Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves

R Cooke, F Sayol, T Andermann, TM Blackburn… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly
known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions …

partR2: Partitioning R2 in generalized linear mixed models

MA Stoffel, S Nakagawa, H Schielzeth - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The coefficient of determination R 2 quantifies the amount of variance explained by
regression coefficients in a linear model. It can be seen as the fixed-effects complement to …

[HTML][HTML] Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions

G Du Preez, M Daneel, R De Goede, MJ Du Toit… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The health and functioning of soil ecosystems are the foundation of sustainable food
production and land management. Of key importance in achieving sustainability, is the …

Habitat loss over six decades accelerates regional and local biodiversity loss via changing landscape connectance

Z Horváth, R Ptacnik, CF Vad, JM Chase - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When habitats are lost, species are lost in the region as a result of the sampling process.
However, it is less clear what happens to biodiversity in the habitats that remain. Some have …

Remote sensing and invasive plants in coastal ecosystems: what we know so far and future prospects

P Villalobos Perna, M Di Febbraro, ML Carranza… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coastal environments are highly threatened by invasive alien plants (IAP), and Remote
Sensing (RS) may offer a sound support for IAP detection and mapping. There is still a need …

Climate change driving widespread loss of coastal forested wetlands throughout the North American coastal plain

EE White Jr, EA Ury, ES Bernhardt, X Yang - Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
Coastal forested wetlands support many endemic species, sequester substantial carbon
stocks, and have been reduced in extent due to historic drainage and agricultural …

Abstract concepts and emotion: Cross-linguistic evidence and arguments against affective embodiment

B Winter - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How are abstract concepts such as 'freedom'and 'democracy'represented in the mind? One
prominent proposal suggests that abstract concepts are grounded in emotion. Supporting …

Past and potential future effects of habitat fragmentation on structure and stability of plant–pollinator and host–parasitoid networks

I Grass, B Jauker, I Steffan-Dewenter… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Habitat fragmentation is a primary threat to biodiversity, but how it affects the structure and
stability of ecological networks is poorly understood. Here, we studied plant–pollinator and …

A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease highlights novel differentially methylated loci across cortex

RG Smith, E Pishva, G Shireby, AR Smith… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenome-wide association studies of Alzheimer's disease have highlighted
neuropathology-associated DNA methylation differences, although existing studies have …

A principal component approach to improve association testing with polygenic risk scores

BJ Coombes, A Ploner, SE Bergen… - Genetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have become an increasingly popular approach for
demonstrating polygenic influences on complex traits and for establishing common …