This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Tanya O'Garra 👇 Agroecology benefits people and planet www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eHw8V

Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species Spotlight 🚨 Heliconia tortuosa: What being outsmarted by a tropical plant taught Matthew Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social about science. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eG4e0

Are you a #geoscientist looking to transition to an #editorial career? Our #Earth team in Nature Communications is hiring, take a look here. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#News&Views A marine diatom-associated Bradyrhizobium can nodulate a terrestrial legume, expanding understanding of nitrogen-fixing symbioses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can stabilize large-effect polymorphisms in nature. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌳 Plants evolved to survive #drought, but now they say: ENOUGH! 🌍 A global study warns: #forests are on the limit. Their circulatory system can’t handle the extreme droughts ahead. #ClimateChange could cause irreversible embolisms and death. www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using experimental and modelling evidence, this study reveals that small coral populations face fertilization failure due to Allee effects. The findings identify critical population thresholds needed to maintain reproductive success 🪸🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using experimental and modelling evidence, this study reveals that small coral populations face fertilization failure due to Allee effects. The findings identify critical population thresholds needed to maintain reproductive success 🪸🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our September editorial discusses developments in soundscape ecology and passive acoustic monitoring www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🎤

Career Feature @nature.com : ‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New Books & Arts 👇 Marine muses: Rene Martin @lampichthys.bsky.social reviews "Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep" by @helenscales.bsky.social "This book is a must-read for art enthusiasts and ocean lovers" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eGpor

Key et al. report Acheulean hominin occupation of eastern Britain during glacial marine isotope stages 17–16 and again in glacial marine isotope stage 12 via stone tools in sediments dated to 712,000 to 424,000 years ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This post reminds me that a few of us (@davidadger.bsky.social, @thelabandfield.bsky.social, @gilespalaeo.bsky.social & @erinma.bsky.social) wrote a letter to @natecoevo.nature.com taking them to task for omitting his sexuality when celebrating the scientist 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Shorebird species lose 1–10% of their total populations annually on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway in just 19 stopover sites in China, mainly by hunting and bird deterrence measures.Mortality rates are unsustainable for most species In @natecoevo.nature.com #waders www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Direct human actions such as hunting and bird deterrence at aquaculture sites kill up to 10% of the populations of some shorebird species migrating along China’s coast each year, suggesting that this direct mortality is an overlooked threat to migratory populations 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota associations. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change in @natecoevo.nature.com We explore interactive effects of environmental stressors on soil food webs& importance of integrating chemical pollution impacts into assessing soil food web stability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We collaborated in a meta-analysis @natecoevo.nature.com on adjustment of hydraulic traits. 1. Including the intraspecific variability of traits in models avoids overestimating vulnerabilities. 2. Plants hydraulics adjustment is not enough to protect them from drought risks. @cirad.bsky.social

Happy that my shark data contributed to this collaborative paper brilliantly led by @gfalbery.bsky.social on animal social networks. Out in @natecoevo.nature.com If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends). Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB

Our September issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... 🧪 Featuring research on: 🦅 evolution of avian powered flight 🦷 Paranthropus teeth 🌴 tropical biodiversity loss Cover shows a sunflower sea star, from Prentice et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our September issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... 🧪 Featuring research on: 🦅 evolution of avian powered flight 🦷 Paranthropus teeth 🌴 tropical biodiversity loss Cover shows a sunflower sea star, from Prentice et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

🚨 New publication by the research group of @dessimoz.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss in @natecoevo.nature.com 👇

Our “Less is more” story is out! 🚀 We reveal how gene loss shaped the adaptive evolution of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, highlight a potentially general mechanism across bacteria. Huge thanks @danielfalush.bsky.social @campy-bara.bsky.social @jaimemurtaza.bsky.social & all coauthors

Super cool 😊, our research on the impacts of #climatechange to the distribution and management of shared fish stocks was highlighted in @natecoevo.nature.com ! Check it out here 👇 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... (Thank you @walterandriuzzi.bsky.social !)

Combination of large-scale phylogenomic analysis, mouse lethality experiments and bacterial growth assays shows sheds light on how a pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was able to spread worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of behavioural, ecomorphological and genomic data of Lake Tanganyika cichlids reveals remarkable diversity of temporal niche partitioning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genomes of brown algae with different sex determination systems show that U/V sex chromosomes evolved 450–224 million years ago and show remarkable conservation of genes within the sex-determining region, despite independent expansions of the sex locus in each lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new method to reconstruct ancestral genomes is used to estimate contigs of the last common ancestor of eukaryotes and to infer features such as the age of gene adjacencies and chromosome rearrangements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis of forest ageing trends and stand-replacing disturbances reveals substantial losses in aboveground carbon stocks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41... A horizon scan identifies and discusses ten developing challenges in Antarctic conservation, revealing an increased emphasis on challenges related to governance, geopolitics and economics Free to read: rdcu.be/eA7My

Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41... A horizon scan identifies and discusses ten developing challenges in Antarctic conservation, revealing an increased emphasis on challenges related to governance, geopolitics and economics Free to read: rdcu.be/eA7My

Heat extremes attributable to climate change have led to a 25–38% average reduction in tropical bird populations since 1950. The findings suggest climate change is already threatening bird populations in tropical regions even in absence of direct human pressure: @natecoevo.nature.com #ecology 🌏

Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ‪ @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

Our new Editorial is an update on author and reviewer diversity in our journal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis on Asteroidea shows that water temperature and nutrient availability control geographic and depth zone patterns of deep-sea benthos diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expertise in weather and climate? Our friends at @natrevearthenviron.nature.com are hiring 👇

New Species Spotlight 🌳 Onja Razanamaro on Madagascar’s majestic baobabs www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read here: rdcu.be/ezFVn

Our new Editorial is an update on author and reviewer diversity in our journal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...