The forest floor (FF) plays a key role in carbon, nutrient, and water cycling. It is the biologically most active compartment of forest soils, highly responsive to environmental conditions. Yet, its response to current changes in environmental conditions and forest management is understudied. Temperate forests are among the best studied ecosystems globally, providing the necessary ecological and biogeochemical background infor...

Biodiversity is threatened globally by human-mediated alteration of natural environment. This includes East African wetland ecosystems that are subject to agriculture expansion and intensification. Monitoring of biodiversity is crucial to understand and mitigate biodiversity losses. Beetles, while rarely studied, are potentially useful bioindicators due to their sensitivity to environmental changes. Our study aimed at investig...

Body size constrains trophic interactions, shaping the feasibility of species' populations. Over macroevolutionary timescales, these constraints feed back to shape selection on body size and diet. We develop a bioenergetic, three‐level trophic framework—typical of terrestrial mammalian ecosystems—to explore how bioenergetic trade‐offs emerging from predator–prey interactions constrain coexistence. We show that interactions amo...

Burned forests—particularly at their edges—are expected to lose capacity for regeneration, and subsequent disturbances may further limit it. Animal–plant interactions are critical to the resilience of tropical forests to disturbances, as they sustain key ecological functions. However, climate and land-use changes are intensifying fire regimes, potentially disrupting these interactions. Using experimental approaches with artifi...

The emergence of antimicrobial resistance has encouraged a reappraisal of bacteriophage therapy for the mitigation of bacterial diseases in different environmental settings, including aquaculture. Here, we review aquaculture applications of phage therapy by considering its efficacy and potential for broader host‐associated effects, including host immunity, microbiome composition and behaviour. The advantages of phage therapy f...

Climate change is projected to exacerbate food insecurity in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) by reducing crop yields and soil fertility. Many climate change impact studies in SSA have overlooked long‐term effects of soil fertility on crop yield. We evaluated maize yields under different scenarios of soil fertility (using soil organic carbon as a proxy) and climate change (considering changes in temperature, rainfall, and CO 2 ) at fo...

This paper addresses the challenge of incorporating offshore wind power into reservoir management. Traditionally, oil and gas production is powered by gas turbines. While stable, gas turbines are a major source of CO2 emissions. In contrast, wind power produces power with minimal emissions. However, due to its high variability and uncertainty, including it in the optimization of operational strategies over extended periods can...

Purpose of Review We review how ‘abrupt thaw’ has been used in published studies, compare these definitions to abrupt processes in other Earth science disciplines, and provide a definitive framework for how abrupt thaw should be used in the context of permafrost science. Recent Findings We address several aspects of permafrost systems necessary for abrupt thaw to occur and propose a framework for classifying permafrost process...