{"title":"Looking back on 2024","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-024-02629-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-024-02629-9","url":null,"abstract":"We revisit some of the outstanding articles published in our pages over the past 12 months and reflect on some of the year’s events in ecology, evolution and conservation.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02629-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142941259","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}
Lorène J. Marchand, Jožica Gričar, Paolo Zuccarini, Inge Dox, Bertold Mariën, Melanie Verlinden, Thilo Heinecke, Peter Prislan, Guillaume Marie, Holger Lange, Jan Van den Bulcke, Josep Penuelas, Patrick Fonti, Matteo Campioli
{"title":"No winter halt in below-ground wood growth of four angiosperm deciduous tree species","authors":"Lorène J. Marchand, Jožica Gričar, Paolo Zuccarini, Inge Dox, Bertold Mariën, Melanie Verlinden, Thilo Heinecke, Peter Prislan, Guillaume Marie, Holger Lange, Jan Van den Bulcke, Josep Penuelas, Patrick Fonti, Matteo Campioli","doi":"10.1038/s41559-024-02602-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-024-02602-6","url":null,"abstract":"In the temperate zone, deciduous trees exhibit clear above-ground seasonality, marked by a halt in wood growth that represents the completion of wood formation in autumn and reactivation in spring. However, the growth seasonality of below-ground woody organs, such as coarse roots, has been largely overlooked. Here we use tree monitoring data and pot experiments involving saplings to examine the late-season xylem development of stem and coarse roots with leaf phenology in four common deciduous tree species in Western Europe. Coarse-roots wood growth continued throughout the winter whereas stem wood growth halted in autumn, regardless of the tree species, experimental setting or location. Our results do not indicate a clear temperature constraint on below-ground wood growth, even during prolonged periods with soil temperatures lower than 3 °C. The continuous differentiation of xylem root cells in autumn and winter suggests that the non-growing season does not exist sensu stricto for all woody organs of angiosperm deciduous tree species of the temperate zone. Our findings hold implications for understanding tree functioning, in particular the seasonal wood formation, the environmental controls of tree growth and the carbon reserves dynamics. As wood growth in deciduous tree stems halts during winter, it has been assumed that wood growth in coarse roots follows the same pattern. This study on the growth of stem and coarse roots of four European tree species challenges the assumption of winter halt in below-ground wood growth of temperate deciduous trees.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 3","pages":"386-394"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142937340","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}
Alex Slavenko, Natalie Cooper, Shai Meiri, Gopal Murali, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Gavin H. Thomas
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size","authors":"Alex Slavenko, Natalie Cooper, Shai Meiri, Gopal Murali, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Gavin H. Thomas","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02635-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02635-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"9 3","pages":"525-525"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02635-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939581","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}