Ecologies MDPI

01/06/2026

🌍 Evaluating Biodiversity Metrics for Detecting Climate-Driven Ecological Change

👥 Attila Haris et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2ZNV

"To investigate the long-term effects of climate change on biological communities, our primary aim was to identify the most reliable indicators among available biodiversity, dominance, and evenness indices."

28/05/2026

🌊 Mortality and Natural Regeneration of Mangroves in the Eastern Gulf of California: A Comparison Between Strong and Weak ENSO Events

👥 Lidia Rodríguez-Arredondo et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2TgR



📸Figure 1. (a) Mangrove coverage in Sinaloa (red areas)...
(b) Sampling design consisted of 20 m × 20 m plots with 1 m × 1 m sub-plots distributed diagonally from the inner-left corner to the center.

25/05/2026

🕷️ Buried Treasures, Hidden Thresholds: Integrating Cave and Landscape Drivers to Guide Conservation of Amazon Ferruginous Cave Biodiversity

👥 Marcus Paulo Alves de Oliveira et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2NBo



📸Figure 3. Specimens of the non-troglobitic fauna found in the ferruginous caves of Serra do Tarzan....

22/05/2026

🦗 Conservation Significance of Forest Remnants for Urban Biodiversity: Parks as a Refuge for the Wood Cricket, Nemobius sylvestris (Insecta: Orthoptera: Trigonidiidae)

👥 Ionuț-Ștefan Iorgu et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2J7Z



📸Figure 2. Graphic representation of N. sylvestris male calling song: (A) spectrogram; (B) oscillogram; (C) magnified oscillogram. Air temperature 22 °C. Bucharest, 24 October 2022.

20/05/2026

🌍 Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Ecology of Recent Freshwater Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the Danube Floodplain in Banat and Podunavlje Regions of Serbia

👥 Jovo Pokrajac and Tamara Karan-Žnidaršič
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2ED3

"The present study provides a seasonally resolved assessment of freshwater ostracod assemblages from a range of waterbodies along the Danube floodplain in the Banat and Podunavlje regions of Serbia."

Freshwater ostracods have considerable potential as indicators of environmental conditions, yet their ecology remains poorly documented in many large river floodplains of Southeast Europe. This study examines samples collected from ten aquatic habitats located along the Danube floodplain in Serbia.....

18/05/2026

🌍 A Reappraisal of the Principle of Maximum Power

👥 Alberto Gianinetti
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2AoJ

"Living organisms continuously capture and transform free energy to survive and grow. The Maximum Power Principle (MPP) states that life evolves to maximize power—the rate of energy acquisition and conversion into useful forms—within prevailing constraints."



📸Figure 1. Chief fluxes of energy and matter in ecosystems...

15/05/2026

🐟 High-Mountain Contamination: Microplastic Occurrence and Risk Assessments in Fish from Nero Lake, Italy

👥 Camilla Mossotto et al.
🔗Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2wdt

"The high prevalence of MP contamination observed in fish from Nero Lake across both years underscores that alpine lakes, despite their remoteness, are not exempt from global plastic pollution."

13/05/2026

📊 Extracellular Polymeric Substances Protect Chlorella sp. Against the Cadmium Stress

👥 Fangyuan Liu et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2rYG



📸Figure 1. Growth curve (a), and Cd(II) removal efficiency when Chlorella sp. was exposed to 6 mg/L Cd(II) (b). Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 3). Columns sharing the same letter are not significantly different (p > 0.05); columns with different letters indicate significant differences (p < 0.05);

11/05/2026

🫒 Exploring Functional Trait Dynamics and Responses in New Olive Crossbreeds: Implications for Climate Resilience Strategies

👥 Jalal Kassout et al.
🔗Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2nwM

"Climate change poses serious challenges to Mediterranean crops such as the olive tree (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea), underscoring the need for cultivars with improved drought tolerance and disease resistance."

08/05/2026

🌱 Restoring High Mountain Sphagnum Communities in the Central Pyrenees

👥 Eulàlia Pladevall-Izard et al.
🔗 Read at: https://brnw.ch/21x2j5C

"While restorative actions need some knowledge of the structure and function of ecosystems, such knowledge stems from management and restorative actions—including proper monitoring of the ecosystems restored."



📸Figure A7. Overhead image of one sward of Sphagnum subsecundum after being digitally contoured (white dashed line) to calculate its canopy area through the software ImageJ 1.52r (October 2019).