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Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-18 Daniela E. Winkler, Emanuel Tschopp, André Saleiro, Ria Wiesinger, Thomas M. Kaiser
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Author Correction: African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-17 Michael A. Pardo, Kurt Fristrup, David S. Lolchuragi, Joyce H. Poole, Petter Granli, Cynthia Moss, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, George Wittemyer
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The Amazon’s new oil frontier is a biodiversity bomb in the making Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-17 Julia Paletta, Camila Callegari, Ana Carolina Oliveira Fiorini, Filipe Gomes Dias, Adirson Freitas Junior, Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros
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Evolving a bat wing by reusing an existing gene program Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-16
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The next generation of colour pattern genomics Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-16 Nidal Karagic, Claudius F. Kratochwil
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Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-16 Magdalena Schindler, Christian Feregrino, Silvia Aldrovandi, Bai-Wei Lo, Anna A. Monaco, Alessa R. Ringel, Ariadna E. Morales, Tobias Zehnder, Rose Yinghan Behncke, Juliane Glaser, Alexander Barclay, Guillaume Andrey, Bjørt K. Kragesteen, René Hägerling, Stefan A. Haas, Martin Vingron, Igor Ulitsky, Marc A. Marti-Renom, Julio Hechavarria, Nicolas Fasel, Michael Hiller, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Stefan Mundlos
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Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-14 J. Jacob Parnell, Peter de Ruiter, Carlos Guerra, Luca Montanarella, Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio, Talita Ferreira, Maria Elizabeth F. Correia, Cintia C. Niva, Ederson C. Jesus, Maria Inês L. Oliveira, Luiz Fernando S. Antunes, Lucília M. Parron, Marcia R. Coelho, Guilherme M. Chaer, Juaci V. Malaquias, Ozanival Dario D. Silva, Ieda C. Mendes, Zoë Lindo, Jeff Battigelli, Gian Luca Bagnara, Rosalina González
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Gene regulatory networks and essential transcription factors for de novo-originated genes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-14 Junhui Peng, Bing-Jun Wang, Nicolas Svetec, Li Zhao
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The role of plasmid copy number and mutation rate in evolutionary outcomes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-14 Alexander ‘Olek’ Pisera, Chang C. Liu
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Methane fuel for sea spiders Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-11 Walter Andriuzzi
Deep-sea exploration has revealed the existence of ecosystems that are not powered by photosynthesis. For example, microorganisms that are able to metabolize hydrocarbons emitted from methane seeps form the basis of food webs that can comprise hundreds of animal species. Now, a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA shows that some sea spiders (from the class Pycnogonida)
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Partitioning how biodiversity brings stability Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-11 Frank Pennekamp
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Water-use efficiency driven by water savings Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-11 Jürgen Knauer
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Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-11 Bo Meng, Mingyu Luo, Michel Loreau, Pubin Hong, Dylan Craven, Nico Eisenhauer, Forest Isbell, Maowei Liang, Daniel Reuman, Brian Wilsey, Jasper van Ruijven, Lei Zhao, Shaopeng Wang
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Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO2-enhanced water-use efficiency Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-11 Weiwei Zhan, Xu Lian, Jiangong Liu, Jisu Han, Yu Huang, Hao Yang, Chunhui Zhan, Alexander J. Winkler, Pierre Gentine
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Bates’ many contributions Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-09
Henry Walter Bates gave the first known scientific account of mimicry in biological systems. To mark the bicentenary of his birth, we present a collection of content that reflects on his life and legacy.
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Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-09 Teeratas Kijpornyongpan, Eugene Kuatsjah, Evan Komp, James E. Evans, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Dueñas, Davinia Salvachúa
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Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-09 Panu Somervuo, Tomas Roslin, Brian L. Fisher, Bess Hardwick, Deirdre Kerdraon, Dimby Raharinjanahary, Eric Tsiriniaina Rajoelison, Patrik Lauha, Lukas Griem, Petteri Lehikoinen, Pekka Niittynen, Esko Piirainen, Markus Lumme, Ville-Matti Riihikoski, Orlando Acevedo-Charry, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Maaz Ahmad, Sandra Alcobia, Jón Aldará, Nigel R. Andrew, Sten Anslan, Alexandre Antonelli, Julieta Soledad
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Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-08 Thomas Brazier, Claire Mérot
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Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-08 Paul Battlay, Brandon T. Hendrickson, Jonas I. Mendez-Reneau, James S. Santangelo, Lucas J. Albano, Jonathan Wilson, Aude E. Caizergues, Nevada King, Adriana Puentes, Amelia Tudoran, Cyrille Violle, Francois Vasseur, Courtney M. Patterson, Michael Foster, Caitlyn Stamps, Simon G. Innes, Rémi Allio, Fabio Angeoletto, Daniel N. Anstett, Julia Anstett, Anna Bucharova, Mattheau S. Comerford, Santiago David
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Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-08 Yongxian Su, Chaoqun Zhang, Alessandro Cescatti, Kailiang Yu, Philippe Ciais, Taylor Smith, Jiali Shang, Jofre Carnicer, Jane Liu, Jing Ming Chen, Julia K. Green, Jianping Wu, Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos, Yongguang Zhang, Zhiyan Zuo, Jinbao Liao, Jianping Wu, Raffaele Lafortezza, Kai Yan, Xueqin Yang, Liyang Liu, Jiashun Ren, Wenping Yuan, Xiuzhi Chen, Chaoyang Wu, Weiqi Zhou
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The length of time series affects patterns of species synchrony Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-04
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Functional replacement of ancestral antibacterial secretion system in a bacterial plant pathogen Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-04 Chloé Peduzzi, Jules Butchacas, François Nikis, Nathaniel Heiden, Marcus V. Merfa, Manon Martin, Veronica Roman-Reyna, Jonathan M. Jacobs, Ralf Koebnik, Claude Bragard
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Leprosy in the Americas before Columbus Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-03 Charlotte A. Roberts
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Palaeolithic people returned north earlier than expected Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-03
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Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-02 I. P. Matthews, A. P. Palmer, I. Candy, C. Francis, A. M. Abrook, P. C. Lincoln, S. P. E. Blockley, S. Engels, A. MacLeod, R. A. Staff, W. Z. Hoek, J. Burton
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Stepwise evolution of placental cell types Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Eulalie Liorzou, Camille Berthelot
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Short time series obscure compensatory dynamics in ecological communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Mingyu Luo, Lauren M. Hallett, Daniel C. Reuman, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Lei Zhao, Lin Jiang, Michel Loreau, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Shaopeng Wang
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More realistic plankton simulation models will improve projections of ocean ecosystem responses to global change Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Kevin J. Flynn, Angus Atkinson, John Beardall, John A. Berges, Maarten Boersma, Christophe Brunet, Albert Calbet, Dave A. Caron, Hans G. Dam, Patricia M. Glibert, Per Juel Hansen, Peng Jin, Christian Lønborg, Daniel J. Mayor, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Thomas Mock, Margaret R. Mulholland, David M. Needham, Luca Polimene, Alex J. Poulton, Carol Robinson, Sebastian D. Rokitta, Björn Rost, Enric Saiz, David
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Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Daniel J. Stadtmauer, Silvia Basanta, Jamie D. Maziarz, Alison G. Cole, Gülay Dagdas, Gilbecca Rae Smith, Frank van Breukelen, Mihaela Pavličev, Günter P. Wagner
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Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Wouter van der Bijl, Jacelyn J. Shu, Versara S. Goberdhan, Linley M. Sherin, Changfu Jia, Maria Cortazar-Chinarro, Alberto Corral-Lopez, Judith E. Mank
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The past and future of mimicry research Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-30 Gabriel A. Jamie, Anastasia H. Dalziell, Justin A. Welbergen, Eunice J. Tan, Cole Maguire, Esther Melamed
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4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-30 Darío A. Ramirez, T. Lesley Sitter, Sanni Översti, María José Herrera-Soto, Nicolás Pastor, Oscar Eduardo Fontana-Silva, Casey L. Kirkpatrick, José Castelleti-Dellepiane, Rodrigo Nores, Kirsten I. Bos
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A control theory framework and in situ experimental platform for informing restoration of coral reefs Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-30 Jason L. Baer, Aaron C. Hartmann, Forest Rohwer
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Stinky flowers Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-27 Vaishali Bhaumik
Asarum fudsinoi is one of several plant species whose flowers have a distinctive foul odour, reminiscent of decaying flesh, that attracts pollinators specialized to oviposit on decomposing materials. Writing in Science, Okuyama and colleagues explored the genetic and physiological mechanisms that enable plants to exhibit this form of floral mimicry. The volatile blends emitted by Asarum flowers are
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Ancient wasp-mimicking hoverfly Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-27 Vaishali Bhaumik
Hoverfly species in the genus Spilomyia are Batesian mimics that have evolved morphological and behavioural similarities with noxious wasps as an anti-predator defence. Although similar instances of mimicry are widespread across extant animal taxa, the fossil record of accurate mimetic forms is extremely sparse. Writing in Current Biology, Daňková and colleagues report wasp mimicry in Spilomyia kvaceki
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Early Japanese people were full of beans Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-25 Luíseach Nic Eoin
Adzuki beans (Vigna angularis) are both culturally and dietarily important in eastern Asia, but their domestication history is debated: central Chinese cultigens contain the highest level of cultigen genetic diversity (suggestive of a local domestication origin), but archaeological evidence shows the earliest evidence of cultivation in Japan, possibly even earlier than the advent of widespread agriculture
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A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-25 Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Liming Cai, Peter J. Flynn, Yujing Yan, Xiaoshan Duan, Lucas C. Marinho, Christiane Anderson, Charles C. Davis
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Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-24 Louise Mair
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Indirect reciprocal facilitation promotes species coexistence in plant communities worldwide Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-24 Rafael Molina-Venegas, Miguel Verdú, Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Julio M. Alcántara, José L. Garrido, Ezequiel Antorán, Joaquín Calatayud
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Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-24 Kerry Stewart, Chris Venditti, Carlos P. Carmona, Joanna Baker, Chris Clements, Joseph A. Tobias, Manuela González-Suárez
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Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-24 J. C. Fisher, M. Dallimer, G. E. Austen, K. N. Irvine, S. G. Aizlewood, P. M. King, H. A. Jackson, R. D. Fish, Z. G. Davies
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Museums in the age of extinction Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-23 Claire Browning
Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History MuseumsEdited by: Jack AshbyALLEN LANE: 2025, 336 pp. £25For most of us, natural history museums evoke a sense of wonder, and perhaps a touch of childhood nostalgia, sparked by the impressive and strange creatures on display. Yet, beyond the exhibitions, museums are multifaceted public spaces: part scientific research centre, part tourist
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Tree shapes Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Walter Andriuzzi
Trees can vary dramatically in size and shape. For instance, isolated oaks growing in a light-exposed clearing tend to be shorter and have a wider crown than similarly aged oaks in a closed forest canopy. Writing in Nature Communications, Jucker and colleagues investigated global variation in tree architecture and revealed a few generalizations to make sense of the great variety of tree shapes. Using
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Food trade wars have hidden biodiversity costs Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Huijie Li, Bingcheng Si, Solmaz Fathololoumi, Tegbaru Gobezie, Hiteshkumar Vasava, Ekene Mark-Anthony Iheshiulo, Daniel Saurette, Henry Wai Chau, Rene Van Acker, Asim Biswas
The escalating trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies now menaces ecological systems far beyond the price charts that dominate front pages. At the time of writing, Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs on US agricultural products had peaked at 125% and Washington’s counter surge had reached 145%, before a 12 May 2025 accord trimmed the levies to 10% and 30%, respectively, for a 90-day review
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Wheat’s powdery spots Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Vera Domingues
European wheat crops are affected by powdery mildew, a major disease that is caused by the ascomycete fungus Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici (Bgt). We have lacked good understanding of the population biology of Bgt, but writing in PLoS Biology, Jigisha et al. have now analysed newly sequenced genomes of 276 Bgt strains collected in 2022 and 2023 from over 90 locations that span Europe and
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Brachiopods and forams reduced calcification costs through morphological simplification during mass extinction events Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Fengyu Wang, Seth Finnegan, Jacopo Dal Corso, Facheng Ye, Yuyang Wu, Jing Chen, Shouyi Jiang, Li Tian, Xu Dai, Daoliang Chu, Huyue Song, Jinnan Tong, Haijun Song
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Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Xiangzhong Luo, Ruiying Zhao, Housen Chu, Alessio Collalti, Simone Fatichi, Trevor F. Keenan, Xinchen Lu, Ngoc Nguyen, I. Colin Prentice, Wu Sun, Kailiang Yu, Liyao Yu
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An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Lisandra Benítez-Álvarez, Gemma I. Martínez-Redondo, Lucía Álvarez-González, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Klara Eleftheriadi, Nuria Escudero, Nadège Guiglielmoni, Jean-François Flot, Marta Novo, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Aoife McLysaght, Rosa Fernández
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Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Davide Foffa, Emma M. Dunne, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Brenen M. Wynd, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt, Paul J. Valdes, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Ben T. Kligman, Adam D. Marsh, William G. Parker, Richard J. Butler, Nicholas C. Fraser, Stephen L. Brusatte, Paul M. Barrett
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Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Yu-Rong Liu, Shuhai Wen, Brajesh K. Singh, Wen Zhang, Zhongwen Liu, Xiuli Hao, Yun-Yun Hao, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Wenfeng Tan, Qiaoyun Huang, Matthias C. Rillig, Yong-Guan Zhu
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Fossil evidence of proboscidean frugivory and its lasting impact on South American ecosystems Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Erwin González-Guarda, Andrea P. Loayza, Ricardo A. Segovia, Florent Rivals, Alia Petermann-Pichincura, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Lidiane Asevedo, Carlos Tornero, Rafael Labarca, Claudio Latorre
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Three-and-a-half million years of Tibetan Plateau vegetation dynamics in response to climate change Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Yan Zhao, Feng Qin, Qiaoyu Cui, Quan Li, Yifan Cui, H. John B. Birks, Chen Liang, Wenwei Zhao, Huan Li, Weihe Ren, Chenglong Deng, Junyi Ge, Yanfen Kong, Yaoliang Liu, Zhiyong Zhang, Jiawu Zhang, Maotang Cai, Haicheng Wei, Hongyi Qiu, Haitao Xu, Hanfei Yang, Chunzhu Chen, Shilong Piao, Zhengtang Guo
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Pangolin hunting in southeast Nigeria is motivated more by local meat consumption than international demand for scales Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Charles A. Emogor, Samuel K. Wasser, Lauren Coad, Ben Balmford, Daniel J. Ingram, Amayaa Wijesinghe, Benedict A. Atsu, Frederick Bassey, Dominic S. Ogu, Ngozi Okafor, Andrew Balmford
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Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, Armin Elsler, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt, Michael J. Benton
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Accessibility for all Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-10
Scientists with disabilities face many barriers and challenges related to accessibility during their careers. We can all do more to help make science more accessible — and this is especially true for journals.
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Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 F. Affinito, S. H. M. Butchart, E. Nicholson, T. Hirsch, J. M. Williams, J. E. Campbell, M. F. Ferrari, M. Gabay, L. Gorini, B. Kalamujic Stroil, R. Kohsaka, B. Painter, J. C. Pinto, A. H. Scholz, T. R. A. Straza, N. Tshidada, S. Vallecillo, S. Widdicombe, A. Gonzalez
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Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Simon Josua Schütze, Víctor Resco de Dios
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Reply to: Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 14.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Calum X. Cunningham, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman