Animal-borne cameras are effective tools to study the fine-scale behavior and habitat use of a wide range of marine taxa, including birds, mammals, sea turtles, and elasmobranchs. We deployed animal-borne camera and accelerometer packages on 13 juvenile white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias ; 174–283 cm total length) along the coast of New South Wales (Australia) to investigate white shark foraging behavior and habitat prefere...

Excessive copper (Cu) absorption in calves may increase the risk of excessive hepatic Cu accumulation, likely driven by their elevated pre-ruminant absorptive capacity, with the potential for harmful Cu accumulation leading to adverse health and productivity outcomes. However, quantitative data across the weaning transition remains limited. This study utilized secondary data and bio-banked samples from 35 Holstein–Friesian bul...

Biodiversity loss can lead to biotic homogenization, whereby local communities within a region become increasingly similar over time, resulting in simplified communities with reduced functionality. However, our understanding of whether alleviating anthropogenic stress can reverse homogenization and promote biotic differentiation (i.e., increasing dissimilarity) remains limited, partly because the effectiveness of conservation...

Blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrasses, are important for climate mitigation. As carbon sinks, they often exhibit higher per hectare carbon storage capacity and sequestration rates than terrestrial systems. These ecosystems provide additional benefits, including enhancing water quality, sustaining biodiversity, and maintaining coastal resilience to climate change impacts. The widespread loss o...

The Haast tokoeka ( Apteryx australis ‘Haast’) is a threatened evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) of tokoeka or southern brown kiwi in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this study, we investigated the genetic relationships of a small newly discovered population of tokoeka located at Junction Hill near Haast, which is geographically isolated from other tokoeka populations. Using pin feathers collected from five individuals at Junctio...

Theory suggests that large social groups of carnivores should be unsustainable, due to reduced foraging efficiency because of overlapping perception radii. Using Serengeti lions as a case study, we apply behaviourally based foraging models to show that fragmentation of social groups into smaller subgroups or mutual cooperation during hunting are both plausible hypothetical mechanisms capable of sustaining larger lion prides. D...

Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected areas. However, doing so is hindered by missing information on most species owing to extremely high insect diversity and difficulties in morphological identification. To address this knowledge gap, we used one of the most comprehe...

Freshwater ecosystems face significant threats, including pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change. To address these challenges, management strategies and restoration efforts have been broadly implemented. Across Europe, such efforts have resulted in overall improvements in freshwater biodiversity, but recovery has stalled or failed to occur in many localities, which may be partly caused by the limited dis...

Aim To determine which riverine invertebrate traits respond consistently to anthropogenic impacts across multiple biogeographic regions. Location Europe. Time Period 1981–2021. Major Taxa Studied Riverine invertebrates. Methods We compiled a database of riverine invertebrate community time series for 673 sites across six European countries spanning six freshwater ecoregions. We compared trait responses to anthropogenic impacts...

Agricultural systems have a long history of responding to various economic and socio-political forces, including supply and demand, political preferences and power inequalities. Our current food system continues to respond to contemporary forces with a call for sustainable transformations in the face of increased pressure and competition over resources, severe consequences of climatic change, widespread degradation of land and...