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1. Extreme spatial plasticity in Italian wolves: ecological determinants of range size and movement patterns across heterogeneous landscapes

   • Silvia Cavazza
   • Rudy Brogi
   • Marco Apollonio

   in European Journal of Wildlife Research

   Article Open access 21 July 2026

   

2. Cross-ecosystem engineers: the dual role of fruit bats in cave nutrient dynamics and landscape seed dispersal

   • Maricélio de Medeiros Guimarães
   • Priscila Emanuela de Souza
   • Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

   in Oecologia

   Article Open access 20 July 2026

   

3. Biotic interactions shape the realized niche of toxic cyanobacteria

   • Pinelopi Ntetsika
   • Stefanie Eyring
   • Francesco Pomati

   in Nature Ecology & Evolution

   Article Open access 20 July 2026

   

4. Syntaxonomy and functional diversity of Buddleja davidii-(co)dominated plant communities in Europe

   • Azra Šabić
   • Jernej Jogan
   • Urban Šilc

   in Biologia

   Article Open access 20 July 2026

   

5. Using mixed biocrust and plant restoration islands to recover ecosystem structure and functioning in Drylands

   • Irene A. Garibotti
   • Agustina C. Cottet

   in Plant and Soil

   Article 20 July 2026

   

6. Urban Botany

   in Future City

   Book 2026

   

7. Spatiotemporal Differentiation of Land Carbon Metabolism in the Shiyang River Basin of China: An Ecological Network Utility Perspective

   • Xuexia Li
   • Jinghu Pan

   in Chinese Geographical Science

   Article 18 July 2026

8. When foundation species become islands: how stand attributes of mulga (Acacia aneura) influence their insect communities

   • Lewis T. Loncar
   • Gerasimos Cassis
   • Lisa E. Schwanz

   in Biodiversity and Conservation

   Article Open access 18 July 2026

   

9. Machine learning meets ecology: XGBoost-based prediction of endangered species habitats using multi-source environmental data

   • Aref Hesabi
   • Seyed Jalil Alavi
   • Omid Esmailzadeh

   in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

   Article 18 July 2026

   

10. Temporal shifts in home-field effects and controls of leaf litter decomposition in a semiarid shrub-grass community

    • Shengjie Gao
    • Xin Jia
    • Tianshan Zha

    in Plant and Soil

    Article 18 July 2026

    

11. Hydrological regime and river condition shape the feeding ecology of an invasive bivalve in a Neotropical floodplain

    • Gabriela Sponchiado Hein
    • Vinícius Andrade Urbano
    • Roger Paulo Mormul

    in Aquatic Sciences

    Article Open access 18 July 2026

    

12. Assessment of ecosystem stability and analysis of its driving mechanisms in the South China Karst: a structure-process-function framework perspective

    • Haijun Tang
    • Kangning Xiong
    • Jiaying Chen

    in Environment, Development and Sustainability

    Article 17 July 2026

    

13. Contribution of Grazing in Diurnal Temperature Change at Texas

    • Nosheen Akhtar
    • Ken Mix

    in Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

    Article Open access 17 July 2026

    

14. When rivals help

    • Yujing Yan

    in Nature Plants

    Article 17 July 2026

    

15. Testing the Influence of Internal Stem Decay and Topography on Biomass and Carbon Stock Estimates in Mongolia’s Boreal Forest

    • Choimaa Dulamsuren
    • Ganbaatar Batsaikhan
    • Markus Hauck

    in Ecosystems

    Article Open access 16 July 2026

    

16. Remote sensing observation of algal bloom encroachment into aquatic vegetation in Taihu Lake over the past two decades

    • Chen Guo
    • Junfeng Xiong
    • Yang Xiang

    in Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

    Article 16 July 2026

17. Climate variability reduces biomass stability in species-rich grasslands, depending on management

    • Yva Herion
    • Martin Andrzejak
    • Christiane Roscher

    in Oecologia

    Article Open access 16 July 2026

    

18. Adaptive significance of upright landing on water surface in planthopper nymphs

    • Satoru Matsubara

    in Journal of Ethology

    Article 16 July 2026

    

19. Food supply at risk for Himalayan birds

    • Shradha Triveni

    in Nature India

    Article 16 July 2026

    

20. Impacts of species dispersal patterns on a three-species food web

    • Duojie Jiabu
    • Basang Zhuoma

    in Theoretical Ecology

    Article 16 July 2026

    

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