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}
{"title":"Climate-warming alters resource allocation in unpredictable ways.","authors":"Diana S Macias, Miranda D Redmond","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indirect effects of climate change on demographic processes are likely widespread but difficult to measure. Hacket-Pain et al. show that climate warming increased European beech seed production, depleting internal resources and causing long-term growth declines. If similar trade-offs occur across species, climate change may weaken forest resilience through resource depletion.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"40 5","pages":"428-430"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143983386","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":"Sara L Middleton, Haley Branch","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"40 5","pages":"411-414"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039948","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}
Jakob Thyrring, Philippe Archambault, Michael Burrows, Katrin Iken, Fernando P Lima, Joana Micael, Markus Molis, Catia Monteiro, Sergej Olenin, Paul E Renaud, Ricardo A Scrosati, Rui Seabra, Alexey A Sukhotin, Jan-Marcin Węsławski, Nadescha Zwerschke, Mikael K Sejr
{"title":"A horizon scan for Arctic coastal biodiversity research: understanding changes requires international collaboration.","authors":"Jakob Thyrring, Philippe Archambault, Michael Burrows, Katrin Iken, Fernando P Lima, Joana Micael, Markus Molis, Catia Monteiro, Sergej Olenin, Paul E Renaud, Ricardo A Scrosati, Rui Seabra, Alexey A Sukhotin, Jan-Marcin Węsławski, Nadescha Zwerschke, Mikael K Sejr","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arctic coastal biodiversity faces increasing threats from anthropogenic activities and climate change. However, the effects on biodiversity are still poorly understood, hindering actions aimed at mitigating the impacts at a pan-Arctic scale. We present the results of a horizon scan that provides a road map to address knowledge gaps on the influence of anthropogenic activities, from increased shipping and harvesting to consequences of climate change including increasing temperatures, cryosphere loss, and freshwater runoff. Predictions on ecological change, species range expansions, and anthropogenic impacts on Arctic coasts are hampered by the lack of biodiversity data and scarcity of biological long-term monitoring programs. Filling these knowledge gaps will require coordinated international efforts and standardized experiments across the diverse ecosystems characterizing the Arctic.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"460-467"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693393","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}
Xiang Kong, Baile Xu, James A Orr, Peter Meidl, Matthias C Rillig, Gaowen Yang
{"title":"Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors.","authors":"Xiang Kong, Baile Xu, James A Orr, Peter Meidl, Matthias C Rillig, Gaowen Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are multiple processes that buffer the effects of anthropogenic stressors. Much is known about how single buffering processes (e.g., biodiversity, adaptation) mitigate the effects of stressors on ecosystem properties and functions, but how multiple buffering processes combine to mitigate the effects of multiple co-occurring stressors is poorly understood. We outline how single processes (e.g., cross-tolerance) can buffer the effects of multiple stressors, whereas multiple buffering processes can act jointly across ecological and temporal scales to reduce the effects of single or multiple stressors. Synergistic interactions between multiple buffering processes can further enhance ecosystem resistance to multiple stressors. A wider awareness of interacting buffering processes in ecosystems will enhance our understanding of ecosystem stability in the face of multiple stressors.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"479-488"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743487","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}