Intra-African Geographic Domain Shift in Wildlife Camera Trap Species Classification: A Comparative Study of Supervised and Zero-Shot Foundation Models biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Camera trap networks such as Snapshot Safari have generated millions of labelled wildlife images across Africa, enabling the training of deep learning
Drought alters volatile profiles in European beech saplings across genetically diverse backgrounds biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a widely distributed, ecologically and economically important deciduous tree species in European forests, but i
Rapid vegetation reorganization in Hengduan Mountains driven by high climatic oscillations biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 The accelerating global climate change has been triggering large-scale vegetation reorganizations, yet our understanding of how mountain ecosystems re
Climate at seed origin drives germination and seedling trait responses to warming in sessile and pubescent oaks biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Tree early life stages are particularly sensitive to warming, yet their responses remain poorly understood despite their importance for forest regener
The effects of fox movement and landscape heterogeneity on the spread of sarcoptic mange in urban settings biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Context - The movement of vertebrate hosts across urbanized landscapes can play a key role in the transmission of direct-contact diseases.
Seasonal succession of nano- and picoplankton communities in Lake Constance: conserved dynamics despite compositional shifts under contrasting mixing and oxygen regimes biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Lake Constance is a pre-Alpine, monomictic, oligotrophic lake situated at the southern end of Germany composed of two main water bodies: deep, oligotr
Using semi-folded arenas to observe spontaneous emergence of collective trails in whole colonies of termites biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Collective movement in social organisms emerges from local interactions and can generate large-scale spatial patterns of ecological relevance.
Navigating the salinity gradient: Individual variation in habitat use and migration of European eel revealed by otolith microchemistry biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Knowledge regarding variation in habitat use among individuals is crucial for understanding population dynamics and for management and conservation me
Biodiversity material remains where capacity and governance are strong, but taxonomic resources concentrate with geopolitical power biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Aim: Biodiversity-rich regions often lack the scientific infrastructure needed to document and curate their own biodiversity, creating inequalities in
Spatiotemporal differences in salmon nutrient inputs restructure functional and taxonomic fungal communities in riparian system biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Spawning salmon transport marine-derived nutrients (MDN) into riparian forests, influencing soil, plant, and animal communities, yet their effects on
Diverging Hydroclimatic Trends in Global Tropical Dryland Ecosystems Based on ERA-5 and CHIRPS Analysis Data biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Tropical dryland ecosystems are highly biodiverse and fragmented and are experiencing significant anthropogenic and climatic changes.
Reducing background ion burden in tributylamine ion-pairing LC-MS improves signal intensity and feature coverage in metabolomics biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Background chemical ions are a pervasive but often underappreciated limitation in LC-MS metabolomics, where they can suppress analyte signal, obscure
Regulating Light-Harvesting Protein Assembly through Engineered Trimers of Phycocyanin and Allophycocyanin biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Phycobiliproteins form oligomeric assemblies essential for photosynthetic light harvesting.
Postprocessing of P300 Speller Output with a Large Language Model biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 P300 spellers convert electroencephalographic (EEG) activity into text by presenting users with a matrix of flickering characters.
Insect COI barcoding data as an untapped resource for surveying Wolbachia symbioses biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 1.
Evaluating the potential role and contribution of transposable elements to the evolution of microbial multicellularity across the tree of eukaryotes biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Multicellularity has evolved multiple times across the eukaryotic tree of life, including among protist lineages.
Structural and Biochemical Analysis of the CABIT1 Domain of THEMIS biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 T cells are important components of the adaptive immune system and develop through a selection process regulated by signaling through the T-cell recep
Endophilin B1 primes mitochondria for execution biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Intrinsic apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a vital response to stress and DNA damage in cells, and dysregulation of the intrinsic apoptotic pat
Environmental filtering across seasons and host-associated selection shape the gut microbiome of sympatric European Sepsis dung flies biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Animal microbiomes are shaped by both environmental exposure and host-associated filtering, but the relative importance of these processes remains poo
High-speed volumetric single-molecule imaging using dual-wavelength light sheets and PSF-engineered enhanced biplane detection biorxiv.org 2026-06-25 Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) enables nanoscale imaging but remains limited in three-dimensional (3D), high-speed, and high-density a
Optimization of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Protocols for Reliable Ex Vivo Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in the Avian Brain biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Ex vivo diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) enables high-resolution characterization of brain connectivity and is increasingly applied in comparative and
CD73-derived adenosine at the blood-brain barrier confers protection in a mouse model of ischemic stroke biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of death and disability, and current reperfusion therapies do not address the secondary neuroinflammatory resp
Performance-impacting brain state maladaptation driving disease progression in early mouse and human neuroinflammation biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 The neuronal mechanisms driving progression in neuroinflammatory disorders from early relapse-remitting phases to later neurodegenerative phases remai
Bathymetric Resolution-Dependent Biases in Antarctic Benthic Biodiversity Models: Hotspots Hold, Counts Shift biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Antarctic benthic organisms are highly diverse and play a critical role in the Southern Ocean ecosystem.
Integrating Machine-learning and Ultra-high-throughput Screening for Enzyme spaces exploration biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 The systematic navigation of biocatalyst space is constrained by elusive structure-activity rules and a lack of evolutionary history.
MICAL-Inspired Chiral Vanadate Nanoclusters Decelerate Actin Dynamics in Live Cells biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Actin turnover is a fundamental cellular process essential for cell dynamics, whose control is critical for both medicine and biotechnology.
Overexpression of flavodiiron protein Flv3 in engineered Synechocystis stimulates sucrose production and growth by altering cellular redox balance through enhanced sulfur metabolism biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Biotechnological applications of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms depend on conversion of light energy into chemical energy through photosystems (PS)
Force sharing between plantarflexor muscles in sheep during treadmill gait biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Muscle force sharing during locomotion is influenced by the mechanical demands of movement and the contractile properties of synergistic muscles.
Catalytic rewiring of RuvC-II catalytic site activates trans-cleavage in Fanzor2 biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 Fanzors are eukaryotic RNA-guided endonucleases that mediate programmable cis-cleavage in eukaryotic cells, but their potential target-induced collate
Small stream restoration increases habitat and plant diversity across scales biorxiv.org 2026-06-24 A majority of stream restoration efforts in central Europe focus on streams that are less than five meters wide.