Geographic distribution of seed dispersal studies by disperser guild.

Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond Tom Matthews University of Birmingham Wednesday, May 27th, 4:00pm BST (British Summer Time) / 5:00pm CEST (Central Eu...

The few plants that thrived after the Earth’s greatest mass extinction used a specialized physiology, known as crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis, that is adapted to extremely dry environment...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 20 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00152-2This issue launches the Roadmap article format, with articles that chart a path forward on important topics in biodiversity science.

Tree islands established within an industrial oil palm plantation promoted the recovery of phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration. Ten years after planting, untargeted metabolomics of 7...

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In this project, we will use multiple approaches (plant transplants, herbivory monitoring and remote sensing) to characterise the tropical montane forest ecotonal transition and understand the potenti...

This study presents a trait-based framework integrating functional diversity into biological natural capital accounting, capturing both ecosystem resilience and species uniqueness across multiple tax...

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Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...