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Contrasting climatic dependencies of macrofauna and microorganisms generate similar whole-community decomposition rates across a precipitation gradient, plausibly resolving the longstanding puzzle of why arid-land litter decomposition is decoupled from precipitation.

Behavioral studies reveal that bumblebees distinguish between continuous and interrupted strings by using a combination of image matching and associative learning.

Foveal vision in pigeons plays a crucial role in predator detection while the flock is collectively foraging and being vigilant.

The realized energy landscape expands as animals improve their movement behaviors with age.

Spatial segregation is identified as the primary mechanism facilitating the coexistence of apex and mesocarnivores in the Qilian Mountain National Park, China.

Tronko provides a scalable solution for accurate taxonomic assignment for large-scale metabarcoding datasets by overcoming the speed and memory limitations of previous phylogenetic placement methods.

A cellular map of a deep-sea mussel gill unveils how distinct cell types collaborate to cultivate intracellular symbiotic bacteria, providing insights into host–symbiont interactions and environmental adaptation in bivalves.

Bio-logging reveals that barn owls enhance hunting success by using man-made poles to silently approach their prey, emphasizing a link between predator-prey interactions and land-use in the agricultural landscape.