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Photo caption and credit Caption (Upper Right): The picture shows the experimental set up with the cages, where the beetles were enclosed with the logs. Photo credits: Sebastian Seibold. Caption ( Upper Left): Mullus surmuletus, Mediterranean sea, Riou island, France. Photo Credits: © Régis Hocdé ‐ IRD MARBEC ‐ Caption (Middle Right): A wolf spider of the genus Pardosa, one of the spiders in our study. Photo Credits: Jordan Cuff Caption (Middle left): The Hula painted frog (Latonia nigriventer), an endemic to the Hula Valley in northern Israel. Photo credit: R. G. Bina Perl Caption (Lower right): Female inflorescence of Mallotus japonicus (Euphorbiaceae). Marre et al. investigated bacterial communities on flowers of the species and found that female flowers were dominated by the genus Sphingomonas, while male flowers harbored more diverse bacteria. Photo credit: Shoko Sakai Figure caption: Classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List, the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) survives mainly in small isolated populations in protected areas, as here in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana. Combining camera trap and water‐borne eDNA sequence data helped to refine the biomonitoring in desert environments of this rare species. Photo credits: Philippe Christe.