The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier fo...

We measured leaf traits from historic and contemporary herbarium specimens collected from the same individual trees in the southern Peruvian Amazon and compared trait changes to local changes in clim...

Examples of cross-sectional images of branchlets at 4× and 40×.

Julia Valentim Tavares, Samuel L. Farrar, Chris M. Smith-Martin, Silvia Bibbo, Kasia Ziemińska, Farah Brenda Solis Petz, María Uriarte, Jess K. Zimmerman, Robert Muscarella This is a plain language…

AbstractBackground and Aims. Wood anatomical traits provide key insights to plant physiology, ecology, and evolution but their quantification is time-consu

Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.

Tree canopy coverage is being boosted in every capital city, but one micro-level analysis has found a link between property prices and the proximity of trees to houses.

Terrestrial vascular plants operate under negative water potential, which results in hydraulic tension in the vascular system. Vascular tension varies with transpiration and soil drying and is regulat...

We are looking for a PhD candidate to investigate the effects of large herbivores (invasive deer, macropods) on above and belowground ecosystems, including soil properties and microbial communities.

Furlaud et al. (2025) discussed how to measure ‘ecosystem condition’. Here, we argue that the term ‘ecosystem valuation’ should be preferred. ‘Valuation’ signals clearly that a social or political...

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Compositional uniqueness is commonly quantified using the Local Contribution to Beta Diversity (LCBD), which is typically regressed against environmental predictors. However, LCBD–environment relatio...

Heatwaves are increasing in intensity, duration and frequency. The impacts of such events can be extensive for natural ecosystems, but studying heatwaves in field conditions (in situ) remains chal...

Urban ecology traditionally focuses on single cities, yet cities play key roles in ecological processes such as migration. Radar analysis across the continental USA reveals that nearly half of stopove...

Stomatal optimisation models centre upon a fundamental tradeoff for plants: opening stomata promotes carbon uptake, but closing stomata prevents water loss. However, stomatal opening can occur at hi...

The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.

From Tasmania to the Top End, Australia's forest trees are dying at higher rates due to climate change, according to new research.

Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as enduring carbon sinks.

Background. Alternate stable state theory holds that disturbance thresholds can drive transitions between distinct vegetation types that exist under otherw

Population structure is a widespread yet underappreciated feature of ecological communities. Here, we develop a general theoretical framework integrating life-stage structure into community matrix mo...

Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...