Preprints
There are 2633 Preprints listed.
Monitoring ecosystem services requires a redesign of siloed monitoring programmes
Published: 2025-10-09
Subjects: Life Sciences
1. Monitoring ecosystem services is essential for achieving sustainability and biodiversity goals, yet existing monitoring programmes are fragmented, siloed, and not designed to detect or attribute change in ecosystem services. 2. We applied the Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESV) framework within a social-ecological network model to integrate three decades of ecological, economic, and [...]
Resetting the rules: Sex chromosome turnover as an escape hatch for mitonuclear conflict
Published: 2025-10-08
Subjects: Life Sciences
Mitochondrial and nuclear genomes must remain coadapted to sustain oxidative phosphorylation, yet their distinct inheritance often fosters conflict. Sex chromosomes are a key arena for these dynamics: by biasing co-transmission between nuclear-encoded mitochondrial (N-mt) genes and maternally inherited mtDNA, they can amplify or suppress mitonuclear incompatibilities. Existing syntheses emphasize [...]
Linking hosts, landscapes, and climate to advance zoonotic arbovirus forecasting
Published: 2025-10-08
Subjects: Life Sciences
Forecasting zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses remains a critical challenge because transmission depends on dynamic, multitrophic interactions among vectors, hosts, pathogens, and the environment. Here, we integrate long-term sentinel chicken surveillance across much of Florida with environmental data to build a predictive framework for eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), a zoonotic mosquito [...]
A Typology of Corporate Actions for a Nature-Positive Future
Published: 2025-10-08
Subjects: Biodiversity, Environmental Studies, Sustainability
Reaching the global goal of halting and reversing biodiversity loss will require a step-change in corporate action. Whilst clear guidance already exists for companies to take responsibility for and mitigate biodiversity loss caused by their own operations, delivering global nature-positive outcomes requires higher ambition and extended accountability for impacts beyond companies’ direct control. [...]
A systematic map of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on anthropogenic noise impact on wildlife
Published: 2025-10-08
Subjects: Life Sciences
As systematic reviews on the effects of anthropogenic noise on wildlife increasingly inform policy, a critical evaluation of this secondary evidence is essential. We assessed the coverage, methodological quality, and policy relevance of existing syntheses in this field. Following a preregistered protocol, we conducted a systematic search using Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, that [...]
Ecosystem structure can affect human health: a longitudinal study on Green Prescriptions
Published: 2025-10-08
Subjects: Biodiversity, Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Health Psychology, Life Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences
The role of Nature in supporting human life, health, and well-being has been recognized and appreciated since ancient times and has recently undergone scientific investigation, which highlighted the human dependence on Nature to nurture mental and physical health. Among Nature-based interventions that aim at exposing people to the natural environment, Green Prescriptions (GRx) represent a [...]
Challenges faced by ecologists: gender-based perceptions throughout the stages of the academic career in Brazil
Published: 2025-10-07
Subjects: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Although women often outnumber men in the early stages of academic careers in ecology, they remain significantly underrepresented in senior positions. In Brazil, women comprise the majority of graduate students in ecological sciences but hold fewer senior academic roles, receive less research funding, and face greater obstacles to visibility and recognition. To understand the factors contributing [...]
Mapping California woodland-chaparral ecosystems following wildfire with diverse drone images and computer vision
Published: 2025-10-07
Subjects: Engineering, Life Sciences
Fire is a key driver of vegetation dynamics in California's woodland-chaparral ecosystems, and its role has become ever more important in recent decades as wildfire extents and frequencies increase. Understanding post-fire vegetation transitions and the likelihood of type conversion is essential for effective land management. Remote sensing represents a powerful tool to map vegetation cover and [...]
Reconciling short- and long-term predictions for ecosystem management
Published: 2025-10-07
Subjects: Life Sciences
1. Management plans grounded in scientific evidence can be used to limit the impacts of ongoing global changes on socio-ecological systems. In this framework, modeling tools play a crucial role in informing and supporting management strategies. 2. While the urgency of implementing evidence-based actions directed most scientific efforts towards short-term ecological forecasting (ranging from [...]
Larger mangrove forests carry lower and healthier ones higher malaria risk: the importance of integrating mangrove conservation with vector management at local scale
Published: 2025-10-06
Subjects: Life Sciences
Malaria remains a major public health challenge causing an annual estimated 600,000 deaths and 250 million infections. While most malaria vector control efforts focus on freshwater mosquito species, saltwater-tolerant mosquitoes inhabiting coastal ecosystems like mangrove forests remain understudied. Historically, mangrove forests have been perceived as breeding grounds for malaria vectors, which [...]
Development and implementation of a passive surveillance system for Aedes albopictus in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Published: 2025-10-06
Subjects: Biology, Entomology, Life Sciences, Population Biology, Public Health, Statistical Methodology, Virus Diseases
The invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) has become an important public health concern in Italy, particularly in the Po Valley area, where its biting behaviour and nuisance have contributed to multiple outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases over the last two decades. To address this growing threat, the Emilia-Romagna region has conducted intensive mosquito monitoring efforts since 2010, [...]
Ciclos irregulares de financiamento no Brasil são uma barreira à conservação da biodiversidade e à liderança global do país
Published: 2025-10-05
Subjects: Biodiversity, Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
O financiamento estável para a pesquisa científica é fundamental para a conservação da biodiversidade e a formulação de políticas baseadas em evidências. No Brasil, ciclos inconsistentes de financiamento para bolsas contribuem para a fuga de cérebros de Pesquisadores em Início de Carreira (ECRs, do inglês “Early Career Researchers”), que poderiam impulsionar avanços significativos na pesquisa em [...]
Epigenetic changes associated with reproductive investment and life-history trade-offs in lekking male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)
Published: 2025-10-05
Subjects: Genomics, Molecular Genetics, Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Life-history trade-offs are a central concept in evolutionary biology, yet their underlying molecular mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Whilst much research has focused on genetic variation, epigenetic mechanisms, which regulate gene regulation, may be equally important. To investigate this, we collected blood samples from 50 male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) before and after the [...]
Understanding the adequacy and representativeness of species distribution data
Published: 2025-10-05
Subjects: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Species occurrence data is the fundamental unit of any species distribution analysis, biodiversity patterns, species extinction vulnerability, and temporal trends. This data is also a critical component of monitoring progress towards global biodiversity targets, such as those included in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). [...]
Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes
Published: 2025-10-05
Subjects: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences
A century ago, Göte Turesson introduced the ecotype concept to describe populations of species that are phenotypically and genetically differentiated by adaptation to contrasting habitats. His simple idea—that ecological divergence can occur below the species level—has had lasting influence, inspiring experimental tests of local adaptation across taxa. Today, ecotypes are described throughout the [...]