Alexis L Beaurepaire, Katja Hogendoorn, David Kleijn, Gard W Otis, Simon G Potts, Theresa L Singer, Samuel Boff, Christian Pirk, Josef Settele, Robert J Paxton, Nigel E Raine, Simone Tosi, Neal Williams, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Yves Le Conte, Joshua W Campbell, Geoffrey R Williams, Lorenzo Marini, Axel Brockmann, Fabio Sgolastra, Natalie Boyle, Markus Neuditschko, Lars Straub, Peter Neumann, Jean-Daniel Charrière, Matthias Albrecht, Vincent Dietemann
{"title":"Avenues towards reconciling wild and managed bee proponents.","authors":"Alexis L Beaurepaire, Katja Hogendoorn, David Kleijn, Gard W Otis, Simon G Potts, Theresa L Singer, Samuel Boff, Christian Pirk, Josef Settele, Robert J Paxton, Nigel E Raine, Simone Tosi, Neal Williams, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Yves Le Conte, Joshua W Campbell, Geoffrey R Williams, Lorenzo Marini, Axel Brockmann, Fabio Sgolastra, Natalie Boyle, Markus Neuditschko, Lars Straub, Peter Neumann, Jean-Daniel Charrière, Matthias Albrecht, Vincent Dietemann","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bees are crucial for food security and biodiversity. However, managed bees are increasingly considered drivers of wild bee declines, leading to stakeholder conflicts and restrictive policies. We propose avenues to reconcile wild and managed bee proponents and point out knowledge gaps that hinder the development of evidence-based policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792582","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}
William J Sutherland, Peter N M Brotherton, Holly M Butterworth, Stewart J Clarke, Tammy E Davies, Nigel Doar, Nafeesa Esmail, Erica Fleishman, Kevin J Gaston, James E Herbert-Read, Alice C Hughes, Jonathan Hughes, Hermanni Kaartokallio, Lian Pin Koh, Ritesh Kumar, Fiona A Lickorish, Hannah Littler, James E Palardy, James W Pearce-Higgins, Lloyd S Peck, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jules Pretty, Irene R Schloss, Mark D Spalding, Dirk Ten Brink, Eleanor R Tew, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Nicolas Tubbs, James E M Watson, Jonathan Wentworth, Jeremy D Wilson, Ann Thornton
{"title":"A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2025.","authors":"William J Sutherland, Peter N M Brotherton, Holly M Butterworth, Stewart J Clarke, Tammy E Davies, Nigel Doar, Nafeesa Esmail, Erica Fleishman, Kevin J Gaston, James E Herbert-Read, Alice C Hughes, Jonathan Hughes, Hermanni Kaartokallio, Lian Pin Koh, Ritesh Kumar, Fiona A Lickorish, Hannah Littler, James E Palardy, James W Pearce-Higgins, Lloyd S Peck, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jules Pretty, Irene R Schloss, Mark D Spalding, Dirk Ten Brink, Eleanor R Tew, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Nicolas Tubbs, James E M Watson, Jonathan Wentworth, Jeremy D Wilson, Ann Thornton","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We discuss the outcomes of our 16th horizon scan of issues that are novel or represent a considerable step-change and have the potential to substantially affect conservation of biological diversity in the coming decade. From an initial 96 topics, our international panel of 32 scientists and practitioners prioritised 15 issues. Technological advances are prominent, including metal and non-metal organic frameworks, deriving rare earth elements from macroalgae, synthetic gene drives in plants, and low-emission cement. We include new insights into accelerated impacts of changes to Antarctic ice masses and air and water quality. We hope that anticipating and mitigating negative impacts, and making best use of new opportunities related to these issues, will contribute to better outcomes for biological diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"80-89"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787101","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}
Anne M McLeod, Shawn Leroux, Chelsea L Little, François Massol, Eric Vander Wal, Yolanda F Wiersma, Isabelle Gounand, Nicolas Loeuille, Eric Harvey
{"title":"Quantifying elemental diversity to study landscape ecosystem function.","authors":"Anne M McLeod, Shawn Leroux, Chelsea L Little, François Massol, Eric Vander Wal, Yolanda F Wiersma, Isabelle Gounand, Nicolas Loeuille, Eric Harvey","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The movement, distribution, and relative proportions of essential elements across the landscape should influence the structure and functioning of biological communities. Yet, our basic understanding of the spatial distribution of elements, particularly bioavailable elements, across landscapes is limited. Here, we propose a quantitative framework to study the causes and consequences of spatial patterns of elements. Specifically, we integrate distribution models, dissimilarity metrics, and spatial smoothing to predict how the distribution of bioavailable elements changes with spatial extent. Our community and landscape ecology perspective on elemental diversity highlights the characteristic relationships that emerge among elements in landscapes and that can be measured empirically to help us pinpoint ecosystem control points. This step forward provides a mechanistic link between community and ecosystem processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"57-66"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142475706","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":"John R Hutchinson, Daniel L Rabosky","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872850","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}
Lorena M Benitez, Catherine L Parr, Mahesh Sankaran, Casey M Ryan
{"title":"Fragmentation in patchy ecosystems: a call for a functional approach.","authors":"Lorena M Benitez, Catherine L Parr, Mahesh Sankaran, Casey M Ryan","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Habitat fragmentation is a major threat to biodiversity, but existing literature largely ignores naturally patchy ecosystems in favor of forests, where deforestation creates spatially distinct fragments. Here, we use savannas to highlight the problems with applying forest fragmentation principles to spatially patchy ecosystems. Identifying fragmentation using landscape functionality, specifically connectivity, enables better understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Tools and concepts from connectivity research are well suited to identifying barriers other than vegetation structure contributing to fragmentation. Opportunities exist to improve fragmentation mapping by combining remote-sensing data with field measurements related to connectivity to empirically test whether landscapes are functionally fragmented. Advancements in deep learning and increasingly accessible data open many possibilities for comprehensive maps of fragmentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"27-36"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606266","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}
Roxanne S Beltran, A Marm Kilpatrick, Simona Picardi, Briana Abrahms, Gabriel M Barrile, William K Oestreich, Justine A Smith, Max F Czapanskiy, Arina B Favilla, Ryan R Reisinger, Jessica M Kendall-Bar, Allison R Payne, Matthew S Savoca, Danial G Palance, Samantha Andrzejaczek, Daphne M Shen, Taiki Adachi, Daniel P Costa, Natalie A Storm, Conner M Hale, Patrick W Robinson
{"title":"Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals.","authors":"Roxanne S Beltran, A Marm Kilpatrick, Simona Picardi, Briana Abrahms, Gabriel M Barrile, William K Oestreich, Justine A Smith, Max F Czapanskiy, Arina B Favilla, Ryan R Reisinger, Jessica M Kendall-Bar, Allison R Payne, Matthew S Savoca, Danial G Palance, Samantha Andrzejaczek, Daphne M Shen, Taiki Adachi, Daniel P Costa, Natalie A Storm, Conner M Hale, Patrick W Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Instruments attached to animals ('biologgers') have facilitated extensive discoveries about the patterns, causes, and consequences of animal behavior. Here, we present examples of how biologging can deepen our fundamental understanding of ecosystems and our applied understanding of global change impacts by enabling tests of ecological theory. Applying the iterative process of science to biologging has enabled a diverse set of insights, including social and experiential learning in long-distance migrants, state-dependent risk aversion in foraging predators, and resource abundance driving movement across taxa. Now, biologging is poised to tackle questions and refine ecological theories at increasing levels of complexity by integrating measurements from numerous individuals, merging datasets from multiple species and their environments, and spanning disciplines, including physiology, behavior and demography.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"37-46"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142547665","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 & evolutionary biology.","authors":"Andrea E A Stephens","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.12.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872846","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}
Scott W Yanco, Christian Rutz, Briana Abrahms, Nathan W Cooper, Peter P Marra, Thomas Mueller, Brian C Weeks, Martin Wikelski, Ruth Y Oliver
{"title":"Tracking individual animals can reveal the mechanisms of species loss.","authors":"Scott W Yanco, Christian Rutz, Briana Abrahms, Nathan W Cooper, Peter P Marra, Thomas Mueller, Brian C Weeks, Martin Wikelski, Ruth Y Oliver","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As biodiversity loss continues, targeted conservation interventions are increasingly necessary. Stemming species loss requires mechanistic understanding of the processes governing population dynamics. However, this information is unavailable for most animals because it requires data that are difficult to collect using traditional methods. Advances in animal tracking technology have generated an avalanche of high-resolution observations for a growing list of species around the globe. To date, most research using these data has focused on questions about animal behavior, with less emphasis on population processes. Here, we argue that tracking data are uniquely poised to bring powerful new insights to the urgent, global problem of halting species extinctions by revealing when, where, how, and why populations are changing.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"47-56"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142589827","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}
Anna C Bowland, Amanda D Melin, David J Hosken, Kimberley J Hockings, Matthew A Carrigan
{"title":"The evolutionary ecology of ethanol.","authors":"Anna C Bowland, Amanda D Melin, David J Hosken, Kimberley J Hockings, Matthew A Carrigan","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The consumption of ethanol has frequently been seen as largely restricted to humans. Here, we take a broad eco-evolutionary approach to understanding ethanol's potential impact on the natural world. There is growing evidence that ethanol is present in many wild fruits, saps, and nectars and that ethanol ingestion offers benefits that favour adaptations for its use in multiple taxa. Explanations for ethanol consumption span both the nutritional and non-nutritional, with potential medicinal value or cognitive effects (with social-behavioural benefits) explored. We conclude that ethanol is ecologically relevant and that it has shaped the evolution of many species and structured symbiotic relationships among organisms, including plants, yeast, bacteria, insects, and mammals.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"67-79"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558871","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":"Culturomics and iEcology provide novel opportunities to study human and social dimensions of alien species introductions.","authors":"Ana Novoa, Ivan Jarić, Pavel Pipek, Petr Pyšek","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Invasive alien species negatively impact ecosystems, biodiversity, human societies, and economies. To prevent future invasions, it is crucial to understand both the ecological and the human and social factors determining whether a species is picked up, transported, and introduced beyond their native range. However, we often have little or no information on key human and social factors. Here, we explore how alien species introductions are shaped by a combination of ecological and human and social factors and highlight the potential of the emerging fields of conservation culturomics and iEcology for disentangling their relative importance. We argue that quantifying and assessing the relative importance of the human and social dimensions of alien species introductions can substantially improve our understanding of the invasion process.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"18-26"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366590","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}