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Snail venom glands 蜗牛毒腺

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02763-y

Vaishali Bhaumik

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Author Correction: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation 作者更正：恢复不能在全球范围内扩大，以拯救珊瑚礁免受损失和退化

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02758-9

Clelia Mulà, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Federica Manca, Simone Montano, Giovanni Strona

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Savanna interactions 草原交互

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02762-z

Walter Andriuzzi

{"title":"Savanna interactions","authors":"Walter Andriuzzi","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02762-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02762-z","url":null,"abstract":"Mammalian herbivores, drought and invertebrate ecosystem engineers are among the main drivers of vegetation dynamics in grasslands and savannas. Although their individual effects are relatively well understood, and some studies have probed their pairwise interactions, it is unclear how all three might combine in real-world conditions. Writing in Journal of Ecology, Wells et al. address this gap using two complementary experiments from a savanna in Kenya. They analysed 15 years of vegetation data from an extensive large-herbivore exclusion experiment and 2 years of data from a smaller experiment with factorial combinations of herbivore exclusion, watering and fertilization to simulate nutrient enrichment near termite mounds. Despite some discrepancies, both experiments show that herbivory is the strongest driver of understorey plant dynamics (cover, species richness and community composition) in this savanna, but also that there are non-additive interactive effects of drought and proximity to termite mounds. Notably, some of these interactions are counter to the authors’ predictions. For instance, whereas earlier findings suggested that termite mounds act as refugia for savanna plants under water limitation, here termite mounds provide hotspots of plant cover only during non-drought years and without herbivores, and more broadly their effects are largely offset by drought and herbivores. The findings by Wells et al. illustrate the importance of investigating the interplay of climate and multitrophic interactions in drylands.Original reference: J. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70036 (2025)","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165521","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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Extant echidnas 现存针鼹

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02764-x

Marian Turner

{"title":"Extant echidnas","authors":"Marian Turner","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02764-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02764-x","url":null,"abstract":"Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was named as a new species in 1998. It is one of three extant long-beaked echidna species and one of only five extant species of monotreme. But the description was based on a holotype collected in the Cyclops Mountains of New Guinea in 1961, and there has been no scientific documentation of the species since that time. However, Indigenous people have sighted the echidna repeatedly and this knowledge — combined with nose-poke trace signs of foraging echidnas — gave a team of Indonesian and international scientists confidence that the species was still extant. Using specific location information from surveys with local and Indigenous people, the team deployed multiple camera traps across the Cyclops Mountains. Writing in npj Biodiversity, Morib et al. now present footage of several echidna individuals, including images that show foraging and courtship behaviour. The photographs and videos derive from six different cameras at high elevations. The specific locations, body size and claw number allow the authors to conclude that the individuals are most likely to be Z. attenboroughi, rather than one of the other two long-beaked echidna species found in New Guinea. However, they recommend further taxonomic review of Zaglossus species. They also emphasise the likely role of local communities’ forest management strategies (which include long-established no-hunting and no-logging areas) in the persistence of this species, as well as the local knowledge that led to these reports.Original reference: npj Biodiversity 4, 19 (2025)","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144153395","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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Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds 地理重新分配不足以减轻北美鸟类对气候变化的暴露

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02714-7

Jeremy M. Cohen, Walter Jetz

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Precision ecology for targeted conservation action 精准生态，有针对性保护行动

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02733-4

Rebecca Spake, Eleanor E. Jackson, James M. Bullock, Emma Gardner, Elizabeth Tipton, Matthew J. Grainger, C. Patrick Doncaster

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Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat 有些鸟在一场对抗高温的比赛中落在了后面

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02727-2

Catherine Sheard

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US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy 美国联邦预算削减威胁到国际海洋科学和外交

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3

Jean-Pierre Gattuso, François Houllier, Janine Adams, Diva Amon, Tamatoa Bambridge, William Cheung, Sanae Chiba, Jorge Cortés, Carlos M. Duarte, Thomas Frölicher, Stefan Gelcich, Kristina Gjerde, Deborah Greaves, Peter M. Haugan, Daoji Li, Arthur Tuda

{"title":"US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy","authors":"Jean-Pierre Gattuso, François Houllier, Janine Adams, Diva Amon, Tamatoa Bambridge, William Cheung, Sanae Chiba, Jorge Cortés, Carlos M. Duarte, Thomas Frölicher, Stefan Gelcich, Kristina Gjerde, Deborah Greaves, Peter M. Haugan, Daoji Li, Arthur Tuda","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3","url":null,"abstract":"Recent disruptions in US federal science are severely affecting multiple science and environment agencies, and universities. These developments are undermining the ocean science and multilateral cooperation that are essential for marine conservation, sustainable resource management and climate resilience globally. Budget cuts, programme terminations and restrictions on key research areas (including climate change and decarbonization) are eroding scientific capacity and compromising the integrity of international assessments, negotiations and monitoring systems. We urge delegates to the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC1), 9–13 June 2025, to recognize that these critical risks require responses that move beyond symbolic commitments and focus on institutional resilience, redundancy and strategic rebalancing.In early 2025, the White House proposed cutting the Earth science budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by over $3.5 billion, including major reductions to Earth-observing satellite missions. These cuts occur just as data from NASA and other institutions confirm record-breaking ocean temperatures in 2023–2024 (ref. 2), along with unexpectedly high rates of sea level rise3. NASA missions are central to monitoring and understanding Earth’s energy imbalance, cloud dynamics, aerosols and the global carbon cycle — key elements for understanding ocean change and informing early warning systems for ecological impacts and natural disasters. Discontinuing these observations will break long-term data continuity, weaken our capacity to monitor ocean health, hinder climate attribution studies, lead to the loss of ocean’s benefits to people, and undermine the scientific basis for both domestic and international policies.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144153396","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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Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions 利用物种范围和宏观经济数据来填补生物入侵成本的空白

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02697-5

Ismael Soto, Pierre Courtois, Arman Pili, Enrico Tordoni, Eléna Manfrini, Elena Angulo, Céline Bellard, Elizabeta Briski, Miloš Buřič, Ross N. Cuthbert, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Rafael L. Macêdo, Boris Leroy, Phillip J. Haubrock, Franck Courchamp, Brian Leung

{"title":"Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions","authors":"Ismael Soto, Pierre Courtois, Arman Pili, Enrico Tordoni, Eléna Manfrini, Elena Angulo, Céline Bellard, Elizabeta Briski, Miloš Buřič, Ross N. Cuthbert, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Rafael L. Macêdo, Boris Leroy, Phillip J. Haubrock, Franck Courchamp, Brian Leung","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02697-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02697-5","url":null,"abstract":"Biological invasions threaten global biodiversity, human well-being and economies. Many regional and taxonomic syntheses of monetary costs have been produced recently but with important knowledge gaps owing to uneven geographic and taxonomic research intensity. Here we combine species distribution models, macroeconomic data and the InvaCost database to produce the highest resolution spatio-temporal cost estimates currently available to bridge these gaps. From a subset of 162 invasive species with ‘highly reliable’ documented costs at the national level, our interpolation focuses on countries that have not reported any costs despite the known presence of invasive species. This analysis demonstrates a substantial underestimation, with global costs potentially estimated to be 1,646% higher for these species than previously recorded. This discrepancy was uneven geographically and taxonomically, respectively peaking in Europe and for plants. Our results showed that damage costs were primarily driven by gross domestic product, human population size, agricultural area and environmental suitability, whereas management expenditure correlated with gross domestic product and agriculture areas. We also found a lag time for damage costs of 46 years, but management spending was not delayed. The methodological predictive approach of this study provides a more complete view of the economic dimensions of biological invasions and narrows the global disparity in invasion cost reporting.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136992","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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Predicting invasion costs from sparse data 利用稀疏数据预测入侵成本

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Nature ecology & evolution Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02700-z

Lars J. Olson

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