-
Plant traits, microclimate temperature and humidity: A research agenda for advancing nature‐based solutions to a warming and drying climate J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 A. J. Wright, R. M. Francia
-
CamTrapAsia: A dataset of tropical forest vertebrate communities from 239 camera trapping studies Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Calebe P. Mendes, Wido R. Albert, Zachary Amir, Marc Ancrenaz, Eric Ash, Badrul Azhar, Henry Bernard, Jedediah Brodie, Tom Bruce, Elliot Carr, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Glyn Davies, Nicolas J. Deere, Yoan Dinata, Christl A. Donnelly, Somphot Duangchantrasiri, Gabriella Fredriksson, Benoit Goossens, Alys Granados, Andrew Hearn, Jason Hon, Tom Hughes, Patrick Jansen, Kae Kawanishi, Margaret Kinnaird
Information on tropical Asian vertebrates has traditionally been sparse, particularly when it comes to cryptic species inhabiting the dense forests of the region. Vertebrate populations are declining globally due to land‐use change and hunting, the latter frequently referred as “defaunation.” This is especially true in tropical Asia where there is extensive land‐use change and high human densities
-
Higher trophic levels and species with poorer dispersal traits are more susceptible to habitat loss on island fragments Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zhonghan Wang, Jonathan M. Chase, Wubing Xu, Jinliang Liu, Donghao Wu, Aiying Zhang, Jirui Wang, Yuanyuan Luo, Mingjian Yu
Ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation caused by human activities represent one of the greatest causes of biodiversity loss. However, the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation are not felt equally among species. Here, we examined how habitat loss influenced the diversity and abundance of species from different trophic levels, with different traits, by taking advantage of an inadvertent experiment
-
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Anežka Holeštová, Jana Doudová, Alena Havrdová, Marie Černá, Karel Boublík, Jan Douda
-
Mutualistic and antagonistic phyllosphere fungi contribute to plant recruitment in natural communities J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Mariona Pajares‐Murgó, José L. Garrido, Antonio J. Perea, Álvaro López‐García, Jesús M. Bastida, Julio M. Alcántara
-
Misapplied management makes matters worse: Spatially explicit control leverages biotic interactions to slow invasion Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Emily Howerton, Tracy Langkilde, Katriona Shea
A wide range of approaches has been used to manage the spread of invasive species, yet invaders continue to be a challenge to control. In some cases, management actions have no effect or may even inadvertently benefit the targeted invader. Here, we use the mid‐20th century management of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta, in the US as a motivating case study to explore the conditions under
-
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
-
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
-
The combined effects of resource landscapes and herbivory on pollination services in agro-ecosystems Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Tal Shapira, Frank M. Schurr, Sonja Fischer, Neal Jeuken, Moshe Coll, Yael Mandelik
Pollinator activity is affected by landscape-scale flower availability, and by pollinator interactions with co-occurring organisms. Of special interest are potentially detrimental effects of herbivores on the attractiveness of plants to pollinators. While insect herbivores are abundant in natural and agro-ecosystems, the combined effect of herbivory and landscape floral resources on pollinator activity
-
Reliability of presence-only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 L. Camila Pacheco-Riaño, Sabine Rumpf, Tuija Maliniemi, Suzette G. A. Flantua, John-Arvid Grytnes
Climate warming has triggered shifts in plant distributions, resulting in changes within communities, characterized by an increase in warm-demanding species and a decrease in cold-adapted species – referred to as thermophilization. Researchers conventionally rely on co-occurrence data from vegetation assemblages to examine these community dynamics. Despite the increasing availability of presence-only
-
Fruit–frugivore dependencies are important in Ebolavirus outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Mekala Sundaram, Mireya Dorado, Benedicta Akaribo, Antoine Filion, Barbara A. Han, Nicole L. Gottdenker, John P. Schmidt, John M. Drake, Patrick R. Stephens
Ebolaviruses have the ability to infect a wide variety of species, with many African mammals potentially serving either as primary reservoirs or secondary amplifying hosts. Previous work has shown that frugivorous bats and primates are often associated with spillover and outbreaks. Yet the role that patterns of biodiversity, either of mammalian hosts or of common fruiting species such as Ficus (figs
-
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Victoria Formoso-Freire, Andrés Baselga, Carola Gómez-Rodríguez
Unified models of biological diversity across organizational levels (genes, species, communities) provide key insight into fundamental ecological processes. Theory predicts that the strength of the correlation between species abundance and genetic diversity should be related to community age in closed communities (i.e. abundant species accumulate more genetic diversity over time than rare species)
-
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
-
High response diversity and conspecific density-dependence, not species interactions, drive dynamics of coral reef fish communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Alfonso Ruiz-Moreno, Michael J. Emslie, Sean R. Connolly
-
Effectiveness of population‐based recovery actions for threatened southern mountain caribou Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Clayton T. Lamb, Sara Williams, Stan Boutin, Michael Bridger, Deborah Cichowski, Kristina Cornhill, Craig DeMars, Melanie Dickie, Bevan Ernst, Adam Ford, Michael P. Gillingham, Laura Greene, Douglas C. Heard, Mark Hebblewhite, Dave Hervieux, Mike Klaczek, Bruce N. McLellan, R. Scott McNay, Lalenia Neufeld, Barry Nobert, J. Joshua Nowak, Agnès Pelletier, Aaron Reid, Anne‐Marie Roberts, Mike Russell
Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this threatened caribou population's range and abundance have dramatically contracted. An integrated population model was used to analyze 51 years (1973–2023) of demographic data from 40 southern mountain caribou subpopulations
-
Fitting individual‐based models of spatial population dynamics to long‐term monitoring data Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Anne‐Kathleen Malchow, Guillermo Fandos, Urs G. Kormann, Martin U. Grüebler, Marc Kéry, Florian Hartig, Damaris Zurell
Generating spatial predictions of species distribution is a central task for research and policy. Currently, correlative species distribution models (cSDMs) are among the most widely used tools for this purpose. However, a fundamental assumption of cSDMs, that species distributions are in equilibrium with their environment, is rarely fulfilled in real data and limits the applicability of cSDMs for
-
MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A database of functional traits in Melastomataceae, a large pantropical angiosperm family Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Marcelo Reginato, Carlos A. Ordónez‐Parra, João Vitor S. Messeder, Vinicius L. G. Brito, Agnes Dellinger, Ricardo Kriebel, Camilla Marra, Lilian Melo, Tatiana Cornelissen, Lisieux Fuzessy, Patricia Sperotto, Manuela Calderón‐Hernández, Tadeu J. Guerra, Constantin Kopper, Carolina Mancipe‐Murillo, Marco A. Pizo, Juan Mauricio Posada‐Herrera, Érica Hasui, Wesley R. Silva, Fernando A. O. Silveira
The recent availability of open‐access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait‐based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large‐scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Tissue specificity follows gene duplication Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Anamaria Necsulea
-
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
-
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Moshe Zaguri, Irit Mogilevsky, David Raubenheimer, Dror Hawlena
-
Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Skye M. Greenler, Frank K. Lake, William Tripp, Kathy McCovey, Analisa Tripp, Leaf G. Hillman, Christopher J. Dunn, Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, Will Harling, John D. Bailey
The combined effects of Indigenous fire stewardship and lightning ignitions shaped historical fire regimes, landscape patterns, and available resources in many ecosystems globally. The resulting fire regimes created complex fire–vegetation dynamics that were further influenced by biophysical setting, disturbance history, and climate. While there is increasing recognition of Indigenous fire stewardship
-
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
-
Improving species distribution forecasts by measuring and communicating uncertainty: An invasive species case study Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Shyam M. Thomas, Michael R. Verhoeven, Jake R. Walsh, Daniel J. Larkin, Gretchen J. A. Hansen
Forecasting invasion risk under future climate conditions is critical for the effective management of invasive species, and species distribution models (SDMs) are key tools for doing so. However, SDM‐based forecasts are uncertain, especially when correlative statistical models extrapolate to nonanalog environmental domains, such as future climate conditions. Different assumptions about the functional
-
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020) Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Ingridi Camboim Franceschi, Rubem Augusto da Paixão Dornas, Isabel Salgueiro Lermen, Artur Vicente Pfeifer Coelho, Ademir Henrique Vilas Boas, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Agnis Cristiane de Souza, Alana Rafaela Borsekowsky, Alessandro Rocha, Alex Bager, Alexander Zaidan de Souza, Alexandre Martins Costa Lopes, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Alvaro García‐Olaechea
Camera traps became the main observational method of a myriad of species over large areas. Data sets from camera traps can be used to describe the patterns and monitor the occupancy, abundance, and richness of wildlife, essential information for conservation in times of rapid climate and land‐cover changes. Habitat loss and poaching are responsible for historical population losses of mammals in the
-
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
-
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.
-
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Isaac W. Park, Tadeo Ramirez‐Parada, Sydne Record, Charles Davis, Aaron M. Ellison, Susan J. Mazer
Forecasting the impacts of changing climate on the phenology of plant populations is essential for anticipating and managing potential ecological disruptions to biotic communities. Herbarium specimens enable assessments of plant phenology across broad spatiotemporal scales. However, specimens are collected opportunistically, and it is unclear whether their collection dates – used as proxies of phenological
-
Present and future situation of West Nile virus in the Afro‐Palaearctic pathogeographic system Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 José‐María García‐Carrasco, Lucrecia Souviron‐Priego, Antonio‐Román Muñoz, Jesús Olivero, Julia E. Fa, Raimundo Real
West Nile virus (WNV) is a globally widespread arthropod‐borne virus that poses a significant public health concern. Mosquitoes transmit the virus in an enzootic cycle among birds, which act as reservoirs. Climate plays a crucial role in these outbreaks as mosquitoes are highly influenced by climatic conditions, and bird migrations are also affected by weather patterns. Consequently, changes in climate
-
Individual vital rates respond differently to local‐scale environmental variation and neighbour removal J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Alexandra A. Catling, Margaret M. Mayfield, John M. Dwyer
Understanding how plant fitness varies along natural gradients is critical for predicting responses to environmental change. However, individual vital rates are often used as fitness proxies without knowing how other vital rates vary along the same gradients. We investigated how canopy cover, plant–plant interactions, water availability and soil properties influenced the emergence, survival, seed production
-
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10
-
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
-
Urbanization exacerbates climate sensitivity of eastern United States broadleaf trees Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Kayla Warner, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Elizabeth M. Cook, Richard A. Hallett, Lucy R. Hutyra, Andrew B. Reinmann
Tree growth is a key mechanism driving carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems. Environmental conditions are important regulators of tree growth that can vary considerably between nearby urban and rural forests. For example, trees growing in cities often experience hotter and drier conditions than their rural counterparts while also being exposed to higher levels of light, pollution, and nutrient
-
Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 16.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Waseem Raza, Gaofei Jiang
-
Temperature‐driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Anna W. Paraskevopoulos, Nathan J. Sanders, Julian Resasco
Identifying the mechanisms underlying the changes in the distribution of species is critical to accurately predict how species have responded and will respond to climate change. Here, we take advantage of a late‐1950s study on ant assemblages in a canyon near Boulder, Colorado, USA, to understand how and why species distributions have changed over a 60‐year period. Community composition changed over
-
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
-
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution Ecol. Lett. (IF 8.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Dustin J. Marshall
-
Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jan Clavel, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Sylvia Haider, Keith McDougall, Martin A. Nuñez, Jake Alexander, Agustina Barros, Ann Milbau, Tim Seipel, Anibal Pauchard, Eduardo Fuentes‐Lillo, Amanda Ratier Backes, Pervaiz Dar, Zafar A. Reshi, Alla Aleksanyan, Shengwei Zong, José Ramón Arevalo Sierra, Valeria Aschero, Erik Verbruggen, Ivan Nijs
We assessed the impact of road disturbances on the dominant mycorrhizal types in ecosystems at the global level and how this mechanism can potentially lead to lasting plant community changes. We used a database of coordinated plant community surveys following mountain roads from 894 plots in 11 mountain regions across the globe in combination with an existing database of mycorrhizal–plant associations
-
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Felix Vaux, Elahe Parvizi, Grant A. Duffy, Ludovic Dutoit, Dave Craw, Jonathan M. Waters, Ceridwen I. Fraser
Large‐scale disturbance events provide ideal opportunities to directly study recolonisation processes in natural environments, via the removal of competitors and the formation of newly vacant habitat. A high magnitude earthquake in central New Zealand in 2016 created major ecological disturbance, with coastal tectonic uplift of up to ~ 6 m extirpating vast swathes of intertidal organisms. One of the
-
Consequences of pollen defense compounds for pollinators and antagonists in a pollen‐rewarding plant Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Sébastien Rivest, Stephen T. Lee, Daniel Cook, Jessica R. K. Forrest
Plants produce an array of defensive compounds with toxic or deterrent effects on insect herbivores. Pollen can contain relatively high concentrations of such defense compounds, but the causes and consequences of this enigmatic phenomenon remain mostly unknown. These compounds could potentially protect pollen against antagonists but could also reduce flower attractiveness to pollinators. We combined
-
Pre‐contact and post‐colonial ecological legacies shape Surinamese rainforests Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Nina H. Witteveen, Cheryl White, Barbara A. Sánchez‐Martínez, Annemarie Philip, Femke Boyd, Roemer Booij, Reyan Christ, Santosh Singh, William D. Gosling, Dolores R. Piperno, Crystal N. H. McMichael
Disturbances in tropical forests can have long‐lasting ecological impacts, but their manifestations (ecological legacies) in modern forests are uncertain. Many Amazonian forests bear the mark of past soil modifications, species enrichments, and fire events, but the trajectories of ecological legacies from the pre‐contact or post‐colonial period remain relatively unexplored. We assessed the fire and
-
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
-
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
-
Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ali Omer, Franz Essl, Stefan Dullinger, Bernd Lenzner, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Dietmar Moser, Trevor Fristoe, Wayne Dawson, Patrick Weigelt, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, Johannes Wessely
Alien species can have massive impacts on native biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human livelihoods. Assessing which species from currently cultivated alien floras may escape into the wild and naturalize is essential for efficient and proactive ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. Climate change has already promoted the naturalization of many alien plants in temperate regions
-
Predicting time‐at‐depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Zachary A. Siders, Lauren B. Trotta, William Patrone, Fabio P. Caltabellotta, Katherine B. Loesser, Benjamin Baiser
Depth is a fundamental and universal driver of ocean biogeography but it is unclear how the biodiversity patterns of larger, more mobile organisms change as a function of depth. Here, we developed a predictive biogeography model to explore how information of mobile species' depth preferences influence biodiversity patterns. We employed a literature review to collate shark biotelemetry studies and used
-
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Haben Blondeel, Joannès Guillemot, Nicolas Martin‐StPaul, Arsène Druel, Simon Bilodeau‐Gauthier, Jürgen Bauhus, Charlotte Grossiord, Andrew Hector, Hervé Jactel, Joel Jensen, Christian Messier, Bart Muys, Hernán Serrano‐León, Harald Auge, Nadia Barsoum, Emiru Birhane, Helge Bruelheide, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, Chengjin Chu, Jonathan R. Cumming, Abebe Damtew, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Sebastian
-
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science J. Ecol. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Joe Atkinson, Rachael Gallagher, Szymon Czyżewski, Matthew Kerr, Jonas Trepel, Robert Buitenwerf, Jens‐Christian Svenning
-
Ungulates mitigate the effects of drought and shrub encroachment on the fire hazard of Mediterranean oak woodlands Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Xavier Lecomte, Miguel N. Bugalho, Filipe X. Catry, Paulo M. Fernandes, Andreu Cera, Maria C. Caldeira
Climate change is increasing the frequency of droughts and the risk of severe wildfires, which can interact with shrub encroachment and browsing by wild ungulates. Wild ungulate populations are expanding due, among other factors, to favorable habitat changes resulting from land abandonment or land‐use changes. Understanding how ungulate browsing interacts with drought to affect woody plant mortality
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Unraveling microbial community structure–function relationships in the horizontal and vertical spatial dimensions in extreme environments Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Xin Jing, Aimée T. Classen, Daijiang Li, Litao Lin, Mingzhen Lu, Nathan J. Sanders, Yugang Wang, Wenting Feng
A fundamental challenge in soil macroecology is to understand how microbial community structure shapes ecosystem function along environmental gradients of the land surface at broad spatial scales (i.e. the horizontal dimension). However, little is known about microbial community structure–function relationships in extreme environments along environmental gradients of soil depth at finer spatial scales
-
Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions Ecography (IF 5.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Michiel P. Boom, W. Daniel Kissling
Understanding geographic ranges and species distributions is crucial for effective conservation, especially in the light of climate and land use change. However, the spatial, temporal and intraspecific resolution of digital accessible information on species distributions is often limited. Here, we suggest to make better use of high‐resolution tracking data to address existing limitations of occurrence
-
Erratum Ecol. Appl. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-05
Erratum for Conlisk, Erin E., Gregory H. Golet, Mark D. Reynolds, Blake A. Barbaree, Kristin A. Sesser, Kristin B. Byrd, Sam Veloz, and Matthew E. Reiter. 2022. Both real-time and long-term environmental data perform well in predicting shorebird distributions in managed habitat. Ecological Applications 32(4):e2510. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2510 An error has been found in Figures 4 and 5 of the published
-
Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of ectotherms Ecology (IF 4.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Margaret W. Simon, Priyanga Amarasekare
Climate warming is predicted to increase mean temperatures and thermal extremes on a global scale. Because their body temperature depends on the environmental temperature, ectotherms bear the full brunt of climate warming. Predicting the impact of climate warming on ectotherm diversity and distributions requires a framework that can translate temperature effects on ectotherm life‐history traits into
-
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