1. Night lights from space: potential of SDGSAT-1 for ecological applications 

   Weber, Dominique; Bolliger, Janine; Ecker, Klaus; et al. (2025)

   REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION

   Light pollution affects biodiversity at all levels, from genes to ecosystems, and improved monitoring and research is needed to better assess its various ecological impacts. Here, we review the current contribution of night-time satellites to ecological applications and elaborate on the potential value of the Glimmer sensor onboard the Chinese Sustainable Development Goals Science Satellite 1 (SDGSAT-1), a novel medium-resolution and ...

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2. Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union 

   Heermann, Max; Baute, Sharon; Leuffen, Dirk (2025)

   Journal of European Public Policy

   In multi-level systems, the erosion of democracy in one unit risks affecting the quality of democracy in other units and across the levels of the system. The European Union (EU), where democracy and the rule of law constitute fundamental community norms, faces this problem as several member states undergo democratic backsliding. While previous literature has investigated why the EU has so far been unable to prevent backsliding, its ...

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3. Impact of dietary polyphenols from shredded, steam-exploded pine on growth performance, organ indices, meat quality, and cecal microbiota of broiler chickens 

   Ncho, Chris Major; Gupta, Vaishali; Goel, Akshat; et al. (2025)

   Poultry Science

   The chicken's gastrointestinal tract is home to complex and diverse microbial communities that can be manipulated to enhance health and productivity. Although polyphenols have recently attracted the attention of researchers due to their potent antioxidant capabilities, their impact on the gut microbiota remains largely unexplored. Hence, in this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the effects of dietary supplementation with ...

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4. Test-retest reliability of the SVO-Slider Measure and other psychometric measures of personality traits 

   Frei, Debora; Wehrli, Stefan; Ehlert, Alexander; et al. (2025)

   Judgment and Decision Making

   This study presents findings from a 4-year panel study examining three major questions regarding the measurement of social value orientation (SVO). First, we investigate the test-retest reliability of the Slider Measure (SLM, Murphy et al., 2014) over a period of up to 4 years in a large, demographically diverse sample. Second, we compare the stability of the SLM to related measurements of prosociality and distributional preferences along ...

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5. A novel method to assess spatio-temporal habitat availability for a generalist indicator species group in human-modified landscapes 

   Harisena, Nivedita Varma; Gret-Regamey, Adrienne; van Strien, Maarten J. (2025)

   Landscape Ecology

   ContextLandscape changes can alter habitat availability for species over time. There can be a time-lagged response of species to such changes, leading to possible extinction debts. In human-modified landscapes, understanding these dynamics is critical to inform conservation actions and mitigate biodiversity loss.ObjectivesThis study examines temporal trajectories of habitat availability over 113 years from 1899 to 2012 in the Swiss Plateau ...

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