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  1. Tropical dry deciduous forests are crucial for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage but are increasingly threatened by human activities and climate change. This Study evaluates tree diversity, populati...

    Authors: Abinash Mansingh, Antaryami Pradhan, Satya Ranjan Sahoo, Sujeet Sameer Cherwa, Bibhu Prasad Mishra, Laxmi Prasad Rath, Nirius Jenan Ekka and Bibhu Prasad Panda
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:48
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  2. Wildlife species adapted to the Afro-alpine highlands are vulnerable to loss of habitat due to global warming accompanying potential upward shifts and elevational range contractions of their preferred habitats...

    Authors: Zeleke Tigabe Abuhay, Arega Mekonnen Ali, Anagaw Atickem and Dietmar Zinner
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:47
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  3. Flower traits and pollinator activity patterns can vary over the course of a single day. Therefore, the pollination processes occurring over short time scales are crucial to sustain the complex dynamics of pla...

    Authors: Galilea Orellana-Vera, Thomas Auffray, Rommel Montúfar, Marc Gibernau, Sylvain Pincebourde, Arturo Guasti, Jérôme Casas and Olivier Dangles
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:46
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  5. The evolution of differences in gamete size and number between sexes is a cornerstone of sexual selection theories. The green macroalga Ulva, with incipient anisogamy and parthenogenetic gametes, provides a uniqu...

    Authors: Xiaojie Liu, Jonas Blomme, Kenny A. Bogaert, Sofie D’hondt, Emma Coulembier Vandelannoote, Thomas Wichard and Olivier De Clerck
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:44
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  7. The study was conducted to assess the woody plant species composition, population structure, and regeneration status of Ruruki Forest. A total of 30 sample plots, each 20 m × 20 m, were established using a sys...

    Authors: Bayissa Belay, Tena Regasa and Siraj Mammo
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:42
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  9. The Neotropics are considered one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, housing at least one third of all vascular plant species. One of the genera that has diversified in the Neotropics is Magnolia, with ab...

    Authors: Salvador Guzman-Diaz, Fabián Augusto Aldaba Núñez, Emily Veltjen, Pieter Asselman, José Esteban Jiménez, Jorge Valdés Sánchez, Guillermo Pino Infante, Ricardo Callejas Posada, José Antonio Vázquez García, Isabel Larridon, Suhyeon Park, Sangtae Kim, Esteban Manuel Martínez Salas and Marie-Stéphanie Samain
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:40
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  10. Honey bees are vital to global ecosystems and agriculture due to their role as key pollinators. The gut microbiota of honey bees is essential for their health, providing nutrition and protection against pathog...

    Authors: K. Hariprasath, M. Dhanvarsha, S. Mohankumar, M. Sudha, N. Saranya, V. R. Saminathan and S. Subramanian
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:39
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  12. Microraptor is known as the most significant example of extended feathering on the legs of a paravian, both fossil and modern. Its striking difference with most paravians contributes to the multiple theories on t...

    Authors: Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu and Michael Pittman
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:37
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  13. Climate change is expected to significantly alter and modify the ecological conditions of plant distribution and growth, particularly in the Mediterranean Basin, which is considered one of the hot spots for gl...

    Authors: Emad A. Farahat, Amel F. Tashani and Ahmed R. Mahmoud
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:36
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  15. The topographic complexity and wide range of environmental conditions of the Neotropical region have allowed the evolution of the most diverse avifauna in the world. Distributional patterns within this avian d...

    Authors: Ronald A. Fernández-Gómez, David A. Prieto-Torres, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza and Luis A. Sánchez-González
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:34
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  17. Patterns of body size evolution in dinosaurs are relevant for understanding the evolutionary trends that have shaped the disparity of phenotypes observed in the fossil record. In this sense, previous studies h...

    Authors: Enzo E. Seculi Pereyra, Damian E. Pérez and Ariel H. Méndez
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:32
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  18. The northern shrimp Pandalus borealis (ice. Stóri kampalampi) is a North Atlantic crustacean of significant commercial interest which has been harvested consistently in Icelandic waters since 1936. In Icelandic w...

    Authors: Áki Jarl Láruson, Hafrún Gunnarsdóttir, Jake Goodall, Snæbjörn Pálsson and Ingibjörg G. Jónsdóttir
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:31
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  20. This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doiorg.publicaciones.saludcastillayleon.es/10.1186/s12862-024-02327-x.

    Authors: Prince Degny Vale, Ernest Dadis Bush Fotsing, Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo, Williams Danladi Abwage, Serge Ely Dibakou, Kouame Paul N’Goran, Tenekwetche Sop, Yntze van der Hoek, Stefanie Heinicke, Lars Kulik, Inza Kone and Hjalmar Kuehl
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:29
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  21. Land degradation in Ethiopia is escalating due to high population density and the shift from tree-based agricultural systems, like agroforestry practices (AFP), to monoculture farming. These land use changes, ...

    Authors: Nebiyou Masebo, Emiru Birhane, Serekebrehane Takele, Araceli Perez-Sanz, Juan J. Lucena, Zerihun Belay, Agena Anjulo and Felipe Yunta
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:28
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  22. Determining sea turtle foraging grounds, emerging threats, and population status are essential for conservation management. Crowdsourced science is a recently recognized approach that enables internet-based da...

    Authors: Chia-Ling Fong, Daphne Z. Hoh, Huai Su, Peng-Yu Chen, Chia-Chen Tsai, Kelly W. H. Tseng, Hao-Chih Huang, Jun-Yi Wu, Yoko Nozawa and Benny K. K. Chan
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:27
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  23. Authors: Ana Paula Schaan, Lorenna Costa, Diego Santos, Antonio Modesto, Marcos Amador, Camile Lopes, Sílvia Helena Rabenhorst, Raquel Montenegro, Bruno D. A. Souza, Thayson Lopes, France Keiko Yoshioka, Giovanny Pinto, Vivian Silbiger and Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:26
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  24. Java combtail fish Belontia hasselti (Cuvier, 1831), a member of the Osphronemidae family, inhabits lakes and rivers throughout Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. Previous cytogenetic research revealed it possesses a ...

    Authors: Alan Moura de Oliveira, Geize Aparecida Deon, Alexandr Sember, Caio Augusto Gomes Goes, Weerayuth Supiwong, Alongklod Tanomtong, Fábio Porto-Foresti, Ricardo Utsunomia, Thomas Liehr and Marcelo de Bello Cioffi
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:25
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  25. Contrasting hypotheses suggest that the number of biotic interactions per species could either increase towards the equator due to the increasing richness of potential interaction partners (Neutral theory), or...

    Authors: Alyssa R. Cirtwill, Tomas Roslin, Pablo Peña-Aguilera, Agathe Agboto, William Bercê, Svetlana N. Bondarchuk, Robert Brodschneider, Behzad Heidari, Camara Kaizirege, Justine Muhoro Nyaga, Ojonugwa Ekpah, Gonzalo Ossa Gomez, Claudia Paz, Christian Pirk, Amir Salehi-Najafabadi, Anneli Salonen…
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:24
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  26. Elucidating the emergence and maintenance of cryptic diversity is a major focus of evolutionary biology. Integrative taxonomy is widely considered as the best practice for delimiting cryptic species and explor...

    Authors: Dongming Guo, Xiong Gong, Wenjing Yi, Liang Cao and E Zhang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:23
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  28. Effectors are critical in the antagonistic interactions between plants and pathogens. However, knowledge of mutation mechanisms and evolutionary processes of effectors remains fragmented despite its importance...

    Authors: Hai-Bing Ouyang, Yan-Ping Wang, Meng-Han He, E-Jiao Wu, Bin-Hong Hu, Jiasui Zhan and Lina Yang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:21
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  29. Mammal-dispersed tropical trees can face regeneration problems due to increasing hunting pressure. We studied the case of Coula edulis Baill. (Coulaceae), an African rainforest tree that produces the ‘African wal...

    Authors: Narcisse Guy Kamdem, Bonaventure Sonké, Saskia Sergeant, Vincent Deblauwe and Olivier J. Hardy
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:20
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  30. Ecological opportunity is considered a main driver of adaptive diversification. Colonization of new areas and habitats provides novel opportunities, which may lead to phenotypic change and rapid diversificatio...

    Authors: Jan Möhring, Sebastian Hüllen, Sebastian Martin, Daniel F. Mokodongan, Daisy Wowor, Julia Schwarzer and Fabian Herder
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:19
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  32. Ciliates are single-celled microbial eukaryotes that diverged from other eukaryotic lineages more than a billion years ago. The long evolutionary timespan of ciliates has led to enormous genetic and phenotypic...

    Authors: Shahed Uddin Ahmed Shazib, Auden Cote-L’Heureux, Ragib Ahsan, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, JunMo Lee, Laura A. Katz and Mann Kyoon Shin
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:17
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  33. Among minute-sized and wingless arthropods, astigmatid mites stand out for their diverse range of symbiotic associations (parasitic, neutral and mutualistic), with both invertebrate and vertebrate hosts. When ...

    Authors: Hemen Sendi, Pavel B. Klimov, Vasiliy B. Kolesnikov, Júlia Káčerová, Enrico Bonino, Dany Azar and Ninon Robin
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:16
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  34. Nocturnal ecology has hitherto led a shadowy existence in ecology, which traditionally focuses on diurnal species and functional relationships in the bright light of day. Yet nighttime hides exciting research ...

    Authors: S. E. Kimmig, F. Hölker, S. Schroer, A. Kassiem and S. Kiefer
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:15
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  35. In infected hosts, immune responses trigger a systemic energy reallocation away from energy storage and growth, to fuel a costly defense program. The exact energy costs of immune defense are however unknown in...

    Authors: Frédéric Douhard, Carole Moreno-Romieux and Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:14
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  36. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve active flight. The lack of many well-preserved pterosaur fossils limits our understanding of the functional anatomy and behavior of these flight pioneers, partic...

    Authors: Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, Gregory F. Funston, Dugald Ross, Amelia Penny and Stephen L. Brusatte
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:9
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  37. Wings are primarily used in flight but also play a role in mating behaviour in many insects. Drosophila species exhibit a variety of pigmentation patterns on their wings. In some sexually dimorphic Drosophilids, ...

    Authors: Divita Garg, Harshad Vijay Mayekar, Sanjeev Paikra, Monalisa Mishra and Subhash Rajpurohit
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:13
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  38. As the extinction risk of plants increases globally, there is need to prioritize areas with high floristic richness and diversity to inform the design of evidence-based conservation interventions. As such, thi...

    Authors: Samuel Ojelel, Esther Katuura, Patrick Mucunguzi and James Kalema
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:12
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  39. Trait variation is shaped by functional roles of traits and the strength and direction of selection acting on the traits. We hypothesized that in butterflies, sexually selected colouration is more variable owi...

    Authors: Bhavya Dharmaraaj and Krushnamegh Kunte
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:11
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  40. Climate warming has become a hot issue of common concern all over the world, and wind energy has become an important clean energy source. Wind farms, usually built in wild lands like grassland, may cause damag...

    Authors: Xuancheng Zhao, Fengshi Li, Yuan Yuan, Guna Ari, Yongzhi Yan, Qing Zhang, Aruhan Olhnuud and Pengtao Liu
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:10
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  41. The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 1877 from a si...

    Authors: Stephanie F. Loria, Svea-Celina Frank, Nadine Dupérré, Helen M. Smith, Braxton Jones, Bruno A. Buzatto and Danilo Harms
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:7
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  42. Semi-aquatic mammals represent a transitional phase in the evolutionary spectrum between terrestrial and aquatic mammals. The sense of balance is crucial for mammalian locomotion, and in semi-aquatic mammals, ...

    Authors: Yuehuan Dong, Qinguo Wei, Guolei Sun, Xiaodong Gao, Tianshu Lyu, Lidong Wang, Shengyang Zhou, Xibao Wang, Yongquan Shang, Lupeng Shi and Honghai Zhang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:8
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  44. Caves are one of the most exciting environments on earth, often considered an evolutionary laboratory due to the suite of convergent adaptive traits (troglomorphisms) of organisms inhabiting them. Sinonychia mart...

    Authors: Ruoyi Xiao, Jingjing Zhao, Likun Zhao, Shahan Derkarabetian, Feng Zhang and Chao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:5
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  46. The destructive human activities, encroachment of natural habitats, and hyperarid climate threaten the wild flora of the unprotected mountainous areas facing the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. So, this study aims to rev...

    Authors: Sara Hassanen, Elsayeda Gamal Eldin, Wafaa Kamel, Mohamed Saad Zaghloul and Yasmin M. Hassan
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:3
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  48. Global warming and extreme weather events driven by greenhouse gas emissions are significantly impacting fish survival and reproduction, leading to dramatic consequences for marine biodiversity and ecosystem s...

    Authors: Kaiyu Liu, Yijun Tao, Wenhao Huang, Bei Wang, Shenghao Liu, Bailin Cong, Min Zhou and Linlin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2025 25:1
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  49. Lygodactylus geckos represent a well-documented radiation of miniaturized lizards with diverse life-history traits that are widely distributed in Africa, Madagascar, and South America. The group has diversified i...

    Authors: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Jesus Marugán-Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, David Buckley, Edward L. Stanley, Stephanie Köhnk, Frank Glaw, Werner Conradie and Aaron M. Bauer
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:150
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  50. Citizen Science (CS) offers a promising approach to enhance data collection and engage communities in conservation efforts. This study evaluates the use of CS in environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring for Mediter...

    Authors: Sofia Bonicalza, Elena Valsecchi, Emanuele Coppola, Valeria Catapano and Harriet Thatcher
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:148
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