Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level [0.03%]
果园遮阳网对生物多样性的影响及其引起的生态系统级联效应
Corrado Alessandrini,Karan Sethi,Emanuela Granata et al.
Corrado Alessandrini et al.
Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosyste...
Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators [0.03%]
语言表达的演化：通向生成性、组合性交际主体的道路
Catherine Crockford,Roman Martin Wittig,Cedric Girard-Buttoz
Catherine Crockford
Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long-standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task ...
Kenta Suzuki,Masato Yamamichi,Yutaka Osada et al.
Kenta Suzuki et al.
Recent advances in data collection technologies (e.g. automated sensor networks, satellite remote sensing, and high-throughput sequencing) have greatly expanded the availability of ecological time series, enabling new opportunities for caus...
On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies - insights from home-cage monitoring [0.03%]
动物研究中纳入雌雄两性的必要性——来自笼养监测的启示
Maša Čater,Adam Dušek,Aleksandra Bartelik et al.
Maša Čater et al.
A review of behavioural studies using home-cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and...
Trade-offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta-analysis of brood size manipulations [0.03%]
有关鸟类亲代抚育的贸易-offs：理论与综述及巢苗 manipulation 的元分析
Rebekah A McKinnon,Malgorzata Lagisz,Sheeraja Sridharan et al.
Rebekah A McKinnon et al.
The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based o...
Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife [0.03%]
统计病例，保护物种：应对野生鸟类中的高致病性禽流感
Ulrich Knief,Sandra Bouwhuis,Anja Globig et al.
Ulrich Knief et al.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year-round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, an...
Nicole D S Grunstra
Nicole D S Grunstra
Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ide...
Simon Braem,Thomas Fartmann,Hans van Dyck
Simon Braem
The sites herbivorous insects select to deposit eggs determine to a variable degree the environment their larvae will experience during development. Therefore, oviposition site selection should be seen as a significant life-history trait af...
Oocyte-cumulus cell interaction: a key factor in early embryo development [0.03%]
卵母细胞-颗粒细胞相互作用：早期胚胎发育的关键因素
Marc Torres-Garrido,Marc Yeste,Yentel Mateo-Otero
Marc Torres-Garrido
The evaluation of oocyte competence is a fundamental step in achieving successful outcomes following assisted reproduction techniques (ART). At present, however, conventional oocyte maturation assessment is carried out by morphological obse...
Stress, needs, and behaviour: understanding chronic stress in pet domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) from the prism of needs [0.03%]
压力、需求和行为：从需求的角度理解家养犬（Canis lupus familiaris）的慢性压力
Alisa Tananaeva,Monique A R Udell
Alisa Tananaeva
Research suggests that domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) living as pets within urban environments may experience challenges such as sensory overstimulation, limited agency, and hyper-dependence on humans. Such factors have been associa...