29 August 2025

Seasonally frugivorous forest birds and window collision fatalities: novel integration of bird counts in fall improves assessment of species vulnerability to collisions

"This study presents valuable and relevant information on university campuses as important sources of bird collision mortality."

Javier Manjarrez, Handling Editor

25 August 2025

No pump, no problem: evaluating passive eDNA sampling for marine biomonitoring of a nuisance macroalga

"The article demonstrates that passive eDNA samplers are effective in detecting cryptic taxa, even at low abundances (<1%), and represent a cost-effective, versatile, and scalable alternative to active filtration — particularly in remote or resource-limited settings."

Federica Costantini, Handling Editor

19 August 2025

Avian biodiversity in central California vineyards

"This study evaluates how the structural, natural and anthropogenic characteristics of vineyards in California influence the occupancy of avian species, their taxonomic diversity and their functional diversity."

Javier Manjarrez, Handling Editor

14 July 2025

Developing a threat risk register based on the IUCN threat hierarchy for five tropical Important Plant Areas in Guinea

"This research shows the problems with effective protection of forests and presents tools for better protection."

Giuseppe Fenu, Handling Editor

10 July 2025

Cryptic diversity on the genus Caenolestes (Caenolestidae: Paucituberculata) in the Ecuadorian Andes

"This study presents very valuable and relevant information on diversity of marsupial genus Caenolestes."

Javier Manjarrez, Handling Editor

22 April 2025

eDNA metabarcoding shows highly diverse but distinct shallow, mid-water, and deep-water eukaryotic communities within a marine biodiversity hotspot

"The Authors highlighted, using environmental DNA metabarcoding, how shallow communities are differentiated by deeper ones and that the deep reef refugia hypothesis is not supported for most taxa. Their findings stressed how it is essential to develop conservation strategies on deep ecosystems since they can be affected by similar climatic and human-related stressors as their shallow counterpart."

Federica Costantini, Handling Editor

1 April 2025

Untangling the taxonomic knot of Croton anomalus (Euphorbiaceae), a Neotropical dry forest shrub

"Resolve relationships within a taxonomically complex group by using several approaches"

Gabriele Casazza, Handling Editor

28 March 2025

EcoNicheS: enhancing ecological niche modeling, niche overlap and connectivity analysis using the shiny dashboard and R package

"Makes ecological niche modelling more accessible to a wider audience."

Dirk Steinke, Handling Editor

17 March 2025

Use and application of iNaturalist on land snails from Argentina

"This article highlights how citizen sourced scientific activities may significantly increase natural history knowledge, especially in highly diverse, understudied taxonomic groups."

Daniel Lahr, Handling Editor

29 January 2025

Leveraging machine learning to uncover multi-pathogen infection dynamics across co-distributed frog families

"Scope, scale, and analytical approach are all impressive"

Daniel Hughes, Handling Editor