Alexa L Fredston, Morgan W Tingley, Montague H C Neate-Clegg, Luke J Evans, Laura H Antão, Natalie C Ban, I-Ching Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Lise Comte, David P Edwards, Birgitta Evengard, Belen Fadrique, Sophie H Falkeis, Robert Guralnick, David H Klinges, Jonas J Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Aníbal Pauchard, Gretta Pecl, Malin L Pinsky, Rebecca A Senior, Jennifer E Smith, Lydia G Soifer, Jennifer M Sunday, Ken D Tape, Peter Washam, Brett R Scheffers
{"title":"Reimagining species on the move across space and time.","authors":"Alexa L Fredston, Morgan W Tingley, Montague H C Neate-Clegg, Luke J Evans, Laura H Antão, Natalie C Ban, I-Ching Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Lise Comte, David P Edwards, Birgitta Evengard, Belen Fadrique, Sophie H Falkeis, Robert Guralnick, David H Klinges, Jonas J Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Aníbal Pauchard, Gretta Pecl, Malin L Pinsky, Rebecca A Senior, Jennifer E Smith, Lydia G Soifer, Jennifer M Sunday, Ken D Tape, Peter Washam, Brett R Scheffers","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities migrating poleward. Despite the various modes of how species are on the move, we primarily document shifting species along only one gradient (e.g., latitude or phenology) and along one dimension (space or time). In this opinion article we present a unifying framework for integrating the study of species on the move over space and time and from micro to macro scales. Future conservation planning and natural resource management will depend on our ability to use this framework to improve understanding, attribution, and prediction of species on the move.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144000455","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}
Simon Bahrndorff, Peter Convey, Steven L Chown, Jesper Givskov Sørensen
{"title":"Polar ectotherms more vulnerable to warming than expected.","authors":"Simon Bahrndorff, Peter Convey, Steven L Chown, Jesper Givskov Sørensen","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polar regions are heavily impacted by climate change. Yet, vulnerability assessments suggest little concern about heat-related challenges for polar terrestrial ectotherms. These conclusions are based, however, on assumptions and extrapolation from temperate regions; the limited data available suggest that polar ectotherms are more sensitive to warming than previously recognized.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144028763","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}
Jessie C Buettel, David B Lindenmayer, Ben C Scheele, Maldwyn J Evans
{"title":"Maintaining robust terrestrial ecological monitoring amid technological advancements.","authors":"Jessie C Buettel, David B Lindenmayer, Ben C Scheele, Maldwyn J Evans","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long-term terrestrial biodiversity monitoring is crucial for understanding species and ecosystem responses to global change, yet it requires significant investment. Technological advancements offer opportunities for more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective monitoring, but transitioning to new methods presents significant risks to data integrity. Guidance for researchers and practitioners to manage these transitions, therefore, is critical. We present a novel seven-step framework and decision-making tool to guide the integration of new methods into established monitoring programs. The framework includes compatibility assessment, concurrent method cross-validation, and ongoing review, balancing the benefits of new technologies with the need to maintain dataset integrity. Our framework can help to ensure that new methods enhance the value and robustness of long-term biodiversity datasets while maintaining monitoring continuity.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014598","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":"Germination changes can restructure communities through priority effects.","authors":"Vicky M Temperton","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Priority effects caused by different species' arrival order can significantly influence community assembly and also plant community composition. Dawson-Glass et al. show for the first time in a multi-species setting, that warming-induced shifts in germination timing can restructure communities via seasonal priority effects that influence assembly and affect plant performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"40 5","pages":"426-427"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053028","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}
Maren N Vitousek, Conor C Taff, Jessie L Williamson
{"title":"Resilience and robustness: from sub-organismal responses to communities.","authors":"Maren N Vitousek, Conor C Taff, Jessie L Williamson","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coping with challenges is essential to life on earth. Determining the processes that generate resilience and robustness to disturbance across levels of biological organization is increasingly important as the pace of global change accelerates; however, to date, multiscale models have primarily focused on population to ecosystem scales. In this opinion article we combine conceptual models from different fields to develop a unified a framework of resilience and robustness that explicitly links sub-organismal responses with higher-level outcomes. This framework predicts that interactions among sub-organismal response components - including their temporal dynamics and the plasticity of homeostatic regulatory networks - are key drivers of current and future resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"468-478"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731937","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}
Katie I Murray, Kimberley J Hockings, Dave Hodgson
{"title":"The potential for AI to divide conservation: Response to 'The potential for AI to revolutionize conservation: a horizon scan'.","authors":"Katie I Murray, Kimberley J Hockings, Dave Hodgson","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"423"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711393","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}
Jedediah F Brodie, Benjamin G Freeman, Philip D Mannion, Anna L Hargreaves
{"title":"Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity.","authors":"Jedediah F Brodie, Benjamin G Freeman, Philip D Mannion, Anna L Hargreaves","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is causing species ranges to shift, expand, and contract, with divergent and underappreciated consequences for local and global biodiversity. Widespread range shifts should increase local diversity in most areas but reduce it in the tropical lowlands. Widespread expansions should maintain diversity at low latitudes while increasing diversity elsewhere, leading to stable global biodiversity. Expansions and shifts are both common responses to climate change now and in the deep past. To understand how changing ranges will reshape Earth's biodiversity, we argue for three research directions: (i) leverage paleontological data to reveal long-term biodiversity responses, (ii) better monitor low-elevation and latitude limits to distinguish shifts from expansions, and (iii) incorporate dispersal barriers that can turn would-be shifts into contractions and extinctions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"439-448"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143537686","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":"Fieldwork in ecology: why and how it matters.","authors":"Masashi Soga, Kevin J Gaston","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"40 5","pages":"421-422"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143983036","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}
Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Maxime Fraser Franco, Francesca Santostefano
{"title":"Multiplayer videogames to analyze behavior during ecological interactions.","authors":"Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Maxime Fraser Franco, Francesca Santostefano","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behavior shapes population and community dynamics through feedbacks with habitat configuration and interaction networks. Work on this interplay includes longitudinal surveys, experiments, and models. Multiplayer online video games foster real-time interactions among lots of players in virtual spaces. Data from these games could complement theoretical and empirical work, but research on them is only emerging now. We highlight how these games allow us to track individual movement, decisions, interactions, and performance in a tractable environment. We use our work on the game Dead by Daylight as an example to show that social and predator-prey interactions can generate complex ecoevolutionary dynamics favoring an array of behavioral traits we often study in nature. These games can foster progress in ecoevolutionary and behavioral research.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"489-501"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606500","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":"From field to framework: response to Soga and Gaston.","authors":"Rafael D Guariento","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"419-420"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568308","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}