Eric Garnier, Dominique Pelletier, Philip Roche, Rodolphe Rougerie, Sandrine Pavoine
{"title":"Defining biodiversity data.","authors":"Eric Garnier, Dominique Pelletier, Philip Roche, Rodolphe Rougerie, Sandrine Pavoine","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is crucial to document biodiversity data and to take actions to halt the ongoing massive loss of biodiversity. Yet, these data are poorly defined. We propose a definition of biodiversity data and discuss its implications for data management, enabling enhanced data mobilization for integrated research and efficient conservation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668590","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}
Lydia G Soifer, Julie L Lockwood, Jonas J Lembrechts, Laura H Antão, David H Klinges, Rebecca A Senior, Natalie C Ban, Birgitta Evengard, Belen Fadrique, Sophie Falkeis, Alexa L Fredston, Rob Guralnick, Jonathan Lenoir, Montague H C Neate-Clegg, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Gretta Pecl, Malin L Pinsky, Jennifer E Smith, Beth Stys, Morgan W Tingley, Brett R Scheffers
{"title":"Extreme events drive rapid and dynamic range fluctuations.","authors":"Lydia G Soifer, Julie L Lockwood, Jonas J Lembrechts, Laura H Antão, David H Klinges, Rebecca A Senior, Natalie C Ban, Birgitta Evengard, Belen Fadrique, Sophie Falkeis, Alexa L Fredston, Rob Guralnick, Jonathan Lenoir, Montague H C Neate-Clegg, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Gretta Pecl, Malin L Pinsky, Jennifer E Smith, Beth Stys, Morgan W Tingley, Brett R Scheffers","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is altering species' distributions globally. Increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate events (EWCEs) is one of the hallmarks of climate change. Despite species redistribution being widely studied in response to long-term climatic trends, the contribution of EWCEs to range shifts is not well understood. We outline how EWCEs can trigger rapid and unexpected range boundary fluctuations by impacting dispersal, establishment, and survival. Whether these mechanisms cause temporary or persistent range shifts depends on the spatiotemporal context and exposure to EWCEs. Using the increasing availability of data and statistical tools to examine EWCE impacts at fine spatiotemporal resolutions on species redistribution will be critical for informing conservation management of ecologically, economically, and culturally important species.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668591","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}
Frank T Burbrink, Dylan DeBaun, Nicole M Foley, William J Murphy
{"title":"Recombination-aware phylogenomics.","authors":"Frank T Burbrink, Dylan DeBaun, Nicole M Foley, William J Murphy","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phylogenetic variation, recombination rate evolution, and comparative genome structure and organization have typically been explored in isolation. The chromosomal and genomic context of selected genetic markers in phylogenetic studies is usually unknown, given the fragmented nature of most genome assemblies. It is now established that the position of markers in the genome can strongly influence the inferred phylogeny, often not reflecting speciation patterns and subsequent bifurcating tree structure but rather post-speciation introgression. The recent availability of chromosome-level genome assemblies and advances in estimating genome-wide recombination rates have created opportunities to jointly understand the interplay of chromosome evolution, the landscape of recombination, and phylogenetic signal.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668594","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}
Hai Ren, Richard T Corlett, Zhiyun Ouyang, Stephen Blackmore
{"title":"How can China protect 30% of its land?","authors":"Hai Ren, Richard T Corlett, Zhiyun Ouyang, Stephen Blackmore","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework aims to conserve 30% of land globally by 2030 using protected areas (PAs) and 'other effective area-based conservation measures' (OECMs). China plans to expand PAs to 18% of the land area. An additional 12% can be designated as OECMs within the ecological protection red lines.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668592","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":"Disability in ecology and evolution.","authors":"Anne Charmantier, Jennifer Lavers, Skye Austin","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627162","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":"Proponents of the Sixth Mass Extinction admit it is unsupported.","authors":"John J Wiens, Kristen E Saban","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144620735","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":"Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change.","authors":"Kwasi C Wrensford, Amy L Angert, Kaitlyn M Gaynor","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change has led animal species to shift their ranges to greater elevations, latitudes, and depths, tracking their preferred abiotic niche. However, there is extensive variation in these shifts, and some species have not shifted their ranges at all. Some of this variation arises because species' distributions not only align with the abiotic environment but are also shaped by biotic factors and movement. Through facilitating rapid adaptive responses to climate-mediated changes to abiotic, biotic, and movement factors, behavioral plasticity allows populations to survive environmental change to persist in place, while also enabling successful establishment in novel habitats when shifting in space.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668593","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":"Sex chromosome evolution in action in fourspine sticklebacks.","authors":"Beatriz Vicoso","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.06.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The suppression of recombination between young X and Y chromosomes is a crucial step in their evolution, but why it occurs is not known. The detailed characterization of the polymorphic sex chromosomes of the fourspine stickleback by Liu et al. promises to shed new light on this longstanding question.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576339","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 Dansereau, João Braga, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Núria Galiana, Dominique Gravel, Luigi Maiorano, José M Montoya, Louise O'Connor, Laura Pollock, Wilfried Thuiller, Timothée Poisot, Ceres Barros
{"title":"Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation.","authors":"Gabriel Dansereau, João Braga, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Núria Galiana, Dominique Gravel, Luigi Maiorano, José M Montoya, Louise O'Connor, Laura Pollock, Wilfried Thuiller, Timothée Poisot, Ceres Barros","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decision-makers need to act now to halt biodiversity loss, and ecologists must provide them with relevant species interaction indicators to inform about community- and ecosystem-level changes. Yet, the integration of ecological networks into conservation is still virtually nonexistent. Here, we argue that existing data and methodologies are sufficient to generate network information usable for conservation and to begin overcoming existing barriers to the integration of network information and biodiversity decision-making. Interaction network indicators must meet criteria important to decision-makers and be tied to specific conservation goals, which requires academics to better engage with practitioners. We use network robustness as an example of an already applicable indicator and showcase its potential with a reusable workflow to inform decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565264","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}
John R Stewart, Inger G Alsos, Antony G Brown, Love Dalén, Peter D Heintzman
{"title":"The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species.","authors":"John R Stewart, Inger G Alsos, Antony G Brown, Love Dalén, Peter D Heintzman","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evolution of cold-adapted terrestrial species underwent two main phases. First, the genera of cold-adapted taxa appeared during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. The modern day and Late Pleistocene cold-adapted species then arose during and after the Middle Pleistocene Transition. These species evolved through one or more of the following processes: out of the temperate zone, evolving in situ, or through montane preadaptation. Palaeogenetic studies are greatly contributing to our understanding of the timings and modes of evolution of cold-adapted species as well as when their specialised traits evolved. The evolution of polar plant and beetle species is claimed to show greater stasis than that of vertebrates, but could instead reflect morphological conservatism that can be tested with palaeogenetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"687-698"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112104","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}