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Ade Martin
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Biogeography 🌍 and wildlife 🐾 consultant| Environmental assessment 🌳📋and GIS solutions 🗾

I share scientific articles related to the environment 🌎, ecology 🍁🐾💧, conservation 🌱🦊 and biogeography 🌎🦋🗺️ every day.
Hello everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, urban vegetation can cool or warm depending on aridity: in dry cities, low albedo and limited evapotranspiration drive net heating. Trees sustain cooling under extreme heat, while grasslands and croplands often amplify temperature increases 🌎
Global urban vegetation exhibits divergent thermal effects: From cooling to warming as aridity increases
City plants cool, yet with increasing aridity, they can heat urban areas.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Hi. In “one day one paper”,direct climate effects accelerate litter decomposition, yet shifts in plant litter quality along aridity–humidity gradients can reverse expected patterns.Disentangling these opposing forces reveals that space cannot reliably substitute for time in carbon‑cycle predictions🌎
Inverse effects of soil moisture and litter quality on litter decomposition along a gradient from hyper‐arid to temperate climate
We hypothesized that litter decomposition (H1) and litter quality (H2) increase with increasing soil humidity, therefore litter from the wetter sites to have the highest litter quality and decompose ...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Hi. “One day, one paper” on the first business day of 2026, abrupt shifts across trophic levels show marine heatwaves reshaping ecosystems, driving borealization, species redistribution, and lasting changes in productivity and oceanic connectivity, highlighting large‑scale ecological vulnerability🌎
Major heat wave in the North Atlantic had widespread and lasting impacts on marine life
From microorganisms to whales, ecosystems respond to an extreme event across all trophic levels.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Hi everyone! On the last day of 2025, One day, one paper: Large-scale native forest restoration emerges as the most effective pathway to stabilize streamflow, enhance water retention, and strengthen climate resilience—clearly outperforming exotic plantations under increasingly dry future conditions🌎
Assessing Hydrological Responses to Large-Scale Native Forest Restoration as a Nature-Based Solution in South-Central Chile under Climate Change
Forests play a fundamental role in regulating the hydrological cycle and providing essential ecosystem services, functions that are increasingly threa…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", population collapses of up to 98% in key echinoids expose long‑term functional loss in the Gulf of Aqaba, driven by rapid urbanization and anthropogenic stress. Multi‑decadal trends highlight the need for extended monitoring to reveal true declines 🌎
Half a century of echinoid population decline in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Multi-decadal monitoring in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, reveals severe (>90%) declines of key echinoid grazers. These declines signify a collapse of crucial herbivory functions underpinning ...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Hello. Today in “one day, one paper”, Temporal stability in stream communities hinges on traits such as body size and generation time: algae and invertebrates show stronger balanced replacement, whereas fish display abundance‑gradient shifts and heightened sensitivity to hydrological variability 🌎
Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hello!. Today in “one day, one paper”, Forest fragmentation per se enhances bird diversity in landscapes with prior forest gain, challenging earlier assumptions. Total habitat amount remains the strongest driver, yet spreading restored habitat across multiple patches amplifies ecological benefits 🌎
Forest bird diversity increases with fragmentation per se in landscapes following forest gains
Our results suggest that, at least for forest breeding birds, the benefits of habitat restoration to increase total forest area could be enhanced by distributing a given amount of restored habitat ac...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hi👋. Today in "One day, one paper" litter decomposition is jointly shaped by soil moisture and litter quality, which can drive opposing effects. Experimental evidence shows that spatial gradients cannot reliably predict ecosystem responses to climate change, challenging space‑for‑time assumptions 🍁🌎
Inverse effects of soil moisture and litter quality on litter decomposition along a gradient from hyper‐arid to temperate climate
We hypothesized that litter decomposition (H1) and litter quality (H2) increase with increasing soil humidity, therefore litter from the wetter sites to have the highest litter quality and decompose ...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in "One day, one paper" cetacean habitat preferences shift across tropical subregions, showing region‑specific environmental relationships and consistent intra‑ocean patterns 🌎👇
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Cetaceans exhibit region-specific habitat preferences across tropical waters
To implement effective and appropriate conservation measures, especially in less studied tropical areas, a better understanding of cetacean distributi…
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December 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hi everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", seasonal shifts in surface‑water availability reshape waterbird dependence, revealing stronger links in wetland‑specialist species and highlighting high‑density hotspots where limited water heightens vulnerability and guides strategic wetland restoration🌎
When and Where Do Waterbirds Need Water? A General Approach for Inferring Candidate Restoration Areas From Spatio‐Temporal Variation in Surface Water Availability
Aim Globally, about 850 bird species depend on surface water habitats either year-round or during migration. However, large-scale analyses examining how different groups of waterbirds are associated...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, co‑designed eDNA protocols with Indigenous land guardians show snow, dust and invertebrates enable reliable terrestrial wildlife detection, expanding accessible monitoring options and providing robust cross‑substrate comparisons 🌎
Tracking terrestrial wildlife with environmental DNA: Methods designed by and for Indigenous organizations
Water, dust, invertebrate and snow sampling for detecting cervidae eDNA. Image credits: Glenn Polson and Annie Claude Bélisle. Consent was obtained for the photos to be used for scientific publicatio....
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December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, fish assemblages from U.S. streams are analyzed to reveal how body‑size distributions emerge from interactions between life‑history traits, thermal tolerance and altered flow regimes, exposing indirect pathways that reshape energy transfer and ecosystem structure 🌎
Integrating theory and empirical patterns: Fish body size distributions, life history traits, and environmental flows in streams
Environmental flow relationships help predict ecosystem scale effects of flow regime alteration.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good morning people. Today in "One day, one paper", high phenotypic plasticity enables Poa annua to thrive in Antarctic conditions regardless of source population, intensifying invasion risks under climate warming and demanding broad preventive measures 🍁🌎
Antarctica may be vulnerable to invasion by Poa annua from a range of populations around the globe
Poa annua is capable of Antarctic invasion regardless of the propagule source and may become even more dangerous under climate warming. Therefore, the protection of Antarctica may be even more diffic...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Good morning. Today in "one day, one paper", cetaceans in tropical waters show region-specific habitat preferences shaped by oceanographic structures and productivity gradients. Findings highlight ecological variability across subregions, guiding marine spatial planning and conservation strategies 🌎
Cetaceans exhibit region-specific habitat preferences across tropical waters
To implement effective and appropriate conservation measures, especially in less studied tropical areas, a better understanding of cetacean distributi…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted by Ade Martin
In 2019, IPBES #GlobalAssessment est. 1 million species of plants & animals are threatened with extinction.🥀

The figure is probably even higher, but what's important is the urgent need for #biodiversity preservation!

https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hello everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", gestational growth in wild meerkats is driven mainly by maternal nutrition and environmental productivity, shaping offspring birth weight and survival without telomere costs, revealing limited prenatal plasticity but strong postnatal adaptive 🌎
The ecology of gestational growth in a wild cooperative mammal
Using data from hundreds of wild pregnant meerkats, Thorley et al show that gestational growth varies widely, is shaped by nutrition but not social conditions, and improves pup survival without short...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in “one day, one paper“, integrating ecosystem service supply–demand dynamics with ecological risk and circuit theory enables precise identification of sources, corridors, and nodes, strengthening ecological security and guiding sustainable regional planning 🌎
Integrating Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand to Construct Regional Ecological Security Patterns | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Integrating ecosystem services (ESs) into ecological security patterns (ESPs) provides a comprehensive framework for recognizing critical conservation areas and enhancing regional ecological security....
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December 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Hi. In One day one paper,dominant Amazonian tree species reveal distinct functional strategies shaped by habitat conditions.Local abundance aligns with resource conservation, while regional frequency links to dispersal and stature, offering predictive insight into forest responses to global change🍁🌎
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests
Dominant tree species in western Amazonian forests show distinct functional trait combinations linked to habitat type: conservative traits in stressful habitats and greater plant size in less stressf...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hi. Today in "One day, one paper", red aviation lighting on wind turbines drives bat attraction, raising collision risks.Adaptive Aircraft Detection Lighting Systems ADLS reduce activity to control levels, offering a cost‑effective strategy that balances renewable energy expansion with biodiversity🌎
Minimizing aviation lighting duration reduces bat attraction to wind turbines
This study provides empirical evidence that attraction behaviour of bats towards wind turbines is driven, at least partially, by red aviation lighting. We also demonstrate that smart lighting of wind...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hi. Today in “One day, One paper”,Non-native marine invertebrates are expanding nearly 8× faster than predicted, averaging ~3000 km/decade. Expansion speed is driven by initial range size and number of coastlines occupied, challenging management and highlighting accelerating global invasion dynamic🌎
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December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, Mixed plantations strengthen soil biodiversity and multifunctionality, with subsoil rare taxa and fungi emerging as pivotal drivers of nutrient cycling, resilience, and multidimensional ecosystem functions, challenging the traditional topsoil-centric perspective 🌎
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi everyone.Today in “One day, one paper, cuticular hydrocarbon variation in desert ants links physiology to collective drought responses. Risk-averse colonies show higher alkene abundance and shorter n-alkanes, increasing water loss, while risk-tolerant colonies sustain foraging under dry stress 🌎
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December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hello everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, Range-wide full-cycle modeling reveals that subadult winter survival drives long-term decline of tōrea, showing productivity gains alone cannot offset mortality; integrated strategies across seasons are essential 🌎
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December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, functional identity, not species or richness, drives variability in tree transpiration under drought, highlighting wood density and gymnosperm traits as key predictors of water-use responses 🌎🍁
Are diverse forests thirstier? A meta‐analysis reveals no evidence for a consistent effect of species or functional diversity on tree transpiration
This study found that neither species nor functional diversity had a systematic influence on the effect of diversity on transpiration. Instead, only functional identity was found to exert a driving…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today in "one day one paper"glossy floral surfaces enhance long-distance detectability for pollinators but hinder fine color discrimination.This optical trade-off, widespread across angiosperms, reveals how dynamic visual effects balance visibility and signal reliability in ecological interactions🍁🌎
Dynamic visual effects enhance flower conspicuousness but compromise color perception
Dynamic visual signaling has evolved in flowers to exploit perceptual constraints in pollinators.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM