Zhixin Zhang, Zhuo Yan, Jorge García Molinos, Guojiang Yu, Ákos Bede-Fazekas, James T Carlton, Jamie M Kass, Scott A Kulp, Hugh J MacIsaac, Stefano Mammola, Liuyong Ding, Yuanbao Du, Long Jin, Xuecao Li, Wenbo Liao, Yusi Xin, Qiang Lin, Xuan Liu
{"title":"Global sea-level rise will create a new biological invasion front.","authors":"Zhixin Zhang, Zhuo Yan, Jorge García Molinos, Guojiang Yu, Ákos Bede-Fazekas, James T Carlton, Jamie M Kass, Scott A Kulp, Hugh J MacIsaac, Stefano Mammola, Liuyong Ding, Yuanbao Du, Long Jin, Xuecao Li, Wenbo Liao, Yusi Xin, Qiang Lin, Xuan Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03181-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03181-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is causing a redistribution of life on Earth but also creating new habitats that can result in biological invasions. Despite great efforts focused on predicting range expansions of non-native species under climate change, its induced sea-level rise may open new habitats for the landward expansion of marine non-native species into inundated coastal lands, which remains unexplored. Here we show that over two-thirds of inundated coastal land area (approximately 290,000-470,000 km<sup>2</sup>) will be environmentally suitable for 122 established non-native marine animals by the middle and end of this century, particularly in estuaries of mid-latitude regions. This emphasizes the need to consider sea-level rise when conducting invasion risk predictions under climate change scenarios. The development of effective early-warning systems and proactive management strategies will become critical for detecting and mitigating marine invasions into inundated regions as coastal lands continue to be reclaimed by the ocean across the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149075281","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}
Nico Appold, Timon Citak, Auguste A Palm, Jona Kayser
{"title":"A microbial therapy-mimicry assay shows how spatial resource dynamics control resistance escape.","authors":"Nico Appold, Timon Citak, Auguste A Palm, Jona Kayser","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03178-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03178-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evolution of therapy resistance in structured populations such as biofilms and solid tumours is shaped by emergent spatial organization, with profound consequences for evolution-based therapies. However, how treatment reshapes these patterns remains poorly understood. Here we show that intermittent treatment pulses transiently reconfigure the resource landscape, reorganize spatial growth zones and can enable resistant mutants to escape spatial confinement and drive therapy failure. We introduce a spatial evolution assay in which populations expand from single, genetically tailored yeast cells, enabling quantitative tracking of the full spatiotemporal trajectories of continually emerging resistant mutants under intermittent treatment. By integrating these observations with a mechanistically interpretable computational model in a real-to-sim-to-real loop, we identify a dynamic phase-transition-like boundary in schedule space that defines a candidate optimal balance between population control and sustained resistance confinement, which we test experimentally. Together, our results establish resource-mediated spatial confinement as a central organizing principle of resistance evolution and provide a mechanistic foundation for spatially informed, evolution-based therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149075331","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}
Sagnik Ghosh, Ping Zhong, Caroline Suray, Junaid Mir, Tingting Chen, Antonio Palazzo, Vincent Rincheval, François Rouyer, Abhishek Chatterjee
{"title":"Mating imperatives drive plasticity of the daily temporal niche in fruit flies","authors":"Sagnik Ghosh, Ping Zhong, Caroline Suray, Junaid Mir, Tingting Chen, Antonio Palazzo, Vincent Rincheval, François Rouyer, Abhishek Chatterjee","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03175-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03175-2","url":null,"abstract":"Animals confine their daily activity to distinct diurnal, crepuscular or nocturnal windows. It remains unclear how hundreds of sympatric species sharing the same temporal niche manage to coexist. To address this, we monitored the daily activity of the twilight-active, species-rich Drosophila genus under naturalistic conditions. Here we show that intense sociosexual interactions rapidly drive a species-specific reformatting of their canonical crepuscular niche. The dominant sensory modality used for sexual communication predicts niche-shift direction: reliance on chemosensation for courtship redirects behavioural activity into the night, while visual reliance shifts it into the day. This temporal plasticity bypasses the circadian clock, instead operating via a conserved dopaminergic pathway that simultaneously inhibits sleep and sustains sexual motivation. Our results reveal how mating imperatives enable conditional colonization of otherwise restricted temporal windows. Ultimately, by driving the divergence of previously overlapping niches, sociosexually induced temporal plasticity provides a powerful mechanism for sympatric coexistence in crowded environments. A study of daily activity of Drosophila species under naturalistic conditions shows that sociosexual interactions, via dopamine signalling, expand their temporal niche in a species-specific way according to their sensory ecology.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 10","pages":"1982-1996"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149021709","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":"Afforestation and reforestation support coupled gains in soil life and carbon storage worldwide.","authors":"Zexin Meng, Yiping Wu, Nico Eisenhauer, Yongxing Cui, Diego Abalos, Huiwen Li, Huayang Zhen, Peng Wang, Guiyao Zhou, Fangyan Zhang, Shuguang Liu, Ji Chen, Guoyi Zhou, Ying-Ping Wang, Jianchu Xu, Linjing Qiu, Fubo Zhao, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03183-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03183-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Forest planting is widely promoted as a nature-based climate solution for mitigating anthropogenic carbon (C) emissions. Whether different planting strategies lead to similar trajectories in C storage and how these affect soil microbial growth are poorly understood. Here we compile data on 1,158 paired afforestation/reforestation and reference sites across six continents. We find that afforestation has the potential to support greater soil microbial biomass and larger topsoil C storage across stand development spanning up to a century. Reforestation is associated with substantial recovery of soil C storage and soil microbial biomass, with both approaching original forest levels during the first three decades, but these gains are not sustained in older stands. Soil C and microbial biomass responses are generally coupled across prior land uses, climatic zones and planted tree species, with greater gains on degraded lands. Overall, our work provides evidence that afforestation and reforestation could contribute to soil C storage and support soil microbial growth under global change, offering critical insights for refining nature-based climate solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002276","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}
Gabriel Hes, Sylvain Kuppel, Germán Baldi, Deliane Penha, Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Marvin D Dorosan, Aaron Vergel, Czar Jakiri S Sarmiento, Freg J Stokes, Eduardo Neves, Manuel J H Peters, Patrick Roberts
{"title":"The ethical costs of remotely sensing tropical forest understories.","authors":"Gabriel Hes, Sylvain Kuppel, Germán Baldi, Deliane Penha, Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Marvin D Dorosan, Aaron Vergel, Czar Jakiri S Sarmiento, Freg J Stokes, Eduardo Neves, Manuel J H Peters, Patrick Roberts","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03187-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03187-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148982747","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}