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{"title":"Combining conservation strategies.","authors":"Walter Andriuzzi","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03223-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03223-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128137","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":"More biodiversity means stronger, more reliable ecosystem functioning worldwide.","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03211-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03211-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128214","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":"Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide","authors":"Emma R. Moffett,Joel H. Gayford,Lexi Chen,Olivia F. Morris,Yuming Shi,Lucy Somekh,Nicole Stasik,Andy Purvis,Guy Woodward,William D. Pearse","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03200-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03200-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem services on which humanity depends, yet the strength, form and context-dependency of biodiversity–ecosystem service and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships remain poorly quantified. Here we synthesize 423 studies to determine how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning and service delivery. We show that regulating services, including water quality and pollination, often exhibit linear relationships, suggesting an additive role for diversity. While biodiversity enhances most functions and services, our effect-size analysis shows that oceanic ‘blue carbon’ sequestration is exceptionally sensitive, revealing how critical marine biodiversity is for climate mitigation. Conversely, services such as hazard regulation appear relatively insensitive to biodiversity, instead depending on a few functionally unique foundational species whose persistence nonetheless is interdependent on the wider community. Our new synthesis enables the forecasting of impacts, for example, that biodiversity loss will reduce pest regulation in countries experiencing population growth and intensive development, and it also highlights how ecosystem services might be used to anticipate future problems.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149090733","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":"Unifying bright spots research for people and nature","authors":"Bing Lin, Joshua E. Cinner","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03180-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03180-5","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how systems thrive against the odds is increasingly important in an era of accelerating ecological and social change. Bright spots, cases that outperform expectations under local constraints, offer a lens for learning from success within broader patterns of decline. Yet progress in this field has been limited by inconsistent definitions, fragmented methods and the absence of an integrative framework for systematic learning and application. Here we synthesize more than 70 studies spanning ecology, conservation, resource use, food production and sustainability science to assess how bright spots are identified, interpreted and applied in research, policy and practice. We introduce a typology of six approaches for identifying bright spots, highlighting their assumptions, strengths and trade-offs. We distil enabling conditions associated with bright spots, grouped into specific practices and processes, social capacities and context. Building on this synthesis, we develop a unifying framework that moves bright spots research from isolated case studies towards a coherent and cumulative understanding of how unexpected success can be identified, interpreted and compared across systems. By uncovering conditions under which systems exceed expectations, bright spots research reveals where unexpected success happens, why, and how to replicate it in an era of accelerating social–ecological change. This Review presents a typology for how to identify and interpret bright spots, or positive deviance, in conservation and sustainability science—cases where unexpectedly positive outcomes occur despite local constraints.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 10","pages":"1800-1811"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149090735","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":"Interaction matrices as unifying tools for navigating ecological complexity","authors":"J. Christopher D. Terry,Andrea Tabi,David García-Callejas,Virginia Domínguez-García","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03188-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03188-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149090734","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":"Avian migration timing advances linked to season-dependent population benefits","authors":"Jin Liu, Wenjing Xu, Richard A. Fuller, Thomas Mueller, Qi Yang, Shaopeng Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03198-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03198-9","url":null,"abstract":"While migratory species can adjust their migration timing in response to climate change, it remains unclear whether these shifts can insulate them from population decline. Here we compiled a global database pairing 4,351 population-level estimates of migration timing across 549 avian species with corresponding population trends and rates of climate change at breeding and non-breeding grounds, coupled with a full-annual-cycle theoretical model. Building on evidence for an accelerating advancement in bird migration over the past century (cumulatively advanced 13.86 days from 1970 to 2019), we show that rapidly advancing migration is beneficial for bird abundance during pre-breeding migration but detrimental during post-breeding migration. The net demographic benefit depends on pre-breeding advancement outpacing that during post-breeding migration. This benefit is more pronounced in large-bodied species. Our findings highlight that population benefits of rapidly shifted migratory behaviour are season dependent, underscoring the importance of full-annual-cycle perspectives for understanding and conserving migratory species under global change.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149087756","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":"An ancient evolutionary origin for IL-1 cytokines","authors":"Francisco Fontenla-Iglesias, Tse-Mao Lin, Amelia G. Williams, Sabyasachi Das, Chia-Yen Lee, Jonathan P. Rast, Max D. Cooper, Katherine M. Buckley, Sebastian D. Fugmann","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03191-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03191-2","url":null,"abstract":"Inflammation is widely considered a hallmark of animal immune responses. In mammals, this process is mediated in part by pro-inflammatory cytokines of the interleukin 1 (IL-1) superfamily, which establish and support microenvironments that regulate immune cell activity. However, the evolutionary origins of IL-1 cytokines remain elusive, as homologous proteins have been difficult to confidently identify outside vertebrates using sequence-based approaches. Although IL-1 family members have been described in all vertebrate lineages, including cartilaginous and jawless fishes, their distribution and evolutionary relationships beyond these groups remain unclear. Here we applied protein structure prediction algorithms to identify genes encoding a previously unrecognized family of IL-1 proteins (termed ‘IL-1anc’ to reflect their ancestral evolutionary origin) with homologues throughout Eumetazoa. Here, using Petromyzon marinus (sea lamprey) and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (purple sea urchin) as model systems, we demonstrate that IL-1anc proteins share key features with mammalian IL-1α/IL-1β, including expression patterns, subcellular localization and post-translational processing. Together with previous evidence identifying other IL-1 axis components in invertebrates, our data support a model in which the IL-1 superfamily and associated circuitry represent a foundational module of animal immunity that far predates the jawed vertebrates.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149087790","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":"Global patterns in plant–pollinator specialization","authors":"Sailee P. Sakhalkar, Nico Blüthgen, Laura A. Burkle, Paul CaraDonna, Bo Dalsgaard, Carsten F. Dormann, Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury, Tiffany M. Knight, Jeff Ollerton, Julian Resasco, Matthias Schleuning, Diego P. Vázquez, Rita N. Afagwu, Ruben Alarcón, Felipe W. Amorim, Marsal D. Amorim, Dominik Anýž, Blanca Arroyo-Correa, Maddi Artamendi, Zeynep Atalay, Justin A. Bain, Katherine C. R. Baldock, Gavin Ballantyne, Caio S. Ballarin, Behnaz Balmaki, Michael Bartoš, Vasuki Belavadi, Paolo Biella, Anne D. Bjorkman, João Paulo Raimundo Borges, Jordi Bosch, Camila Bosenbecker, Stephane Boyer, Karin T. Burghardt, Edson Cardona, Quebin Bosbely Casiá-Ajché, Anthony M. T. Castagna, Ferhat Celep, Melanie N. Chisté, Yann Clough, James M. Cook, Liam P. Crowther, Fabiana D. Reis, Luis P. da Silva, Wesley Dáttilo, Valeska De Cárdenas, Joan Díaz-Calafat, Lynn V. Dicks, Rye Dickson, Marion L. Donald, Lee A. Dyer, Fairo F. Dzekashu, Natalia Escobedo Kenefic, Tom M. Fayle, Laura L. Figueroa, Jan Filip, Raúl García-Camacho, Amy-Marie Gilpin, Luis Giménez-Benavides, Ingrid N. Gomes, Heather Grab, Ingo Grass, Travis J. Guy, Veronica Hederström, Carlos Hernández-Castellano, Sandra Hervías-Parejo, Andrea Holzschuh, Sebastian Hopfenmüller, José M. Iriondo, Štěpán Janeček, Jana Jersáková, Shalene Jha, Aphrodite Kantsa, Tamar Keasar, Liam Kendall, Yannick Klomberg, Ishmeal N. Kobe, Theresia Krausl, Patricia Landaverde, Carlos Lara-Romero, H. Michael G. Lattorff, Felipe Librán-Embid, Tial C. Ling, Sissi Lozada-Gobilard, Francis Ewome Luma, Pedro Luna, Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar, Ana Carolina Pereira Machado, Isabel C. Machado, Ainhoa Magrach, Fabienne Maihoff, Gabriel Marcacci, Carlos Martínez-Núñez, Pietro K. Maruyama, Natsuki Matsubara, Maggie Mayberry, Marco A. R. Mello, Ugo Mendes Diniz, Marcos Méndez, Jan E. J. Mertens, Rubén Milla, Javier Morente-López, Tarcila L. Nadia, Georgios Nakas, Anders Nielsen, Alon Ornai, Sergio Osorio-Canadas, Wilhelm H. A. Osterman, Todd M. Palmer, Theodora Petanidou, Christian W. W. Pirk, Kit S. Prendergast, Richard Primack, Luis M. Primo, Marina Querejeta, Zelma Quirino, André Rodrigo Rech, Sara Reverté, Pedro J. Rey, Léo C. Rocha-Filho, Anselm Rodrigo Domínguez, Masoud A. Rostami, Avery L. Russell, Silvia Santamaría, Francisco A. R. Santos, Takehiro Sasaki, Manu E. Saunders, Victor H. D. Silva, Michael P. Simanonok, Antigoni Sounapoglou, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Sam Tarrant, Rubén Torices, Anna Traveset, Teja Tscharntke, Guillermo Uceda-Gómez, Katherine R. Urban-Mead, Casper J. van der Kooi, Catrin Westphal, Abdullahi Yusuf, Robert Tropek","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03170-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03170-7","url":null,"abstract":"Pollination is a key ecological process sustaining biodiversity and food security, yet global patterns of plant–pollinator specialization remain unresolved. Using a global dataset of quantitative plant–pollinator networks (>3,400 networks, >110,000 interactions), we show that specialization is latitudinally structured, but not as a single directional pattern. We find no consistent monotonic increase or decrease in specialization towards the Equator. Instead, network-level and pollinator specialization peak at low northern latitudes near the tropical–subtropical boundary, whereas plant specialization is hemispherically asymmetric. Climate is most often the best-supported predictor of specialization compared with latitude, biodiversity and environmental productivity. Network-level specialization declines with increasing mean annual temperature, with strong group-specific differences. Precipitation exerts nonlinear effects: plant specialization peaks at intermediate precipitation but is lower at the wettest sites, whereas pollinator specialization is lower at intermediate precipitation, although often in interaction with temperature. Pollinator groups diverge strongly, especially in contrasting precipitation-related patterns between birds and insects. These findings show that global plant–pollinator specialization is structured by latitude and climate in complex and taxon-specific ways, with implications for uneven responses of pollination networks to future climatic change. Plant–pollinator networks vary tremendously across ecosystems. Here the authors use a global standardized dataset of plant–pollinator interactions to explore geographic patterns of specialization and their dependence on climate variables and taxonomic and functional identity.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 10","pages":"1886-1899"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149087764","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":"Developmental contexts of gene-regulatory evolution following whole genome duplication in salmonids","authors":"Marie-Odile Baudement, Diego Perojil Morata, Gareth B. Gillard, Pooran S. Dewari, Manu Kumar Gundappa, Tomasz Podgorniak, Lars Grønvold, Damir Baranasic, Audrey Laurent, François Giudicelli, Bojan Zunar, Erika Carrera-García, Aline Perquis, Aurélien Brionne, Tan Thi Nguyen, Rose Ruiz Daniels, Gabriela A. Merino, David Thybert, Garth R. Ilsley, Alexandra Louis, Torgeir R. Hvidsten, Camille Berthelot, Peter W. Harrison, Hugues Roest Crollius, Yann Guiguen, Boris Lenhard, Simen R. Sandve, Julien Bobe, Matthew P. Kent, Sigbjørn Lien, Daniel J. Macqueen","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03171-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03171-6","url":null,"abstract":"Whole genome duplication (WGD) events during early vertebrate evolution may have promoted phenotypic innovation by expanding the genetic material for functional diversification. However, their ancient origins obscure how gene regulation evolved during rediploidization, the process that generates duplicate genes and regulatory elements following WGD. Salmonids provide a unique window to these mechanisms, because they experienced a more recent autotetraploid WGD and remain at an earlier stage of rediploidization. Here we generated 771 multiomics datasets spanning embryonic and adult tissues in Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout to investigate the evolution of gene expression and regulatory elements. Our analyses show that regulatory evolution following the salmonid WGD was shaped by developmental and tissue-specific constraints known to act across vertebrate species. We identify a peak of within-genome regulatory constraint at the vertebrate phylotypic period, associated with the functional retention of duplicated enhancer pairs harbouring deeply conserved non-coding elements enriched in motifs for master developmental transcription factors. We further identify roles for enhancers and transposable elements in the expression divergence of duplicated genes. This study advances the understanding of regulatory evolution following WGD and offers an open resource supporting vertebrate comparative genomics and research applications in salmonid aquaculture and conservation. A comparative analysis of multiomics data from embryonic and adult tissues of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout reveals developmental and tissue-specific constraints shaping regulatory evolution following whole genome duplication.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 10","pages":"1959-1981"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03171-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149081410","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":"Development constrains the evolution of gene regulation after whole-genome duplication","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03173-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03173-4","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale multiomics in two salmonids reveals that developmental and tissue-specific programmes dictate the evolutionary fate of duplicated gene expression and regulatory element activity after whole-genome duplication, with the vertebrate phylotypic stage representing the peak of regulatory constraint. Our study suggests that enhancers, transposons and conserved non-coding elements influence duplicate gene expression evolution.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 10","pages":"1798-1799"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149081373","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}