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{"title":"The Role of Climate and Species Traits on the Timing of Spring Emergence in Amphibians and Reptiles","authors":"Martin Mayer,&nbsp;Lia Schlippe Justicia","doi":"10.1111/geb.70304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70304","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The timing of spring emergence from brumation is crucial for amphibians and reptiles, because it coincides with resource availability and the onset of the breeding season. Here, we investigated how climatic factors and species traits interact to affect the timing of spring emergence in amphibians and reptiles, and how species traits mediate predicted shifts of this important phenological process under future climate scenarios.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Location</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Northern hemisphere.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Time Period</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>2010–2100.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Major Taxa Studied</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Amphibians and reptiles.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using &gt; 2.6 million citizen observations of 97 amphibian and 182 reptile species, we first show that citizen data can be used to estimate the onset of spring emergence and then use this dataset to quantify and predict how climate and species traits affect large-scale patterns of emergence timing, using Bayesian phylogenetic mixed models.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mean annual temperature was the most important factor determining spring emergence, with species in warmer regions becoming active earlier, and amphibian and reptile emergence predicted to advance by approximately 25 and 17 days, respectively, under a 4.3°C warming scenario by 2100. Species traits related to reproduction and physiology further explained phenological variation, with explosive-breeding anurans emerging earlier than prolonged breeders. Moreover, urodeles with direct development and viviparous reptile species emerged comparatively later, with this pattern mediated by temperature, being more pronounced in colder regions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Main Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Combined, our results highlight key climatic and biological drivers relevant for predicting amphibian and reptile species responses to global climate change, which may help us anticipate phenological mismatches, assess vulnerability, and prioritize conservation efforts.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148860085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insight Into the Blood-Feeding Patterns of Culex Mosquitoes: A Global Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Across Spatial and Seasonal Dimensions","authors":"Kevin Alen Rucci,&nbsp;Octavio Giayetto,&nbsp;Gisella Obholz,&nbsp;Adrián Diaz","doi":"10.1111/geb.70300","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70300","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Aim&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Culex&lt;/i&gt; mosquitoes are key vectors of several arboviruses and other pathogens, and their blood-feeding patterns vary with environmental factors. This study aims to assess how biogeographic realm, habitat type, and seasonality influence host-use patterns in medically relevant &lt;i&gt;Culex&lt;/i&gt; species using a global meta-analysis.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Location&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Global.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Time Period&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;1967–2025.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Major Taxa Considered&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Culex&lt;/i&gt; mosquito species of medical importance: &lt;i&gt;Cx. pipiens&lt;/i&gt; s.l., &lt;i&gt;Cx. quinquefasciatus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Cx. tarsalis&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Cx. erraticus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Cx. restuans&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Cx. nigripalpus&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Methods&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;A meta-analysis was conducted using 149 published articles comprising 31,270 observations on blood-feeding patterns of six &lt;i&gt;Culex&lt;/i&gt; species. The effects of biogeographic realm, habitat type, and seasonality on host choice were statistically assessed and compared across species.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Results&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Species varied in their degree of host specificity, showing a predominant tendency toward ornithophagy. Blood-feeding behaviour varied across biogeographic realms, &lt;i&gt;Cx. pipiens&lt;/i&gt; s.l. maintained high feeding on wild birds in the Nearctic and Palearctic, but showed increased contributions from humans and domestic birds in the Neotropical realm and higher feeding on mammals in the Afrotropical region, while &lt;i&gt;Cx. quinquefasciatus&lt;/i&gt; displayed a more plastic pattern, with different host groups predominating depending on the region (e.g., wild birds in the Nearctic, domestic birds in the Palearctic, and humans in the Afrotropical realm). Habitat type also influenced feeding patterns, with urbanized habitats associated with increased feeding on humans and domesticated animals (e.g., domestic birds and farm mammals), compared to non-urban settings. Seasonal effects varied among species: &lt;i&gt;Cx. quinquefasciatus&lt;/i&gt; showed increased mammalian feeding during autumn, while &lt;i&gt;Cx. pipiens&lt;/i&gt; s.l. exhibited a marked shift toward mammalian feeding in autumn despite predominantly avian feeding during spring and summer.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Main Conclusions&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The MIREN Road Survey Database: Standardized Vegetation Sampling to Advance Our Understanding of Biodiversity Responses in Mountain Systems Across the Globe","authors":"Sylvia Haider,&nbsp;Jonas J. Lembrechts,&nbsp;Jake Alexander,&nbsp;Vincent Ralph Clark,&nbsp;Lisa J. Rew,&nbsp;Meike Buhaly,&nbsp;Marc Achermann,&nbsp;Alla Aleksanyan,&nbsp;Alisa Alvarez,&nbsp;Marco Andrello,&nbsp;José R. Arévalo,&nbsp;Valeria Aschero,&nbsp;Joshua P. Averett,&nbsp;Agustina Barros,&nbsp;Lorena Bonjour,&nbsp;Marta Carboni,&nbsp;Clinton Carbutt,&nbsp;Lohengrin A. Cavieres,&nbsp;Kent Coe,&nbsp;Curtis Daehler,&nbsp;Pervaiz A. Dar,&nbsp;Alix Dejonckheere,&nbsp;Bryan Endress,&nbsp;Franz Essl,&nbsp;Georgi Fayvush,&nbsp;Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo,&nbsp;Andrea Galmán,&nbsp;Susan Geer,&nbsp;Onalenna Gwate,&nbsp;Barbora Hubáčková,&nbsp;Anke Jentsch,&nbsp;Alejandra Jiménez,&nbsp;Paul Kühn,&nbsp;Josef Kutlvašr,&nbsp;Greta La Bella,&nbsp;Christian Larson,&nbsp;Bernd Lenzner,&nbsp;Anna Lučanová,&nbsp;Keith McDougall,&nbsp;Maritza Mihoc,&nbsp;Ann Milbau,&nbsp;John W. Morgan,&nbsp;Bridgett J. Naylor,&nbsp;Ivan Nijs,&nbsp;Rüdiger Otto,&nbsp;Aníbal Pauchard,&nbsp;Gwendolyn Peyre,&nbsp;Irfan Rashid,&nbsp;Amanda Ratier Backes,&nbsp;Zafar A. Reshi,&nbsp;Damiano Righetti,&nbsp;Verónica Sandoya,&nbsp;Lucia Antonietta Santoianni,&nbsp;Andreas Schweiger,&nbsp;James M. Shannon,&nbsp;Hana Skálová,&nbsp;Karina L. Speziale,&nbsp;Angela Stanisci,&nbsp;Sophia C. Turner,&nbsp;Koenraad Van Meerbeek,&nbsp;Marco Varricchione,&nbsp;Vernon Visser,&nbsp;Vojtěch Vítek,&nbsp;Michaela Vitková,&nbsp;Tom Vorstenbosch,&nbsp;Zac C. Walker,&nbsp;Neville Walsh,&nbsp;Peter Wolff,&nbsp;Tim Seipel","doi":"10.1111/geb.70284","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70284","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Motivation</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The database initiated by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is one of the few globally implemented standardized vegetation surveys in mountains. The focus is on collecting plant species occurrences at 5-year intervals along and adjacent to mountain roads spanning elevational gradients, with the goal of providing critical information about the ongoing spread of non-native plants and the potential impacts of climate and human-caused disturbance in the form of road infrastructure on mountain vegetation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Main Types of Variables Contained</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To date, the database contains almost 170,000 georeferenced records of plant species. Overall, 6854 vascular plant species were observed in 3364 plots across 25 regions, with many of these plots being revisited every 5 years. Each plot is identified by its coordinates, elevation and distance to the road. The status of each individual species (native, non-native or unknown) is determined in accordance with regional databases.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Spatial Location and Grain</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Plant species were surveyed at 20 sample sites, placed at regular elevational intervals along each mountain road, with typically three roads selected per region. Each sample site is subdivided into three 2 m × 50 m plots, one parallel to the road and two perpendicular to it, extending into adjacent vegetation. The 25 studied regions cover all continents except Antarctica.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Time Period and Grain</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Data were collected between 2007 and 2023, with surveys being repeated at 5-year intervals in a subset of regions. Three regions include four time-steps, while seven and three regions were sampled three times or twice, respectively. In most regions, long-term monitoring is ongoing.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Major Taxa and Level of Measurement</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>All vascular plant species.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Software Format</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Data are available through a .csv file on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15749536).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scaling Laws Reveal a Unified Species-Energy Relationship for Mountain Biodiversity","authors":"Zihan Jiang,&nbsp;Hongyan Liu,&nbsp;Zhiyao Tang,&nbsp;Jonathan M. Chase,&nbsp;Alexandre Antonelli,&nbsp;Michael Kessler,&nbsp;Maharaj K. Pandit,&nbsp;Kumar Manish,&nbsp;Wei Xu,&nbsp;Jianxiao Zhu,&nbsp;Qinggang Wang,&nbsp;Hang Sun,&nbsp;Xiaolu Zhou,&nbsp;Changhui Peng","doi":"10.1111/geb.70290","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70290","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Energy availability is often assumed to be a primary driver of variation in biodiversity across large-scale environmental gradients such as elevation, but support for the role of energetic constraints is far from universal. Here, we assume that these variations in energy–richness relationships might arise from the degree of match between the scale of the response of organisms to energy (response scale) and the scale of the observation made (observation scale).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Location</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>41 mountain ecosystems worldwide, with detailed case studies on Dongling Mountain, China.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Time Period</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Contemporary.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Major Taxa Studied</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, birds, ants, bees, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, soil fauna, litter-layer fauna, bacteria, fungi.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>First, we quantify the response scale on the basis of energy requirements, and then, we develop a general scaling model that explicitly describes how the scale matching between response and observation scale influences the predictive power of energy in determining elevational richness patterns; this model holds across taxonomic groups, trophic guilds, and ecosystems across mountains globally.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Global analyses strongly supported the model's prediction that scale matching determines the detectability of energy-richness relationships. On Dongling Mountain, energy availability best explained richness patterns at the predicted response scales for trees, herbs, and litter fauna.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Main Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our model advances the understanding of montane biodiversity distributions by demonstrating the critical role of scale matching in energy–richness relationships. Our findings strongly support the existing mechanistic foundation for predicting biodiversity changes across spatial scales in montane ecosystems. The scale-matching principle we identified is likely to be applicable to a wide range of taxa and other ecosystems where energy availability varies across scales.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remote Sensing Reveals Post-Fire Forest Composition Shifts in Boreal Eastern Siberia","authors":"Oleg Zheleznyy,&nbsp;Cornelius Senf,&nbsp;Julia Boike,&nbsp;Dirk Pflugmacher","doi":"10.1111/geb.70298","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70298","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Aim&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Wildfires are the primary agents of disturbance in boreal forests. Under climate change, their frequency and size are expected to increase, raising concerns about the long-term boreal forest resilience. Despite the importance and complexity of post-fire recovery, large-scale assessments of post-fire vegetation composition remain limited for much of the boreal forest biome. Here, we characterised post-fire vegetation across the forests of Eastern Siberia, one of the major wildfire hotspots.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Location&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Eastern Siberia.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Time Period&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;1990s to current time.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Major Taxa Studied&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Boreal forests.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Methods&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Based on historical Landsat satellite imagery, we identified 1863 wildfires in 1990–1994. We then mapped the current fractional cover of five key boreal vegetation types using regression-based spectral unmixing of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. We quantified vegetation differences between burned and adjacent unburned areas, assessing the effects of burn severity, proximity to the fire edge and average annual air temperatures on post-fire compositional changes.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Results&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Thirty years following the fire, vegetation on more than 95% of burned area has recovered. Deciduous broadleaf forests maintained their composition even after high-severity fires, while coniferous trees were commonly replaced by early successional broadleaf species, especially further from the fire edge and in warmer annual air temperatures. In colder mountainous areas and sites with high burn severity, shrubby and herbaceous vegetation outcompeted broadleaf trees in the recovery process. The fraction of evergreen coniferous species decreased even after low-severity fires, whereas larch showed higher resilience; however, its recovery has been poorer in the southern parts of its range.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Main Conclusions&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Post-fire recovery of East Siberian boreal forests is slow and is characterised by compositional shifts. Increasing frequency and severity of wildfires may pave the way for a permanent shift from coniferous to broadleaf forests in the warmer par","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148754533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to A Comprehensive Database of Expert-Curated Occurrences for the Genus carex L. (Cyperaceae)","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/geb.70297","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70297","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Sanz-Arnal, M.</span>, <span>P. García-Moro</span>, <span>C. Benítez-Benítez</span>, et al. <span>2025</span>. “ <span>A Comprehensive Database of Expert-Curated Occurrences for the <i>Genus carex</i> L. (Cyperaceae)</span>.” <i>Global Ecology and Biogeography</i> <span>34</span>, no. <span>9</span>: e70123. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70123.\u0000 </p><p>In the originally published article, the following was omitted from the funding section: ‘This work also received funds from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the project CNS2023-143665’. The online version of the article has been updated.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148716490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate Warming Is Causing an Increasing Dominance of Smaller Moth Species","authors":"Emilie E. Ellis,&nbsp;Emy Guilbault,&nbsp;Ida-Maria Huikkonen,&nbsp;Reima Leinonen,&nbsp;Anna Suuronen,&nbsp;Tomas Roslin","doi":"10.1111/geb.70294","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70294","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Aim&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;To test whether spatial trait–temperature relationships predicted by ecogeographic rules (Bergmann's rule and the thermal melanism hypothesis) can be used as space-for-time substitutions to anticipate temporal changes in community morphology under climate warming.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Location&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Finland.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Time Period&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;1993–2021.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Major Taxa Studied&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Methods&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;We analysed 29 years of standardised moth monitoring data spanning a 1200 km latitudinal gradient in Finland. For each moth community, we quantified mean wingspan and pigmentation as thermal morphological traits. We examined spatial relationships between community-mean traits, latitude and temperature and assessed temporal trends in these traits in relation to long-term changes in temperature.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Results&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Across space, site-level community-mean trait composition over the study period showed that moth communities in colder northern regions were dominated by larger and darker species, whereas warmer southern communities comprised smaller and lighter-coloured species, consistent with both ecogeographic rules. Through time, communities shifted towards smaller mean wingspan over the study period, consistent with the spatial expectations described by Bergmann's ecogeographic rule, while mean pigmentation exhibited no consistent directional change, contrary to expectations from the thermal melanism hypothesis.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Main Conclusions&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Our results provide mixed support for space-for-time substitution in predicting climate-driven changes in community morphology. While spatial patterns in wingspan successfully anticipated temporal shifts consistent with Bergmann's rule, spatial gradients in pigmentation did not translate into temporal change. These findings indicate that the predictive power of ecogeographic rules depends on the trait considered, and highlight both the promise and limitations of space-for-time approaches for forecasting climate-driven reassembly of insect communities, particularly at high latitudes.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148703412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Climate Change and Human Habitation on Long-Term Ecological Stability","authors":"Timothy L. Staples,&nbsp;Wolfgang Kiessling,&nbsp;John M. Pandolfi","doi":"10.1111/geb.70296","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70296","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Aim&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Direct human impacts and climate change jeopardise the stability of ecological systems. Recent trends are built atop a long history of vegetation change from the Pleistocene deglaciation and Holocene human population expansion. We aimed to model a long-term measure of ecological stability over the last 20,000 years, a period that includes both the most recent global warming and the spread of human civilisation.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Location&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Europe and North America.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Time Period&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;0–20,000 years before present.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Major Taxa Studied&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Land plants.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Methods&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;We quantified persistence, a non-equilibrium estimate of ecological stability, across millennia of plant assemblage change proxied within palynological sediment cores. We modeled trends in persistence over time and based on historical reconstructions of human population density, contrasting trends between Europe and North America, continents with broadly similar biomes but divergent land-use histories.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Results&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;The late Pleistocene deglaciation produced a prolonged (&lt;i&gt;c.&lt;/i&gt; 10,000 years) period of vegetation destabilisation. Despite continental differences in persistence during the deglaciation, we observed a synchronised increase across Europe and North America at the start of the Holocene. Human land use was linked to greater stability of North American vegetation in the early-mid Holocene, with some evidence of destabilisation after European colonisation. European assemblages began destabilising 3000 years ago, a trend that has become more severe over time and in areas of higher human population density.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Main Conclusions&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;We provide a quantitative measurement of assemblage persistence, with trends over time that map onto climatic and human pressures. While palynological trends include responses to climate change, human actions and other assembly filters, with accompanying time-lagged responses and extinction debts, we found a detectable signal that human land use can suppress and amplify long-term ecological stability. In recent millennia, human actions have systemat","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148703411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metabolic Responses of Mammals to Temperature Anomalies Vary Across Climates","authors":"Juan G. Rubalcaba,&nbsp;Marta Correas-Araus","doi":"10.1111/geb.70293","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70293","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Extreme temperature fluctuations are becoming more frequent under climate change, altering the energy and water balance of organisms. Species from different climatic regions may differ in their metabolic responses to such temperature anomalies due to contrasting thermoregulatory adaptations. Here, we examine how short-term temperature anomalies influence metabolic requirements of mammals across broad climatic gradients.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Location</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Global.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Time Period</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>1966–2007.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Major Taxa Studied</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mammals.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We compiled field metabolic rate (FMR) data from the literature, including 371 individuals representing 41 mammal species worldwide. For each measurement, we extracted monthly mean ambient temperature at the time and location of FMR collection using historical weather data and quantified temperature anomalies relative to long-term monthly mean conditions. We modelled FMR as a function of temperature anomaly, long-term mean temperature, and their interaction.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Metabolic responses to temperature anomalies varied systematically across climatic regimes. Mammals from colder environments increased FMR during both negative (cold) and positive (heat) anomalies. In contrast, species from warmer environments showed increases in FMR during negative anomalies but no increase—or even decreases—in FMR during positive anomalies.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Main Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mammalian metabolic responses to short-term temperature anomalies are climate dependent, likely reflecting divergent adaptations to local thermal regimes. These findings highlight the importance of considering climatic context when predicting the energy consequences of increasing thermal extremes under climate change.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148687868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Belowground Eukaryotes Dominate Biodiversity–Multifunctionality Relationships Across Coastal and Other Ecosystems Globally","authors":"Yuan Xu,&nbsp;Jiawei Zhang,&nbsp;Ziqing Zhou,&nbsp;Xinpeng Fan,&nbsp;Janne Soininen,&nbsp;Guiyao Zhou,&nbsp;Caio Graco-Roza","doi":"10.1111/geb.70295","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geb.70295","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Aim&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Belowground biodiversity is key to ecosystem multifunctionality, yet the strength and taxonomic drivers of biodiversity–multifunctionality (BMF) relationships likely vary across ecosystems. Whether ecosystem type modulates these relationships, however, remains largely untested due to a lack of cross-ecosystem evidence. Coastal ecosystems comprising mudflats, salt marshes and mangroves provide a natural gradient of aboveground plant coverage, offering an ideal opportunity to address this knowledge gap.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Location&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Mudflats, salt marshes and mangroves along the entire coastline of China.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Time Period&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Current.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Major Taxa Studied&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Bacteria, fungi, protists and metazoa.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Method&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;We combined a large-scale survey along China's coastline with a meta-analytic synthesis of 43 datasets across six ecosystems. We quantified 17 functions underpinning four key ecosystem services: plant production, carbon storage, nutrient supply and soil organic matter decomposition, and assessed the contributions of bacteria, fungi, protists and metazoans in maintaining the functions. Using beta regression, piecewise structural equation models and multilevel meta-regressions we examined BMF relationships both in coastal ecosystems and across six other ecosystems globally.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Results&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Despite supporting the highest multifunctionality, mangroves exhibited relatively weak positive BMF coupling (59% of functions positively supported). In contrast, salt marshes and mudflats exhibited stronger positive relationships (75%–88% of functions). Fungal diversity was linked to the broadest range of functions, while bacterial diversity showed variable and often negative associations. Globally, we found that eukaryote-dominated positive BMF relationships were more prevalent in ecosystems with limited vegetation cover (e.g., grasslands, drylands) than in dense forests, mirroring the patterns observed in coastal ecosystems.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Main Conclusions&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Our findings demonstrate that the contribution of belowground biodiversity to ecosystem multifunctionality varies systematically across ecosystems, with eukaryotes dominating positive BMF relationships in coastal and multiple other ecosystems globally. This ","PeriodicalId":176,"journal":{"name":"Global Ecology and Biogeography","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148687867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}