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The ecology of resting behaviour in terrestrial vertebrates, and potential effects of anthropization
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
Schematic indicating the physiological and environmental drivers of resting. Empty arrows indicate shifts between behavioural states.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Artificial light at night has life stage-specific effects on biological rhythms in a specialist insect
doi.org/10.32942/X2N...
Overview of percent sleep across 24 hours for all four experimental groups. The yellow bar indicates the 14 hour daytime period, and the black bar indicates the 10 hour nighttime period. The pale yellow bar indicates the 3 hour day:night transition period, and the gray bar indicates the 3 hour night:day transition period.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Proportion of native plants is a key predictor of pollinator richness in urban greenspaces
doi.org/10.32942/X2S...
Diagram illustrating the study area and citizen science data availability. The map of urban areas in Florida includes only those regions containing at least one greenspace that met our filtering criteria (≥ 50 pollinator and angiosperm observations). The example map of greenspaces in South Florida highlights a subset of the data to demonstrate the spatial resolution and structure of the data.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A conceptual guide to studying multilevel societies
doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32942/X2X369
A 3x3 diagram showing multilevel (first two rows) and multitiered societies (third row). The left-most column shows social networks; the center column egocentric networks, and the right-most column graphs of spatial distance between individuals over time.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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"Recolonisation dynamics of grey wolves: delayed recovery in a Central European country"
doi.org/10.32942/X21...
Recolonisation dynamics of grey wolves: delayed recovery in a Central European country
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 2 of this Preprint.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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"Climate change increases the distribution of reservoirs of the Raccoon Rabies Virus in Quebec"
doi.org/10.32942/X25...
Map of the spatial coverage of the five most important variables (according to Shapley values) for P. lotor (top) and M. mephitis (bottom). Note that the areas covered by other variables are shown in grey, but represent a small fraction of the landscape. The full list of variables selected for each model, alongside their relative importance and spatial coverage, is given in Table S1. On the right column, the Shapley values (added to the average prediction) for the entire training dataset are in light grey, with the partial response of the model as a black line. The two species have different responses to the most important variable. Note that the Shapley values and the partial response do not perfectly overlap because Shapley values account for the values of all variables at the scale of each point, rather than for their marginalized effects across the entire model.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"TwisstNTern 2: Ternary analysis of topology weights from tree sequences"
doi.org/10.32942/X29...
(A) Overview of TwisstNtern analysis, including the inference of a tree sequence (done prior to running TwisstNtern), topology weighting in Twisst ([MV17]), and plotting the weights in the ternary plot. (B) Different representations of the ternary distribution, including the full distribution of all data points, a contoured heatmap and a ternary histogram.
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"How much monitoring is needed to reliably track progress towards genetic diversity targets?"
doi.org/10.32942/X2F...
Simulating true and observed trends in effective population size (Ne). First, each population’s true Ne trend is simulated from a constant annual growth rate (declining, stable, or growing) with some process error to represent stochastic population dynamics. This true Ne trend is then observed, where each Ne value is sampled from a Normal distribution centered on the true Ne value with three levels of observation error (low, moderate, high). Then, the observed Ne trends are monitored at different frequencies (every 1, 2, 4, or 8 years). For each population, we can then determine how observer error and monitoring frequency combine to result in an observed trend that differs from the true trend.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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"High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in Pinniped Conservation"
doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
The global impact of H5Nx HPAIVs on wild pinnipeds. A) Geographic distribution of H5Nx HPAIV confirmed cases (red dots) and suspected cases (orange triangles), with summaries of the location, time period, species, and number of individuals affected. B) Distribution of 10 pinniped species with highly restricted geographic distributions (red areas), with summaries of adult population size and conservation status (IUCN 2024).
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"Emerging Applications of Large Language Models in Ecology and Conservation Science"
doi.org/10.32942/X2P...
Countries contributing to research on LLM applications in ecology and conservation science, based on the distribution of author affiliations in the reviewed articles, preprints, and conference proceedings. The USA, China, the UK, Australia, and Germany were the top five contributors.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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"A century of invertebrate range extensions in the eastern North Pacific"
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
Map of the most northern anomalous observation of marine invertebrates with 3+ extension events (18 species) between 1900 and 2020. Each arrow represents one species. The arrow origin is the historical poleward range edge (see Supplementary Table with the historical range edge data), and the arrow destination is the northernmost point of anomalous observation of the species. The map boundaries cut off three long-range extensions to Alaska and British Columbia (see Supplementary Figure 1). Up to -1 degree of jitter is added to the arrow longitudes to reduce overlap. The 88 episodic extension events of these 18 species have an average distance of 694 ± 783 km with a minimum of 14km and a maximum of 3842 km.
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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"The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal"
doi.org/10.32942/X2Z...
Statistical performance of animal cognition meta-analyses at the primary-study and meta-analysis levels. (a) Statistical power: Median power to detect the (true or bias-corrected) meta-analytic effect size; darker red bars indicate lower power. (b) Type M error: Median exaggeration ratio between estimated and true effect sizes; darker blue indicates stronger overestimation (values > 20 shown as “20+”). (c) Type S error: Median probability of obtaining a significant effect in the wrong direction; darker yellow-green indicates higher Type S error. Violin plots above each panel summarise distributions across meta-analyses. Each point represents one meta-analysis (matching a row in the bar plots), and the horizontal line denotes the overall mean.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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"Relativistic Ecological Dynamics: An Empirical Investigation of its Geometric Properties"
doi.org/10.32942/X22...
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"Multilevel Selection Shaping Adaptive Social Networks"
doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Multilevel Selection Shaping Adaptive Social Networks
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"Carrion decomposition in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment"
doi.org/10.32942/X2B...
Decomposition pathways of mouse carrion over time, primarily decomposed by either flies (‘melting’) or ants (‘mummification’) decomposition.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"An increase in animal diversity was facilitated by ecologically-driven brain complexity throughout the Cambrian"
doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
An increase in animal diversity was facilitated by ecologically-driven brain complexity throughout the Cambrian
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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"Penguin diet from space: Links between sea ice, Antarctic food webs, and population change"
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
Integrating approaches from multiple fields, we developed a novel analytical pipeline for quantifying the diet of Adélie penguins, the most numerous seabird in Antarctica, from satellites.
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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"Relativity for the Realm of the Living: a geometric framework for eco-evolutionary dynamics"
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
Curvature and trajectory deviation. This figure depicts convergence due to local positive curvature.
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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"RevSyntax enables an efficient workflow for RevBayes analysis in VS Code"
doi.org/10.32942/X2V...
VS Code configured for a start-to-finish RevBayes analysis. The version control panel (A) can be used to track changes and work collaboratively using git for code development. Next, users can draft and edit Rev code (B). Users can open a terminal window via panel (C), then open RevBayes and send code to run an analysis, visualized in panel (D). After the analysis is complete, users can execute R code in panel (E) and visualize the results of the analysis using RevGadgets in panel (F).
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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"Natural Heritage: A Teaching Game For Biodiversity Conservation"
doi.org/10.32942/X20...
Components of the game’s social-ecological model. The landscape consists of hexagonal tiles, each of which have an associated biodiversity and productivity value. The combined biodiversity and productivity values of the entire landscape determine the player’s available budget as well as their approval ratings in the population. Stochastic events may influence certain parts of the game world, while laws and investments can be used by the player to influence game mechanics.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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"The Thermodynamic Imperative: Evolution as Entropic Resistance through Mergers and Persistence"
doi.org/10.32942/X23...
A graph showing the evolution of annihilation-persistence dynamics. The more the mergers, the less the probability of annihilation over time. The time evolution indicates the projected emergence of complexity.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
The age-specific trajectories of 13 phenotypic traits in individuals the Seychelles warbler population of Cousin Island (dates differ per dataset, minimum date 1981, maximum date 2022) identified through Generalized Additive Models. The x-axis is age in years, and the y-axis is the trait value; all traits, except for annual reproductive success, survival and malaria, are z-transformed. The solid black line depicts the model-predicted curve and the grey shaded areas depict the standard error. Blue points are raw data points. RTL = relative telomere length. ARS = Annual Reproductive Success. For buffy coat (Fig 1h & i), F indicates female, M indicates male.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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"Going with, or going to the dogs: City Serenade of Multispecies Survival"
doi.org/10.32942/X2C...
Macaque foraging strategies and conflict contexts at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi. Rhesus macaques exploit dual food sources: direct human provisioning (centre-left) and waste accumulation (centre-right), with refuse providing persistent foraging opportunities reflecting inadequate sanitation infrastructure.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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"Beneath the Pavement: Understanding mycorrhizal fungi in urban ecosystems and the path forward"
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
Socio-cultural factors interacting with green space characteristics, biological traits, and soil properties to shape mycorrhizal fungal communities in urban ecosystems.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"Environmental drivers of structural colour in bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)"
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
Phylogenetic relationships and distribution of structural colour of bees included in the study. Colour tips represent the presence or absence of structural colour. Images of bees with structural colour.
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM