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Sequential invasion under disturbance drives functional homogenisation of lake benthos
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760877v1?rss=1
2026-10-23doi:10.64898/2026.10.22.760877Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-23
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Quantitative evidence for foraging preferences of shrill carder bumble bee (Bombus sylvarum) queens
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.21.760793v1?rss=1
2026-10-23doi:10.64898/2026.10.21.760793Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-23
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A dispersal model for Cenchrus setaceus (Poaceae) in Mexican urban context
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.17.759854v1?rss=1
2026-10-22doi:10.64898/2026.10.17.759854Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-22
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Coupling demography and interactions reshapes the structural stability of ecological communities
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759606v1?rss=1
2026-10-22doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.759606Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-22
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Contact heterogeneity in network reconstruction: evaluating synthetic graph generators for rabies transmission modeling
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759544v1?rss=1
2026-10-22doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.759544Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-22
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Vertebrates do not display consistent declines in abundance or stability with contemporary range or realized climate niche centrality
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.21.760662v1?rss=1
5000 vertebrate species and distance-variability relationships in >1000 vertebrate species across their realized geographic and climate niche spaces. We found no vertebrate taxa display consistent declines in abundance or stability with increasing distances from range centres or realized climate (niche) centres modelled from species' breeding ranges, native ranges or contemporary occurrences. Distance-abundance and distance-variability relationships were weak and inconsistent across taxa irrespective of centrality metric, modelling approach, climate variables, abundance metric or dataset. Contemporary vertebrate abundance patterns, therefore, are often decoupled from position in contemporary range and realized climate space, challenging a central assumption of core-periphery models. Broadly, our study indicates that frequently used range and climate centrality metrics may be weak predictors of vertebrate abundance patterns in contemporary landscapes and biological forecasting or climate change applications should be cautious of their unvalidated use.
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Evidence for a central ecological function of predatory Myxococcota in soil ecosystems
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.21.760627v1?rss=1
2026-10-22doi:10.64898/2026.10.21.760627Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-22
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Wildlife damage to tropical agroforests: predicting primate-induced fruit loss using species' energy requirements
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.21.760699v1?rss=1
2026-10-22doi:10.64898/2026.10.21.760699Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-22
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A million orthopteran singers from a year of continuously operating field recorders detected, tracked and organized by song
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.18.759993v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.18.759993Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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Forest biodiversity benefits from warmer microclimate, but only in colder regions
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760414v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.760414Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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A few genes modulate the ecological impact of a freshwater fish species on food webs and ecosystem functions
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760412v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.760412Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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The Muskox Way: Humans, plants and animals in northeast Greenland through the Holocene
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760410v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.760410Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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Biogeographical context mediates land-use impacts on tropical soil multitrophic diversity
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760353v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.760353Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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Plant microbiomes have a greater effect than plant size on flowering and growth in Asclepias syriaca
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.759379v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.759379Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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Hollow homes: Roost selection and role of roost morphometrics in the cavity-roosting Bamboo Bat (Genus Tylonycteris) from the Western Ghats, southern India
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760418v1?rss=1
2026-10-21doi:10.64898/2026.10.20.760418Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-21
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Deep learning-based counting and body-area measurement enable sensitive population-level endpoints in the Collembola reproduction test
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760133v1?rss=1
= 0.95). Cumulative body area, a composite indicator integrating abundance and individual size and thus reflecting both reproduction and growth, showed the lowest EC50 in all three metal(loid)s (Cd 14.10, As 10.53, Cu 398.80 mg kg-1). Cohort analysis showed that the two cohorts present in the controls merged into one at the highest concentrations (As 20, Cu 800 mg kg-1), indicating that toxic stress drives not only individual-level suppression of reproduction and growth but also population restructuring. Beyond accurately and efficiently replacing manual counting, the system adds more sensitive composite endpoints and population-level analysis, providing a more comprehensive, scalable framework for soil ecotoxicological risk assessment.
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β-Stability: Efficient, human-in-the-loop, graph-based curation of individual animal identities from images
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760261v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.19.760261Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Effects of the nemertean egg predator Carcinonemertes carcinophila (Carcinonemertidae: Monostilifera) on the reproductive output and fecundity of the Florida Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760229v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.19.760229Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Modelling variation in salinity-dependent growth in photosynthetic microbes
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760103v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.19.760103Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Positive effects of larval quality on early barnacle recruitment through adaptive substrate selection
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.760179v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.19.760179Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Molecular evidence of the eukaryotic parasites Perkinsea and Stylocephalidae in lizard muscle tissue
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.17.759858v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.17.759858Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Water plant functional groups: a trait-based classification database for Australian plants
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.18.759887v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.18.759887Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Host genetics structure prokaryotic and Symbiodiniaceae assemblages and their co-variation in sympatric fire coral species
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.17.758147v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.17.758147Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Urban planning leaves an audible legacy in a megacity's bird soundscape
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.18.759919v1?rss=1
2026-10-20doi:10.64898/2026.10.18.759919Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-20
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Conserved patterns of mammal-microbe codiversification and interspecific bacterial sharing
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759742v1?rss=1
2026-10-19doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.759742Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-19
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Indigenous generalist pollinators shape plant-insect interaction networks across a land-use gradient on an oceanic island
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.17.759801v1?rss=1
2026-10-19doi:10.64898/2026.10.17.759801Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-19
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Private forest reserves in Brazils agricultural landscapes effectively sustain the occupancy and abundance of multiple threatened large vertebrate
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.757138v1?rss=1
2026-10-19doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.757138Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-19
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Molecular Data From Herbarium Specimens Reveal A Potential Extirpation of Azolla microphylla From California
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.758102v1?rss=1
2026-10-19doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.758102Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-19
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Social anchors: how previous social locations shape current animal movement and habitat selection
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759611v1?rss=1
2026-10-19doi:10.64898/2026.10.16.759611Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2026-10-19
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The 'false transience' hypothesis: Do we need to reconsider the seed persistence classifications of soil seed bank studies?
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.759570v1?rss=1
10 years had large seeds and low seed numbers compared to the full range of species, and all germinating species had seed numbers below the median of the tested species. Conclusions Our results provide partial support for the proposed 'false transience' hypothesis, showing that nearly 10% of supposedly transient species can persist after more than a decade of ex situ storage. Our results also suggest that 'false transients' are frequently large-seeded with low seed production, therefore being more likely to be missed in SSB studies and erroneously classified as transient. We can conclude that relying solely on field SSB data to infer seed persistence can be misleading, suggesting that the widely observed negative relationship between seed size and persistence may also require reconsideration.
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