Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and noninvasive monitoring techniques that can gather large amounts of data cost‐effectively at various ecological scales, from local to large spatial scales. These data can then be analyzed to inform stakeholders and decision‐makers. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal sp...

Drylands, supporting significant global biodiversity, exhibit abrupt, non‐linear responses to increasing aridity with drastic declines after threshold crossing. While plant and soil responses are documented, impacts on other organisms remain unclear, as well as their potential interactions with other anthropogenic drivers. We investigated changes in taxonomic and trophic richness of multiple organisms, from bacteria to mammals...

Aim Despite the increasing scientific evidence on the importance of carrion in the ecology and evolution of many vertebrates, scavenging is still barely considered in diet studies. Here, we draw attention to how scientific literature has underestimated the role of vertebrates as scavengers, identifying the ecological traits that characterize those species whose role as scavengers could have gone especially unnoticed. Location...