Research on cephalopod early ontogeny has significantly advanced in recent decades, including embryo organogenesis and neurogenesis and early behavioural adaptations, particularly in commercially important and coastal species. Within this context, here we compiled current knowledge on the collection, handling and care under experimental conditions and monitoring in the field of cephalopod eggs and egg masses. It covers field o...

Motivation The database initiated by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is one of the few globally implemented standardized vegetation surveys in mountains. The focus is on collecting plant species occurrences at 5‐year intervals along and adjacent to mountain roads spanning elevational gradients, with the goal of providing critical information about the ongoing spread of non‐native plants and the potential impacts...

Open dumping (OD) is uncontrolled dumping of solid waste (SW) in an environment. It involves the illegal practice of dumping waste in areas not designated for waste management, such as open lands, flowing water bodies, or exposed waste piles. OD can contain a complex mixture of organic fractions, and various contaminants that, when infiltrated into the soil through leachate, compromise its stability and resistance. These conta...

Zygomorphy (bilateral symmetry) is a form of floral specialization that is thought to restrict pollination to fewer visitors, enhancing the effectiveness and precision of pollen transfer between conspecific flowers. In this way, zygomorphy may help the persistence (i.e., decrease extinction) of small and scattered populations, ensuring cross‐pollination even when individuals have few conspecifics nearby. In this study, we use...

This study examined whether monocular cues can facilitate reflexive attention in the absence of conscious access to the origin of the cue. Across three experiments, participants viewed brief, task-irrelevant, non-predictive cues, followed by targets presented through a mirror stereoscope. The cue and target were delivered to the same eye (valid trials) or the opposite eye (invalid trials). In Experiment 3 only, the cue was pre...

Homogenisation of agricultural landscapes, driven by intensive farming, is one of the key drivers of biodiversity decline in Europe. Whilst government schemes to address this have benefitted some invertebrate species, they have been less successful for bats, which require a landscape-scale approach due to their high mobility. ‘Mixed farming’, where livestock are integrated into arable crop rotation, has been proposed as a land...

Aim Mountain roads host plant communities that differ strongly from the adjacent natural vegetation. Besides the effect of propagule pressure, altered disturbance and soil processes, one of the reasons given for the strong influence of mountain roads on species distributions is a significantly altered soil thermal microclimate in the roadside compared to the adjacent vegetation, as a direct consequence of road disturbance. How...