Tengteng Li, Richard P Phillips, Matthias C Rillig, Gerrit Angst, E Toby Kiers, Paola Bonfante, Nico Eisenhauer, Zhanfeng Liu
{"title":"Mycorrhizal allies: synergizing forest carbon and multifunctional restoration.","authors":"Tengteng Li, Richard P Phillips, Matthias C Rillig, Gerrit Angst, E Toby Kiers, Paola Bonfante, Nico Eisenhauer, Zhanfeng Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While forest degradation persists across many regions, restoration efforts have predominantly targeted aboveground carbon, often overlooking critical belowground ecosystem functions. Plant-mycorrhizal associations - key connectors between aboveground and belowground biodiversity - can help to enhance both carbon storage and forest multifunctionality; yet their explicit integration into restoration frameworks remains limited. By synthesizing recent advancements, we highlight the role of plant-mycorrhizal diversity in enhancing soil carbon pools and supporting multiple ecosystem functions. By examining evidence-based restoration cases, we propose a framework linking plant-mycorrhizal associations to sustainably restore resilient and multifunctional forest ecosystems. Incorporating the functional traits of plant-mycorrhizal associations into restoration strategies provides a pathway to effectively address the interconnected biodiversity and climate crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"983-994"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856435","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}
Etienne Lalechère, Jonathan Lenoir, Ronan Marrec, Franz Essl, Ingolf Kühn, Torbjørn Ergon
{"title":"Assessing biodiversity trends in a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.","authors":"Etienne Lalechère, Jonathan Lenoir, Ronan Marrec, Franz Essl, Ingolf Kühn, Torbjørn Ergon","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 'equilibrium assumption' underlying biodiversity trends assessments in response to environmental changes is rarely challenged, the traditional assumption being that biodiversity is in an equilibrium state with its contemporary drivers. Existing non-equilibrium biodiversity frameworks still rely on the assumption that biodiversity is, at a given moment in time, in an equilibrium state with its contemporary drivers. In this opinion article we consider multiple trajectories of changes due to long-term disturbances that push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state. We propose a conceptual framework based on the use of temporal influence functions that can be integrated into a wide range of ecological models. The complete paradigm shift we provide can hindcast past, and project future, non-equilibrium biodiversity trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"949-959"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859647","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":"Escaping enemies enhances invader mutualisms: role of metabolites.","authors":"Baoliang Tian, Jianqing Ding, Wei Huang, Evan Siemann","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-native plants often outperform native plants by escaping natural enemies and forming mutualistic relationships in new ranges. However, the causal relationships and mechanisms linking these interactions remain largely unclear. Metabolite reallocation may play a crucial role in linking ecological and evolutionary shifts between antagonistic and mutualistic interactions of non-native plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"945-948"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144970253","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":"Fossilisation ecology - a more complete concept of taphonomy.","authors":"Jes Rust, Victoria E McCoy","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Taphonomy, a subdiscipline of paleontology, is generally concerned with everything that happens from the death of an organism through to the discovery of its fossil. Here we propose the concept of fossilisation ecology, which extends taphonomy by formalising the idea that the ecology of an organism may affect its fossilisation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"942-944"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144970264","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}
Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Zuzana Buřivalová, Daisy H Dent
{"title":"Conservation needs curiosity, innovation and complementarity: reply to Sugai and Costa-Pereira.","authors":"Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Zuzana Buřivalová, Daisy H Dent","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"937-938"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081633","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":"Quality, quantity, and the adaptive function of social relationships.","authors":"Delphine De Moor, Lauren J N Brent","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Affiliative social relationships have clear links to fitness in many species, yet exactly why that is the case remains elusive. We unify theory from socioecology and network science to set forth testable predictions of how individuals should invest in their social relationships given the relative benefits of different social strategies across environmental contexts. We propose that relationship quality provides access to social support, which can help animals faced with local pressures such as contest competition, while relationship quantity provides access to social tolerance, which can help with global pressures such as predation. The Adaptive Relationships Framework sets the foundation for the systematic study of how social and ecological pressures drive adaptive variation in the quality and quantity of social relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201489","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":"Unveiling East Asian ancestry through Middle Neolithic genomes.","authors":"Min-Sheng Peng, Xueping Ji, Ya-Ping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spread of millet and rice agriculture has significantly impacted human societies in Asia and the Pacific. Recent ancient genomic studies by Xiong et al. and Wang et al. uncover three East Asian farmer ancestries and their migrations during the Middle Neolithic. These underscore interactions between diverse ancestries and update the farming/language dispersal hypothesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182127","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":"'Venom' - a manipulative weapon for overcoming the victim's protective barriers.","authors":"Volker Herzig","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145125989","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":"Invasive species eradication standards.","authors":"James C Russell","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Invasive species management traditionally distinguishes states of eradication from suppression but an intermediary 'elimination' also exists. Whereas eradication is removal of both residents and reinvaders, elimination removes residents but non-breeding reinvaders remain. By contrast, suppression is only a reduction in the number of residents and does not distinguish reinvaders.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145113581","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}