{"title":"Fossil bamboos unlock paleoenvironmental and evolutionary secrets.","authors":"Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The early Miocene bamboo fossil Ventriculmus neyvelinensis described by Bhatia et al. represents the oldest evidence of Arundinarieae's historical distribution in India. As a member of the Bambusoideae subfamily (Indomalayan origin, ~54 Ma), this fossil documents the extinction of temperate bamboo in southern India during Miocene climate shifts.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"534-535"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144080571","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":"What can we learn from the loss of sharks?","authors":"Haojie Su, Libin Zhou, Ping Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The decline of apex predators has cascading effects on ecosystem structure and function. Hammerschlag et al. reveal how the loss of white sharks in False Bay, South Africa triggered an increase in mesopredators and a decline in prey, underscoring the critical process of trophic cascades in shaping marine community structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"531-533"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144080575","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":"Biophilia without teeth: revisiting what we have already lost.","authors":"Andreas De Block, Yannick Joye","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":"529-530"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144080569","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":"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}
{"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}
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":"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}