This Review synthesizes an evolutionary framework for understanding the key stages, challenges and microevolutionary processes through which single cells evolve into functionally integrated multi...

Dr Monica Farfan reflects on her contribution to the FAO’s Status of the World's Soil Resources report and explains the challenge of keeping soils healthy.

Sea-level rise may create a new front for the landward expansion of marine invaders into inundated areas. The authors explore the probability of this, projecting that more than two-thirds of inundated...

The GRIL node at McGill University comprises seven aquatic scientists (see below) that span a broad range of expertise; we are advancing knowledge regarding landscape-scale processes, long-term change...

Ecological communities are increasingly exposed to multiple anthropogenic drivers. Using a 13-year field experiment, the authors show that the effects of up to four interacting global change factors o...

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00195-5Species have morphological, physiological and behavioural responses to temperature, which are typically used in isolation to infer phenotypic change under climate warming. In this Perspective, Symonds and colleagues argue for a multi-trait, integrative approach to better inform understanding of phenotypic changes in response to climatic warming.

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00195-5Species have morphological, physiological and behavioural responses to temperature, which are typically used in isolation to infer phenotypic change under climate warming. In this Perspective, Symonds and colleagues argue for a multi-trait, integrative approach to better inform understanding of phenotypic changes in response to climatic warming.

Tree diversity and mycorrhizal dominance are considered major drivers of multitrophic diversity and ecosystem functioning in forests. Here the authors disentangle the effects of these factors on above...

Synergies between climate change and natural enemy pressure threaten forests. Here the authors quantify the impact of climate change on North American forest insect and pathogen burden and map potenti...

Land-use and climate change may have synergistic impacts on biodiversity. This global analysis shows that the sensitivity of bird species and populations to deforestation is modulated by their thermal...

Large areas of the tropics could naturally regenerate into forest, yet how the costs and benefits of realizing this potential vary spatially remain unknown. This study fills that gap, revealing that n...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00192-8Online illegal wildlife trade threatens species, ecosystems and human well-being. This Review examines the species and products involved, online platforms, drivers, trade routes and impacts of this trade, and how these compare with those of traditional illegal wildlife trade, before outlining mitigation strategies and future priorities for research and action.

Mycorrhizal strategy could be one of the factors that explain why certain non-native species become successful invaders. This study tests this idea at the global scale and explores geographic patterns...

The realized niche captures only a fraction of the conditions in which a species can survive and reproduce, yet remains the basis for most predictions of how species respond to global change. No matter how sophisticated species distribution models have become, reliance on the realized niche biases forecasts of population persistence and range shifts. Rapid global change has turned the fundamental niche from a theoretical construct into a mission-critical objective for conservation science. Empirical tools exist to operationalize it. If we stop holding the fundamental niche to higher epistemic standards than the realized niche and treat survival and regeneration data from beyond the realized niche as genuine reflections of it, then we can advance this foundational yet surprisingly nascent research program.

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