{"title":"Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority","authors":"Gareth J. Williams","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02673-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02673-z","url":null,"abstract":"A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projects at high risk of failure.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797985","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}
Clelia Mulà, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Federica Manca, Simone Montano, Giovanni Strona
{"title":"Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation","authors":"Clelia Mulà, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Federica Manca, Simone Montano, Giovanni Strona","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02667-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02667-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coral restoration is gaining popularity as part of a continuum of approaches addressing the widespread, recurring mass mortality events of corals that—together with elevated and chronic mortality, slower growth and recruitment failure—threaten the persistence of coral reefs worldwide. However, the monetary costs associated with broad-scale coral restoration are massive, making widespread implementation challenging, especially with the lack of coordinated and ecologically informed planning. By combining a comprehensive dataset documenting the success of coral restoration with current and forecasted environmental, ecological and climate data, we highlight how such a coordinated and ecologically informed approach is not forthcoming, despite the extent of previous and ongoing efforts. We show that: (1) restoration sites tend to be disproportionally close to human settlements and therefore more vulnerable to local anthropogenic impacts; (2) the immediate outcomes of restoration do not appear to be influenced by relevant ecological and environmental predictors such as cumulative impact; and (3) most restored localities have a high and severe bleaching risk by the middle of this century, with more than half of recently restored sites already affected. Our findings highlight the need for the coral reef community to reinforce joint development of restoration guidelines that go beyond local objectives, with attention to ocean warming trends and their long-term impacts on coral resilience and restoration success.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797986","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}
{"title":"Seafood for thought","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02684-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02684-w","url":null,"abstract":"There is hope that sustainable mariculture can have a major role in helping to meet future global food demands, but this will require strategic planning to reduce its effects on marine biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 4","pages":"527-528"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02684-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143798343","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}
{"title":"Don’t dismiss dirt","authors":"Iain Dickson","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02689-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02689-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”, said Stephen Hawking, encouraging curiosity about the universe and our purpose. But <i>SOIL: The World at Our Feet</i> — a remarkable exhibition taking place at Somerset House in London, UK — reverses this wisdom, and poses the question: what if instead of looking up, we looked down?</p><p>Co-curated by Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy — who established The Land Gardeners, with a mission to work with gardeners and farmers to research and promote soil health — along with professional curators May Rosenthal Sloan and Claire Catterall, this multisensory exhibition examines the vital role of soil through the lens of art, bringing together a range of works and stories from a globally diverse group of filmmakers, artists, scientists and activists, and touching on topics such as global change, history, waste, justice and sustainability. Arranged into three sections (‘Life Below Ground’, ‘Life Above Ground’ and ‘Hope’), the exhibition aims to showcase the fundamental importance of soil, and prompt the broader public to think of it as more than just dirt. By considering soils’ interconnections with all life, these artworks reveal the wonder and beauty of the unseen.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789820","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}
Ulrich Brose, Myriam R. Hirt, Remo Ryser, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Emilio Berti, Benoit Gauzens, Andrew M. Hein, Samraat Pawar, Kenneth Schmidt, Kate Wootton, Sonia Kéfi
{"title":"Embedding information flows within ecological networks","authors":"Ulrich Brose, Myriam R. Hirt, Remo Ryser, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Emilio Berti, Benoit Gauzens, Andrew M. Hein, Samraat Pawar, Kenneth Schmidt, Kate Wootton, Sonia Kéfi","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02670-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02670-2","url":null,"abstract":"Natural communities form networks of species linked by interactions. Understanding the structure and dynamics of these ecological networks is pivotal to predicting species extinction risks, community stability and ecosystem functioning under global change. Traditionally, ecological network research has focused on interactions involving the flow of matter and energy, such as feeding or pollination. In nature, however, species also interact by intentionally or unintentionally exchanging information signals and cues that influence their behaviour and movement. Here we argue that this exchange of information between species constitutes an information network of nature—a crucial but largely neglected aspect of community organization. We propose to integrate information with matter flow interactions in multilayer networks. This integration reveals a novel classification of information links based on how the senders and receivers of information are embedded in food web motifs. We show that synthesizing information and matter flow interactions in multilayer networks can lead to shorter pathways connecting species and a denser aggregation of species in fewer modules. Ultimately, this tighter interconnectedness of species increases the risk of perturbation spread in natural communities, which undermines their stability. Understanding the information network of nature is thus crucial for predicting community dynamics in the era of global change. Ecological network research has typically focused on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. This Perspective argues that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 4","pages":"547-558"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143775498","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}
{"title":"EU forest monitoring should combine up-to-date science with best practice","authors":"Víctor Resco De Dios, Matthias M. Boer","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02672-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02672-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The European Commission is currently discussing a regulation to monitor European forests<sup>1</sup>. The goal is to implement a monitoring framework that provides baseline information for assessing the effects of ongoing climate changes, including extreme weather events, on European forests. The monitoring programme is designed to inform policy developments to protect forests against the effects of such events. Although we welcome this legislation, the current draft shows major shortcomings. A previous analysis<sup>2</sup> has already identified key limitations that concern the choice of variables and indicators to measure, data quality and harmonization procedures, and integration with existing pan-European networks. Here we highlight an additional and, in our view, even more fundamental issue: the new European law not only prescribes what variables need to be measured, but also specifies the particular methods that must be used.</p><p>On a fundamental level, having governments prescribe scientific methods for monitoring might set a dangerous precedent against the independence of science. Regarding this European law, we are concerned that prescribing measurement methods instead of setting data-quality requirements will compromise its effectiveness. European legislators cannot be expected to be up to date with developments in the diverse scientific fields involved in forest monitoring, and therefore they are not well-placed to decide the appropriate methods for data collection. Novel monitoring approaches, as well as recalibrations and reassessments of existing methodologies, might be difficult to implement if they first need approval by the European Parliament. This monitoring system might quickly become obsolete if changes require approval from the EU’s parliamentary bureaucracy. Conversely, the choice of relevant and state-of-the-art methods might enable this monitoring system to assist with pressing management issues, such as wildfires.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744731","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}
{"title":"Genetic adaptations from self-domestication in the yellow fever mosquito","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02649-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02649-z","url":null,"abstract":"Self-domestication in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (the behaviour of living in association with humans for the past 5,000 years) was accompanied by hundreds of genetic adaptations that affect chemosensory, neuronal, regulatory and metabolic functions. Such adaptations arose by selection acting on preexisting genetic variation and local adaptation driven by neuronal olfactory redundancy.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 4","pages":"545-546"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723256","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}
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