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Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)1. Managing forests to sustain their diversity and functioning is a major challenge in a changing world. Despite the key role of understory vegetation in driving forest biodiversity, regeneration and functioning, few studies ... -
Species on the move: a genetic story of three golden jackals at the expansion front
(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 ... -
Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) population status, reasons for decline and potential conservation measures from Western and Central Europe to Fennoscandia: a literature review
(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. ... -
Recovery or reorganisation? Long‑term increases in riverine taxonomic and functional diversity are confounded by compositional dynamics
(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 ... -
Land‑based foraging by polar bears reveals sexual conflict outside mating season
(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
(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 ... -
Effects of extrinsic and intrinsic factorson parturition and reproductive outputin wolverines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)One of the selective advantages of delayed implantation in carnivores is the flexibility to decouple the time between mating and parturition, allowing both to occur when conditions are most favorable. Terrestrial carnivores ... -
Off the conservation radar: the hidden story of Europe’s tiny pea clams (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This study highlights the conservation problems faced by the tiny freshwater bivalves of the family Sphaeriidae, also known as pea, pill, or fingernail clams (or mussels) in Europe. Despite their global distribution, assumed ... -
Climate, Hydrology, and Nutrients Control the Seasonality of Si Concentrations in Rivers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)* Seasonal variations in annual riverine dissolved silica concentrations (DSi regime) were correctly classified 80% of the time • Climate and primary productivity emerge as the most important drivers in differentiating ... -
Mammals show faster recovery from capture and tagging in human-disturbed landscapes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Wildlife tagging provides critical insights into animal movement ecology, physiology, and behavior amid global ecosystem changes. However, the stress induced by capture, handling, and tagging can impact post-release ... -
Variation in nest survival of three species of tropical plovers in Madagascar with clutch size, age of nest, year and El Niño effect
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)A combination of life history traits and environmental conditions has been highlighted as the main drivers of avian breeding success. While drivers of breeding success are well known in some species, especially birds in ... -
Red deer grazing pressure on agricultural grass meadows from broad to local scale
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Grazing by wildlife on agricultural land is widespread across geographical regions, and can cause human–wildlife conflicts due to reduced crop yield when the grazing pressure is high. Growing red deer (Cervus elaphus) ... -
Visitors’ relations to recreational facilities and attractions in a large vulnerable mountain region in Norway: Unpacking the roles of tourists and locals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)A growing number of research studies show increasing trends of visitation to vulnerable areas, which may have negative impacts on both the local ecosystem and people's nature experience. Most of the studies deal with visitor ... -
Seasonal environmental transitions and metabolic plasticity in a sea-ice alga from an individual cell perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Sea-ice microalgae are a key source of energy and nutrient supply to polar marine food webs, particularly during spring, prior to open-water phytoplankton blooms. The nutritional quality of microalgae as a food source ... -
Effects of resource availability and interspecific interactions on Arctic and red foxes' winter use of ungulate carrion in the Fennoscandian low-Arctic tundra
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In the Arctic tundra, predators face recurrent periods of food scarcity and often turnto ungulate carcasses as an alternative food source. As important and localized re-source patches, carrion promotes co-occurrence of ... -
Residency and space use estimation methods based on passive acoustic telemetry data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Acoustic telemetry has helped overcome many of the challenges faced when studying the movement ecology of aquatic species, allowing to obtain unprecedented amounts of data. This has made it into one of the most widely used ... -
Camera collars reveal macronutrient balancing in free-rangingmale moose during summer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Understanding how the nutritional properties of food resources drive foraging choicesis important for the management and conservation of wildlife populations. For moose(Alces alces), recent experimental and observational ... -
Impacts of predation by Eurasian otters on Atlantic salmon in two Norwegian rivers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)1. The return of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) to western Norway has sparked human–predator conflicts because otters prey on vulnerable Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. Although predation may not be the ultimate ... -
Local variation in stress response of juvenile anadromous brown trout, Salmo trutta
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Habitat fragmentation may cut off anadromous salmonids from parts of their potential native habitat and separate previously connected populations. Understanding the consequences of this is vital for fish management and ... -
Do ingredient and nutrient intake reveal individual dietary specialization in an omnivorous carnivore, the brown bear?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Generalist populations often harbor individual dietary specialists. Whether using a narrower set of resources than the population (= specialization) affects specialists' nutrient intake remains underexplored. We evaluated ...
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