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Differences in soil carbon fractions and microbial communities and their underlying mechanisms between assisted natural regeneration and plantation forests in subtropical China

Zhiqiang Ding, Zhijie Yang, Yusheng Yang

published 08 Jan 2026

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Long-term preservation of bacteria in washed sterile sand: A 14-year study

Amina Manni, El-Houcine Ait-Ouakrim, Bouchra Belkadi, Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf

published 07 Jan 2026

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Impact of population pressure on forest resources depletion in Yayo coffee forest Biosphere Reserve, Southwest Ethiopia

Fikru Mosisa Hunde, Adanech Asfaw Benti, Tefera Jegora Kapula

published 05 Jan 2026

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Creole goat morphological diversity partially mirrors district-level variation in the seasonally dry forest of Piura in Peru

José Antonio Haro-Reyes, Emmanuel Alexander Sessarego, Danny Julio Cruz, Pablo R. Gonzales-Guevara, José Antonio Ruiz-Chamorro, Juancarlos Alejandro Cruz-Luis

published 31 Dec 2025

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Using Sentinel-1 satellite imagery to quantify oil palm cultivation: A case study from Cameroon

Christopher Chalmers, Elizabeth D. Crook, Ada N. Acobta, Kyle Manley, Benis Egoh

published 31 Dec 2025

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Isolated dwarfism and sexual dimorphism in a mainland population of the greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) and the Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus)

Megan E. Lahti, Leigh C. Latta, IV, Michael E. Pfrender, Edmund D. Brodie Jr.

published 26 Dec 2025

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Identifying and assessing nonlinear drivers of capelin and Atlantic cod population dynamics using empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) scenario exploration

Reid W. Steele, Jin Gao, Mariano Koen-Alonso, Paul M. Regular

published 19 Dec 2025

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Dual niche modeling with GEE and SHAP for predicting habitat shifts of Haloxylon ammodendron and Cistanche deserticola under climate change

Jing-Xia Guo, Yan Wu, Teng-Da Zhang, Feng-Long Lv, Yi-Fan Gong

published 19 Dec 2025

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Species diversity within morpho-functional groups drives diversity dependence in reef ecosystems

Anupama Chandroth, Claudia C. Johnson

published 17 Dec 2025

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New investigations of the Hjortspring boat: Dating and analysis of the cordage and caulking materials used in a pre-Roman iron age plank boat

Mikael Fauvelle, Boel Bengtsson, Olof Pipping, Mikkel Hollmann, Martin Nordvig Mortensen, Peter Toft, Sahel Ganji, Ashely Green, Christian Horn, Stephen Hall, Flemming Kaul, Johan Ling

published 10 Dec 2025

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A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Quiriri, northeastern Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, with a review of the diagnosis among species of the B. pernix group and proposed conservation measures

Marcos R. Bornschein, Marcio R. Pie, Júnior Nadaline, André E. Confetti, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Renata de Britto Mari, Gabriel Silveira Alves, Giovanna Sandretti-Silva, Felipe Farias de Andrade Lima, Luiz F. Ribeiro

published 10 Dec 2025

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Endemic vascular plants provide reliable indicators for mapping seasonally dry tropical forests

Mayra Flores-Tolentino, José Luis Villaseñor, Enrique Ortíz, David A. Prieto-Torres, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez

published 09 Dec 2025

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Cooperative environmental engineering via biofilm formation can stabilize consumer-resource systems

Bryan K. Lynn, Patrick De Leenheer, Benjamin D. Dalziel

published 08 Dec 2025

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