Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1002/brv.70135
Jonathan M Waters, Christopher P Burridge, David Craw, James S Albert
{"title":"Geological processes shaping freshwater biodiversity: a synthesis of global evidence.","authors":"Jonathan M Waters, Christopher P Burridge, David Craw, James S Albert","doi":"10.1002/brv.70135","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent genomic data highlight the key roles of geological processes in shaping the diversification and biogeography of freshwater lineages. Specifically, physical processes such as tectonic uplift, erosion, glaciation, lake formation, and sea-level fluctuation contribute extensively to the evolution of biotic diversity within and among drainages. River capture events can simultaneously isolate and merge lineages, with isolation potentially leading to speciation, and secondary contact enhancing alpha diversity within merged river reaches. The increased speciation rates of newly isolated lineages may be countered by their reduced population sizes and increased extinction risks. Knowledge of drainage history is essential for explaining freshwater biodiversity patterns, and also for understanding the drivers and temporal scales of biological evolution. Future interdisciplinary genomic and geological analyses are needed to understand and conserve freshwater biodiversity in a fast-changing world.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1568-1581"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149781/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146111793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1002/brv.70133
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S Killen
{"title":"The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep-wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology.","authors":"Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S Killen","doi":"10.1002/brv.70133","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned across sleep and wakefulness and are not continuously active. We argue that instead of representing a singular metabolic state, SMR is better defined as a shifting metabolic mosaic where maintenance functions are distributed unevenly across different sleep-wake states, including metabolically and functionally distinct phases such as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. SMR measured during wakefulness will mainly represent ion regulation, thermoregulation, sensory processing, and substrate cycling. Meanwhile, SMR measured during sleep primarily includes processes upregulated during sleep, including protein synthesis, cellular repair, immunity, and synaptic plasticity. Our models demonstrate that SMR values measured exclusively during wake or sleep consistently over- or underestimate daily maintenance costs depending on the time spent in specific sleep states and when SMR was measured. In addition, treatment or environmental effects on the costs of specific processes may be entirely missed if metabolic measures occur during an inappropriate sleep-wake state. The temporal partitioning of maintenance processes suggests that traditional and current approaches to SMR measurement may confound true metabolic variation with individual and species-specific differences in sleep architecture, with implications for the estimation of energy budgets, trait heritability, environmental effects on metabolic rate, and metabolic scaling relationships. We propose redefining organismal maintenance costs as a time-integrated profile of metabolic demands, but also suggest that state-specific SMR measurements are appropriate if the sleep-wake measurement period aligns with that of the behavioural, physiological, or ecological context of interest. Moving beyond the fiction of a constant maintenance baseline would provide more refined insights into the bioenergetic foundations of ecological performance and evolutionary constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1491-1510"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149784/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146027914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1002/brv.70119
Cyril Hammoud, Juan Antonio Balbuena, Isabel Blasco-Costa, Katie O'Dwyer, Rachel A Paterson, Tomáš Scholz, Christian Selbach, Bernd Sures, David W Thieltges
{"title":"Long-term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns.","authors":"Cyril Hammoud, Juan Antonio Balbuena, Isabel Blasco-Costa, Katie O'Dwyer, Rachel A Paterson, Tomáš Scholz, Christian Selbach, Bernd Sures, David W Thieltges","doi":"10.1002/brv.70119","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parasites exist in every ecosystem, affecting nearly all organisms and playing a complex role in human societies. On the one hand, they contribute substantially to biodiversity and support ecosystem stability by performing essential ecological functions. On the other, they can impose health burdens on their hosts, causing diseases in both animals and humans. Despite their significance, our understanding of how parasitic organisms are affected by human-driven environmental change remains poor. In other well-studied groups such as free-living birds, mammals and insects, long-term ecological data sets have been instrumental in elucidating temporal trends in abundance or diversity and linking them to anthropogenic drivers. For parasites however, overarching long-term trends in infection levels or diversity have yet to be identified. Here we provide an overview of the research approaches developed to study long-term changes in parasite systems and the trends highlighted by these studies. Our aims were to help researchers make informed methodological decisions when designing their research, and to provide recommendations for future long-term research on parasite ecology. To this end, we performed a systematic literature search on long-term analyses of eukaryotic parasites of wild animals and identified four types of approaches deployed to gather long-term data: (i) long-term monitoring; (ii) snapshot resampling; (iii) literature-based research; and (iv) natural history collection-based studies. Our results revealed striking differences in the temporal scope, geographical scale of sampling, sample sizes and taxonomic resolution of parasite identification among these approaches. However, no overarching trends in parasite infection levels or diversity were identified. When detected, significant temporal changes were often linked to anthropogenic disturbances, but these claims were rarely supported by inferential analyses. Overall, our results show that our understanding of long-term trends in parasite systems remains hampered by data scarcity and research biases. To address these issues, we advocate for the establishment of large-scale parasite monitoring programmes combined with existing ecological monitoring projects, as well as the development of new scalable biomonitoring tools. We also highlight the importance of valorising historical data and preserved biological material in museum collections to obtain baseline information on parasite systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1120-1142"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145792639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1002/brv.70115
Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang
{"title":"Continual decision-making dynamics across biological organisms.","authors":"Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang","doi":"10.1002/brv.70115","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decision-making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision-making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the comparative scope of decision-making analyses to phylogenetically diverse organisms. To do so, we introduce the Continual Decision Making Dynamics (CDMD) framework, which characterises decision-making as a temporally extended, history-sensitive process that is sustained by self-organising and self-regulating interactions. Drawing on empirical examples, we demonstrate how CDMD can accommodate the organisation of control architectures that support more distributed and decentralised modes of decision-making, and facilitate a comparative approach to decision-making strategies across phylogenetic and organisational scales. We discuss how our model can be situated among other related approaches to decision-making, capturing a distinctive subset of decision strategies that can be modelled in the absence of explicit representational structures. Our framework contributes to integrative approaches that bridge biological complexity and cognitive modelling, and highlights how regulatory control and organisational constraints shape decision-making dynamics across a broader range of biological systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1059-1072"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145831846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ankita Gumaste, Maggie M Oumov, Samuel Sutton, Michael Schmuker, Volker Steuber, Justus V Verhagen
{"title":"Mammalian odour-guided navigation behaviour and neural processing in relation to the odour environment.","authors":"Ankita Gumaste, Maggie M Oumov, Samuel Sutton, Michael Schmuker, Volker Steuber, Justus V Verhagen","doi":"10.1002/brv.70189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animal survival in the wild is largely dependent on their ability to locate food sources, find mates, and avoid predators - tasks which are all heavily reliant on their sense of smell. However, to be adept at these behaviours, animals must navigate a complex odour landscape where odour can be released in many forms, including odour trails and airborne odour plumes. Odour plumes result when an odour is carried by ambient wind, where its structure changes with distance from the odour source, providing potential navigational cues to searching animals. Odour plumes adopt a variety of structures depending on the odour landscape, such as pulled odour filaments that are interleaved with pockets of air in a turbulent environment. Due to advancements in fluid dynamics technology allowing for the detailed measurement of airborne odour plumes, recent studies have begun to explore how odour plume properties affect olfactory search behaviour in mammals. For example, our own studies have demonstrated that intermittency is an odour plume property that can inform olfactory search, is encoded in early stages of olfactory processing within the olfactory bulb, and is subject to changes in representation based on active sampling strategies. This review summarizes how mammalian odour-based navigation depends on and can be guided by odour plume properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148136094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1002/brv.70128
Sara Aghakhani Chegeni, Somayyeh Rashidi, Golbarg Roozbahani, Zahra Abbasi-Malati, Parisa Khanicheragh, Matin Arab Jahvani, Cigir Biray Avci, Reza Rahbarghazi, Aysa Rezabakhsh, Ali Mota
{"title":"Role of autophagy response on angiogenesis activity of endothelial progenitor cells.","authors":"Sara Aghakhani Chegeni, Somayyeh Rashidi, Golbarg Roozbahani, Zahra Abbasi-Malati, Parisa Khanicheragh, Matin Arab Jahvani, Cigir Biray Avci, Reza Rahbarghazi, Aysa Rezabakhsh, Ali Mota","doi":"10.1002/brv.70128","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endothelial cells (ECs) and endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are key cells in the formation of nascent vascular units. These cells, in collaboration with other cell types, support the formation of blood vessels and supply essential components to target ischemic sites. EPCs can exit the bone medullary cavity and enter the circulation to reach the injured tissues, where they commit to becoming functionally mature ECs. Like other cell lineages, several signalling factors can dictate specific behaviour in EPCs after exposure to different biological conditions. Among these signalling pathways, the autophagy machinery is a focus of attention because of its diverse biological effects in different cell lineages. Autophagy, an early-stage cell mechanism, is activated in response to diverse external stimuli. Upon its activation, several signalling molecules are produced with the ability to influence cell functions and behaviour, especially in terms of angiogenesis. Herein, we collect recent data related to the stimulatory/inhibitory role of autophagy in the vascularization properties of EPCs. We hope that this review will help in the development of de novo therapeutic strategies for the alleviation of ischemic injuries and/or inhibition of blood support to the tumour niche.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1382-1405"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1002/brv.70126
Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez, Renske Jongen, Torsten Thomas, Ezequiel M Marzinelli, Paul E Gribben
{"title":"Seagrass-microbe interactions: a systematic review of current research trends and mapping of the core microbiome.","authors":"Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez, Renske Jongen, Torsten Thomas, Ezequiel M Marzinelli, Paul E Gribben","doi":"10.1002/brv.70126","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seagrass-microbe interactions are crucial for seagrass performance and the coastal ecosystem services they support. However, significant variation in experimental and analytical approaches has hindered our broader understanding of seagrass-microbe interactions and the potential existence of a functional core microbiome, i.e. microbial taxa that are consistently present on hosts and likely exert a disproportionate impact on host function. Through a systematic review, we aimed first to understand current trends and knowledge gaps in seagrass-microbe research. Additionally, we conducted a systematic mapping of global 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing data to characterise core bacterial taxa in three plant microenvironments (leaves, roots and rhizosphere) across multiple species and within a highly studied seagrass species, Zostera marina. The results revealed a growing number of studies since the 2010s manipulating environmental variables and/or seagrass microbes to investigate their roles in seagrass performance and responses to stressors. Most studies have primarily focused on seagrass leaves, examined a limited number of species, and investigated only bacteria via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. A few studies attempted to characterise seagrass core microbiomes, often using highly variable approaches to define core taxa. Our systematic mapping based on global sequencing data allowed the identification of prevalent bacterial taxa belonging to the families Desulfocapsaceae and Sulfurovaceae in the seagrass rhizosphere, which may play an important role in the performance of Z. marina and other seagrass species. The results also showed that many other bacterial families were prevalent across different seagrass microenvironments, such as Rhodobacteraceae and Flavobacteriaceae, with substantial taxonomic variability and functional metabolic redundancy. We identified key challenges stemming from available data and variable methodologies and provided insights to guide future experimental work and deepen our understanding of seagrass-microbe interactions. We argue that such knowledge may improve seagrass management outcomes, especially by informing restoration strategies based on core microbial taxa.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1334-1357"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145852834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1002/brv.70131
Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Maël Leroux
{"title":"The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy.","authors":"Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Maël Leroux","doi":"10.1002/brv.70131","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers consider these sequences to involve both semantics and syntax, while others argue that the sequences convey semantic information without syntax. In this review, we revisit this issue by applying fine-grained linguistic analyses to the most comprehensive data set of titi monkey alarm sequences available to date. Specifically, we evaluate three competing hypotheses: one rich hypothesis suggesting that titi alarm sequences are compositional, and two deflationary alternatives. The first deflationary hypothesis holds that an alarm sequence is a single vocalisation that only superficially resembles a combination of discrete calls. The second deflationary hypothesis posits that an alarm sequence consists of a series of independent calls emitted in rapid succession, governed by no syntactic rule. The data set allows us to reject the first deflationary hypothesis but not the second, preventing us from concluding that titi monkey sequences are compositional. This leads us to another important question: if the sequences are not compositional, what information do they convey, and how? We examine the information encoded in the alarm calls and find that alarm calls likely reflect the caller's arousal level at the time of emission of the call: A-calls encode high arousal, B-calls lower arousal, and sequences appear to track dynamic changes in arousal over time. However, strikingly, receivers still manage to extract relevant information about the event eliciting alarm sequences, likely through inferences relying on contextual cues and prior knowledge. This pragmatic enrichment suggests that emotion-based communication can give rise to complex cognitive processes, particularly on the receiver's side. Titi monkeys thus offer a valuable model for investigating the evolutionary roots of pragmatics. More broadly, our review challenges the misconception that emotional communication is cognitively simple, and invites renewed attention to the role of affective communication in the emergence of linguistic-like abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1479-1490"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149759/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146007930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1002/brv.70129
Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha, Nicolai Konow
{"title":"Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates.","authors":"Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha, Nicolai Konow","doi":"10.1002/brv.70129","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised 'processing centres' associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food-processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology is lacking. Here, we provide a synthesis, including a unified terminology for the intricate complexity of vertebrate oropharyngeal processing. Among gnathostomes, mandibular food processing predominates, ranging from discrete bites to rhythmic, cyclic chewing facilitated by precise tongue mechanics in aquatic and terrestrial environments alike. By contrast, some taxa have abandoned oropharyngeal processing entirely, relying instead on post-oesophageal strategies such as gastric milling and chemical digestion. Interestingly, teleost (bony) fishes illustrate the evolutionary trade-off between increased jaw protrusion for prey capture and reduced mandibular processing capacity. They compensated for this trade-off by developing derived processing behaviours early in their evolutionary development. Through the re-evolution of mandibular chewing, they succeeded in utilising all three known processing centres. Mastication is a specialised, dimensionally complex form of unignathic mandibular chewing (i.e. chewing restricted to the lower jaw) exclusive to mammals. However, our findings demonstrate that dimensionally complex forms of mandibular chewing have arisen independently multiple times and are widespread among gnathostomes. Notably, diverse taxa, including elasmobranch stingrays, Australian lungfish, sirenid salamanders, various songbirds, herbivorous turtles, and the tuatara, exhibit complex jaw movements combining arcuate, longitudinal, and sometimes transverse components enabled by specialised jaw joints, suspensions, and intracranial motions ('cranial kinesis'). From a comparative, functional-morphological perspective, mammalian mastication may best be characterised as dimensionally complex chewing mediated by the secondary or temporomandibular joint. By contrast, analogous dimensionally complex non-mammalian chewing involving motions confined to the primary or quadrate-articular jaw joint qualifies as pseudomastication. Both mastication and pseudomastication resemble functional masticatory behaviours, while those incorporating intracranial motions and movements of the jaw suspension belong to distinct categories. Our anatomical analysis highlights the convergent evolution of dimensionally complex chewing among gnathostomes and emphasises the importance of comprehensive studies on jaw development and function to deepen our understanding of the evolution of oropharyngeal processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1406-1462"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146007921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological ReviewsPub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-02DOI: 10.1002/brv.70120
Audrey M Darnaude, Susanne E Tanner, Andreu Blanco, Anna M Sturrock, Yael Teff Seker, Angel Pérez-Ruzafa, Jonne Kotta, Tamar Guy-Haim, Francisco R Barboza, Manuel Hidalgo, Katell Guizien, Jerneja Penca, Lucía López-López, Maria Beger, Federica Costantini, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Cynthia Riginos, Kris Hostens, Gil Rilov, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ewan Hunter
{"title":"Shaping research in marine functional connectivity for integrated and effective marine science and management.","authors":"Audrey M Darnaude, Susanne E Tanner, Andreu Blanco, Anna M Sturrock, Yael Teff Seker, Angel Pérez-Ruzafa, Jonne Kotta, Tamar Guy-Haim, Francisco R Barboza, Manuel Hidalgo, Katell Guizien, Jerneja Penca, Lucía López-López, Maria Beger, Federica Costantini, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Cynthia Riginos, Kris Hostens, Gil Rilov, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ewan Hunter","doi":"10.1002/brv.70120","DOIUrl":"10.1002/brv.70120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Effective knowledge of ecological connectivity at sea and at the land-sea interface is key to supporting global policy goals to conserve and restore ocean biodiversity and function. However, a persistent lack of commonality in terminology and understanding around the concept of connectivity in marine ecological studies hampers its integration across disciplines, and its application in spatial planning and policy. Building on an extensive literature review, we clarify definitions and subcategories of marine connectivity, and propose a unified conceptual framework for Marine Functional Connectivity (MFC) research to support the integration of multidisciplinary scientific knowledge into management and policy. We identify key challenges and future directions for advancing this emerging field, bringing together most strands of marine science to understand changes in biodiversity and functional interdependencies between habitats and regions. Embedding this new integrated MFC research at the core of marine environmental science promises to improve significantly predictions of environmental and socio-economic change and the sustainable use of ecosystems and resources at sea and at the land-sea interface.</p>","PeriodicalId":133,"journal":{"name":"Biological Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"1143-1180"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13149802/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}