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Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
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"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
Cultivate your empathy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
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November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New Worldview 👇
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitutions can be proxies for missing time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two in the direction but not the magnitude of plant and arthropod community responses to land-use intensification 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitution approaches can be suitable proxies for unavailable time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two approaches in the direc...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitutions can be proxies for missing time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two in the direction but not the magnitude of plant and arthropod community responses to land-use intensification 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Worldview 👇
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
Cultivate your empathy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New Worldview 👇
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
"Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
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A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”
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Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪
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Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In Caenorhabditis tropicalis, three toxin–antidote elements arose via gene duplication from the essential tRNA-synthetase subunit FARS-3. The ancestral antidote probably acquired affinity for FARS-3, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?
Combining genome-scale metabolic modelling with in vitro and in planta experiments, the authors show that cross-feeding metabolites and substrate utilization synergistically determine microbial community resistance to pathogen invasion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Substrate utilization and cross-feeding synergistically determine microbiome resistance to pathogen invasion - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Combining genome-scale metabolic modelling with in vitro and in planta experiments, the authors show that cross-feeding metabolites and substrate utilization synergistically determine microbial commun...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Combining genome-scale metabolic modelling with in vitro and in planta experiments, the authors show that cross-feeding metabolites and substrate utilization synergistically determine microbial community resistance to pathogen invasion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪
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Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In Caenorhabditis tropicalis, three toxin–antidote elements arose via gene duplication from the essential tRNA-synthetase subunit FARS-3. The ancestral antidote probably acquired affinity for FARS-3, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the linked News & Views commentary by Manolo Mischler & Olivier Tenaillon 👇
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Read the linked News & Views commentary by Manolo Mischler & Olivier Tenaillon 👇
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after envir...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Alerce or lawal (Fitzroya cupressoides) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
César Marín feels privileged to work among giants.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
Alerce or lawal (Fitzroya cupressoides) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
César Marín feels privileged to work among giants.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New Species Spotlight 👇
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social feels privileged to work among giants like the conifer Fitzroya cupressoides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQMnK
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Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of seahorse male pregnancy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving the brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellu...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
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Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of seahorse male pregnancy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving the brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellu...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Seahorses have a unique sex role reversal with male pregnancy involving a brood pouch, an evolutionarily novel organ. This study uses single-cell genomics and in vivo experiments to reveal the cellular basis and molecular mechanism of pouch development and diversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sediment accumulation 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sedime...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sediment accumulation 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...