Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment

CE Doughty, BC Wiebe, JM Keany, C Gaillard… - …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
It has been hypothesized that the extinction of the dinosaurs, and later the Pleistocene
megafauna, created a darker forest subcanopy benefiting large‐seeded plants. Larger …

Identification and persistence mechanism of very small glaciers and perennial snow patches in the northern Japanese Alps

K Arie, C Narama, K Fukui, H Iida - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2025 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we measure ice thickness and flow and reveal that Shakushizawa and
Kaerazuzawa perennial snow patches (PSPs) in the northern Japanese Alps are glaciers …