Morten T Limborg, Caroline S Winther-Have, Naia Morueta-Holme, M Thomas P Gilbert, Jacob A Rasmussen
{"title":"The overlooked biodiversity loss.","authors":"Morten T Limborg, Caroline S Winther-Have, Naia Morueta-Holme, M Thomas P Gilbert, Jacob A Rasmussen","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As most life-forms exist as holobionts, reduction of host-level biodiversity drives parallel habitat losses to their host-adapted microorganisms. The holobiont concept helps us to understand how species are habitats for - often ignored - coevolved microorganisms also worthy of conservation. Indeed, loss of host-associated microbial biodiversity may accelerate the extinction risks of their host.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"889-891"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142112337","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}
Daiping Wang, Jessica Abbott, Franziska A Brenninger, Kora Klein, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Lengxob Yong, Xiang-Yi Li Richter
{"title":"Female alternative reproductive tactics: diversity and drivers.","authors":"Daiping Wang, Jessica Abbott, Franziska A Brenninger, Kora Klein, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Lengxob Yong, Xiang-Yi Li Richter","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is often argued that anisogamy causes alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) to be more common in males than females. We challenge this view by pointing out logical flaws in the argument. We then review recent work on the diversity of female ARTs, listing several understudied types such as solitary versus communal breeding and facultative parthenogenesis. We highlight an important difference between male and female ARTs that caused female ARTs to be overlooked: male ARTs tend to focus on successful fertilization, whereas female ARTs occur at many stages of reproduction and often form complex networks of decision points. We propose to study correlated female ARTs as a whole to better understand their drivers and eco-evolutionary dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"937-946"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141493539","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":"Agrobiodiversity conservation enables sustainable and equitable land sparing.","authors":"Sophie Jago, James S Borrell","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensifying agriculture to spare land for nature could help meet competing food security and biodiversity conservation goals. However, this approach neglects and undervalues agrobiodiversity, currently maintained by millions of smallholder farmers. For intensification to be sustainable and land sparing to be achieved equitably, we must conserve high-agrobiodiversity landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"877-880"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141201","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 K Oestreich, Ruth Y Oliver, Melissa S Chapman, Madeline C Go, Megan F McKenna
{"title":"Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystems.","authors":"William K Oestreich, Ruth Y Oliver, Melissa S Chapman, Madeline C Go, Megan F McKenna","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpreting sound gives powerful insight into the health of ecosystems. Beyond detecting the presence of wildlife, bioacoustic signals can reveal their behavior. However, behavioral bioacoustic information is underused because identifying the function and context of animals' sounds remains challenging. A growing acoustic toolbox is allowing researchers to begin decoding bioacoustic signals by linking individual and population-level sensing. Yet, studies integrating acoustic tools for behavioral insight across levels of biological organization remain scarce. We aim to catalyze the emerging field of behavioral bioacoustics by synthesizing recent successes and rising analytical, logistical, and ethical challenges. Because behavior typically represents animals' first response to environmental change, we posit that behavioral bioacoustics will provide theoretical and applied insights into animals' adaptations to global change.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"961-973"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555528","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}
Albert B Kao, Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Andrew M Berdahl
{"title":"Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence.","authors":"Albert B Kao, Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Andrew M Berdahl","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in collective decision making, particularly the idea that groups can make more accurate decisions compared with individuals. However, nearly all research to date has focused on spatial decisions (e.g., food patches). Here, we highlight the equally important, but severely understudied, realm of temporal collective decision making (i.e., decisions about when to perform an action). We illustrate differences between temporal and spatial decisions, including the irreversibility of time, cost asymmetries, the speed-accuracy tradeoff, and game theoretic dynamics. Given these fundamental differences, temporal collective decision making likely requires different mechanisms to generate collective intelligence. Research focused on temporal decisions should lead to an expanded understanding of the adaptiveness and constraints of living in groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"904-912"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535370","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}
Jake M Robinson, Andrew D Barnes, Nicole Fickling, Sofie Costin, Xin Sun, Martin F Breed
{"title":"Food webs in food webs: the micro-macro interplay of multilayered networks.","authors":"Jake M Robinson, Andrew D Barnes, Nicole Fickling, Sofie Costin, Xin Sun, Martin F Breed","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Food webs are typically defined as being macro-organism-based (e.g., plants, mammals, birds) or microbial (e.g., bacteria, fungi, viruses). However, these characterizations have limits. We propose a multilayered food web conceptual model where microbial food webs are nested within food webs composed of macro-organisms. Nesting occurs through host-microbe interactions, which influence the health and behavior of host macro-organisms, such that host microbiomes likely alter population dynamics of interacting macro-organisms and vice versa. Here, we explore the theoretical underpinnings of multilayered food webs and the implications of this new conceptual model on food web ecology. Our framework opens avenues for new empirical investigations into complex ecological networks and provides a new lens through which to view a network's response to ecosystem changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"913-922"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499106","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":"The new society for modeling and theory in population biology","authors":"Gili Greenbaum, Oana Carja","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254588","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}
Katelyn T. Faulkner, Philip E. Hulme, John R.U. Wilson
{"title":"Harder, better, faster, stronger? Dispersal in the Anthropocene","authors":"Katelyn T. Faulkner, Philip E. Hulme, John R.U. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The dispersal of organisms in the Anthropocene has been profoundly altered by human activities, with far-reaching consequences for humans, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Managing such dispersal effectively is critical to achieve the 2030 targets of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Here, we bring together insights from invasion science, movement ecology, and conservation biology, and extend a widely used classification framework for the introduction pathways of alien species to encompass other forms of dispersal. We develop a simple, global scheme for classifying the movement of organisms into the types of dispersal that characterise the Anthropocene. The scheme can be used to improve our understanding of dispersal, provide policy relevant advice, inform conservation and biosecurity actions, and enable monitoring and reporting towards conservation targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204457","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":"Beyond modular enhancers: new questions in cis-regulatory evolution","authors":"Jeanne M.C. McDonald, Robert D. Reed","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our understanding of how <em>cis</em>-regulatory elements work has advanced rapidly, outpacing our evolutionary models. In this review, we consider the implications of new mechanistic findings for evolutionary developmental biology. We focus on three different debates: whether evolutionary innovation occurs more often via the modification of old <em>cis</em>-regulatory elements or the emergence of new ones; the extent to which individual elements are specific and autonomous or multifunctional and interdependent; and how the robustness of <em>cis</em>-regulatory architectures influences the rate of trait evolution. These discussions lead us to propose new questions for the evo-devo of <em>cis</em>-regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204458","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}
Oscar Schofield, Megan Cimino, Scott Doney, Ari Friedlaender, Michael Meredith, Carlos Moffat, Sharon Stammerjohn, Benjamin Van Mooy, Deborah Steinberg
{"title":"Antarctic pelagic ecosystems on a warming planet","authors":"Oscar Schofield, Megan Cimino, Scott Doney, Ari Friedlaender, Michael Meredith, Carlos Moffat, Sharon Stammerjohn, Benjamin Van Mooy, Deborah Steinberg","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-latitude pelagic marine ecosystems are vulnerable to climate change because of the intertwining of sea/continental ice dynamics, physics, biogeochemistry, and food-web structure. Data from the West Antarctic Peninsula allow us to assess how ice influences marine food webs by modulating solar inputs to the ocean, inhibiting wind mixing, altering the freshwater balance and ocean stability, and providing a physical substrate for organisms. State changes are linked to an increase in storm forcing and changing distribution of ocean heat. Changes ripple through the plankton, shifting the magnitude of primary production and its community composition, altering the abundance of krill and other prey essential for marine mammals and seabirds. These climate-driven changes in the food web are being exacerbated by human activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204459","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}