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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Savety
October 2024
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. - 286(2024), Art. 117149

Cigarette butts enable toxigenic cyanobacteria growth by inhibiting their lethal fungal infections

Nele Guttmann; Justyna Wolinska; Stephanie Spahr; Erika Berenice Martínez-Ruiz

Many freshwater ecosystems contain significant amounts of nicotine and other chemicals from cigarette butts that are toxic to aquatic life. This study shows that some organisms may benefit indirectly: toxic cyanobacteria. This is because cigarette butts in the water harm their parasites by inhibiting infection by chytrid fungi. This promotes the growth of the cyanobacteria.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117149
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October 2024
Molecular Ecology Resources. - 25(2024)1, Art. e14023

Upscaling biodiversity monitoring: Metabarcoding estimates 31,846 insect species from Malaise traps across Germany

Dominik Buchner; James S. Sinclair; Manfred Ayasse; Arne J. Beermann; Jörn Buse; Frank Dziock; Julian Enss; Mark Frenze; Thomas Hörren; Yuanheng Li; Michael T. Monaghan; Carsten Morkel; Jörg Müller; Steffen U. Pauls; Ronny Richter; Tobias Scharnweber; Martin Sorg; Stefan Stoll; Sönke Twietmeyer; Wolfgang W. Weisser; Benedikt Wiggering; Martin Wilmking; Gerhard Zotz; Mark O. Gessner; Peter Haase; Florian Leese
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14023
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September 2024
Functional Ecology. - 38(2024)10, 2123-2138

Evidence for a by-product mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey movement state

K. Pacher; J. Krause; P. Bartashevich; P. Romanczuk; P. Bideau; D. Pham; A. L. Burns; D. Deffner; F. Dhellemmes; B. Binder; K. M. Boswell; F. Galván-Magaña; P. Domenici; M. J. Hansen

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), in which the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) are involved, have proven in an underwater field study in the ocean off Mexico: the faster a school of prey moves, the higher the capture rate of the striped marlin.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14638
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