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Simple study designs in ecology produce inaccurate estimates of biodiversity responses by Christie, Alec P., Amano, Tatsuya, Martin, Philip A., Shackelford, Gorm E., Simmons, Benno I., Sutherland, William J., Louzada, Júlio

“…Monitoring the impacts of anthropogenic threats and interventions to mitigate these threats is key to understanding how to best conserve biodiversity…”
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Motifs in bipartite ecological networks: uncovering indirect interactions by Simmons, Benno I., Cirtwill, Alyssa R., Baker, Nick J., Wauchope, Hannah S., Dicks, Lynn V., Stouffer, Daniel B., Sutherland, William J.

“…Indirect interactions play an essential role in governing population, community and coevolutionary dynamics across a diverse range of ecological communities…”
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Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes by Risely, Alice, Newbury, Arthur, Stalder, Thibault, Simmons, Benno I., Top, Eva M., Buckling, Angus, Sanders, Dirk

“…As mobile genetic elements, plasmids are central for our understanding of antimicrobial resistance spread in microbial communities. Plasmids can have varying…”
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Generalism drives abundance: A computational causal discovery approach by Song, Chuliang, Simmons, Benno I, Fortin, Marie-Josée, Gonzalez, Andrew

“…A ubiquitous pattern in ecological systems is that more abundant species tend to be more generalist; that is, they interact with more species or can occur in…”
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Sea stack plots: Replacing bar charts with histograms by Stuart, Alice Dorothy, Ilić, Maja, Simmons, Benno I., Sutherland, William J.

“…Graphs in research articles can increase the comprehension of statistical data but may mislead readers if poorly designed. We propose a new plot type, the sea…”
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Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities by Simmons, Benno I, Wauchope, Hannah S, Amano, Tatsuya, Dicks, Lynn V, Sutherland, William J, Dakos, Vasilis, Roberts, Roland G

“…Interactions between species generate the functions on which ecosystems and humans depend. However, we lack an understanding of the risk that interaction loss…”
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Pressure to publish introduces large‐language model risks by Johnson, Thomas F., Simmons, Benno I., Millard, Joseph, Strydom, Tanya, Danet, Alain, Sweeny, Amy R., Evans, Luke C.

“…Large‐language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate research in ecology and evolution, cultivating new insights and innovation. However, whilst…”
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Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features by Tew, Eleanor R., Simmons, Benno I., Sutherland, William J.

“…Cultural ecosystem services are undeniably important, yet are typically neglected in land management decisions due to a suite of intractable challenges: they…”
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Landscape-Level Effects of Forest on Pollinators and Fruit Set of Guava (Psidium guajava L.) in Orchards across Southern Thailand by Hansen, Katrine, Sritongchuay, Tuanjit, Bumrungsri, Sara, Simmons, Benno I., Strange, Niels, Dalsgaard, Bo

“…Pollination by wild pollinators is a key ecosystem service threatened by anthropogenic-induced land-use change. The proximity to natural habitat has previously…”
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Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes by González-Varo, Juan P., Rumeu, Beatriz, Albrecht, Jörg, Arroyo, Juan M., Bueno, Rafael S., Burgos, Tamara, da Silva, Luís P., Escribano-Ávila, Gema, Farwig, Nina, García, Daniel, Heleno, Ruben H., Illera, Juan C., Jordano, Pedro, Kurek, Przemysław, Simmons, Benno I., Virgós, Emilio, Sutherland, William J., Traveset, Anna

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Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data by Wauchope, Hannah S., Amano, Tatsuya, Geldmann, Jonas, Johnston, Alison, Simmons, Benno I., Sutherland, William J., Jones, Julia P.G.

“…Humanity’s impact on the environment is increasing, as are strategies to conserve biodiversity, but a lack of understanding about how interventions affect…”
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maxnodf: An R package for fair and fast comparisons of nestedness between networks by Hoeppke, Christoph, Simmons, Benno I., Freckleton, Robert

“…Nestedness is a widespread pattern in mutualistic networks that has high ecological and evolutionary importance due to its role in enhancing species…”
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Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps by Wauchope, Hannah S., Jones, Julia P. G., Geldmann, Jonas, Simmons, Benno I., Amano, Tatsuya, Blanco, Daniel E., Fuller, Richard A., Johnston, Alison, Langendoen, Tom, Mundkur, Taej, Nagy, Szabolcs, Sutherland, William J.

“…International policy is focused on increasing the proportion of the Earth’s surface that is protected for nature 1 , 2 . Although studies show that protected…”
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The challenge of biased evidence in conservation by Christie, Alec P., Amano, Tatsuya, Martin, Philip A., Petrovan, Silviu O., Shackelford, Gorm E., Simmons, Benno I., Smith, Rebecca K., Williams, David R., Wordley, Claire F. R., Sutherland, William J.

“…Efforts to tackle the current biodiversity crisis need to be as efficient and effective as possible given chronic underfunding. To inform decision‐makers of…”
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Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment by Newbold, Tim, Hudson, Lawrence N., Arnell, Andrew P., Contu, Sara, De Palma, Adriana, Ferrier, Simon, Hill, Samantha L. L., Hoskins, Andrew J., Lysenko, Igor, Phillips, Helen R. P., Burton, Victoria J., Chng, Charlotte W. T., Emerson, Susan, Di, Gao, Pask-Hale, Gwilym, Hutton, Jon, Jung, Martin, Sanchez-Ortiz, Katia, Simmons, Benno I., Whitmee, Sarah, Zhang, Hanbin, Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., Purvis, Andy

“…Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed…”
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Global importance of vertebrate pollinators for plant reproductive success: a meta-analysis by Ratto, Fabrizia, Simmons, Benno I, Spake, Rebecca, Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica, MacDonald, Michael A, Merriman, Jennifer C, Tremlett, Constance J, Poppy, Guy M, Peh, Kelvin S-H, Dicks, Lynn V

“…Vertebrate pollinators are increasingly threatened worldwide, but little is known about the potential consequences of declining pollinator populations on…”
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Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes by González-Varo, Juan P., Rumeu, Beatriz, Albrecht, Jörg, Arroyo, Juan M., Bueno, Rafael S., Burgos, Tamara, da Silva, Luís P., Escribano-Ávila, Gema, Farwig, Nina, García, Daniel, Heleno, Ruben H., Illera, Juan C., Jordano, Pedro, Kurek, Przemysław, Simmons, Benno I., Virgós, Emilio, Sutherland, William J., Traveset, Anna

“…Climate change is forcing the redistribution of life on Earth at an unprecedented velocity 1 , 2 . Migratory birds are thought to help plants to track climate…”
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Moving from frugivory to seed dispersal: Incorporating the functional outcomes of interactions in plant-frugivore networks by Simmons, Benno I., Sutherland, William J., Dicks, Lynn V., Albrecht, Jörg, Farwig, Nina, García, Daniel, Jordano, Pedro, González-Varo, Juan P.

“…1. There is growing interest in understanding the functional outcomes of species interactions in ecological networks. For many mutualistic networks, including…”
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Beware greedy algorithms by Simmons, Benno I., Hoeppke, Christoph, Sutherland, William J., Eklöf, Anna

“…To fairly compare the nestedness of ecological networks, a network's observed nestedness can be divided by its maximum nestedness. The authors show that a…”
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Rapid monitoring of ecological persistence by Song, Chuliang, Simmons, Benno I, Fortin, Marie-Josée, Gonzalez, Andrew, Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N, Saavedra, Serguei

“…Effective conservation of ecological communities requires accurate and up-to-date information about whether species are persisting or declining to extinction…”
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