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Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) 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 13.9) 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 13.9) 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 13.9) 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 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Calum X. Cunningham, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman
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Identifying ecological thresholds from functional traits for optimal ecosystem management Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-06
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Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-06 Nathalie Pettorelli, Kevin J. Gaston, Jos Barlow, Miguel B. Araújo, Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante, Steven L. Chown, Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas, William F. Laurance, Alexander C. Lees, Felipe P. L. Melo, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Gretta Pecl, Isabel Sousa-Pinto
Climate breakdown and unprecedented biodiversity loss put humanity at grave risk, and threaten human lives, livelihoods and well-being globally. Ecologists have been instrumental in revealing and detailing some of the mechanisms that drive biodiversity decline, and regularly call for immediate action1. In response to this, a sense of emergency has entered public discourse, and is heightened with each
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A single-cell atlas of the bobtail squid visual and nervous system highlights molecular principles of convergent evolution Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-06 Daria Gavriouchkina, Yongkai Tan, Elise Parey, Fabienne Ziadi-Künzli, Yuko Hasegawa, Laura Piovani, Lin Zhang, Chikatoshi Sugimoto, Nicholas Luscombe, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Daniel S. Rokhsar
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Climate warming fuels the global antibiotic resistome by altering soil bacterial traits Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Da Lin, Shuai Du, Zhe Zhao, Tianlun Zhang, Lu Wang, Qi Zhang, Shu-Yi-Dan Zhou, David W. Graham, David T. Tissue, Dong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Josep Penuelas, Peter B. Reich
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A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 R. Bernardo-Madrid, M. González-Suárez, M. Rosvall, M. Rueda, E. Revilla, M. Carrete, J. L. Tella, J. Astigarraga, J. Calatayud
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The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Kathrin Nägele, Rebecca Kinaston, Dylan Gaffney, Mary Walworth, Adam B. Rohrlach, Selina Carlhoff, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Emilie Bertolini, Monica Tromp, Rita Radzeviciute, Fiona Petchey, Dimitri Anson, Peter Petchey, Claudine Stirling, Malcolm Reid, David Barr, Ben Shaw, Glenn Summerhayes, Hallie Buckley, Cosimo Posth, Adam Powell, Johannes Krause
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Inductive link prediction facilitates the discovery of missing links and enables cross-community inference in ecological networks Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Barry Biton, Rami Puzis, Shai Pilosof
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Evolutionary basis and ecological function of body colour transition in the orchid mantis Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-03
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Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-03 Orestis Nousias, Mark McCauley, Maximilian R. Stammnitz, Jessica A. Farrell, Samantha A. Koda, Victoria Summers, Catherine B. Eastman, Fiona G. Duffy, Isabelle J. Duffy, Jenny Whilde, David J. Duffy
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Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-06-03 Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Pierre Liancourt, Miguel Berdugo, Eric Allan, Raphael Martin, Caterina Penone, Hugo Saiz, Santiago Soliveres, Nicolas Gross
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The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-30 Xiao-Jin Pei, Dong Zhao, Jie Luo, Pei-Yao Jia, Yuan Luo, Dong-Wei Yuan, Wen-Xin Hou, Zhan-Feng Zhang, Dan-Yan Huang, Jia-Xin Ni, Hui-Ze Gao, Zhanqi Chen, Yun-Xia Luan, Xue-Xin Chen, Wei Zhang, Sheng Li
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Author Correction: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-29 Clelia Mulà, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Federica Manca, Simone Montano, Giovanni Strona
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02667-x, published online 8 April 2025.
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Snail venom glands Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-29 Vaishali Bhaumik
Several animals have evolved venom glands that produce toxins for use in predation and defence. Writing in Molecular Biology and Evolution, Zancolli and colleagues used a comparative transcriptomics approach to investigate the genetic mechanisms that underlie the evolution of venom glands in marine carnivorous snails. The digestive system of this clade is characterized by mid-oesophageal glands that
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Savanna interactions Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-29 Walter Andriuzzi
Mammalian herbivores, drought and invertebrate ecosystem engineers are among the main drivers of vegetation dynamics in grasslands and savannas. Although their individual effects are relatively well understood, and some studies have probed their pairwise interactions, it is unclear how all three might combine in real-world conditions. Writing in Journal of Ecology, Wells et al. address this gap using
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Extant echidnas Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Marian Turner
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was named as a new species in 1998. It is one of three extant long-beaked echidna species and one of only five extant species of monotreme. But the description was based on a holotype collected in the Cyclops Mountains of New Guinea in 1961, and there has been no scientific documentation of the species since that time. However, Indigenous
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US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Jean-Pierre Gattuso, François Houllier, Janine Adams, Diva Amon, Tamatoa Bambridge, William Cheung, Sanae Chiba, Jorge Cortés, Carlos M. Duarte, Thomas Frölicher, Stefan Gelcich, Kristina Gjerde, Deborah Greaves, Peter M. Haugan, Daoji Li, Arthur Tuda
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Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Catherine Sheard
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Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Jeremy M. Cohen, Walter Jetz
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Precision ecology for targeted conservation action Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Rebecca Spake, Eleanor E. Jackson, James M. Bullock, Emma Gardner, Elizabeth Tipton, Matthew J. Grainger, C. Patrick Doncaster
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Predicting invasion costs from sparse data Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-26 Lars J. Olson
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Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-26 Ismael Soto, Pierre Courtois, Arman Pili, Enrico Tordoni, Eléna Manfrini, Elena Angulo, Céline Bellard, Elizabeta Briski, Miloš Buřič, Ross N. Cuthbert, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Rafael L. Macêdo, Boris Leroy, Phillip J. Haubrock, Franck Courchamp, Brian Leung
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Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Stephen Pringle, Martin Dallimer, Mark A. Goddard, Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart, Simon J. Langdale, Jessica C. Fisher, Sara-Adela Abad, Marc Ancrenaz, Fabio Angeoletto, Fernando Auat Cheein, Gail E. Austen, Joseph J. Bailey, Katherine C. R. Baldock, Lindsay F. Banin, Cristina Banks-Leite, Aliyu S. Barau, Reshu Bashyal, Adam J. Bates, Jake E. Bicknell, Jon Bielby, Petra Bosilj, Emma R. Bush, Simon J.
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Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus) Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Eduardo Eizirik
Eduardo Eizirik works to understand a cat complex.
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Young regrowth forests are worth saving Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Robin L. Chazdon
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The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Christopher G. Bousfield, David P. Edwards
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Long-distance seasonal migration to the tropics promotes genetic diversity but not gene flow in boreal birds Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 T. M. Pegan, A. A. Kimmitt, B. W. Benz, B. C. Weeks, Y. Aubry, T. M. Burg, J. Hudon, A. W. Jones, J. J. Kirchman, K. C. Ruegg, B. M. Winger
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Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-19 V. F. Bondaruk, C. Xu, P. Wilfahrt, L. Yahdjian, Q. Yu, E. T. Borer, A. Jentsch, E. W. Seabloom, M. D. Smith, J. Alberti, G. R. Oñatibia, H. Dieguez, M. Carbognani, A. Kübert, S. A. Power, N. Eisenhauer, F. Isbell, H. Auge, M. H. Chandregowda, A. C. Churchill, P. Daleo, T. Forte, A. C. Greenville, S. E. Koerner, T. Ohlert, P. Peri, A. Petraglia, D. Salesa, M. Tedder, A. Valdecantos, E. Verhoeven, G
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Fences benefit neighbours Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Marian Turner
The Ruaha-Rungwa landscape of southern Tanzania contains one of the world’s largest populations of lions, as well as leopards, hyenas and other carnivores. Many local people also graze their livestock in the area, and predation on livestock by wildlife causes livelihood losses and conflicts that can undermine conservation efforts. Over recent years, some households have started to contain livestock
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Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Zachary D. Blount
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Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Alexandre Rêgo, Julian Baur, Camille Girard-Tercieux, Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera, Rike Stelkens, David Berger
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Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Pablo Sanchez-Martinez, Lion R. Martius, Paulo Bittencourt, Mateus Silva, Oliver Binks, Ingrid Coughlin, Vanessa Negrão-Rodrigues, João Athaydes Silva, Antonio Carlos Lola Da Costa, Rachel Selman, Sami Rifai, Lucy Rowland, Maurizio Mencuccini, Patrick Meir
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Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-13 Pengfei Zhang, Eric W. Seabloom, Jasmine Foo, Andrew S. MacDougall, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Adler, Yann Hautier, Nico Eisenhauer, Marie Spohn, Jonathan D. Bakker, Ylva Lekberg, Alyssa L. Young, Clinton Carbutt, Anita C. Risch, Pablo L. Peri, Nicholas G. Smith, Carly J. Stevens, Suzanne M. Prober, Johannes M. H. Knops, Glenda M. Wardle, Christopher R. Dickman, Anne Ebeling, Christiane Roscher,
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The many flavours of ecology Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-12
Ecologists investigate a vast range of questions, scales and organisms, which makes their methods correspondingly varied. Each approach has value, and we should celebrate the variety of this scientific field.
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Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Hong Cao, Liang Zhang, Jörn Gessner, Leonardo Congiu, Xin Gao, Boyd Kynard, Qiwei Wei, Ping Xie
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The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Charles H. Cannon
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Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Yuta Kobayashi, Munemitsu Akasaka
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Forest recovery time following large-scale fires is increasing Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-07
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Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Philip A. Downing, Erik I. Svensson
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Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001 Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-06 Qiancheng Lv, Ziyue Chen, Chaoyang Wu, Josep Peñuelas, Lei Fan, Yongxian Su, Zeyu Yang, Manchun Li, Bingbo Gao, Jianqiang Hu, Chaoqun Zhang, Yuheng Fu, Qiao Wang
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02683-x, published online 22 April 2025.
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Balancing restoration targets and production demands in the EU Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-01
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Geography and availability of natural habitat determine whether cropland intensification or expansion is more detrimental to biodiversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Silvia Ceaușu, David Leclère, Tim Newbold
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Simulated early Earth geochemistry fuels a hydrogen-dependent primordial metabolism Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-30 Vanessa Helmbrecht, Robert Reichelt, Dina Grohmann, William D. Orsi
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Human land use and non-native fish species erode ecosystem services by changing community size structure Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-29 Dieison A. Moi, Victor S. Saito, Bárbara A. Quirino, Diego C. Alves, Angelo A. Agostinho, Marcelo H. Schmitz, Claudia C. Bonecker, Margenny Barrios, Pavel Kratina, Daniel M. Perkins, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Bruno R. S. Figueiredo, Roger P. Mormul, Edson K. Okada, Gustavo Q. Romero
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Advocacy for disability in STEM Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Vaishali Bhaumik, Alyssa Paparella
DisabledInSTEM is a platform that offers support, mentorship opportunities and shared resources for persons who are navigating science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields with disabilities. We talked to Alyssa Paparella, a PhD candidate at the Baylor College of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2023 Gilliam Fellow, and founder of DisabledInSTEM, about her background and experiences
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Repeated evolution of a complex behaviour Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Natasha I. Bloch
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Plastic pollution has the potential to alter ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic ecosystems Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Jacob Haney, Chelsea M. Rochman
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Meeting European Union biodiversity targets under future land-use demands Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Melissa Chapman, Martin Jung, David Leclère, Carl Boettiger, Andrey L. D. Augustynczik, Mykola Gusti, Leopold Ringwald, Piero Visconti
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Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression in cavity-nesting songbirds Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Sara E. Lipshutz, Mark S. Hibbins, Alexandra B. Bentz, Aaron M. Buechlein, Tara A. Empson, Elizabeth M. George, Mark E. Hauber, Douglas B. Rusch, Wendy M. Schelsky, Quinn K. Thomas, Samuel J. Torneo, Abbigail M. Turner, Sarah E. Wolf, Mary J. Woodruff, Matthew W. Hahn, Kimberly A. Rosvall
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Widespread lack of article accessibility policies among ecology and evolution journals Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Olivia M. Smith, Brooke E. Jeffery, Wendy Leuenberger, Caitlin M. Mack, Gina Pizzo, Bobicheng Zhang, Courtney L. Davis
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Bat signals Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Simon Harold
Cave-dwelling bat species rely on echolocation to perceive their environment, but also experience high levels of acoustic interference from conspecific calls when flying at the same time (especially when emerging from the cave). Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Goldshtein et al. explore how greater mouse-tailed bats (Rhinopoma microphyllum) cope with acoustic sensory
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Disease-resistant sweet oranges Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Vaishali Bhaumik
Long-term selective breeding of crops can result in reduced genetic diversity and high sensitivity to pathogenic diseases. The de novo domestication of the wild relatives of such crops can facilitate the identification and breeding of disease-resistant variants, but this requires knowledge of the evolutionary origins of crop cultivars and specific metabolites or genomic regions that confer disease
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Coastal restoration policy needs to consider seaweed diversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Guang Gao, Gang Li, Juntian Xu, Yuan Feng, Jason M. Hall-Spencer
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Spillovers and legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Andrew D. M. Dobson, Tom Finch, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Nick Hanley, Jason Matthiopoulos, Mary Nthambi, Katherine Simpson, Kevin Watts, Robin C. Whytock, Kirsty J. Park
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Global breeding programme benefits wild panda conservation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2025-04-22 Hongbo Yang, Qiongyu Huang, Ruishan Chen, Weihua Xu, Desheng Li, Xiao Yan, Liangyu Liu, Annah Lake Zhu