Journal Club articles at Nature Reviews Biodiversity are pitched by early career researchers. We are grateful to everyone who has contributed these articles so far, but current submissions are heavily skewed towards men.

Read the accompanying commentary 👇 Timing matters for plants and their herbivores www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/fh1vH

Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how this tension would increase under a moratorium on deep-sea mining 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countless ecologists, evolutionary biologists and conservation biologists will have been inspired to follow their careers by David Attenborough (including all of us here at NEE) Here's wishing him a very happy 100th Birthday 🥳 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Might a moratorium on all forms of deep-sea mining be more harmful for biodiversity? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, led by Dr Jayden Hyman, we explore the ecological tradeoffs associated with nickel supply for priority conservation areas across land and sea. 🪸🌳🌐 1/n

Why is the old debate about whether smoking causes cancer relevant to settling the controversy surrounding over-crediting in forest carbon offsets? Read our paper in natureecoevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how this tension would increase under a moratorium on deep-sea mining 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using RNAi and CRISPR knockouts, the authors measured sex-specific fitness effects of recent and older genes in somatic and germline tissues of Drosophila melanogaster, revealing antagonistic selection between sexes and tissues 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨 Good news alert! 🚨🚨 We've rounded up five inspiring science stories – including the discovery of a new species, and a promising medical treatment for a fatal mitochondria disease. go.nature.com/4d0b1vG

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary 👇 Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/ff09f

Had fun writing this with @glyptocrinus.bsky.social! If multicellularity is ancient and so easy to achieve, then what is it exactly that makes few the multicellular clades that dominate ecosystems today -- plants, animals, fungi -- stand out?

Read the News & Views commentary here 👇 Multicellularity for free www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/fgdX4

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary 👇 Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/ff09f

A phylogenetic analysis of 580 skate and ray species shows that eyespots evolved stepwise and are favoured in small, shallow-water species lacking robust defences, revealing how trade-offs among anti-predator strategies shape the evolution of visual signals 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The authors report Kalakocetus aurorae, a new fossil species from India, which is phylogenetically recovered as the most basal member of Cetacea and which bridges a dental morphological gap between cetaceans and their closest terrestrial relatives 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦌🦅Distribution of mammals and terrestrial birds in the Altai Mountains shows human activity and snow cover shape habitats. 🌡️ #ClimateChange threatens the four-country junction, supporting a transboundary protected area. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The authors report Kalakocetus aurorae, a new fossil species from India, which is phylogenetically recovered as the most basal member of Cetacea and which bridges a dental morphological gap between cetaceans and their closest terrestrial relatives 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A phylogenetic analysis of 580 skate and ray species shows that eyespots evolved stepwise and are favoured in small, shallow-water species lacking robust defences, revealing how trade-offs among anti-predator strategies shape the evolution of visual signals 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is growing evidence that extreme events linked to anthropogenic climate change can have important effects on biodiversity. Here the authors assess the exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to multiple types of extreme climate events globally 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of 3D chromatin organization, genomic and epigenomic variation across 11 Populus species shows how the integration of these genomic features underlies species divergence and local adaptation 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of 3D chromatin organization, genomic and epigenomic variation across 11 Populus species shows how the integration of these genomic features underlies species divergence and local adaptation 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Entries are now open for our 2026 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! 📸 Capture a moment in your working day for the chance to win £500 and see your winning image in print go.nature.com/4tEjtbc

Nature’s careers team interviewed research-support professionals to hear how their work helps to shape the course of modern science, and how recognition — or the lack of it — has influenced their careers. #Academicsky 🧪

Small Rays in Shallow Waters Flaunt Fake Eyes to Ward Off Predators | Discover Magazine

There is growing evidence that extreme events linked to anthropogenic climate change can have important effects on biodiversity. Here the authors assess the exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to multiple types of extreme climate events globally 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Morphological and stable isotope analysis of Early Triassic lycophyte leaves suggest they were similar to extant Isoetales and thus may have made use of CAM photosynthesis—a trait that may have been advantageous during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A model for the evolution of multicellularity in a spatially heterogeneous environment shows that indirect mechanisms such as escape from competition and increased environmental exploitation can drive evolution of multicellularity in the absence of direct benefits 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phylogeographic analysis and ecological niche modelling identify environmental factors associated with dispersal events, range expansion and local circulation risk of Oropouche virus in people in Brazil 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history, are reported in @natecoevo.nature.com: spklr.io/63323EKEml #Palaeontology #evosky

Climate change could make trees more vulnerable to natural enemies. Here the authors analyse forest damage caused by key pest species in N America in relation to climate, geography & biotic context, finding evidence that climate change tends to exacerbate pest damage 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Comment 👇 The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) offers a promising global mechanism to reward global forest conservation, but its success depends on strengthening ecological and social equity, governance and benefit-sharing while preserving its simplicity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com! This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪 www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Our April issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🦑 squid and cuttlefish diversification 🌊 priority questions for blue carbon science 🐦‍⬛ the emergence of Usutu virus Cover image from Zhou et al (credit @frankashwood.bsky.social ) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While jellies are quite scary during stinger season, fishes that feed on these planktonic jellies contribute a whopping ~25% to the productivity of coral reef fishes 🪼🐟 Check out our new OA paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, led by PhD student James Gahan, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐 🦑🧪

Online magazine Folia @foliacivitatis.bsky.social from University of Amsterdam wrote about our article in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... about Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology! www.folia.nl/wetenschap/1...

Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Leyuan Li: "Microbial pairing alters metabolic wiring" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/fboWw

A dated phylogeny of 16,585 vascular plant species native to China reveals three major centres of endemism, including a potential new global biodiversity hotspot 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High‑resolution global maps revealing the expansion risk of thousands of non-native plant species under today’s conditions and future climate and land‑use scenarios have been produced for the first time. 🗺️ @natecoevo.nature.com @univie.ac.at @smartenwinter.bsky.social www.idiv.de/global-model...

An analysis of the responses of 15 diverse human gut bacteria in more than 100 pairwise co-cultures reveals extensive remodelling of the bacterial proteome and metabolome in response to the presence of other species 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Obituary: Kristina M. Gjerde (1957–2025): rdcu.be/faYjs Lawyer who was instrumental in securing protection for the high seas and the deep ocean.

A dated phylogeny of 16,585 vascular plant species native to China reveals three major centres of endemism, including a potential new global biodiversity hotspot 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phylogenomic analyses of newly sequenced and published decapodiform cephalopods separate open-ocean and coastal shallow-water clades, following rapid cladogenesis from the mid-Cretaceous 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Obituary: Kristina M. Gjerde (1957–2025): rdcu.be/faYjs Lawyer who was instrumental in securing protection for the high seas and the deep ocean.

Our new paper on squid and cuttlefish evolution is out in @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... /1

The spread of non-native species is likely to be compounded by climate change and land-use. Here the authors assess the potential distribution of 9,701 naturalized non-native plant species at a 10×10km resolution & project shifts under 2 Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chromatin plays a central role in gene regulation, but chromatin systems are only known for a few model species. This study analyses chromatin regulatory landscapes in brown algal lineages to elucidate their structural organization and evolution 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...