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Killer whale (Orcinus orca) Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Filipa I. P. Samarra
Filipa Samarra is hooked on killer whale behaviour.
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Planting for posterity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Ex situ plant collections are key tools in the fight to preserve biodiversity. Numerous opportunities and challenges exist among their many different forms, but all are valuable.
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Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement threshold Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Alex J. Cannon
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A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Emanuele Bevacqua, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Jakob Zscheischler
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The contribution of pollinator-mediated versus pollinator-independent interactions to plant reproduction Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Aubrie R. M. James, Monica A. Geber
Pollinator-mediated and pollinator-independent interactions both affect plant reproductive success but are often studied independently. Evaluating the separate and cumulative effect of both types of interactions is necessary to understand population dynamics and species coexistence. Here, we ask how interactions during growth and flowering contribute to pollinator-mediated and pollinator-independent
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Proteomic evidence for aerobic methane production in groundwater by methylotrophic Methylotenera ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Shengjie Li, Xiaoli Dong, Pauline Humez, Joanna Borecki, Jean Birks, Cynthia McClain, Bernhard Mayer, Marc Strous, Muhe Diao
Members of Methylotenera are signature denitrifiers and methylotrophs commonly found together with methanotrophic bacteria in lakes and freshwater sediments. Here we show that three distinct Methylotenera ecotypes were abundant in methane-rich groundwaters recharged during the Pleistocene. Just like in surface water biomes, groundwater Methylotenera often co-occurred with methane-oxidizing bacteria
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Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-08 Jos Kramer, Simon Maréchal, Alexandre R T Figueiredo, Rolf Kümmerli
Microbial communities can shape key ecological services, but the determinants of their functioning often remain little understood. While traditional research predominantly focuses on effects related to species identity (community composition and species richness), recent work increasingly explores the impact of species interactions on community functioning. Here, we conducted experiments with replicated
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Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Patrick T. Rohner, David Berger
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Comparative genomics provides insights into chromosomal evolution and immunological adaptation in horseshoe bats Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Shilin Tian, Junyu Si, Libiao Zhang, Jiaming Zeng, Xiangyi Zhang, Chen Huang, Gang Li, Caoqi Lei, Xuming Zhou, Rong Geng, Peng Zhou, Huan Yan, Stephen J. Rossiter, Huabin Zhao
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Uniformity of climate anxiety scales Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Danyang Cheng
Silke van Dijk and colleagues from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, identified 12 distinct scales comprising a total of 119 items used to measure climate anxiety, and conducted a content analysis to quantify the overlap between these scales. The results indicate a very weak item content overlap between all the scales, meaning that the symptoms captured by the items were heterogeneous. These results
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Plants countering downpours Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Jasper Franke
A warming atmosphere is associated with increasing extreme rainfall events in many regions, which can, in turn, increase flooding risks due to increased runoff. This runoff is, however, also influenced by other factors such as land cover and vegetation, which in turn are affected by CO2 emissions and climate change. In their study, Darren Ficklin from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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Thermal impacts on aquatic fertility Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Tegan Armarego-Marriott
While higher temperatures can be directly lethal to organisms, recent research suggests that extinctions and habitat range limits may be better predicted by the influence of high temperatures on fertility. Reproductive physiology is particularly sensitive to thermal stress, with potential impacts on a range of reproductive traits, including quality of gametes, fertilization processes and early offspring
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Ineffective carbon offset Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Lingxiao Yan
Raphael Calel of Georgetown University, USA, and colleagues provide systematic evidence on carbon offset misallocation by examining wind farms constructed in India through to 2013. They conclude it is highly likely that at least 52% of the wind farms supported by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) would have been built anyway, which means the programme approved more than 28 million tonnes of CO2
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Observed multi-decadal increase in the surface ocean’s thermal inertia Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Chaehyeong Lee, Hajoon Song, Yeonju Choi, Ajin Cho, John Marshall
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Mechanisms of cooperation in the plants-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-bacteria continuum ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Shilong Duan, Zexing Jin, Lin Zhang, Stéphane Declerck
In nature, cooperation is an essential way for species, whether they belong to the same kingdom or to different kingdoms, to overcome the scarcity of resources and improve their fitness. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are symbiotic microorganisms whose origin date back 400 million years. They form symbiotic associations with the vast majority of terrestrial plants, helping them to obtain nutrients from
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Occurrence of “under-the-radar” antibiotic resistance in anthropogenically affected produce ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Chagai Davidovich, Kseniia Erokhina, Chhedi Lal Gupta, Yong-Guan Zhu, Jian-Qiang Su, Steven P Djordjevic, Ethan R Wyrsch, Shlomo E Blum, Eddie Cytryn
With global climate change, treated-wastewater irrigation and manure amendment are becoming increasingly important in sustainable agriculture in water- and nutrient-stressed regions. Yet, these practices can potentially disseminate pathogens and antimicrobial resistance determinants to crops, resulting in serious health risks to humans through the food chain. Previous studies demonstrated that pathogen
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The current state, opportunities and challenges for upscaling private investment in biodiversity in Europe Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Sophus O.S.E. zu Ermgassen, Isobel Hawkins, Thomas Lundhede, Qian Liu, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Joseph W. Bull
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Mapping global financial risks under climate change Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Antoine Mandel, Stefano Battiston, Irene Monasterolo
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Active bacteria driving N2O mitigation and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in ammonia recovery bioreactors ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Hop V Phan, Shohei Yasuda, Kohei Oba, Hiroki Tsukamoto, Tomoyuki Hori, Megumi Kuroiwa, Akihiko Terada
Shifting from ammonia removal to recovery is the current strategy in wastewater treatment management. We recently developed a microaerophilic activated sludge system for retaining ammonia whereas removing organic carbon with minimal N2O emissions. A comprehensive understanding of nitrogen metabolisms in the system is essential to optimize system performance. Here, we employed metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
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Metabolism of hemicelluloses by root-associated Bacteroidota species ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Hannah Martin, Lucy A Rogers, Laila Moushtaq, Amanda A Brindley, Polly Forbes, Amy R Quintion, Andrew R J Murphy, Helen Hipperson, Tim J Daniell, Didier Ndeh, Sam Amsbury, Andrew Hitchcock, Ian D E A Lidbury
Bacteroidota species are enriched in the plant microbiome and provide several beneficial functions for their host, including disease suppression. Determining the mechanisms that enable bacteroidota to colonise plant roots may therefore provide opportunities for enhancing crop production through microbiome engineering. By focusing on nutrient acquisition mechanisms, we discovered Bacteroidota species
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Representing gender inequality in scenarios improves understanding of climate challenges Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Marina Andrijevic, Caroline Zimm, Jonathan D. Moyer, Raya Muttarak, Shonali Pachauri
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Metabolic labour division trade-offs in denitrifying microbiomes ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Nina Roothans, Mark C M van Loosdrecht, Michele Laureni
Division of metabolic labour is a defining trait of natural and engineered microbiomes. Denitrification – the stepwise reduction of nitrate and nitrite to nitrogenous gases – is inherently modular, catalysed either by a single microorganism (termed complete denitrifier) or by consortia of partial denitrifiers. Despite the pivotal role of denitrification in biogeochemical cycles and environmental biotechnologies
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Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Rebecca Schalkowski, Katja R. Kasimatis, Megan A. Greischar, Asher D. Cutter
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Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Lisyanne Metthé, Christian Dussault, Sandra Hamel
Spatial variations in food availability may influence life‐history traits of wildlife species, particularly in capital‐breeding species that store energy when food is widely available and catabolize it during energy‐intensive reproductive periods. The reproductive success of capital breeders is thus highly dependent on the accumulation of fat reserves. Reproductive success may also improve with access
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Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Jennifer Morris, Steven K. Rose, John Reilly, Angelo Gurgel, Sergey Paltsev, C. Adam Schlosser
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Life history strategies complement niche partitioning to support the coexistence of closely related Gilliamella species in the bee gut ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 Chengfeng Yang, Benfeng Han, Junbo Tang, Jiawei Hu, Lifei Qiu, Wanzhi Cai, Xin Zhou, Xue Zhang
The maintenance of bacterial diversity at both species- and strain-levels is crucial for the sustainability of honey bee gut microbiota and host health. Periodic or random fluctuation in diet typically alters the metabolic niches available to gut microbes, thereby continuously reshaping bacterial diversity and interspecific interactions. It remains unclear how closely related bacteria adapt to these
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Microbial reaction rate estimation using proteins and proteomes ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 J Scott P McCain, Gregory L Britten, Sean R Hackett, Michael J Follows, Gene-Wei Li
Microbes transform their environments using diverse enzymatic reactions. However, it remains challenging to measure microbial reaction rates in natural environments. Despite advances in global quantification of enzyme abundances, the individual relationships between enzyme abundances and their reaction rates have not been systematically examined. Using matched proteomic and reaction rate data from
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Core cooperative metabolism in low-complexity CO2-fixing anaerobic microbiota ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 Guido Zampieri, Davide Santinello, Matteo Palù, Esteban Orellana, Paola Costantini, Lorenzo Favaro, Stefano Campanaro, Laura Treu
Biological conversion of carbon dioxide into methane has a crucial role in global carbon cycling and is operated by a specialised set of anaerobic archaea. Although it is known that this conversion is strictly linked with cooperative bacterial activity, such as through syntrophic acetate oxidation, there is also a limited understanding on how this cooperation is regulated and metabolically realised
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Seasonal Shifts in Trophic Interaction Strength Drive Stability of Natural Food Webs Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Ursula Gaedke, Xiaoxiao Li, Christian Guill, Lia Hemerik, Peter C. de Ruiter
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Policy interactions make achieving carbon neutrality in China more challenging Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Yu Liu, Mingxi Du, Lingyu Yang, Qi Cui, Yawen Liu, Xinbei Li, Nenggao Zhu, Ying Li, Chen Jiang, Peng Zhou, Qiuyu Liu, Canfei He
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Mitigation policies interactions delay the achievement of carbon neutrality in China Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Yu Liu, Mingxi Du, Lingyu Yang, Qi Cui, Yawen Liu, Xinbei Li, Nenggao Zhu, Ying Li, Chen Jiang, Peng Zhou, Qiuyu Liu, Canfei He
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Mammalian predator co‐occurrence affected by prey and habitat more than competitor presence at multiple time scales Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Sarah B. Bassing, David E. Ausband, Matthew A. Mumma, Sarah Thompson, Mark A. Hurley, Matthew R. Falcy
The behavior and abundance of sympatric predators can be affected by a complex dominance hierarchy. The strength of antagonistic interactions in predator communities is difficult to study and remains poorly understood for many predator assemblages. Predators directly and indirectly influence the broader ecosystem, so identifying the relative importance of competition, prey, and habitat in shaping predator
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Author Correction: Mitochondrial somatic mutation and selection throughout ageing Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Isabel M. Serrano, Misa Hirose, Charles C. Valentine, Sharon Roesner, Elizabeth Schmidt, Gabriel Pratt, Lindsey Williams, Jesse Salk, Saleh Ibrahim, Peter H. Sudmant
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02338-3, published online 15 February 2024.
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Insights into the human sex chromosomes from divergence between the X–Y gametologues Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-30
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Addendum: Mitochondrial somatic mutation and selection throughout ageing Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Isabel M. Serrano, Peter H. Sudmant
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Plasmids encode and can mobilize onion pathogenicity in Pantoea agglomerans ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Gi Yoon Shin, Jo Ann Asselin, Amy Smith, Brenna Aegerter, Teresa Coutinho, Mei Zhao, Bhabesh Dutta, Jennie Mazzone, Ram Neupane, Beth Gugino, Christy Hoepting, Manzeal Khanal, Subas Malla, Claudia Nischwitz, Jaspreet Sidhu, Antoinette Machado Burke, Jane Davey, Mark Uchanski, Michael L Derie, Lindsey J du Toit, Stephen Stresow-Cortez, Jean M Bonasera, Paul Stodghill, Brian Kvitko
Pantoea agglomerans is one of four Pantoea species reported in the USA to cause bacterial rot of onion bulbs. However, not all P. agglomerans strains are pathogenic to onion. We characterized onion-associated strains of P. agglomerans to elucidate the genetic and genomic signatures of onion-pathogenic P. agglomerans. We collected >300 P. agglomerans strains associated with symptomatic onion plants
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Intraspecific Diversity in Thermal Performance Determines Phytoplankton Ecological Niche Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Arianna I. Krinos, Sara K. Shapiro, Weixuan Li, Sheean T. Haley, Sonya T. Dyhrman, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Michael J. Follows, Harriet Alexander
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Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Kasim Rafiq, Sara Beery, Meredith S. Palmer, Zaid Harchaoui, Briana Abrahms
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models specializing in the generation of new data with the statistical patterns and properties of the data upon which the models were trained has profoundly influenced a range of academic disciplines, industry and public discourse. Combined with the vast amounts of diverse data now available to ecologists, from genetic sequences to remotely sensed
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Climate injustice through unequal news Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Valerie Hase
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A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 François Duchenne, Elisa Barreto, Esteban A. Guevara, Holger Beck, Carolina Bello, Rafaela Bobato, Daniela Bôlla, Emanuel Brenes, Nicole Büttner, Ana P. Caron, Nelson Chaves‐Elizondo, María J. Gavilanes, Alejandro Restrepo‐González, Jose Alejandro Castro, Miriam Kaehler, Tiago Machado‐de‐Souza, Miguel Machnicki‐Reis, Andrés Sebastián F. Marcayata, Cauã G. de Menezes, Andrea Nieto, Rafael de Oliveira
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Personality, space use, and networks directly and indirectly explain tick infestation in a wild population of lizards Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Eric Payne, David L. Sinn, Orr Spiegel, Stephan T. Leu, Caroline K. Wohlfeil, Stephanie S. Godfrey, Michael G. Gardner, Andrew Sih
Host personality can markedly affect parasite transmission. Especially for parasites with indirect transmission through the environment, the effects of consistent among‐individual differences in behavior may have both direct and indirect components. For example, personality may mediate both how hosts respond to infected individuals and the likelihood that hosts indirectly interact with infected conspecifics
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Microbial competition for iron determines its availability to the ferrous wheel ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Robert F Strzepek, Pauline Latour, Michael J Ellwood, Yeala Shaked, Philip W Boyd
Iron plays a pivotal role in regulating ocean primary productivity. Iron is supplied from diverse sources such as the atmosphere and the geosphere, and hence iron biogeochemical research has focused on identifying and quantifying such sources of “new” iron. However, the recycling of this new iron fuels up to 90% of the productivity in vast oceanic regions. Evidence points to the key role of microbes
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Protozoa-enhanced conjugation frequency alters the dissemination of soil antibiotic resistance ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Chenshuo Lin, Li-Juan Li, Kai Yang, Jia-Yang Xu, Xiao-Ting Fan, Qing-Lin Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu
Protozoa, as primary predators of soil bacteria, represent an overlooked natural driver in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes. However, the effects of protozoan predation on antibiotic resistance genes dissemination at the community level, along with the underlying mechanisms, remain unclear. Here we used fluorescence-activated cell sorting, qPCR, combined with metagenomics and reverse
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Hotter temperatures alter riparian plant outcomes under regulated river conditions Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Emily C. Palmquist, Kiona Ogle, Bradley J. Butterfield, Thomas G. Whitham, Gerard J. Allan, Patrick B. Shafroth
Climate change and river regulation alter environmental controls on riparian plant occurrence and cover worldwide. Simultaneous changes to river flow and air temperature could result in unanticipated plant responses to novel environmental conditions. Increasing temperature could alter riparian plant response to hydrology and other factors, while river regulation may exacerbate environmental stress
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Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Nathan G. Kiel, Eileen F. Mavencamp, Monica G. Turner
Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery is challenging, and consequences of sparse tree regeneration for plant communities and carbon dynamics are uncertain. We studied previously forested areas where tree regeneration remained sparse 34 years
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Phenological responses to climate change across taxa and local habitats in a high‐Arctic arthropod community Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Hannah Sørine Gerlich, Martin Holmstrup, Niels M. Schmidt, Toke T. Høye
Climate change has led to pronounced shifts in phenology, varying across taxa. The Arctic is experiencing particularly rapid warming, but long‐term data on phenological changes are rare in this region, especially for arthropods—a diverse taxonomic group that form important links to other trophic levels. Understanding the environmental drivers of arthropod phenological variation is necessary for predicting
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Evolutionary divergence between homologous X–Y chromosome genes shapes sex-biased biology Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Alex R. DeCasien, Kathryn Tsai, Siyuan Liu, Adam Thomas, Armin Raznahan
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Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Zaki Saati-Santamaría, Pilar Navarro-Gómez, Juan A Martínez-Mancebo, Maitane Juárez-Mugarza, Amando Flores, Inés Canosa
Genomic reorganisation between species and horizontal gene transfer have been considered the most important mechanism of biological adaptation under selective pressure. Still, the impact of mobile genes in microbial ecology is far from being completely understood. Here we present the collection and characterisation of microbial consortia enriched from environments contaminated with emerging pollutants
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Global microbial community biodiversity increases with antimicrobial toxin abundance of rare taxa ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Ya Liu, Yu Geng, Yiru Jiang, Peng Li, Yue-zhong Li, Zheng Zhang
One of the central questions in microbial ecology is how to explain the high biodiversity of communities. A large number of rare taxa in the community have not been excluded by abundant taxa with competitive advantages, a contradiction known as the biodiversity paradox. Recently, increasing evidence has revealed the central importance of antimicrobial toxins as crucial weapons of antagonism in microbial
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A Non‐Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Etienne Lalechère, Ronan Marrec, Jonathan Lenoir
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The power and pitfalls of amino acid carbon stable isotopes for tracing origin and use of basal resources in food webs Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Kim Vane, Matthew R. D. Cobain, Thomas Larsen
Natural and anthropogenic stressors alter the composition, biomass, and nutritional quality of primary producers and microorganisms, the basal organisms that synthesize the biomolecules essential for metazoan growth and survival (i.e., basal resources). Traditional biomarkers have provided valuable insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of basal resource use, but lack specificity in identifying multiple
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Surfactin facilitates establishment of Bacillus subtilis in synthetic communities ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Carlos N Lozano-Andrade, Caja Dinesen, Mario Wibowo, Nil Arenos Bach, Viktor Hesselberg-Thomsen, Scott A Jarmusch, Mikael Lenz Strube, Ákos T Kovács
Soil bacteria are prolific producers of a myriad of biologically active secondary metabolites. These natural products play key roles in modern society, finding use as anti-cancer agents, as food additives, and as alternatives to chemical pesticides. As for their original role in interbacterial communication, secondary metabolites have been extensively studied under in vitro conditions, revealing many
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Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Ángela Cano, Jake Powell, Anthony S. Aiello, Heidi Lie Andersen, Thomas Arbour, Aleisha Balzer, Dennise Stefan Bauer, Jeremy Bugarchich, Fernando Cano, Maria Paula Contreras, Robert Cubey, Ignacio Czajkowski, Milton H. Diaz-Toribio, Thomas Freeth, Nicolas Freyre, Martin F. Gardner, M. Patrick Griffith, A. Lovisa S. Gustafsson, Mats Havström, Leslie R. Hockley, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Tina Jørgensen
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Empty promises for emissions targets Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Dragon Tang, Jiahang Zhang
Accountability serves as an adhesive that binds commitment to results. Now, a study on corporate carbon emissions targets reveals that firms hold limited accountability to their targets, with little public backlash against missed targets.
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Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Xiaoyan Jiang, Shawn Kim, Shirley Lu
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Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Anna-Maria Virkkala, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer D. Watts, Kyle A. Arndt, Stefano Potter, Isabel Wargowsky, Edward A. G. Schuur, Craig R. See, Marguerite Mauritz, Julia Boike, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Eleanor J. Burke, Arden Burrell, Namyi Chae, Abhishek Chatterjee, Frederic Chevallier, Torben R. Christensen, Roisin Commane, Han Dolman, Colin W. Edgar, Bo Elberling, Craig A. Emmerton, Eugenie S. Euskirchen
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Tolerance to land-use changes through natural modulations of the plant microbiome ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Vincent Zieschank, Anne Muola, Stefan Janssen, Alexander Lach, Robert R Junker
Land-use changes threaten ecosystems and are a major driver of species loss. Plants may adapt or migrate to resist global change, but this can lag behind rapid anthropogenic changes to the environment. Our data show that natural modulations of the microbiome of grassland plants in response to experimental land-use change in a common garden directly affect plant phenotype and performance, thus increasing
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Led astray by 16S rRNA: phylogenomics reaffirms the monophyly of Methylobacterium and lack of support for Methylorubrum as a genus ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Alexander B Alleman, Sergey Stolyar, Christopher J Marx, Jean-Baptiste Leducq
Although the 16S (and 18S) rRNA gene has been an essential tool in classifying prokaryotes, using a single locus to revise bacteria taxonomy can introduce unwanted artifacts. There was a recent proposition to split the Methylobacterium genus, which contains diverse plant-associated strains and is important for agriculture and biotechnology, into two genera. Resting strongly on the phylogeny of 16S
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Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Laura E. Dee
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Correction to “The importance of neutral over niche processes in structuring Ediacaran early animal communities” Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21
Mitchell, E. G., Harris, S., Kenchington, C. G., Vixseboxse, P., Roberts, L., Clark, C., Dennis, A., Liu, A. G., & Wilby, P. R. 2019. “ The importance of neutral over niche processes in structuring Ediacaran early animal communities.” Ecology letters 22: 2028–2038. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13383. In the above published article, the authors have spotted an error in Table 2: the Mean number in the