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Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Marc T. J. Johnson, Irtaqa Arif, Francesco Marchetti, Jason Munshi-South, Rob W. Ness, Marta Szulkin, Brian C. Verrelli, Carole L. Yauk, Daniel N. Anstett, Warren Booth, Aude E. Caizergues, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Anthony Dant, Josefa González, César González Lagos, Madeleine Oman, Megan Phifer-Rixey, Diana J. Rennison, Michael S. Rosenberg, Kristin M. Winchell
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Climate change will impact the value and optimal adoption of residential rooftop solar Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Mai Shi, Xi Lu, Michael T. Craig
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A pollen selection system links self and interspecific incompatibility in the Brassicaceae Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Bo Liu, Mengya Li, Jianfang Qiu, Jing Xue, Wenhong Liu, Qingqing Cheng, Hainan Zhao, Yongbiao Xue, Mikhail E. Nasrallah, June B. Nasrallah, Pei Liu
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Going beyond averages Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Matteo Coronese
Global projections of the economic impacts of climate change have usually focused on rising average temperatures. Now, two studies depict more complex and gloomier scenarios by incorporating variability in temperature and precipitation.
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Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Paul Waidelich, Fulden Batibeniz, James Rising, Jarmo S. Kikstra, Sonia I. Seneviratne
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Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Heidi Abresch, Tisza Bell, Scott R Miller
Many organisms have formed symbiotic relationships with nitrogen (N)-fixing bacteria to overcome N limitation. Diatoms in the family Rhopalodiaceae host unicellular, N-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbionts called spheroid bodies (SBs). Although this relationship is relatively young, SBs share many key features with older endosymbionts, including coordinated cell division and genome reduction. Unlike
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High response diversity and conspecific density‐dependence, not species interactions, drive dynamics of coral reef fish communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alfonso Ruiz‐Moreno, Michael J. Emslie, Sean R. Connolly
Species‐to‐species and species‐to‐environment interactions are key drivers of community dynamics. Disentangling these drivers in species‐rich assemblages is challenging due to the high number of potentially interacting species (the ‘curse of dimensionality’). We develop a process‐based model that quantifies how intraspecific and interspecific interactions, and species’ covarying responses to environmental
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Diversity-dependent speciation and extinction in hominins Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Laura A. van Holstein, Robert A. Foley
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A flexible theory for the dynamics of social populations: Within‐group density dependence and between‐group processes Ecol. Monogr. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Brian A. Lerch, Karen C. Abbott
Despite the importance of population structures throughout ecology, relatively little theoretical attention has been paid to understanding the implications of social groups for population dynamics. The dynamics of socially structured populations differ substantially from those of unstructured or metapopulation‐structured populations, because social groups themselves may split, fuse, and compete. These
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Butterflies revisit past phenotypes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Vaishali Bhaumik
The diadem (Hypolimnas misippus) is a widely distributed butterfly that is known for its female-limited mimicry of three forms of the African queen (Danaus chrysippus). All H. misippus males are non-mimetic and have black wings with prominent egg-like white spots, whereas females have orange wings and are polymorphic, mimicking one of three toxic butterfly subspecies. Writing in Molecular Biology and
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Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ayana M. Hellevik, Philip Mardoum, Joshua Hahn, Yvonne Kölsch, Florence D. D’Orazi, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Leanne Godinho, Owen Lawrence, Fred Rieke, Karthik Shekhar, Joshua R. Sanes, Herwig Baier, Tom Baden, Rachel O. Wong, Takeshi Yoshimatsu
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Lessons from past mitigation efforts Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Nada Maamoun
International cooperation is essential to mitigate climate change, yet it comes with challenges that often hinder countries from achieving their climate targets. Now, a study shows that timely monitoring and review of national climate mitigation efforts are essential for the Paris Agreement to accomplish its targets.
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Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Shuping Li, Jing Meng, Klaus Hubacek, Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander, Yuan Li, Peipei Chen, Dabo Guan
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Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Valentina Di Santo
As climate change redirects migration patterns of marine species towards the extremes of their geographic range, sharks find themselves stunned by rising cold upwelling currents.
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Climate change-driven cooling can kill marine megafauna at their distributional limits Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Nicolas Lubitz, Ryan Daly, Amy F. Smoothey, Patrick Vianello, Michael J. Roberts, David S. Schoeman, Marcus Sheaves, Paul D. Cowley, Laurent Dagorn, Fabien G. Forget, Marc Soria, Victor M. Peddemors, John D. Filmalter, Paul A. Butcher, Greg Brett, Adam Barnett
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Anaerobic oxidation of ammonium and short-chain gaseous alkanes coupled to nitrate reduction by a bacterial consortium ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mengxiong Wu, Xiawei Liu, J Pamela Engelberts, Gene W Tyson, Simon J McIlroy, Jianhua Guo
The bacterial species ‘Candidatus Alkanivorans nitratireducens’ was recently demonstrated to mediate nitrate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of short-chain gaseous alkanes (SCGAs). In previous bioreactor enrichment studies1,2, the species appeared to reduce nitrate in two phases, switching from denitrification to dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) in response to nitrite accumulation.
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Prevalence of trace gas-oxidizing soil bacteria increases with radial distance from Polloquere hot spring within a high-elevation Andean cold desert ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Zachary K Garvin, Sebastian R Abades, Nicole Trefault, Fernando D Alfaro, Katie Sipes, Karen G Lloyd, Tullis C Onstott
High-elevation arid regions harbor microbial communities reliant on metabolic niches and flexibility to survive under biologically stressful conditions, including nutrient limitation that necessitates the utilization of atmospheric trace gases as electron donors. Geothermal springs present “oases” of microbial activity, diversity, and abundance by delivering water and substrates, including reduced
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Linking methanotroph phenotypes to genotypes using a simple spatially resolved model ecosystem ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Delaney G Beals, Aaron W Puri
Connecting genes to phenotypic traits in bacteria is often challenging because of a lack of environmental context in laboratory settings. Laboratory-based model ecosystems offer a means to better account for environmental conditions compared to standard planktonic cultures, and can help link genotypes and phenotypes. Here, we present a simple, cost-effective, laboratory-based model ecosystem to study
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Iron limitation of heterotrophic bacteria in the California current system tracks relative availability of organic carbon and iron ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lauren E Manck, Tyler H Coale, Brandon M Stephens, Kiefer O Forsch, Lihini I Aluwihare, Christopher L Dupont, Andrew E Allen, Katherine A Barbeau
Iron is an essential nutrient for all microorganisms in the marine environment. Iron limitation of primary production has been well documented across a significant portion of the global surface ocean, but much less is known regarding the potential for iron limitation of the marine heterotrophic microbial community. In this work, we characterize the transcriptomic response of the heterotrophic bacterial
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Fitness surfaces and local thermal adaptation in Drosophila along a latitudinal gradient Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 José M. Alruiz, Ignacio Peralta‐Maraver, Grisel Cavieres, Francisco Bozinovic, Enrico L. Rezende
Local adaptation is commonly cited to explain species distribution, but how fitness varies along continuous geographical gradients is not well understood. Here, we combine thermal biology and life‐history theory to demonstrate that Drosophila populations along a 2500 km latitudinal cline are adapted to local conditions. We measured how heat tolerance and viability rate across eight populations varied
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‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Moshe Zaguri, Irit Mogilevsky, David Raubenheimer, Dror Hawlena
Animals assimilate macronutrients and mineral nutrients in specific quantities and ratios to maximise fitness. To achieve this, animals must ingest different foods that contain the needed nutrients or facilitate the digestion of those nutrients. We explored how these multidimensional considerations affect the desert isopods (Hemilepistus reaumuri) curious food selection, using field and laboratory
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Tissue specificity follows gene duplication Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Anamaria Necsulea
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Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Federica Mantica, Luis P. Iñiguez, Yamile Marquez, Jon Permanyer, Antonio Torres-Mendez, Josefa Cruz, Xavier Franch-Marro, Frank Tulenko, Demian Burguera, Stephanie Bertrand, Toby Doyle, Marcela Nouzova, Peter D. Currie, Fernando G. Noriega, Hector Escriva, Maria Ina Arnone, Caroline B. Albertin, Karl R. Wotton, Isabel Almudi, David Martin, Manuel Irimia
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Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Carolina Bello, Thomas W. Crowther, Danielle Leal Ramos, Teresa Morán-López, Marco A. Pizo, Daisy H. Dent
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Lactic acid bacteria modulate the CncC pathway to enhance resistance to β-cypermethrin in the oriental fruit fly ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Tian Zeng, Qianyan Fu, Fangyi Luo, Jian Dai, Rong Fu, Yixiang Qi, Xiaojuan Deng, Yongyue Lu, Yijuan Xu
The gut microbiota of insects has been shown to regulate host detoxification enzymes. However, the potential regulatory mechanisms involved remain unknown. Here, we report that gut bacteria increase insecticide resistance by activating the cap “n” collar isoform-C (CncC) pathway through enzymatically generated reactive oxygen species (ROS) in Bactrocera dorsalis. We demonstrated that Enterococcus casseliflavus
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Adaptive responses to living in stressful habitats: Do invasive and native plant populations use different strategies? Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Justin S. H. Wan, Stephen P. Bonser, Clara K. Pang, Fatih Fazlioglu, Susan Rutherford
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Quantifying forest degradation requires a long-term, landscape-scale approach Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Matthew G. Betts, Zhiqiang Yang, Adam S. Hadley, Jessica Hightower, Fangyuan Hua, David Lindenmayer, Eugene Seo, Sean P. Healey
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Exciting times for evolutionary biology Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11
Evolutionary biologists should be proud of recent progress in their broad field. We highlight some developments in fundamental questions and the applied use of evolution.
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Climate change in and out of the therapy room Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Noa Heiman
Climate change can have profound impacts on mental health, yet few therapists receive training on how to talk to their clients about this issue. This Comment explores strategies for therapists to best support clients in climate distress.
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Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10
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Western North Pacific tropical cyclone activity modulated by phytoplankton feedback under global warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Han-Kyoung Kim, Jong-Yeon Park, Doo-Sun R. Park, Jong-Seong Kug, Sang-Wook Yeh, Jun-Hyeok Son
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The three‐species problem: Incorporating competitive asymmetry and intransitivity in modern coexistence theory Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ravi Ranjan, Thomas Koffel, Christopher A. Klausmeier
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Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Waseem Raza, Gaofei Jiang
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Ocean salinity Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Lingxiao Yan
Amanda Guimbeau of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and colleagues analysed the early-life health impacts caused by in utero exposure to increasing ocean salinity. They focused on the coastal belt of Bangladesh, which is one of the most affected areas from saltwater intrusion. By combining gridded data on salinity and children’s outcomes, the authors find that a 1-standard-deviation increase in
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Drive to electrify Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10
Policies and subsidies can help, and have helped, to establish the electric vehicle market. As subsidies are withdrawn and policies shift, the public will play a role in the future market infiltration.
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Slow wetland sink recovery Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Samuel Royle
Lukas Schuster from Deakin University and co-authors in Australia and Singapore carried out a global meta-analysis to quantify timescales of net ecosystem carbon exchange and GHG fluxes in restored wetlands. They find that most restored wetlands are net carbon sinks within 5 years of restoration. However, when considering the atmospheric properties of various GHGs, restored peatlands take on average
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Climate influencers on social media Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Danyang Cheng
Social media serves as an important platform for climate communication, with multiple actors utilizing it to advocate their viewpoints and influence others on climate change. Understanding the roles of influential actors offers insights for tailoring effective strategies for climate advocacy. Nonetheless, it remains unclear which actors are influential on social media concerning climate discourse.
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Mating innovation a warming benefit Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Tegan Armarego-Marriott
To survive, species must not just live in their environments, but must also successfully mate and produce young. Nevertheless, traits that facilitate mating are often overlooked in determining species’ current and future ecological limits. This is of particular concern since reproductive efforts often have high energetic costs, and as such, can easily become constrictive under changing environmental
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Diverging hydrological sensitivity among tropical basins Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jie He, Kezhou Lu, Boniface Fosu, Stephan A. Fueglistaler
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Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Chuliang Song, Jurg W. Spaak
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Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Dustin J. Marshall
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Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Christoph Kittel, Daniel Farinotti, Stef Lhermitte, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Katherine Helen Joy, Frank Pattyn
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Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Thomas Hale, Thom Wetzer, Selam Kidane Abebe, Myles Allen, Amir Amel-Zadeh, John Armour, Kaya Axelsson, Ben Caldecott, Lucilla Dias, Sam Fankhauser, Benjamin Franta, Cameron Hepburn, Kennedy Mbeva, Lavanya Rajamani, Steve Smith, Rupert Stuart-Smith
Following a groundswell of voluntary net-zero targets by companies, regulators are increasingly introducing mandatory rules. If governments can overcome the barriers to rigour, coherence and fairness, such mandatory ‘ground rules’ have the potential to overcome the obstructionism that holds back a just climate transition.
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Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 G. S. I. Hattich, S. Jokinen, S. Sildever, M. Gareis, J. Heikkinen, N. Junghardt, M. Segovia, M. Machado, C. Sjöqvist
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Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Xiaoyi Zeng, Huilin Gao, Runxi Wang, Bartosz M. Majcher, Joel S. Woon, Cheng Wenda, Paul Eggleton, Hannah M. Griffiths, Louise A. Ashton
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A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Guim Aguadé‐Gorgorió, Jean‐François Arnoldi, Matthieu Barbier, Sonia Kéfi
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Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Tasuku Ishida, Yutaka Satou
Neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs) are multipotent cells that are important for development of vertebrate embryos. In embryos of ascidians, which are the closest invertebrate relatives of vertebrates, several cells located at the border between the neural plate and the epidermal region have neural-crest-like properties; hence, the last common ancestor of ascidians and vertebrates
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Shining light on residual emissions for cities Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Giulia Ulpiani, Nadja Vetters, Paolo Bertoldi, Christian Thiel
Many cities are developing plans and strategies to achieve net-zero emissions and combat climate change. However, the operational value of residual emissions remains unknown, thus challenging the integrity, transparency and impact of such pledges.
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Reduced hybrid survival in a migratory divide between songbirds Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Stephanie A. Blain, Hannah C. Justen, Wendy Easton, Kira E. Delmore
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Functional redundancy of weed seed predation is reduced by intensified agriculture Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Eirini Daouti, Veronika Neidel, Benjamin Carbonne, Hana Vašková, Michael Traugott, Corinna Wallinger, Riccardo Bommarco, Benjamin Feit, David A. Bohan, Pavel Saska, Jiří Skuhrovec, Sasha Vasconcelos, Sandrine Petit, Wopke van der Werf, Mattias Jonsson
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Fast–slow traits predict competition network structure and its response to resources and enemies Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Caroline Daniel, Eric Allan, Hugo Saiz, Oscar Godoy
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Density‐dependent species interactions modulate alpine treeline shifts Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Xiangyu Zheng, Flurin Babst, Jesús Julio Camarero, Xiaoxia Li, Xiaoming Lu, Shan Gao, Shalik Ram Sigdel, Yafeng Wang, Haifeng Zhu, Eryuan Liang
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Conserving the primary forests in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon for people and nature Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Yu Ren, Cheng Li, Kating Chau, Guangpeng Fan, Guangcai Xu, Haitao Yang, Kai Cheng, Fangyuan Hua, Ruocheng Hu, Xiangying Shi, Hongcan Guan, Mengxi Chen, Zekun Yang, Zhixin Cheng, Kangshan Mao, Yanjun Su, Qinghua Guo, Zhi Lu
One exciting development has been the description of three giant trees in the YTGC region during 2022–2023. Using a combination of space-borne and high-accuracy near-surface drone and backpack lidar, we described a 76.8-m-tall Pinus bhutanica in Medog county, an 83.4-m-tall Abies ernestii var. salouenensis in Zayu county (first identified by K. Guo’s team from the Institute of Botany at Chinese Academy
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Model-based financial regulation challenges for the net-zero transition Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Matteo Gasparini, Matthew Ives, Ben Carr, Sophie Fry, Eric Beinhocker
Current model-based financial regulations favour carbon-intensive investments. This is likely to disincentivize banks from investing in new low-carbon assets, impairing the transition to net zero. Financial regulators and policymakers should consider how this bias may impact financial system stability and broader societal objectives.
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Elevated CO2 levels promote both carbon and nitrogen cycling in global forests Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Jinglan Cui, Miao Zheng, Zihao Bian, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, Xiuming Zhang, Ziyue Qiu, Jianming Xu, Baojing Gu
Forests provide vital ecosystem services, particularly as carbon sinks for nature-based climate solutions. However, the impact of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on carbon and nitrogen interactions of forests remains poorly quantified. We integrate experimental observations and biogeochemical models to elucidate the synergies between enhanced nitrogen and carbon cycling in global forests
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Model-based financial regulations impair the transition to net-zero carbon emissions Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Matteo Gasparini, Matthew C. Ives, Ben Carr, Sophie Fry, Eric Beinhocker
Investments via the financial system are essential for fostering the green transition. However, the role of existing financial regulations in influencing investment decisions is understudied. Here we analyse data from the European Banking Authority to show that existing financial accounting frameworks might inadvertently be creating disincentives for investments in low-carbon assets. We find that differences
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Soil redox status governs within-field spatial variation in microbial arsenic methylation and rice straighthead disease ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 A-Xiang Gao, Chuan Chen, Zi-Yu Gao, Zhi-Qiang Zhai, Peng Wang, Si-Yu Zhang, Fang-Jie Zhao
Microbial arsenic (As) methylation in paddy soil produces mainly dimethylarsenate (DMA), which can cause physiological straighthead disease in rice. The disease is often highly patchy in the field, but the reasons remain unknown. We investigated within-field spatial variations in straighthead disease severity, As species in rice husks and in soil porewater, microbial composition and abundance of arsM
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Ageing population and green space dynamics for climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Ji Soo Kim, Seung Kyum Kim