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Unravelling spatial scale effects on elevational diversity gradients: insights from montane small mammals in Kenya
Background Montane ecosystems play crucial roles as global biodiversity hotspots. However, climatic changes and anthropogenic pressure increasingly threaten the stability of montane community dynamics, such as diversity-elevation interactions, creating a challenge in understanding species biogeograp…
Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity drive leaf trait variation in the California endemic toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
AbstractPremiseTo survive climate change and habitat loss, plants must rely on phenotypic changes in response to the environment, local adaptation, or migration. Understanding the drivers of intraspecific variation is critical to anticipate how plant species will respond to climate change and to inf…
Habitat fragmentation drives pest termite risk in humid, but not arid, biomes
Predicting global change effects poses significant challenges due to the intricate interplay between climate change and anthropogenic stressors in shaping ecological communities and their function, such as pest outbreak risk. Termites are ecosystem engineers, yet some pest species are causing worldw…
A new record of Begonia aptera in Southern Mindanao: the second species of Begonia sect. Platycentrum recorded from the Philippines
Begonia aptera was recently found during expeditions in the Matutum and Melibengoy mountains in South Cotabato province, southern Mindanao island, Philippines. The identification of the species was affirmed by the morphological similarities of the samples to specimens from the neighbouring island of…
First data on dragonflies (Odonata) of Dagestan highlands, Russia
Published data on Odonata of Dagestan in highland habitats, that is situated above the tree line, were confined to registration in 1924–1926 of Aeshna juncea (Linnaeus, 1758) at Kurush village (the southernmost settlement of Russia). During the focused studies on the dragonflies of Dagestan in 2021–…
Findings to the flora of Russia and adjacent countries: New national and regional vascular plant records, 5
With this paper we continue an annual series, the main purpose of which is to make significant floristic findings from Russia and neighboring countries more visible in Russia and abroad. In total, this paper presents new records for 60 vascular plant species from 5 Eurasian countries, obtained durin…
The alien and invasive plant species that may be a future conservation threat to the Lesotho Afro-alpine Drakensberg area
In this study, we documented and compared similarities of the alien plant species richness between South Africa represented by three provinces: Free State (FS), Eastern Cape (EC), and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), and Lesotho—an important water source area for southern Africa. We tested the prediction that a…
The Current Report of Herpetofauna in Enggano Island, Bengkulu, Indonesia, with Two New Record of Amphibian Species
Enggano Island has a unique and interesting endemic species to study. Data collection on the Enggano's herpetofauna was last carried out in 2015, and there was a data gap for six years. Therefore, it is necessary to research herpetofauna diversity on the island. The study used Visual Encountered Sur…
GBIF occurrence data for Red Book predatory birds in the Republic of Moldova
The book contains the abstracts and program of the international zoological congress ZOOLOGYCON 2024, organized by the Grigore Antipa Museum and held in Bucharest, Romania from 6th to 9th November 2024.
Continental-scale empirical evidence for relationships between fire response strategies and fire frequency
• Theory suggests that the dominance of resprouting and seeding, two key mechanisms through which plants persist with recurrent fire, both depend on other traits and vary with fire regime. However, these patterns remain largely untested over broad scales. • We analysed the relationships between aver…
Analyzing the Distribution Patterns of Endemic Quercus vulcanica (Boiss. et Heldr. ex) Kotschy in Türkiye Under Climate Change Using Ensemble Modeling…
Quercus vulcanica (Boiss. et Heldr. ex) Kotschy (Kasnak oak), one of the 18 Quercus species naturally distributed in Anatolia, is an endemic species with a restricted distribution range. In accordance with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Endangered Species c…
A new genus for the Blackfin Sucker, Thoburnia atripinnis (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae)
Thoburnia atripinnis is more closely related to Hypentelium (hogsuckers) than it is to other Thoburnia, and its presence in the Barren River of Kentucky is disjunct from that of true Thoburnia. Its unique morphology is unlike that of the easily recognized hogsuckers, making placement of the species …
Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country
Climate projections for continental Europe indicate drier summers, increased annual precipitation, and less snowy winters, which are expected to cause shifts in species' distributions. Yet, most regions/countries currently lack comprehensive climate‐driven biodiversity projections across taxonomic g…
Shifts in the habitat suitability for large hammerhead sharks under climate change
One of the chief consequences of climate change is the worldwide redistribution of species in the pursuit of physiologically and ecologically favourable conditions. As part of one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates, assessing how climate change may affect the distribution patterns of key s…
The impacts of climate variability on the niche concept and distributions of species
1Inter-annual climate variability affects the long-term growth rate and thus the viability of populations. Despite the importance of climate variability, niche models and species distribution models (SDMs) typically do not account for it. This causes systematic biases in the projected distributions …
An annotated checklist of the bees of Washington state
AbstractBees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) are vital components of global ecosystems, yet knowledge of their distribution is limited in many regions. Washington state is located in an ecologically diverse part of North America and encompasses habitat types and plant communities known for high bee species r…
Climate change alters the future of natural floristic regions of deep evolutionary origins
Biogeographic regions reflect the organization of biotas over long evolutionary timescales but face alterations from recent anthropogenic climate change. Here, we model species distributions for 189,269 vascular plant species of the world under present and future climates and use this data to genera…
Shared patterns of population genomic variation and phenotypic response across rapid range expansions in two invasive lady beetle species
Non-native lady beetle species have often been introduced, with variable success, into North America for biological control of aphids, scales, whiteflies, and other agricultural pests. Two predatory lady beetle species, Propylea quatuordecimpunctata and Hippodamia variegata, both originating from Eu…
Hymenochaete ametzii sp. nov. (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota), an endangered bark-dwelling species inhabiting old Quercus pyrenaica trees from the Ib…
Bark-dwelling fungi represent a group of ecologically highly specialized organisms. This study deals with an undescribed species of Hymenochaete characterized by specifically inhabiting the bark of Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica), and producing effuse-reflexed basidiomata and mainly globose to subg…
Evaluation of climate conditions and ecological traits that limit the distribution expansion of alien Lolium rigidum in Japan
AbstractInvasive alien plants cause severe global problems; therefore, determining the factors that lead to the success or failure of invasion is a critical question in the field of invasion ecology. In this study, we aimed to determine the factors underlying differences in the distribution range of…
Newly found and rediscovered hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) in Poland: Indicators of climate change impact in Central Europe
AbstractIn 2023, field research in south-western Poland led to the noteworthy discovery of two hornworts: Notothylasorbicularis, a species previously unrecorded in this country, and the rediscovery of Anthocerosneesii for the Polish bryoflora. These findings are significant as they suggest a respons…
A comprehensive framework to assess multi‐species landscape connectivity
Due to the central role of landscape connectivity in many ecological processes, evaluating and accounting for it has gained attention in both theoretical and applied ecological sciences. To address this challenge, researchers often use generic species to simplify multi‐species connectivity assessmen…
Climate and host plant availability are favourable to the establishment of Lycorma delicatula in Europe
Lycorma delicatula, the spotted lanternfly, is a highly successful invasive phloem‐feeding planthopper native to southern China. It has invaded South Korea, Japan, and the United States, where it continues to expand geographically, but it remains absent from Europe. We investigated two key ecologica…
Ecology and abundance of a relict population of the bush cricket Saga pedo in the Northern Apennines, Italy
The expansion of forest cover and intensification of agriculture represent the main threats to the bush cricket Saga pedo, currently listed as Vulnerable globally by the IUCN and included in Annex IV of the European Union Habitats Directive. Gathering information on its ecology and population size i…