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Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink.

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-00995-7Hybridization, the exchange of genes between divergent lineages, is now recognized as widespread across eukaryotes and essential to understanding genome evolution. In this Review, Schumer and Rieseberg overview methodological advances facilitating recent progress, reassess the frequency, causes and consequences of hybridization, and highlight key open questions.

Two trees from the same species can vary in how they transport and manage water, improving specieswide drought resilience

Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...

Evolution of spinescence in mimosoid legumes.

The biocultural heritage of the Amazon, its plant species, plant services and cultures are at risk from climate change.

Abstract. Species trees need to be dated for many downstream applications. Some scalable molecular dating methods take a phylogenetic tree with branch leng

Aim The assembly of tropical tree floras is complex, involving many lineage-specific histories; however, focusing on the biogeographic history of diverse clades can reveal general patterns. We inves...

A multidisciplinary hunt uncovers new populations of an endemic plant, while exposing the fragile balance that keeps it from disappearing.

Cássia Bitencourt kindly requests a thresholding option for the create_concat function that excludes species with insufficient representation. Add a 50% threshold Account for taxa in single-gene al...

Abstract. A substantial variation in genome size has been observed among individuals of the same species. Theory predicts that increased genome size may co

Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

AbstractMotivation. Diverse disciplines in biology process and analyze multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) and phylogenetic trees to evaluate their informa

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00076-3Meeting climate goals requires minerals for renewable energy technologies and infrastructure. However, the mining to obtain these minerals negatively affects biodiversity and local communities, undermining conservation and sustainability goals. This Review explores the effects of mining for the renewable energy transition on biodiversity and social conflict.

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The terrestrial ecosystems of Southeast Asia are both globally important reservoirs of biodiversity, and a provider of resources and livelihoods for millions of people...

Para a bióloga Erika Berenguer, pesquisadora das universidades de Oxford e Lancaster que há mais de 15 anos estuda as causas e efeitos das queimadas na Amazônia, o fogo na floresta não só veio para fi...

As Lena Dunham’s new show reminds us, whether they’re at work or on a date, women are expected to tone it down if they want to get on. What if they refuse to play ball?

Over the last two centuries, since the treatment of Leguminosae in Flora Brasiliensis, many new legume species and genera have been described, adding to the accumulated body of knowledge on species’ c...

This website is dedicated to Rubiaceae, a cosmopolitan plant family of about 14,200 species, including the coffee shrubs.