{"title":"Disability in ecology and evolution.","authors":"Kelsey J R P Byers, Denis Meuthen, Hella Péter","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"517-522"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014487","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}
Laís Carneiro, Boris Leroy, César Capinha, Corey J A Bradshaw, Sandro Bertolino, Jane A Catford, Morelia Camacho-Cervantes, Jamie Bojko, Gabriel Klippel, Sabrina Kumschick, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Jonathan D Tonkin, Brian D Fath, Josie South, Eléna Manfrini, Tad Dallas, Franck Courchamp
{"title":"Typology of the ecological impacts of biological invasions.","authors":"Laís Carneiro, Boris Leroy, César Capinha, Corey J A Bradshaw, Sandro Bertolino, Jane A Catford, Morelia Camacho-Cervantes, Jamie Bojko, Gabriel Klippel, Sabrina Kumschick, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Jonathan D Tonkin, Brian D Fath, Josie South, Eléna Manfrini, Tad Dallas, Franck Courchamp","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biological invasions alter ecosystems by disrupting ecological processes that can degrade biodiversity, harm human health, and cause massive economic burdens. Existing frameworks to classify the ecological impacts either miss many types of impact or conflate mechanisms (causes) with the impacts themselves (consequences). We propose a comprehensive typology of 19 types of ecological impact across six levels of ecological organisation. This allows more accurate diagnosis of the cause of impact and can help triage management options to tackle each impact-mechanism combination. We integrated the typology with broad ecological concepts such as energy, mass, and information flow and storage. By highlighting cascading effects across multiple levels, this typology provides a clearer framework for documenting, and communicating invasion impacts, thereby improving management and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"563-574"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144049958","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}
Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Marcus Hedblom, Anna S Persson
{"title":"Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation.","authors":"Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Marcus Hedblom, Anna S Persson","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With calls for increased greenery in cities to safeguard biodiversity and its associated benefits to humans, urban vegetation must be managed carefully and efficiently. It is time to change paths from current spurious attempts to manufacture resilience and instead usher in evidence-based urban greening to secure ecosystems for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"523-526"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175066","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}
Fletcher W Halliday, Susan E Everingham, Maximilian Bröcher, Anne Ebeling, Anne Kempel, Fabiane M Mundim, Alexander T Strauss, Zoe A Xirocostas, Mayank Kohli
{"title":"Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity-consumer relationships.","authors":"Fletcher W Halliday, Susan E Everingham, Maximilian Bröcher, Anne Ebeling, Anne Kempel, Fabiane M Mundim, Alexander T Strauss, Zoe A Xirocostas, Mayank Kohli","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terrestrial plant diversity plays a pivotal role in influencing the abundance, diversity, and impacts of herbivores and pathogens (collectively, plant consumers). However, it is unclear whether the relationships between biodiversity and herbivory reflect the same underlying ecological mechanisms as the relationships between biodiversity and disease. This uncertainty results in part from decades of independent, siloed research on each consumer group. We propose that, across herbivores and pathogens, plant diversity-consumer relationships arise from five fundamental factors: (1) density of a focal plant, (2) total plant biomass, (3) plant neighborhood quality, (4) resource diversity, and (5) structural complexity. By matching established hypotheses to these five fundamental factors, we highlight opportunities for growth in the rapidly developing field of plant-consumer interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"539-553"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144019469","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":"New twist to a fantastical distribution: Fiji-Tonga iguanas.","authors":"Jason R Ali, Uwe Fritz","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over-water 'rafting' accounts for much of the biota on the 'oceanic' islands. Arguably, the most spectacular example concerns the iguanas on Fiji and Tonga. Scarpetta et al. have recently provided compelling evidence for them originating in western North America, with their trans-oceanic dispersal occurring within the past 33 million years.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"536-538"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144080573","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}
Pedro Cardoso, Vasco Branco, Luís Correia, Brent C Emerson, Veronika N Laine, Manuel Lopes
{"title":"Automated biodiversity research critically requires multidisciplinary expertise.","authors":"Pedro Cardoso, Vasco Branco, Luís Correia, Brent C Emerson, Veronika N Laine, Manuel Lopes","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data-driven computational methods in taxonomy, ecology, and conservation biology are revolutionising these disciplines, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. However, effective automation requires both critical thinking about the limitations of the data and methods, and thorough training and validation by experts, supported by strong interdisciplinary collaboration.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144161191","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}
Luke T Kelly, Ary A Hoffmann, Craig R Nitschke, Juli G Pausas
{"title":"Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?","authors":"Luke T Kelly, Ary A Hoffmann, Craig R Nitschke, Juli G Pausas","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patterns of fire are rapidly changing across the globe and causing mismatches between plants and their environment. These mismatches have ecological and evolutionary consequences, but the latter are often overlooked. A critical question is whether plant populations can evolve quickly enough to keep up with changing fire regimes. Fire-related traits, such as canopy seed storage with fire-stimulated seed release, vary within species and can enhance fitness and be heritable - the preconditions for adaptive evolution. Here, we develop a framework that recognizes mismatches between traits and fire based on variation within and among conspecific populations and that opens new ways of forecasting environmental changes and conserving plants. Advances in genomics enable evolutionary potential to be estimated even in wild, long-lived plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143064","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}
Christian Drerup, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Clive Wilkins, James E Herbert-Read, Nicola S Clayton
{"title":"Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition.","authors":"Christian Drerup, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Clive Wilkins, James E Herbert-Read, Nicola S Clayton","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many animals rely on deception, including signalling misinformation, to gain advantages over others. While many deceptive strategies rely on deterministic patterns or conditioning, some taxa can flexibly adapt their deceptive behaviour to the identity, perspective, or inferred goals of the observer. These context-dependent deceptive strategies could be considered 'tactical deception' if they rely on higher-level cognitive processes to execute. Here, we outline why cephalopods, such as octopus and cuttlefish, are ideal candidates to explore the link between deception and cognition. As tactical deception relies on understanding differences in one's own and another observer's perspective, we suggest tactical deception as a framework to study aspects of cognition in other animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133213","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":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","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}
Nianxun Xi, Jonathan R De Long, John Davison, Paul Kardol, Leslie E Forero, Martin Zobel, Marina Semchenko
{"title":"Plant-soil microbial interactions as modulators of species coexistence and productivity.","authors":"Nianxun Xi, Jonathan R De Long, John Davison, Paul Kardol, Leslie E Forero, Martin Zobel, Marina Semchenko","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant coexistence and diversity-productivity relationships are often studied separately, yet both are shaped by the same biotic interactions. Here we focus on how host-specificity among soil pathogens and mutualists alters niche and fitness differences among plant species, subsequently modifying biodiversity effects on productivity. Specialist pathogens can generate niche differences through density-dependent processes, thereby stabilizing plant coexistence and enhancing complementarity effects. Specialist mutualists can instead destabilize coexistence and lead to variable effects on productivity. The effects of generalist microbes are less predictable, depending on relationships between plant traits determining microbial interactions (e.g., defense traits) and those determining competitive ability and biomass production. This review underscores the significance of plant-microbial interactions in bridging the mechanisms underlying species coexistence and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144102755","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}