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Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...

Alpine treelines and shrublines are advancing to higher elevations in the context of warming. This Review synthesizes global trends in ecotone dynamics, explores the underlying drivers and mechanisms,...

Jennifer S. Apland, Matthew H. Koski. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology article which can be found here. The sun emits a wide spectrum of light that plants can use to warm up…

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

Flight may affect the dispersal and evolution of birds. Using a new evolutionary tree, Claramunt et al. find that efficient fliers have broader geographic ranges, and speciation reduces range size, bu...

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Are non-native plants abundant because they are non-native, and have advantages over native plants, or because they possess ‘fast’ resource strategies, and have advantages in disturbed environments?.....

AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...

Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...

Species' distributions are changing around the planet as a result of global climate change. Most research has focused on mean climate conditions, with the effects of increased environmental variabili...

Aim Ecological networks describe the complex set of interconnections among species and their environment, and network structure can inform the stability, resilience, and functioning of ecosystems. I...

Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00049-6Glaciers are retreating with global climate warming, which threatens glacier specialists and the functions and stability of glaciers and glacially influenced ecosystems. This Review describes the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity, highlighting species that are likely to thrive or decline with glacier loss, and outlines key challenges and research priorities in conserving and managing biodiversity.

Can we ever have too much ecological field data? Are data sharing norms and the environmental costs of travel disincentivizing its collection? This Perspective advocates for proper funding and resourc...

Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

Large bird brains and ranges are insufficient in the fight against climate change. Learn the species of bird susceptible.

The loss of a dominant species in a community could have major impacts on ecosystem functioning. Here, a manipulative field experiment on ants shows that species functional redundancy mitigates multif...

Owing in large part to Robert MacArthur’s classic research, wood warblers in the family Parulidae are textbook exemplars of species competition and niche partitioning. Conventional wisdom suggests tha...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1Maintaining human well-being in an era of biodiversity loss requires understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function. We argue that absolute abundance can drive ecosystem function and that this measure should be considered alongside traditional measures of biodiversity.

Climate change is a major threat to biodiversity. This study predicts that climate change will reshape Neotropical frog diversity, causing losses in phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic endemism, w...