The home field advantage of modern plant breeding. by Patrick M Ewing, Bryan C Runck, Thomas Y J Kono, Michael B Kantar

“…In contrast, ecological theory predicts that across environments that vary spatially or temporally, the most productive population will be a mixture of narrowly adapted specialists. …”
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Theoretical Studies on the Longitudinal Inhomogeneity of Track Stiffness and a Track Status Estimation Method by Wen Bai, Lei Xu

“…Due to material multiplicity, rigid-flexible hybrid and environmental variations, and so forth, the properties of the tracks will be inevitably changed due to the cyclic loads temporally and spatially. In this paper, a theoretical study is conducted to clarify the influence of the longitudinal inhomogeneity of track stiffness on system responses and then a general state estimation method is proposed to inversely predict the parametric distribution of the tracks. …”
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Spatiotemporal risk avoidance varies seasonally, relative to risk intensity, in a reestablishing predator–prey system by Cara J. Thompson, Nicole M. Tatman, Zachary J. Farley, Scott T. Boyle, Scott T. Boyle, Allison R. Greenleaf, James W. Cain

“…Risk metrics included predicted wolf presence, habitat openness, and predicted risky places modeled from attributes of locations where wolves killed elk. …”
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Elastic energy storage and radial forces in the myofilament lattice depend on sarcomere length. by C David Williams, Michael Regnier, Thomas L Daniel

“…Here we develop a fully three-dimensional spatially explicit model of muscle to isolate the locations of forces and energies that are difficult to separate experimentally. …”
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Power efficiency of outer hair cell somatic electromotility. by Richard D Rabbitt, Sarah Clifford, Kathryn D Breneman, Brenda Farrell, William E Brownell

“…The model includes a mixture-composite constitutive model of the active lateral wall and spatially distributed electro-mechanical fields. …”
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Two species competition with a 'non-smooth' Allee mechanism: applications to soybean aphid population dynamics under climate change by Aniket Banerjee, Urvashi Verma, Margaret T. Lewis, Rana D. Parshad

“…Recent empirical evidence points to differential fitness in the pestiferous aphid biotypes under abiotic stresses such as flooding. As climate change predicts increased flooding in the North Central United States, mathematical models that incorporate such factors are required to better inform pest management strategies. …”
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Using ecological and life-history characteristics for projecting species' responses to climate change by Sven Pompe, Jan Hanspach, Franz W. Badeck, Stefan Klotz, Helge Bruelheide, Ingolf Kühn

“…The models predicted range losses of 34±20 % (mean±standard deviation) and range gains of 3±4 %. …”
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Does telework weaken urban structure–travel relationships? by Erik Elldér

“…If so, traditional distance- and location-based models and policies for predicting and planning transport may prove less accurate and effective than currently assumed.…”
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Emergence of the North Pacific heat storage pattern delayed by decadal wind-driven redistribution by Jing Duan, Yuanlong Li, Yilong Lyu, Zhao Jing, Fan Wang

“…Changes in surface winds drove meridional heat redistribution via Rossby wave dynamics, leading to regional warming and cooling structures and a more complex historical heat storage than models predict. Despite this, enhanced anthropogenic warming has already been emerging in marginal seas along the North Pacific basin rim, for which we shall prepare for the pressing consequences such as increasing marine heatwaves.…”
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A Numerical Approach to Analyzing Shallow Flows over Rough Surfaces by M. Nasimul Chowdhury, Abdul A. Khan, Oscar Castro-Orgaz

“…Results reveal that the model can accurately predict spatially averaged velocity profiles, turbulence characteristics, shear stresses, and uniform flow depths. …”
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Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration by Lekshmi B. Sreelatha, Pedro Tarroso, Ossi Nokelainen, Zbyszek Boratyński, Miguel Angel Carretero

“…We studied direct and indirect (mediated by body mass) relationships between environmental variables and the lightness of lizards, by piecewise structural equation modelling. We simultaneously tested predictions from Gloger's (darker colouration in warm and humid environments), thermal melanism (darker colouration in colder environments), photoprotection (darker colouration in areas with higher intensity of solar radiation) and Bergmann's (larger body size in colder environments) hypotheses. …”
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Ventilation of the Bay of Bengal oxygen minimum zone by the Southwest Monsoon Current by P. M. F. Sheehan, B. G. M. Webber, B. G. M. Webber, A. Sanchez-Franks, B. Y. Queste

“…Consequently, we suggest that predictability of the annual oxygen flux is likely aided by understanding and predicting the physical forcing of the Southwest Monsoon Current. …”
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Multiscale excitations in the diluted two-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet by Liuyun Dao, Hui Shao, Anders W. Sandvik

“…A magnon with anomalous logarithmic dispersion, close to our result, was predicted in spin wave and T-matrix theory [Chernyshev et al., Phys. …”
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Characterizing Soil and Bedrock Water Use of Native California Vegetation by Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Michelle A. Stern, David D. Ackerly, Ryan Boynton, James H. Thorne

“…Hydrology models typically are not able to address water availability below the mapped soil profile, but we refined a landscape hydrology model, the Basin Characterization Model, by balancing measures of actual evapotranspiration (AET) with modeled subsurface soil water holding capacity, including bedrock storage. …”
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Subglacial water amplifies Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise by Chen Zhao, Rupert Gladstone, Thomas Zwinger, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Yu Wang, Justine Caillet, Pierre Mathiot, Leopekka Saraste, Eliot Jager, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Poul Christoffersen, Matt A. King

“…We demonstrate that water at the base of ice sheets influences sliding behaviour and that its exclusion from models can underestimate sea-level rise projections and delay the predicted onset of tipping points. …”
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Frequent failure of nutrients to increase plant biomass supports the need for precision fertilization in agriculture by Oliver H. Carroll, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter Wilfahrt, Carlos A. Arnillas, Jonathan D. Bakker, Dana M. Blumenthal, Elizabeth Boughton, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria Caldeira, Malcolm M. Campbell, Jane Catford, Qingqing Chen, Christopher R. Dickman, Ian Donohue, Mary Ellyn DuPre, Anu Eskelinen, Catalina Estrada, Philip A. Fay, Evan D. G. Fraser, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Erika Hersh-Green, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Taku Kadoya, Kimberly Komatsu, Luciola Lannes, Maowei Liang, Harry Olde Venterink, Pablo Peri, Sally A. Power, Jodi N. Price, Zhengwei Ren, Anita C. Risch, Grégory Sonnier, G. F. Veen, Risto Virtanen, Glenda M. Wardle, Elizabeth F. Waring, George Wheeler, Laura Yahdjian, Andrew S. MacDougall

“…All sites were responsive at least once, but only four of 61 responded in all plots and years. Modelled management scenarios highlighted that fertilizer cessation is likely to generate sizable economic savings but always reduces yield because of the difficulty in predicting when and where biomass will be unresponsive. …”
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Design and results from a national soil carbon stock benchmarking and monitoring system for agricultural land in New Zealand by Paul L. Mudge, Georgie L. Glover-Clark, Stephen J.E. McNeill, Zach Dewhurst, Veronica Penny, Jonno Rau, Emily McKay, Carolyn B. Hedley, Andre Eger, Scott Fraser, Ngaire Foster, Pierre Roudier, Sam R. McNally, Maya Korth, Nina Koele, Shana Dooley, Lena E. Reifschneider, Lauren O’Brien, Anthony Ward, Thomas Caspari, Maddison Bingham, James Arbuckle, Hamish Maule, Kaleb McCollum, Gerard Grealish, Balin Robertson, Maya Greet, Amy Milnes, Louis A. Schipper

“…National-scale changes of SOC stocks in New Zealand’s mineral soils, reported to meet international requirements, are currently predicted based on transitions of land use using a statistical model calibrated with historic data. …”
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Assessing Differences in Groundwater Hydrology Dynamics Between In Situ Measurements and GRACE-Derived Estimates via Machine Learning: A Test Case of Consequences for Agroecologica... by Lucas J. Heintzman, Zahra Ghaffari, Abdel R. Awawdeh, Damien E. Barrett, Lance D. Yarbrough, Greg Easson, Matthew T. Moore, Martin A. Locke, Hakan I. Yasarer

“…Herein, we examined differences in groundwater monitoring approaches (observed [in situ, O] vs. predicted [GRACE-derived, P]) within the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta (YMD), an agroecosystem in the southeastern USA. …”
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Quantum entropy-driven modifications to holographic dark energy in f(G, T) gravity by Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

“…Finally, we evaluate the observational viability of our results and compare them with predictions from alternative reconstructed dark energy models.…”
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Revisiting cosmic acceleration with DESI BAO by Jincheng Wang, Hongwei Yu, Puxun Wu

“…Our findings indicate significant deviations from the predictions of the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM model. Specifically, DESI BAO, DESI BAO + CMB, DESI BAO + CMB + Union3, and DESI BAO + CMB + DESY5 all provide strong evidence for a slowing down of cosmic acceleration at late times, as indicated by $$j(0) < 0$$ j ( 0 ) < 0 at more than 1 $$\sigma $$ σ confidence level, within the framework of $$w_0w_a$$ w 0 w a CDM model. …”
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