{"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}
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}
{"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}