Medio ambiente y sostenibilidad

DS@GT ARC at AnimalCLEF 2026: Species-Aware Graph Construction for Multi-Species Animal Re-Identification

- Automated individual animal re-identification is essential for large-scale biodiversity monitoring; however, field imagery complicates separating identity cues from nuisance variation in pose,...

Thermal variability interacts with infection load and the evolution of host-parasite defense

21/07/2026 - Rising temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns are directly linked to emerging infectious diseases that threaten global biodiversity. Thermal variability affects host-parasite interactions,...

Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body

17/07/2026 - A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting them to the bacteria's rough surfaces

Transforming rice production constraints into opportunities: Coordinated innovation for sustainable agrosystems in Asia

17/07/2026 - Rice (Oryza sativa L.) production remains central to global food security, particularly across Asia, where both wetland and upland cultivation systems dominate. These agroecosystems face distinct...

Reconnaissance study of watershed and cave sediment sources discharging from a karst spring, Iowa

19/07/2026 - Springs discharging from karst landscapes provide sustainable flows to natural ecosystems and support productive fish hatcheries but sediment discharging from springs threatens the long‐term...

Scientists tested 39 sweeteners and found unexpected gut effects

17/07/2026 - A large laboratory study found that many commonly used sweeteners can directly change the growth of gut bacteria. Researchers identified more than 100 cases in which sweeteners behaved differently...

New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics

16/07/2026 - Researchers have created self-destructing living plastic that uses engineered bacteria to completely break itself down when activated. The material degrades in just six days without creating...

Extraction workflow determines marker-specific recovery and reproducibility in leaf-litter eDNA metabarcoding

16/07/2026 - Forest-floor leaf litter is a dynamic and structurally complex ecological transition zone and thus a promising substrate for terrestrial eDNA metabarcoding. Yet, extraction workflows for this...

Maximizing All-Paths Phylogenetic Diversity: Parameterized Approaches for Networks

- Phylogenetic Diversity (PD) is a fundamental measure of biodiversity, originally defined on phylogenetic trees and widely used in conservation biology. Phylogenetic trees are often generalised to...

Open-Source Intelligence and Music Information Retrieval for Geographic Attribution of Musical Affect and the Ecological Limits of Population Inference

- A common intuition holds that a region's music mirrors the temperament of its people, so that melancholic melodies mark melancholic populations. We test the measurable half of that intuition and...

NEEDL-Bench: Dataset for Swiss Needle Cast and Stomata Detection in Microscopy Images

- We present NEEDL-Bench, a microscopy detection benchmark for Swiss Needle Cast (SNC), a fungal disease of Douglas-fir trees. Douglas-fir is a keystone species of major ecological and economic...

Simulating Agroecology Policy Options for the Resilience of Smallholder Food Security to Climate Shocks

14/07/2026 - Climate shocks and the agroecology–resilience nexus of smallholders. Summary of key findings: Agroecology increases smallholder resilience capacity by 8.7% in the short term under a decreased...

Higher-Order Cell Tracking Transformer

- Reconstructing lineages from live-imaging microscopy requires linking cell detections across time, including through cell divisions. A common approach is to construct a candidate graph and associate...

Prompting-MammAlps: Fine-Grained Text-to-Video Retrieval for Camera-Trap Data

- Automatically retrieving videos from large camera-trap datasets remains challenging. Text-to-Video retrieval (TVR) methods based on large video-language models (VLMs) have potential to retrieve...

Graph statistics: An emerging discipline in non-Euclidean data analysis

- The explosive growth of complex data has catalyzed the emergence of graph statistics as a fundamentally new discipline in data science. Unlike traditional statistics, which operates primarily within...

Phenotypic expression of the gene‐for‐gene interaction in plant pathogenic bacteria: An implication for resistance to bacterial diseases by plants

13/07/2026 - Plant pathogenic bacteria cause massive losses in agriculture and damage to natural plant habitats. Bacterial pathogens not only reduce crop production, but they also reduce crop quality by releasing...

Evaluating the Risk Assessment: Determining Insights and Challenges of Climate Risk Prediction Using Supervised Technology

14/07/2026 - ABSTRACTIn a world of expanding urbanization, which causes climate change and has adverse impacts and risks, our research introduces an intuitive and user‐friendly dashboard named Climate Risk...

Parameter-Efficient Vision-Language Adaptation with Continuous Metadata Conditioning for Animal Re-Identification

- Long-term animal re-identification (ReID) must remain robust to gradual morphological evolution and seasonal appearance shifts. Although recent vision-language models provide strong pretrained visual...

Differential proteomics of bacteria grown in vitro and in planta reveals functions used during growth on maize roots

12/07/2026 - Microbes are ubiquitous in the rhizosphere and play crucial roles in plant health, yet the metabolisms and physiologies of individual species in planta remain poorly understood. In this study, we...

Infant acquisition of Stickland-metabolizing bacteria prevents Clostridium botulinum infection

12/07/2026 - Infant botulism is caused by intestinal colonization with Clostridium botulinum , whereas healthy adults are resistant. Although the gut microbiota has long been implicated in protection against C....

Scientists discover a hidden heart valve risk linked to gum disease

13/07/2026 - Researchers found that bacteria linked to gum disease may help drive the development of calcific aortic valve stenosis by triggering inflammation and calcium buildup in the heart valve. The early...