidelity creates nutritional hotspots that may promote recurrent calving site reuseNARA Subscribed
Animals interact with nutrient cycles by consuming and depositing nutrients, interactions studied separately in nutritional ecology and zoogeochemistry. Recent theoretical work bridges these disciplines, highlighting that animal‐driven nutrient recycling could be crucial in helping animals meet their nutritional needs. When animals exhibit site fidelity, they consistently deposit nutrients, potentially improving vegetation qua...
The fundamental goal of a rare plant translocation is to create self‐sustaining populations with the evolutionary resilience to persist in the long term. Yet, most plant translocation syntheses focus on a few factors influencing short‐term benchmarks of success (e.g., survival and reproduction). Short‐term benchmarks can be misleading when trying to infer future growth and viability because the factors that promote establishme...
Die zirkadiane Uhr und das VerhaltenNARA Subscribed
Most organisms have evolved an internal clock to predict daily recurring events. This clock with a period of about 24 hours, termed circadian clock, allows organisms to organize biochemical and physiological processes over one day. Changes in lighting conditions as they occur naturally over seasons or man-made by jet lag or shift work, change sleep phase in order to synchronize an organism’s physiology to the environment. A mi...