Contemporary temperate forest ecosystems are fragmented and set within matrices of surrounding landscapes with various land uses, generating forest-edge habitats with distinct conditions that influence forest organisms and their interactions. Seed-dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) is a prominent interaction for temperate forest understory plants. Here, we examine the effects of forest edges in common surrounding landscapes in e...

The full extent of the ecological threat posed by non-native invasive leguminous N-fixing trees to Italian ecosystems has not been thoroughly documented at the national level. This study, conducted by the Working Group on Alien Species of the Italian Botanical Society, aims to develop a comprehensive dataset that provides information on invaded and non-invaded areas, supporting multi-scale ecological analyses on the impact of...

Salinity maximum intrusions, subsurface layers of anomalously salty and warm continental slope water moving onto the continental shelf along the thermocline, are recurring features over the Northeast US Shelf and represent an important cross‐shelf exchange mechanism. While their physical characteristics have been described, the biological composition and ecological role of these intrusions remain poorly understood. Here, we co...

Danaid butterflies (Nymphalidae: Danainae) in Asia form seasonal aggregations and/or exhibit migratory flights similar to those of the North American monarch ( Danaus plexippus ). In contrast to this well-studied single-species system, however, Asian danaids form smaller multi-species aggregations and show seasonal movements which remain relatively understudied. In this study, we used publicly reportable stickers to tag 15,918...