{"title":"Butterfly effects","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03182-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03182-3","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies illustrate the pervasive, and growing, impact of climate change on the distribution and abundance of even common species, as well as how conservation policymakers must recalibrate their strategies to account for these shifts.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 9","pages":"1575-1576"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03182-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148878542","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":"Spatially explicit forecasts of tree insect and disease incidence across North American forests under future climate scenarios.","authors":"Zihui Wang, Andrew V Gougherty, T Jonathan Davies","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03163-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03163-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Shifts in insect and pathogen pressure with climate change present a potential threat to forest health, carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Here we evaluate climatic effects on insect and pathogen incidence across North America and forecast their future trends under climate scenarios. Using Bayesian hierarchical regression fit to records on more than 1 million trees, we show that warming and drought jointly exacerbate insect and disease incidence in historically colder and wetter regions, while reducing incidence in warmer and drier regions. Models allowing contemporary climate effects to depend on historical climate context better predict observed insect and disease incidence than models assuming quadratic functions of contemporary climate alone. Climate effects on incidence further vary among host species, mediated by tree climatic niches and functional traits, and differ across insect and pathogen taxa. Using ensemble climate projections, we forecast that under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2-4.5 scenario, insect and pathogen incidence will increase across, respectively, 58% and 52% of forest land over the coming decades, with the largest impacts at high latitudes. Incorporating the variability of climate impacts across space and taxa, our work will help in predicting climate-driven insect and pathogen risk for North American forests.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148881226","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}
Johannes Hausharter, Johannes Wessely, Norbert Helm, Kryštof Chytrý, Karl Hülber, Dietmar Moser, Mary Carolina García Lino, Katharina Kagerl, Andrea Lamprecht, Jonathan Lenoir, Andreas Kollert, Andreas Mayr, Martin Rutzinger, Philippe Choler, Pieter De Frenne, Jonas J Lembrechts, Otar Abdaladze, Chris Andrews, Peter Barančok, José-Luis Benito-Alonso, Eva M Cañadas, Michele Carbognani, Pau Carnicero, Emmanuel Corcket, Michele Di Musciano, Jan Dick, Khatuna Gigauri, Andreas Hilpold, Juan J Jiménez, Juan Lorite, Umberto Morra di Cella, Panagiotis Nyktas, Simone Orsenigo, Andrej Palaj, Martina Petey, Mihai Pușcaș, Christophe Randin, Ilektra Remoundou, Christian Rixen, Patrick Saccone, Angela Stanisci, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Tudor-Mihai Ursu, Thomas Vanneste, Raphael S von Büren, Sonja Wipf, Manuela Winkler, Harald Pauli, Stefan Dullinger
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe's summit plant communities.","authors":"Johannes Hausharter, Johannes Wessely, Norbert Helm, Kryštof Chytrý, Karl Hülber, Dietmar Moser, Mary Carolina García Lino, Katharina Kagerl, Andrea Lamprecht, Jonathan Lenoir, Andreas Kollert, Andreas Mayr, Martin Rutzinger, Philippe Choler, Pieter De Frenne, Jonas J Lembrechts, Otar Abdaladze, Chris Andrews, Peter Barančok, José-Luis Benito-Alonso, Eva M Cañadas, Michele Carbognani, Pau Carnicero, Emmanuel Corcket, Michele Di Musciano, Jan Dick, Khatuna Gigauri, Andreas Hilpold, Juan J Jiménez, Juan Lorite, Umberto Morra di Cella, Panagiotis Nyktas, Simone Orsenigo, Andrej Palaj, Martina Petey, Mihai Pușcaș, Christophe Randin, Ilektra Remoundou, Christian Rixen, Patrick Saccone, Angela Stanisci, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Tudor-Mihai Ursu, Thomas Vanneste, Raphael S von Büren, Sonja Wipf, Manuela Winkler, Harald Pauli, Stefan Dullinger","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03189-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03189-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148881232","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}
Zi Jing Zhang, Zhongbin B Li, Mengqiu Wang, Alexey Egorov, David P Edwards, Jiquan Chen, Qiping Wu, Yaowei Feng, Li Luo, Lan Yang, Bin Fan, Yule Ma, Wei Kang, Hankui K Zhang, Zhenci Xu
{"title":"Fourfold increase in fragmentation from road expansion in Siberian intact forests since 2000.","authors":"Zi Jing Zhang, Zhongbin B Li, Mengqiu Wang, Alexey Egorov, David P Edwards, Jiquan Chen, Qiping Wu, Yaowei Feng, Li Luo, Lan Yang, Bin Fan, Yule Ma, Wei Kang, Hankui K Zhang, Zhenci Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03162-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03162-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Road development is a major driver of forest degradation worldwide, accelerating habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and carbon emissions. Although these consequences have been documented in tropical forests, the spatiotemporal dynamics and ecological impacts of road expansion in boreal intact forest landscapes (IFLs) remain poorly understood, particularly for the central-eastern Siberian IFLs, an ~1.71 million km<sup>2</sup> wilderness and carbon sink. To address this gap, we analysed 20,480 Landsat satellite images from 2000 to 2023, and found a 1.6-fold increase in road area and length across this region. Road expansion, spatially linked to logging and mining activities, occupied ~1,046 km<sup>2</sup> of IFLs, intensified forest fragmentation 4.3-fold and increased IFL edges within 30 m of roads 1.2-fold. Between 2010 and 2023 alone, road expansion directly contributed to 39.1 megatonnes of aboveground biomass loss. These findings highlight the urgent need for improved road planning and policies that balance economic development with boreal forest conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148875434","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}
Huimin Yi, Olga Ferlian, Phillip J. Becker, Henriette Christel, Yuanyuan Huang, Michael Köhler, Ina C. Meier, Hafeez Ul Haq, Tesfaye Wubet, Nico Eisenhauer
{"title":"Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type independently shape multitrophic biodiversity, with stronger effects belowground than aboveground","authors":"Huimin Yi, Olga Ferlian, Phillip J. Becker, Henriette Christel, Yuanyuan Huang, Michael Köhler, Ina C. Meier, Hafeez Ul Haq, Tesfaye Wubet, Nico Eisenhauer","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03147-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03147-6","url":null,"abstract":"Tree diversity declines and shifts in mycorrhizal dominance may have cascading effects on multitrophic diversity. Whether the effects are additive or synergistic and consistent across taxa and functional groups is unclear. Here we test how microorganisms and invertebrates spanning multiple trophic levels, both above- and belowground, respond to experimental manipulation of tree species richness and mycorrhizal type in a young forest stand (the MyDiv experiment in Germany). Tree diversity increased belowground abundance and taxonomic richness of microorganisms and lower-trophic-level nematodes, cascading to meso- and macrofauna predators, whereas aboveground effects were limited to foliar fungi and soil-surface omnivores. Mycorrhizal type strongly structured belowground food webs and influenced aboveground predators, but mixtures showed only additive effects. For most trophic groups, diversity responses were similar across mycorrhizal types. Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type effects were mediated by leaf quality, canopy complexity and nutrient availability. Our results highlight tree diversity and mycorrhizal type as potentially distinct drivers of multitrophic biodiversity, primarily governing belowground bottom-up effects. Tree diversity and mycorrhizal dominance are considered major drivers of multitrophic diversity and ecosystem functioning in forests. Here the authors disentangle the effects of these factors on above- and belowground trophic levels in a tree diversity–mycorrhiza diversity experiment.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 9","pages":"1628-1643"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03147-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148865877","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}
Natasha R Granville, Jessica J Williams, Vivienne P Groner, Jos Barlow, Matthew G Betts, Gergana N Daskalova, Robert M Ewers, Luiz Dos Anjos, Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Luc Barbaro, Alexis Cerezo, Pedro F Develey, Jack H Hatfield, Hervé Jactel, Jordan Karubian, Urs G Kormann, Jesse R Lasky, Charles J Marsh, Luiz A M Mestre, José Carlos Morante-Filho, Pieter Olivier, Benjamin T Phalan, Anna M Pidgeon, Vânia Proença, Julien Terraube, Alexandre Uezu, Eric M Wood, Alex L Pigot, Cristina Banks-Leite
{"title":"Temperature mediates variation in avian sensitivity to forest cover.","authors":"Natasha R Granville, Jessica J Williams, Vivienne P Groner, Jos Barlow, Matthew G Betts, Gergana N Daskalova, Robert M Ewers, Luiz Dos Anjos, Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Luc Barbaro, Alexis Cerezo, Pedro F Develey, Jack H Hatfield, Hervé Jactel, Jordan Karubian, Urs G Kormann, Jesse R Lasky, Charles J Marsh, Luiz A M Mestre, José Carlos Morante-Filho, Pieter Olivier, Benjamin T Phalan, Anna M Pidgeon, Vânia Proença, Julien Terraube, Alexandre Uezu, Eric M Wood, Alex L Pigot, Cristina Banks-Leite","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03160-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03160-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emerging evidence shows that responses to deforestation can differ both across species and among populations of the same species. The reasons underlying these complex patterns are unclear, and this lack of clarity is a barrier to accurate monitoring and prediction of biodiversity change. Using data from 2,262 bird species across 7,326 sites from all forested continents, we show that between-species and within-species variations in responses to forest cover are mediated by temperature. Populations in warmer macroclimates tend to decline in incidence in deforested landscapes because hotter microclimates push them closer to their species' realized upper thermal tolerance limits. By contrast, populations in cooler macroclimates tend to be less affected by or even benefit from deforestation, as microclimatic temperatures are pushed closer to more optimal temperatures. Our findings offer an empirically grounded framework for biodiversity models that move beyond fixed species responses and incorporate interactions between temperature and land-use change.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148850990","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}
Pinelopi Ntetsika, Stefanie Eyring, Ewa Merz, Marta Reyes, Benno Käch, Stephan B Munch, Stuart R Dennis, Marco Baity-Jesi, Francesco Pomati
{"title":"Author Correction: Biotic interactions shape the realized niche of toxic cyanobacteria.","authors":"Pinelopi Ntetsika, Stefanie Eyring, Ewa Merz, Marta Reyes, Benno Käch, Stephan B Munch, Stuart R Dennis, Marco Baity-Jesi, Francesco Pomati","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03179-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03179-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148813495","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":"Pepper centromeres sit within ultra-long, trait-linked haplotypes","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03146-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03146-7","url":null,"abstract":"Pepper centromeres are embedded in ultra-long, recombination-suppressed haplotypes that can span more than 100 Mb. These centromere-spanning haplotypes (cenhaps) link genetic and epigenetic variation, are associated with various fruit traits and can show biased chromosome transmission in intercrosses.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 9","pages":"1591-1592"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148813505","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}