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Our April issue is now live, including cryptic diversity in corals, Lepidopteran chromosome evolution, soil viromes, elephant seal population recovery, passerine problem-solving, and an Ordovician polar ecosystem.

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Our June editorial: Old forests are not replaceable. Governments around the world are too slow and too weak in their commitments to stop deforestation. And promises of restoration will not make up for the loss of old forests.

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Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion - an important new World View article in @NatureGeosci from @MaxLiboiron

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"Water can't fix the leaks in the pipeline". The entire scientific community must come together to confront gender bias, rather than leaving women and other minorities to do the work argues @dr_katieG1 in @NatureEcoEvo (Free access)

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Remembering Alfred Russel Wallace, influential thinker on natural selection and biogeography: January 8th 2023 marks the bicentenary of Wallace's birth. #Wallace200

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Eighty million years of rapid evolution of the primate Y chromosome

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Capuchin monkeys have been making stone tools for 3000 years, with different phases and styles of manufacture along the way, finds a new paper from @tomosproffitt and colleagues Free-to-read link:

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Obituary: Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023) Evolutionary geneticist whose powerful statistical methods facilitated the molecular revolution of evolutionary biology.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Evolutionary geneticist whose powerful statistical methods facilitated the molecular revolution of evolutionary biology.

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North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts

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Bumblebees can socially learn a novel string-pulling task to access nectar rewards @PLOSBiology

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@weetabix @HeinzUK We have filled in the @nature editorial reporting checklist for this experiment

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Meta-analysis shows that wild large herbivores shape ecosystem properties and promote spatial heterogeneity

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Born #onthisday 1907: Rachel Carson, US ecologist and writer, who led a global change in pesticide policy, and is credited with galvanising the modern environmental movement 🇺🇸

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#aDNA , AMS C14 dates & stable isotopes put the extinction of the giant rhino Elasmotherium sibiricum no earlier than 39,000 years ago, when its specialised diet and morphology may have contributed to its demise Free-to-read:

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Black Lives Matter in ecology and evolution. Twelve days ago we published this editorial in draft form. We are very grateful for the feedback we received, in public and in private, that has led to this revised version: #BlackLivesMatter

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💯articles every ecologist should read How many have you read...?

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Obituary: Alma Dal Co (1989–2022) A visionary and interdisciplinary scientist who brought a fearless passion to everything she did, inspiring all those around her.

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Evolution at the cellular level Our latest Editorial discusses the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a multinational project that uses single-cell transcriptomics to map cell types of whole organisms across the tree of life.

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We are now live! Read our inaugural issue here:

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Megaherbivores provide biotic resistance against alien plant dominance Camera trap data from >26k stations and >158k vegetation plots across India reveals a link between megaherbivores and native plant richness, but reductions in alien plant abundance.

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Our March issue is now live, celebrating 200 years of dinosaur research, and also including plant litter decomposition, photoreceptor diversity, hagfish genome evolution, and invasive earthworms.

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Isolating interactions from co-occurrences Co-occurrences can be proxies for interactions, but not all co-occurring species interact. A new study shows that super-generalist consumers realize more of their potential interactions in bipartite networks.

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Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Insects rely on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and defence. Analysing a large dataset of microbe–insect symbioses, the authors show that symbiosis evolved...

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Even Darwin got Impostor Syndrome...

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"I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders. I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am Ever yours" —Charles Darwin, 1861

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African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas

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"The problems presented by ecosystem analyses are equivalent in complexity to those presented by the human brain. They can be solved by nothing less than a Linnaean renaissance" Why not read some EO Wilson on #taxonomistappreciationDay ?

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Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

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Next month marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. To celebrate, we bring together a collection of articles from across six Nature journals that explores his life and legacy: #humboldt

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The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

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A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeog...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A new phylogenomic tree for butterflies is constructed using 391 genes from 2,300 species, representing 92% of genera. It suggests that butterflies originated...

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Rosemary and Peter Grant win @royalsociety 's Royal Medal for their work on Darwin’s finches. #Galapagos

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Don’t dilute the term Nature Positive Nature Positive is being used by businesses, governments and NGOs, but its meaning risks being diluted from measurable net biodiversity gain towards merely any action that benefits nature, argues @EJMilnerGulland

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A new review published in @NatureEcoEvo characterises the evolutionary history of the hominin face over the last 6 million years. Free-to-read link:

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Underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing diversity and inclusion

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What genomics has taught us about human evolutionary history and the peopling of the world - review in @nature

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The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity @singerstone et al

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The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families

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Happy 250th birthday Alexander von Humboldt! 🎂🎈 ☑️ Father of #biogeography ☑️ Wrote the worlds’ 1st #ecology book ☑️ 1st to sound the alarm on human-induced #climatechange Read more in our latest Editorial #AvH250 #Humboldt250

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A general scaling law reveals why the largest animals are not the fastest plus News & Views #August2017highlight #ICYMI

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Ocean science and advocacy work better when decolonized World View from @dyhiapadilla on the need for a diverse and nuanced approach to ocean conservation in response to #Seaspiracy .

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Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide

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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

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Global warming is causing reorganizations in coastal marine communities, favouring generalist fishes that are able to associate with degraded or novel habitats.

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Trade-offs in biodiversity and ecosystem services between edges and interiors in European forests

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A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

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Pterosaur pycnofibres suggest feathers are not limited to maniraptoran dinosaurs: Yang et al in @NatureEcoEvo Free-to-read:

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Morphological novelty emerges from pre-existing phenotypic plasticity evidence from spadefoot toad species

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Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide

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Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the brain evolution of web-building spiders

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The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60k generations: ecology comes to @RELenski 's LTEE

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Plant–pollinator network change across a century in the subarctic

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Evolutionary dynamics of whole-body regeneration across planarian flatworms

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Vampire bat genome and gut metagenome provides a holistic view of evolutionary adaptations in a blood-feeding diet 🦇

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Biodiversity centre stage Our view on the achievement and potential of the @IPBES report.

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Good news from the latest @IUCNRedList : Kiwis no longer endangered, downgraded to vulnerable thanks to NZ conservation efforts

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Stig Walsh pays tribute to Angela Milner (1947–2021) "Far-sighted palaeontologist who guided the Dinosaur Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum, with interests in dinosaurs, early tetrapods and palaeoneurology."

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The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild @Ben_Sheldon_EGI , @LoeskeKruuk & @susan_alberts celebrate anniversaries of @WythamTits , @RumDeerResearch , @AmboseliBaboons and others, and discuss recent advances in long-term studies.

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Born #onthisday 1871: Sir Arthur Tansley, British botanist and leading figure in the development of modern ecology, who first introduced the concept of the "ecosystem" 🇬🇧🌱🌿 #ecology #botany [1/6]

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The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops

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A theoretical model with supporting empirical evidence shows that plants, animals and microbes have approximately equal fitness due to a trade-off between generation time and production, constrained within biophysical boundaries

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Born #onthisday 1930: Robert MacArthur, North American ecologist who had a profound influence on the development of modern ecology - especially in theoretical, evolutionary, and community ecology

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Today we published 4 Correspondences in response to the recent 100 ecology articles list:

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Insights from genomes into the evolutionary importance and prevalence of hybridization in nature new Review article.

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The evolution of vertebrate sex determination systems - new review in @NatureRevGenet

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Our December issue is now live, including global biodiversity monitoring, non-native species and extreme events, single-cell transcriptomics of spider brains, de novo genes, and stripe pattern evolution in rodents.

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Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution 🍄 A phylogenetic tree of 5,284 fungal species is used to infer patterns of extinction, diversification and morphological innovation in mushroom-forming #fungi

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Cockroach and termite genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

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New Perspective article: Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution

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The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change

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Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community

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A general scaling law reveals why the largest animals are not the fastest

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Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by @daxkellie and @westgatecology introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact

Improving code reproducibility: Small steps with big impacts

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Cell type evolution reconstruction across species through cell phylogenies of single-cell RNA sequencing data

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The marine fish food web is globally connected Using a global interaction dataset, the authors quantify the distribution of trophic interactions among marine fish, finding a high degree of geographic connectivity but low spatial modularity.

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The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The authors investigate the genetic basis of inter-sexual mimicry in Ischnura elegans damselflies, where females are polymorphic and one female morph mimics males....

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Unveiling global species abundance distributions Using >1 billion occurrence records from @GBIF , the authors show that the global species abundance distribution of 39 taxonomic classes of eukaryotes is best fit by a Poisson log-normal distribution

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Power laws in species’ biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data

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Meta-analysis reveals weak associations between reef fishes and corals

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A meta-analysis of research on megaherbivore effects on ecosystems shows that large wild mammals influence heterogeneity in plant, soil and animal community responses.

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Rapid and lasting gains from solving illegal fishing On the success of Indonesia's anti-IUU policies.

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Colombian biodiversity is governed by a rich and diverse policy mix

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Chameleons display externally visible bone-based fluorescence 🦴 @SciReports

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Born #onthisday 1707: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and zoologist, often called the father of modern taxonomy 🇸🇪 🥀🌻🌷🌲🌳🌴🌵🌿🍀🐒🐺🦊🦁🐎🐂🐅🐏🐪🐫🐘🐼🐦🐧🦉🐊🐢🦎🐍🐳🐬🐟🐙🐚🦀🦐🦑🦋🐛🐜🐝🦂

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Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice

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Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods

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Annotation-free discovery of functional groups in microbial communities

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Agriculture isn’t all rocket science - new editorial: Ecological approaches to agriculture have a major role to play, alongside biotechnology.

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Evolution is best understood in terms of birth-death processes, not fitness, argue Doebeli et al in @eLife

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@swannegordon tells us about her amazing work trying to understand adaptation to environmental change and shares her experience navigating academia as a Black woman

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Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests

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Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning Wang et al. develop a framework to quantify and predict the community-specific keystoneness of each species in any microbiome sample.

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A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night

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Genome of the Tasmanian tiger #thylacine

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Tomorrow marks 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's landmark book on the impact of pesticides in the environment. Our latest Editorial explores its legacy, & new emerging threats to #biodiversity from pollution #silentspring

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A biologist’s guide to Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. Review article plus online tutorial .

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Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of 210 lepidopteran chromosome-level genomes reveals stability of the 32 ancestral chromosomes and extensive reorganization, including fusion and fission...

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An ancestral Wnt–Brachyury feedback loop in axial patterning and recruitment of mesoderm-determining target genes

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Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria

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Ecology & Evolution Conferences 2020 Here's the first draft of our annual list of meetings - let us know which ones to add. This year we've included deadline information.

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Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects