#eeb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eeb, aggregated by home.social.
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Transgenerational and Intergenerational Maternal Age Effects Exhibit Complex, Genotype-Specific Patterns of Inheritance by Liguori et al.
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Smith develops theory showing that aggregation caused by habitat structure can make Janzen–Connell effects and habitat partitioning work together as a powerful mechanism promoting coexistence in tropical forests.
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Gaughan et al. suggest that the preference of insect herbivores may play an important yet under-appreciated role in the destabilization of plant diversity.
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Chokechaipaisarn & Hitchcock develop new models of sex allocation tailored to non-standard forms of arrhenotoky, revealing the distinct effects of asymmetric ploidy upon patterns of relatedness and sex allocation.
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Kework & Pierson studied fine-scale spatial variation in reproductive tactic frequencies in two-lined salamanders and found that "searching" male frequencies were higher in small tributaries than in larger stream reaches.
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Weiss et al. use field observations, experiments, and simulations to demonstrate that periodical cicada nymphs use skototaxis (orientation and movement towards dark objects), to march unerringly to their molting trees at night.
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Abundance and Functional Roles, Not Richness, Govern Wood-Fall Degenerative Ecosystem Function in the Deep Sea by McClain et al.
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When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution.
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Arnold et al. developed a novel extension of mechanistic home range analyses (MHRA) that is able to predict both territorial shifts following harvest and non-territorial behaviors in the elusive felid Canada lynx (Lynx Canadensis).
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Cissell & McCoy reveal that spatially heterogeneous predation may contribute to asynchronous community extinction, stabilizing cyanobacterial mat metacommunities despite extensive community-scale instability.
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Godoy et al. explored whether cooperation gives rise to mechanisms of coexistence that competition does not promote and found that cooperation promotes three unique mechanisms that diversify the pathways to coexistence.
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Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers.
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Regression to the mean (RTM) is a statistical phenomenon in which extreme initial observations tend to be closer to the average upon subsequent measurement. Fontanari & Santos show that common RTM correction methods are problematic.
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The petition 'Leave fossil fuels behind, not people!' by amongst others the #EEB hopes to push the #EU @EUCommission to not delay #climate action, stop subsidizing #fossil fuels and push for a just climate transition! It cannot be more clear than now that we need this, after suffering the (first) intense #heatwave of 2026
https://life-effect.org/?page_id=409135&preview=true
#sustainability #climatechange #fossilLobby #renewable #renewableEnergyTransition
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Are DMIs actors or simple markers of the speciation process with gene flow? Check out Blanckaert & Sousa 2025 for more info!
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How do ranges form and persist? Hancock et al., using shovel bugs that live on sandy beaches, discovered that when dispersal is asymmetric, it can drive the production of range edges.
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Positional Intraclutch Variation in Egg Shape Associated with Maternal Guarding in a Shield Bug by Masamoto et al.
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Riddell uncovers that salamanders from different elevations achieve similar plastic responses through distinct molecular mechanisms, offering new insight into how populations may respond (or fail to respond) to environmental change.
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Effects of Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles on Behaviors and Reproduction in a Common Songbird by Delaitre et al.
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Bacteria already killed by a host's immune response make it harder to handle those still alive. The same phenomenon might also help in tuning the immune response and decreasing the costs of the pathogen.
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💥🇪🇺 Today brand new research by Corporate Europe Observatory is published! On how the corporate world - global agrochemical and food companies, commodity giants, banks and others - is hi-jacking the concept of ‘regenerative agriculture’. See here: tinyurl.com/mry9wacw #AgroecologyEurope #Ifoam #EEB
A Degenerative Lobby | Corpora... -
Antonson et al. show that cowbirds’ neck muscles are unusually fatigue-resistant, suggesting muscular innovation for exaggerated begging as a key driver for how brood parasites outcompete hosts.
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McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America.
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“One must suffer to be beautiful,” says an old adage. Bateman and Larsson find that the same held true for pachycephalosaurs, who traded feeding performance for a cranial dome.
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Which traits matter for linking individuals to ecology? Rota et al. reveal that behavior and physiology often outpace form in predicting ecological responses from individual performance to community and ecosystem levels.
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Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis by Santos et al.
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Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology.
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Can carbon economy explain leaf dynamic seasonality? Tan et al. tested the ‘carbon benefit’ hypothesis in a tropical seasonal rain forest and their results did not support the hypothesis.
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Adaptive decline occurs when a predator over-exploits its prey, resulting in predator population decline. M’Gonigle et al. show that landscapes that comprise more patches exhibit less adaptive decline.
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Are seminal fluid proteins a male tool to manipulate females against their interests? Or do females have a say as well? Michalak et al. argue that if females can detect seminal fluids, using it as information can benefit both sexes.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740809