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🚨 New Research: Thermal performance curves, activity and survival in a free-ranging ectotherm This paper offers new insights into behavioural trade-offs and fitness under natural conditions. 🦎 Kristoffer Read the full paper here: buff.ly/6HSk5iI

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Queens mate with males of another species and then clone them, researchers report, which means Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself. scim.ag/4p72sVe

Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/467yLKO

🐸 New Research: Freeze-tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: A potential ecological trap ➡️ buff.ly/dd4SXDv Troy Neptune

🌳Habitat and land-use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland ➡️ buff.ly/YRXzRmV Rafael Achury

🚨 Research Highlight: Plasticity in a key life-history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore ➡️ buff.ly/55qz8HA

The C-value paradox: no simple correlation between the total amount of genomic DNA (C-value) and perceived biological complexity.

"Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes" doi.org/10.32942/X2DH1W

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants Martin et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences. buff.ly/NyBIPVP

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🦭This study highlights the utility of integrating disparate datasets to address conservation challenges and highlights how intraguild predation can hold sympatric species in a predator-pit and in small populations may contribute to declines➡️buff.ly/nvpXves Izzy Langley @izzylangley.bsky.social

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🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK

Every researcher's nightmare: "Your sample size is too small to detect that effect." This open-access paper in Frontiers in Medicine solves that problem BEFORE you collect data. "How to calculate sample size in animal and human studies" by Zhang & Hartmann breaks down: ✓ What