BGPT: Ecology

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Ecology

Update date: July 16, 2026

Mechanisms, communities, disturbance, and scaling.

Cell stress and recovery

Coral bleaching as a systems failure

Strong evidence links heat and high light to oxidative stress, disrupted signaling, and host cell death or recycling pathways, but the main trigger can vary among coral species and conditions.

Heatwave timing in salt-marsh grasses

Strong multi-omics evidence shows the non-indigenous grass turned on antioxidant and protein-protection responses earlier, while the native grass responded later during recovery, but the result comes from one controlled heatwave.

Communities and surveillance

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Mosquito ecoclimatic regions in Germany

Moderate evidence shows climate-defined regions separate mosquito communities more between regions than within them, but uneven sampling and incomplete identifications limit the exact suitability ranking.

Gap harvesting and bole-base microhabitats

Strong field evidence shows gap harvesting reduced bryophytes and some bark-dwelling arthropods, especially near the bole base, but direct cause-and-effect tests were not done.

Disturbance and scaling

Wildfire impacts beyond fire-prone regions

Evidence from fire-prone regions is partly transferable, but changing fire patterns can alter mortality, habitat loss, and recovery in species that evolved under little fire pressure.

Hubbell regression and diversity scaling

Moderate evidence shows environmental variables can reshape the neutral-model diversity curve, but estimates depend heavily on DNA clusters used as species stand-ins and on model assumptions.

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Ecology — Field Data at Scale

Discover observational and experimental ecology data, trends, and metadata from full papers.