Depth plays a crucial role in shaping marine biodiversity patterns, with species richness typically decreasing with depth. Despite extensive documentation of this pattern, the drivers of richness changes across depth remain unclear. Richness–depth patterns can arise from multiple proximate mechanisms acting simultaneously, such as changes in abundance, evenness, and the spatial aggregations of individuals. Using a unified fram...

Bioinvasions are considered mostly as a biodiversity and conservation hazard, but in specific situations, introduced species can bring ecological or socioeconomic benefits. We assessed the social–ecological role of marine introduced species in the eastern Mediterranean Sea—a global hotspot of bioinvasions and extirpations—and their potential relevance for achieving conservation and sustainability targets set by the Kunming–Mon...

Monitoring wildlife health is essential for conservation and management, wildlife and livestock welfare, and public health in a One Health framework. Yet, wildlife health monitoring often requires long‐term fieldwork and intensive sampling, which can be costly or logistically challenging, especially for remote, rare, or elusive populations. To address these challenges, we evaluated the feasibility and utility of integrating ca...

Aim Lizards are ancestrally diurnal, and most of them remain so. Nocturnality is common among lizards, but the environmental factors associated with lizard nocturnal activity are still unknown. Here, we contrasted the ambient temperature and productivity hypotheses, where we predicted that cold temperatures will pose a stonger limit to nocturnal species richness than diurnal lizards. Moreover, we contrasted the relative import...

Aim To map and assess the richness patterns of reptiles (and included groups: amphisbaenians, crocodiles, lizards, snakes and turtles) in Africa, quantify the overlap in species richness of reptiles (and included groups) with the other terrestrial vertebrate classes, investigate the environmental correlates underlying these patterns, and evaluate the role of range size on richness patterns. Location Africa. Methods We assemble...

Diel cycles of photosynthesis, respiration, and calcification were studied in situ on two hermatypic corals, Acropora eurystoma and Favia favus , using a submerged respirometer deployed at 5‐m depth in the Gulf of Eilat, Israel. A fast‐repetition‐rate fluorometer (FRRF) was placed in front of one coral in each incubation. Net photosynthesis (P N ) and calcification were positively correlated with photosynthetically available r...

Intensive chemosynthetic microbial activity fueled by H 2 S oxidation with dissolved O 2 was measured by 14 C fixation in the dark and in presence of 3‐(3,4‐dichlorophenyl)‐1,1‐dimethylurea in Lake Kinneret waters. This process occurred in water collected below the photic zone (20 m) at the chemocline in the late autumn (November—January) and close to the sediment water interface in May when the chemocline starts to form. Aver...