• Recovery or reorganisation? Long‑term increases in riverine taxonomic and functional diversity are confounded by compositional dynamics 

  Baker, Nathan J.; Pilotto, Francesca; Welti, Ellen A.R.; Osadčaja, Diana; Palinauskas, Vaidas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  When evaluating biological recovery, shifts in species identity such as non-native status, specialisation, and functional traits should be examined alongside changes in species richness. Lithuania, an ecologically overlooked ...

• Species on the move: a genetic story of three golden jackals at the expansion front 

  Bogdanowicz, Wiesław; Bilska, Aleksandra G.; Kleven, Oddmund; Aspi, Jouni; Caro, Amaia; Harmoinen, Jenni; Kvist, Laura; Madeira, Maria José; Pilot, Małgorzata; Kopatz, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  One of the most fascinating mammalian range expansions in Europe involves an opportunistic mesocarnivore―the golden jackal (Canis aureus). However, key questions about the origins and dispersal strategies of pioneering ...

• Land‑based foraging by polar bears reveals sexual conflict outside mating season 

  Prop, Jouke; Black, Jeffrey M.; Aars, Jon; Oudman, Thomas; Wolters, Eva; Moe, Børge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  According to sexual selection theory, the sexes are faced with opposing evolutionary goals. Male fitness benefits from access to females, whereas female fitness is constrained by food resources and safety for themselves ...

• Touch in digitalized worlds: An introduction 

  Broch, Tuva Beyer; Varma, Saiba (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The English word digital (from the Latin, digitus)etymologically connects both fingers and technologies.In this special issue, we honor this dual meaning of thedigital by foregrounding how living in a digital era bothchallenges ...

• Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) population status, reasons for decline and potential conservation measures from Western and Central Europe to Fennoscandia: a literature review 

  Hambálková, Lucie; Cukor, Jan; Brynychová, Kateřina; Sevcik, Richard; Vacek, Zdeněk; Vacek, Stanislav; Skoták, Vlastimil; Linda, Rostislav; Andersen, Oddgeir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The long-term decline of the black grouse population throughout Europe is influenced by many factors that affect populations differently depending on the distribution range, from Central Europe to the Scandinavian countries. ...

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