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  1. Evaluating Electric Harps and Muzzles to Mitigate the Impact of Vespa velutina nigrithorax at Beehives
  2. Deriving inventories of non-native plant species from iNaturalist: Insights from urban centres of the Western Cape, South Africa
  3. Thermodynamic principles govern evolutionary tradeoffs by regulating allostery
  4. Mutualism and Dispersal Heterogeneity Shape Stability, Biodiversity, and Structure of Theoretical Plant–Pollinator Meta-Networks
  5. Quantifying the intra- and inter-species community interactions in microbiomes by dynamic covariance mapping
  6. Environmental stochasticity drives adaptation to cooler thermal optima
  7. Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities
  8. Deriving inventories of non-native plant species from iNaturalist: Insights from urban centres of the Western Cape, South Africa
  9. Constructing Q-Ideals for Boolean Semiring Partitioning Using Seeds
  10. Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change
  11. Adaptation of thermal reaction norms in constant and fluctuating environments
  12. Comparison of the performance of two polar equations in describing the geometries of elliptical fruits
  13. Emergence of structure in plant–pollinator networks: low floral resource constrains network specialisation
  14. Adaptive rock-paper-scissors game enhances eco-evolutionary performance at cost of dynamic stability
  15. A kernel integral method to remove biases in estimating trait turnover
  16. Mean landscape‐scale incidence of species in discrete habitats is patch size dependent
  17. Adaptive rewiring shapes structure and stability in a three-guild herbivore-plant-pollinator network
  18. Evidence That Field Muskmelon (Cucumis melo L. var. agrestis Naud.) Fruits Are Solids of Revolution
  19. Inequality Measure of Leaf Area Distribution for a Drought-Tolerant Landscape Plant
  20. The world's 100 worst invasive alien insect species differ in their characteristics from related non‐invasive species
  21. B-Cubed: Leveraging Analysis-Ready Biodiversity Datasets and Cloud Computing for Timely and Actionable Biodiversity Monitoring
  22. Deep learning approaches to landmark detection in tsetse wing images
  23. A kernel integral method to remove biases in estimating trait turnover
  24. Intra- and inter-species interactions drive early phases of invasion in mice gut microbiota
  25. The dos and don’ts for predicting invasion dynamics with species distribution models
  26. Jack, master or both? The invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis performs better than a native coccinellid despite divergent trait plasticity
  27. Dynamic Species Distribution Modeling Reveals the Pivotal Role of Human-Mediated Long-Distance Dispersal in Plant Invasion
  28. Rare, common, alien and native species follow different rules in an understory plant community
  29. The number of tree species on Earth
  30. Invading Ecological Networks
  31. Cost-benefit evaluation of management strategies for an invasive amphibian with a stage-structured model
  32. Erratum: Elephant population responses to increased density in Kruger National Park
  33. A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity
  34. A multi-species co-occurrence index to avoid type II errors in null model testing
  35. Widespread vulnerability of flowering plant seed production to pollinator declines
  36. Assemblage reorganization of South African dragonflies due to climate change
  37. Human activity strongly influences genetic dynamics of the most widespread invasive plant in the sub‐Antarctic
  38. Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
  39. Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics
  40. Elephant population responses to increased density in Kruger National Park
  41. Amphibian diversity in the Amazonian floating meadows: a Hanski core‐satellite species system
  42. Significance of antiviral therapy and CTL-mediated immune response in containing hepatitis B and C virus infection
  43. Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition
  44. Trait positions for elevated invasiveness in adaptive ecological networks
  45. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in ten countries and associated perceived risk for all transport modes
  46. Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology
  47. Impacts of Invasive Australian Acacias on Soil Bacterial Community Composition, Microbial Enzymatic Activities, and Nutrient Availability in Fynbos Soils
  48. Introduced species shape insular mutualistic networks
  49. Exponential Damping: The Key to Successful Containment of COVID-19
  50. How competitive intransitivity and niche overlap affect spatial coexistence
  51. A survey dataset to evaluate the changes in mobility and transportation due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States
  52. How geographic productivity patterns affect food-web evolution
  53. Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires
  54. MAVSCOT: A fuzzy logic-based HIV diagnostic system with indigenous multi-lingual interfaces for rural Africa
  55. Intercolony health evaluation of wild African penguinsSpheniscus demersus, in relation to parasites, along the southwest coast of South Africa
  56. Survey data regarding perceived air quality in Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa, United States before and during Covid-19 restrictions
  57. Nest-type associated microclimatic conditions as potential drivers of ectoparasite infestations in African penguin nests
  58. Extending biodiversity conservation with functional and evolutionary diversity: a case study of South African sparid fishes
  59. Supporting sandy beach conservation through comparative phylogeography: The case of Excirolana (Crustacea: Isopoda) in South Africa
  60. Driving factors of community‐level plant functional traits and species distributions in the desert‐wetland ecosystem of the Shule River Basin, China
  61. Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert‐based assessment
  62. Describing the evolution of myeloid-derived leucocytes in treated B-lineage paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with a data-driven granulocyte-monocyte-blast model
  63. How intraguild predation affects the host diversity-disease relationship in a multihost community
  64. Exponential damping: The key to successful containment of COVID-19
  65. Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management
  66. Does the law of diminishing returns in leaf scaling apply to vines? – Evidence from 12 species of climbing plants
  67. A simple ecological model captures the transmission pattern of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in China
  68. Leaf Bilateral Symmetry and the Scaling of the Perimeter vs. the Surface Area in 15 Vine Species
  69. Leaf shape influences the scaling of leaf dry mass vs. area: a test case using bamboos
  70. Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasions in South Africa
  71. Scaling Relationships between Leaf Shape and Area of 12 Rosaceae Species
  72. Let’s Train More Theoretical Ecologists – Here Is Why
  73. Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots
  74. Strong spatial and temporal turnover of soil bacterial communities in South Africa's hyperdiverse fynbos biome
  75. The failure of success: cyclic recurrences of a globally invasive pest
  76. Importance of biotic niches versus drift in a plant‐inhabiting arthropod community depends on rarity and trophic group
  77. Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity
  78. The efficacy of a modified Berlese funnel method for the extraction of ectoparasites and their life stages from the nests of the African Penguin Spheniscus demersus
  79. Similar compositional turnover but distinct insular environmental and geographical drivers of native and exotic ants in two oceans
  80. Effects of Salt Stress on the Leaf Shape and Scaling of Pyrus betulifolia Bunge
  81. Fine‐tuning the nested structure of pollination networks by adaptive interaction switching, biogeography and sampling effect in the Galápagos Islands
  82. Influence of the physical dimension of leaf size measures on the goodness of fit for Taylor's power law using 101 bamboo taxa
  83. Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses
  84. Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses
  85. Network Invasion as an Open Dynamical System: Response to Rossberg and Barabás
  86. Life table invasion models: spatial progression and species‐specific partitioning
  87. Every beach an island—deep population divergence and possible loss of genetic diversity in Tylos granulatus, a sandy shore isopod
  88. A four‐component classification of uncertainties in biological invasions: implications for management
  89. Emerging infectious diseases and biological invasions: a call for a One Health collaboration in science and management
  90. Leaf Fresh Weight Versus Dry Weight: Which is Better for Describing the Scaling Relationship between Leaf Biomass and Leaf Area for Broad-Leaved Plants?
  91. Spatiotemporal distribution dynamics of elephants in response to density, rainfall, rivers and fire in Kruger National Park, South Africa
  92. Parasite diversity associated with African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) and the effect of host and environmental factors
  93. Different environmental drivers of alien tree invasion affect different life-stages and operate at different spatial scales
  94. Prejudice, privilege, and power: Conflicts and cooperation between recognizable groups
  95. Spatial Segregation Facilitates the Coexistence of Tree Species in Temperate Forests
  96. How to Invade an Ecological Network
  97. Drivers of species turnover vary with species commonness for native and alien plants with different residence times
  98. Variability in life-history switch points across and within populations explained by Adaptive Dynamics
  99. Plant Species Richness Controls Arthropod Food Web: Evidence From an Experimental Model System
  100. Alternative assembly processes from trait-mediated co-evolution in mutualistic communities
  101. Variation in individual biomass decreases faster than mean biomass with increasing density of bamboo stands
  102. Heterogeneity in local density allows a positive evolutionary relationship between self-fertilisation and dispersal
  103. Sleeping with the enemy: introgressive hybridization in two invasive centrarchids
  104. Sexual dimorphism in the dermal armour of cordyline lizards (Squamata: Cordylinae)
  105. Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory
  106. Frugivory and seed dispersal: Extended bi-stable persistence and reduced clustering of plants
  107. The ghost of introduction past: Spatial and temporal variability in the genetic diversity of invasive smallmouth bass
  108. On dangerous ground: the evolution of body armour in cordyline lizards
  109. Interactions among predators and plant specificity protect herbivores from top predators
  110. Context-dependent spatial sorting of dispersal-related traits in the invasive starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) of South Africa and Australia.
  111. zetadiv: an R package for computing compositional change across multiple sites, assemblages or cases
  112. Why Does Not the Leaf Weight-Area Allometry of Bamboos Follow the 3/2-Power Law?
  113. Proximate causes of variation in dermal armour: insights from armadillo lizards
  114. Emergence of weak-intransitive competition through adaptive diversification and eco-evolutionary feedbacks
  115. Quantifying multiple-site compositional turnover in an Afrotemperate forest, using zeta diversity
  116. The effect of temperature on the developmental rates of seedling emergence and leaf-unfolding in two dwarf bamboo species
  117. Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species-area relationship from small samples
  118. Long-term rainfall regression surfaces for the Kruger National Park, South Africa: a spatio-temporal review of patterns from 1981 to 2015
  119. Biodiversity
  120. Ecological and Evolutionary Modelling
  121. Evolution
  122. Networks
  123. Spread
  124. Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss
  125. The application of zeta diversity as a continuous measure of compositional change in ecology
  126. Population viability analysis over landscapes
  127. Does restricted access limit management of invasive urban frogs?
  128. Internode morphometrics and allometry of Tonkin Cane Pseudosasa amabilis
  129. Ranking of invasive spread through urban green areas in the world’s 100 most populous cities
  130. Heterogeneity in local density allows a positive evolutionary relationship between self-fertilisation and dispersal
  131. Functional trade-off between strength and thermal capacity of dermal armor: Insights from girdled lizards
  132. Modelling coevolution in ecological networks with adaptive dynamics
  133. A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions
  134. Integrating age structured and landscape resistance models to disentangle invasion dynamics of a pond-breeding anuran
  135. Timing of cherry tree blooming: Contrasting effects of rising winter low temperatures and early spring temperatures
  136. Corrigendum: Effects of agricultural intensification on ability of natural enemies to control aphids
  137. Co‐introduction vs ecological fitting as pathways to the establishment of effective mutualisms during biological invasions
  138. Finish line plant-insect interactions mediated by insect feeding mode and plant interference: a case study of Brassica interactions with diamondback moth and turnip aphid
  139. Evolutionary fields can explain patterns of high-dimensional complexity in ecology
  140. Multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling: using zeta diversity to differentiate drivers of turnover in rare and widespread species
  141. Legume–rhizobium symbiotic promiscuity and effectiveness do not affect plant invasiveness
  142. The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science
  143. Biocapacity optimization in regional planning
  144. Biotic interactions
  145. Complex adaptive networks
  146. From dispersal to boosted range expansion
  147. Invasion Dynamics
  148. Managing biological invasions in the Anthropocene
  149. Modelling spatial dynamics
  150. Non-equilibrium dynamics
  151. Regime shifts
  152. Setting the scene
  153. The dynamics of spread
  154. Community assembly and succession
  155. Monitoring and management
  156. Modeling the transmission of Burili ulcer in fluctuating environments
  157. Is invasion success of Australian trees mediated by their native biogeography, phylogenetic history, or both?
  158. Cluster validity and uncertainty assessment for self‐organizing map pest profile analysis
  159. Beauty is more than skin deep: a non-invasive protocol for in vivo anatomical study using micro-CT
  160. Parasites of Harmonia axyridis: current research and perspectives
  161. Enemy at the gates: Rapid defensive trait diversification in an adaptive radiation of lizards
  162. A geometrical model for testing bilateral symmetry of bamboo leaf with a simplified Gielis equation
  163. Approaches and mechanisms for ecologically based pest management across multiple scales
  164. Symmetry breaking in cyclic competition by niche construction
  165. Invading a mutualistic network: to be or not to be similar
  166. A general method for parameter estimation in light-response models
  167. Formulating spread of species with habitat dependent growth and dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes
  168. Decomposition of litter mixtures in streams
  169. Quantifying spatiotemporal drivers of environmental heterogeneity in Kruger National Park, South Africa
  170. The distribution and diversity of insular ants: do exotic species play by different rules?
  171. The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology
  172. Biogeo: an R package for assessing and improving data quality of occurrence record datasets
  173. Defining invasiveness and invasibility in ecological networks
  174. Does the size–density relationship developed for bamboo species conform to the self-thinning rule?
  175. Early eclosion of overwintering cotton bollworm moths from warming temperatures accentuates yield loss in wheat
  176. Capture the time when plants reach their maximum body size by using the beta sigmoid growth equation
  177. Niche vs neutral, or niche-neutral feedback: beyond the continuum
  178. Population dynamics and associated factors of cereal aphids and armyworms under global change
  179. Invasion debt - quantifying future biological invasions
  180. The seesaw effect of winter temperature change on the recruitment of cotton bollworms H elicoverpa armigera through mismatched phenology
  181. Plant invasions as a biogeographical assay: Vegetation biomes constrain the distribution of invasive alien species assemblages
  182. Capturing spiral radial growth of conifers using the superellipse to model tree-ring geometric shape
  183. Density-dependent dispersal complicates spatial synchrony in tri-trophic food chains
  184. Trait-mediated interaction leads to structural emergence in mutualistic networks
  185. Habitat heterogeneity stabilizes the spatial and temporal interactions between cereal aphids and parasitic wasps
  186. Correction: Spatial Assortment of Mixed Propagules Explains the Acceleration of Range Expansion
  187. Latitudinal gradient of nestedness and its potential drivers in stream detritivores
  188. How do fynbos plant–pollinator communities respond to the loss of birds?
  189. A hybrid behavioural rule of adaptation and drift explains the emergent architecture of antagonistic networks
  190. An optimal proportion of mixing broad‐leaved forest for enhancing the effective productivity of moso bamboo
  191. Effects of the transmissibility and virulence of pathogens on intraguild predation in fragmented landscapes
  192. Effects of agricultural intensification on ability of natural enemies to control aphids
  193. Carrying Capacity of the Environment
  194. Fisheries-induced disruptive selection
  195. Assembly of plant communities in coastal wetlands—the role of saltcedarTamarix chinensisduring early succession
  196. Zeta Diversity as a Concept and Metric That Unifies Incidence-Based Biodiversity Patterns
  197. Weakening density dependence from climate change and agricultural intensification triggers pest outbreaks: a 37‐year observation of cotton bollworms
  198. Spatial Assortment of Mixed Propagules Explains the Acceleration of Range Expansion
  199. Niche Construction on Environmental Gradients: The Formation of Fitness Valley and Stratified Genotypic Distributions
  200. Cascade effects of crop species richness on the diversity of pest insects and their natural enemies
  201. The Impact of Land Abandonment on Species Richness and Abundance in the Mediterranean Basin: A Meta-Analysis
  202. Detecting phylogenetic signal in mutualistic interaction networks using a Markov process model
  203. Invasion trajectory of alien trees: the role of introduction pathway and planting history
  204. Responses of Cereal Aphids and Their Parasitic Wasps to Landscape Complexity
  205. Invasive plants as drivers of regime shifts: identifying high‐priority invaders that alter feedback relationships
  206. On the 3/4-exponent von Bertalanffy equation for ontogenetic growth
  207. A simple behavioral strategy for optimal foraging
  208. A standardized set of metrics to assess and monitor tree invasions
  209. Tree invasions: patterns, processes, challenges and opportunities
  210. Cross-scale management strategies for optimal control of trees invading from source plantations
  211. Propagule pressure drives establishment of introduced freshwater fish: quantitative evidence from an irrigation network
  212. Native rang size reveals the invasiveness of Australian acacias and eucalyptus
  213. Long‐distance dispersal maximizes evolutionary potential during rapid geographic range expansion
  214. Increasing functional modularity with residence time in the co-distribution of native and introduced vascular plants
  215. Scale dependency of biocapacity and the fallacy of unsustainable development
  216. Effects of inter-annual landscape change on interactions between cereal aphids and their natural enemies
  217. Solving the pitfalls of pitfall trapping: a two‐circle method for density estimation of ground‐dwelling arthropods
  218. Effects of position within wheat field and adjacent habitats on the density and diversity of cereal aphids and their natural enemies
  219. Changing roles of propagule, climate, and land use during extralimital colonization of a rose chafer beetle
  220. Does land abandonment decrease species richness and abundance of plants and animals in Mediterranean pastures, arable lands and permanent croplands?
  221. Farm dams facilitate amphibian invasion: Extra‐limital range expansion of the painted reed frog in South Africa
  222. A Cross-Scale Approach for Abundance Estimation of Invasive Alien Plants in a Large Protected Area
  223. Organism-induced habitat restoration leads to bi-stability in metapopulations
  224. ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE IN DARWIN'S RACE: HOW COEVOLUTION CAN GENERATE TRAIT DIVERSITY IN A POLLINATION SYSTEM
  225. Effects of plant availability and habitat size on the coexistence of two competing parasitoids in a tri-trophic food web of canola, diamondback moth and parasitic wasps
  226. A first record of biological soil crusts in the Cape Floristic Region
  227. Flexible dispersal strategies in native and non‐native ranges: environmental quality and the ‘good–stay, bad–disperse’ rule
  228. Scale effect and bimodality in the frequency distribution of species occupancy
  229. Spatial Sorting Drives Morphological Variation in the Invasive Bird, Acridotheris tristis
  230. Estimating changes in species abundance from occupancy and aggregation
  231. Development and characterization of 13 new, and cross amplification of 3, polymorphic nuclear microsatellite loci in the common myna (Acridotheres tristis)
  232. Importance of primary metabolites in canola in mediating interactions between a specialist leaf-feeding insect and its specialist solitary endoparasitoid
  233. From the inverse density–area relationship to the minimum patch size of a host–parasitoid system
  234. Eco-Evolutionary Feedback and the Invasion of Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games
  235. RS & GIS-Based Spatialtemporal Analysis of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Pattern of Jinghe River Watershed in China: Does Supply Meet Demand?
  236. Effects of density-dependent dispersal behaviours on the speed and spatial patterns of range expansion in predator–prey metapopulations
  237. The effect of predation on the prevalence and aggregation of pathogens in prey
  238. Macroecology meets invasion ecology: linking the native distributions of Australian acacias to invasiveness
  239. Human‐mediated introductions of Australian acacias – a global experiment in biogeography
  240. Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: the role of species traits and genome size
  241. An interaction switch predicts the nested architecture of mutualistic networks
  242. Defining optimal sampling effort for large-scale monitoring of invasive alien plants: a Bayesian method for estimating abundance and distribution
  243. Biocapacity supply and demand in Northwestern China: A spatial appraisal of sustainability
  244. Forecasting population trend from the scaling pattern of occupancy
  245. Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader
  246. Modelling Spread in Invasion Ecology: A Synthesis
  247. An Eco-epidemiological system with infected predator
  248. Spatially‐explicit sensitivity analysis for conservation management: exploring the influence of decisions in invasive alien plant management
  249. Measures, perceptions and scaling patterns of aggregated species distributions
  250. Parameter landscapes unveil the bias in allometric prediction
  251. On the scaling patterns of species spatial distribution and association
  252. Extrapolating population size from the occupancy–abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy
  253. The spread of the Argentine ant: environmental determinants and impacts on native ant communities
  254. Erratum to “Habitat destruction and the extinction debt revisited: The Allee effect” [Math. Biosci. 221 (2009) 26–32]
  255. EXTRAPOLATING POPULATION SIZE
  256. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt revisited: The Allee effect
  257. Effects of time-lagged niche construction on metapopulation dynamics and environmental heterogeneity
  258. From introduction to equilibrium: reconstructing the invasive pathways of the Argentine ant in a Mediterranean region
  259. Impacts of alien plant invasions on species richness in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a meta-analysis
  260. Does invasion by alien plants cause a decline of native species richness? 5 mechanisms across 4 continents --A review
  261. How does the spatial structure of habitat loss affect the eco-epidemic dynamics?
  262. A Bayesian Solution to the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
  263. The effect of landscape heterogeneity on host–parasite dynamics
  264. DOES THE SELF-SIMILAR SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODEL LEAD TO UNREALISTIC PREDICTIONS
  265. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Epidemic Transmission in a Predator-Prey System
  266. The effect of migration on the spatial structure of intraguild predation in metapopulations
  267. On species–area and species accumulation curves: A comment on Chong and Stohlgren's index
  268. Modeling species distributions by breaking the assumption of self‐similarity
  269. Spatial Patterns of Prisoner’s Dilemma Game in Metapopulations
  270. Capturing the “droopy-tail” in the occupancy–abundance relationship
  271. A self-similarity model for the occupancy frequency distribution
  272. Formation and Maintenance of Spatial Polymorphism Induced by Niche Construction
  273. Negative correlation between dynamical complexity and metapopulation persistence: A reply
  274. Spatial Patterns of Prisoner’s Dilemma Game in Metapopulations
  275. Spatiotemporal analysis of ecological footprint and biological capacity of Gansu, China 1991–2015: Down from the environmental cliff
  276. Evolution of body size, range size, and food composition in a predator–prey metapopulation
  277. Spatiotemporal dynamics and distribution patterns of cyclic competition in metapopulation
  278. Carrying capacity, population equilibrium, and environment's maximal load
  279. Polymorphism maintenance in a spatially structured population: A two-locus genetic model of niche construction
  280. A spatially explicit approach to estimating species occupancy and spatial correlation
  281. Impact of predator pursuit and prey evasion on synchrony and spatial patterns in metapopulation
  282. Cooperation evolution and self-regulation dynamics in metapopulation: Stage-equilibrium hypothesis
  283. Evolution of cooperation in patchy habitat under patch decay and isolation
  284. Niche construction and polymorphism maintenance in metapopulations
  285. Metapopulation dynamics and distribution, and environmental heterogeneity induced by niche construction
  286. Distribution patterns of metapopulation determined by Allee effects
  287. Niche construction for desert plants in individual and population scales: Theoretical analysis and evidences from saksaul (Haloxylon ammodendron) forests
  288. Dynamical complexity and metapopulation persistence