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Bridging ecological assembly process and community stability upon bacterial invasions ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Xipeng Liu, Joana Falcão Salles
Understanding the link between microbial community stability and assembly processes is crucial in microbial ecology. Here, we investigated whether the impact of biotic disturbances would depend on the processes controlling community assembly. For that, we performed an experiment using soil microcosms in which microbial communities assembled through different processes were invaded by Escherichia coli
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Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Sarah Shah, Katherine E Dougan, Yibi Chen, Rosalyn Lo, Gemma Laird, Michael D A Fortuin, Subash K Rai, Valentine Murigneux, Anthony J Bellantuono, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty, Debashish Bhattacharya, Cheong Xin Chan
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae are taxonomically diverse, predominantly symbiotic lineages that are well-known for their association with corals. The ancestor of these taxa is believed to have been free-living. The establishment of symbiosis (i.e., symbiogenesis) is hypothesised to have occurred multiple times during Symbiodiniaceae evolution, but its impact on genome evolution of these
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Extreme weather threatens informal settlements Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Lauren Broyles
Residents of informal settlements suffer from extreme weather due to their precarious living environment. Now, findings show that extreme weather event thresholds do not fully capture the negative impacts experienced by women in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Industrial policy, populism and the political economy of climate action Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 David M. Driesen, Michael A. Mehling, David Popp
Recent policy progress in the United States shows how populism can help advance climate goals, but at a steep cost. Avoiding setbacks will require curbing protectionist reflexes and harnessing opportunities for global cooperation.
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Extreme weather should be defined according to impacts on climate-vulnerable communities Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Samantha C. Winter, Mark R. Winter, LaNae Plaxico, Anna K. Balakrishnan, Millicent Dzombo, Loni Philip Tabb, Ebuka Ukoh, Chloe Lincoln, Lena Moraa Obara, Stephanie Achieng Otieno, Richard Muita, Susan S. Witte
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Phylogenetic distribution and experimental characterization of corrinoid production and dependence in soil bacterial isolates ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Zoila I Alvarez-Aponte, Alekhya M Govindaraju, Zachary F Hallberg, Alexa M Nicolas, Myka A Green, Kenny C Mok, Citlali Fonseca-Garcia, Devin Coleman-Derr, Eoin L Brodie, Hans K Carlson, Michiko E Taga
Soil microbial communities impact carbon sequestration and release, biogeochemical cycling, and agricultural yields. These global effects rely on metabolic interactions that modulate community composition and function. However, the physicochemical and taxonomic complexity of soil and the scarcity of available isolates for phenotypic testing are significant barriers to studying soil microbial interactions
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Secondary messenger signalling influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to sinus and lung environments ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Dilem Ruhluel, Lewis Fisher, Thomas E Barton, Hollie Leighton, Sumit Kumar, Paula Amores Morillo, Siobhan O’Brien, Joanne L Fothergill, Daniel R Neill
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a cause of chronic respiratory tract infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), non-CF bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Prolonged infection allows accumulation of mutations and horizontal gene transfer, increasing the likelihood of adaptive phenotypic traits. Adaptation is proposed to arise first in bacterial populations colonising upper airway
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Ecological relevance of flagellar motility in soil bacterial communities ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Josep Ramoneda, Kunkun Fan, Jane M Lucas, Haiyan Chu, Andrew Bissett, Michael S Strickland, Noah Fierer
Flagellar motility is a key bacterial trait as it allows bacteria to navigate their immediate surroundings. Not all bacteria are capable of flagellar motility, and the distribution of this trait, its ecological associations, and the life history strategies of flagellated taxa remain poorly characterized. We developed and validated a genome-based approach to infer the potential for flagellar motility
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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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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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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
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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
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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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‘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
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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