Pub Date : 2026-02-25DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03013-5
Shahar Chaikin, Juan David González-Trujillo, Miguel B. Araújo
{"title":"Long-term warming reduces fish biomass, but heatwaves shift it","authors":"Shahar Chaikin, Juan David González-Trujillo, Miguel B. Araújo","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03013-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03013-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-24DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02983-w
Shi-Xia Yang, María Martinón-Torres, Michael Petraglia
{"title":"Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history","authors":"Shi-Xia Yang, María Martinón-Torres, Michael Petraglia","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02983-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02983-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-24DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02995-6
Jiachen Cai, Lidya G. Tarhan, Timothy M. Lenton, Ruoyuan Qiu, Caroline L. Peacock, Noah J. Planavsky, Pengcheng Ju, Wenjin Zhao, Zhifang Xu, Hui Zhang, Mingyu Zhao
{"title":"Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician","authors":"Jiachen Cai, Lidya G. Tarhan, Timothy M. Lenton, Ruoyuan Qiu, Caroline L. Peacock, Noah J. Planavsky, Pengcheng Ju, Wenjin Zhao, Zhifang Xu, Hui Zhang, Mingyu Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02995-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02995-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"417 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-24DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02988-5
Thomas J. Algeo
{"title":"Marine sediments track the spread of early land plants","authors":"Thomas J. Algeo","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02988-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02988-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-24DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02994-7
Clinton S. Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes, Andrew L. Jackson, Kevin J. Mitchell, Redmond G. O’Connell, Kevin Healy
{"title":"Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom","authors":"Clinton S. Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes, Andrew L. Jackson, Kevin J. Mitchell, Redmond G. O’Connell, Kevin Healy","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02994-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02994-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-23DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02993-8
Beatriz Álvarez-Rodríguez, William Bakhache, Lauren McCormick, Ron Geller, Patrick T. Dolan
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) can define functional constraints acting on viral proteomes by quantifying the effects of mutations on viral fitness. However, DMS analyses do not discern type-specific from species-level constraints, limiting their utility in understanding how selective pressures change as viral families diversify. Here we show that comparison of DMS datasets from related viruses can overcome these limitations. By contrasting two proteome-wide DMS datasets from prototypical members of the enterovirus A and B species, we identify evolutionary constraints at the species level to occur across core enzymatic machinery and capsid assembly interfaces. In contrast, type-level constraints are observed across host-interaction sites in both structural and non-structural proteins. Furthermore, we find DMS data to reflect both type- and species-level evolutionary signatures in nature yet diverge at conserved hotspots subjected to selection pressures that are lacking in vitro. Finally, we highlight the utility of comparative DMS studies for drug discovery by identifying a mutationally constrained pocket in the 2C helicase that is conserved across all major human enterovirus species. Our findings provide a framework for dissecting evolutionary pressures acting at different evolutionary scales and for guiding the rational design of broad-spectrum therapeutics with high barriers to resistance. A comparison of proteome-wide mutational scanning datasets from enterovirus A and B species reveals evolutionary constraints shared by these viral species that localize to core functional regions, as well as species- and type-specific constraints that map to distinct host interactions.
{"title":"Comparative analysis of deep mutational scanning datasets in enteroviruses A and B identifies functional divergence and therapeutic targets","authors":"Beatriz Álvarez-Rodríguez, William Bakhache, Lauren McCormick, Ron Geller, Patrick T. Dolan","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02993-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-02993-8","url":null,"abstract":"Deep mutational scanning (DMS) can define functional constraints acting on viral proteomes by quantifying the effects of mutations on viral fitness. However, DMS analyses do not discern type-specific from species-level constraints, limiting their utility in understanding how selective pressures change as viral families diversify. Here we show that comparison of DMS datasets from related viruses can overcome these limitations. By contrasting two proteome-wide DMS datasets from prototypical members of the enterovirus A and B species, we identify evolutionary constraints at the species level to occur across core enzymatic machinery and capsid assembly interfaces. In contrast, type-level constraints are observed across host-interaction sites in both structural and non-structural proteins. Furthermore, we find DMS data to reflect both type- and species-level evolutionary signatures in nature yet diverge at conserved hotspots subjected to selection pressures that are lacking in vitro. Finally, we highlight the utility of comparative DMS studies for drug discovery by identifying a mutationally constrained pocket in the 2C helicase that is conserved across all major human enterovirus species. Our findings provide a framework for dissecting evolutionary pressures acting at different evolutionary scales and for guiding the rational design of broad-spectrum therapeutics with high barriers to resistance. A comparison of proteome-wide mutational scanning datasets from enterovirus A and B species reveals evolutionary constraints shared by these viral species that localize to core functional regions, as well as species- and type-specific constraints that map to distinct host interactions.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 3","pages":"467-480"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02993-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147276912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-20DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03019-z
B. Fadrique, F. Costa, F. Cuesta, G. Arellano, L. Cayuela, T. R. Baker, F. C. Draper, A. Esquivel-Muelbert, H. ter Steege, M. Bauters, J. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Z. Aguirre-Mendoza, M. N. Alexiades, E. Alvarez-Davila, E. Arets, E. Ayala, C. G. A. Aymard, F. Baccaro, S. Báez, C. Baraloto, R. I. Barbosa, P. Barbosa Camargo, J. Barlow, P. E. Barni, J. Barroso, M. Benchimol, A. C. Bennett, E. Berenguer, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, F. Bongers, R. Brienen, F. Brown, M. BT Andrade, B. Burban, R. J. Burnham, J. L. Camargo, S. P. C. Carvalho, C. Castilho, J. Chave, F. Coelho de Souza, J. Comiskey, L. da Costa, R. B. de Lima, E. A. de Oliveira, R. L. C. de Oliveira, R. de Oliveira Perdiz, J. De Rutte, J. del Aguila-Pasquel, G. Derroire, A. Di Fiore, M. Disney, A. Duque, T. Emilio, W. Farfan-Rios, S. Fauset, P. M. Fearnside, K. J. Feeley, T. R. Feldpausch, J. Ferreira, L. Ferreira, G. R. Flores Llampazo, D. Galbraith, K. García-Cabrera, M. García Criado, E. Gloor, J. M. Grandez-Rios, B. Hérault, J. Homeier, E. N. Honorio Coronado, I. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, W. Huaraca Huasco, Y. T. Huillca-Aedo, Á. Idárraga, O. Jadán-Maza, M. Kalamandeen, T. J. Killeen, S. G. W. Laurance, W. F. Laurance, A. Levesley, W. Lopez, M. J. Macía, W. E. Magnusson, Y. Malhi, A. G. Manzatto, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Marimon Junior, J. A. Martínez-Villa, M. B. Medeiros, K. Melgaço, L. Melo, T. Metzker, A. Monteagudo, P. S. Morandi, J. A. Myers, H. M. Nascimento, R. Nascimento, D. Neill, B. Nieto-Ariza, W. A. Palacios, S. Palacios-Ramos, N. C. Pallqui-Camacho, G. Pardo Molina, J. Peacock, M. A. Peña, R. T. Pennington, M. C. Peñuela, C. A. Peres, Á. J. Pérez, G. C. Pickavance, E. Pinto, J. Pipoly, N. Pitman, A. Prieto, H. Ramírez-Angulo, S. M. Reis, Z. Restrepo, C. Reynel, S. Ribeiro, G. Rivas-Torres, R. Rojas, A. Rudas, N. Salinas, R. P. Salomão, F. Santana, J. Schietti, G. Schwartz, J. Serrano, M. Silman, C. Silva, C. A. Silva, R. C. Silva, R. S. A. Silva, J. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, M. F. Simon, Y. C. Soto-Shareva, P. F. Souza, D. Storck-Tonon, J. Stropp, V. Swamy, J. S. Tello, J. Terborgh, R. Thomas, A. Torres-Lezama, J. D. Vale, L. Valenzuela Gamarra, G. van der Heijden, P. van der Hout, P. J. van der Meer, R. Vasquez Martinez, L. Vedovato, H. Verbeeck, I. Vieira, S. A. Vieira, E. Vilanova, B. Vinceti, V. A. Vos, R. Zagt, P. A. Zuidema, O. L. Phillips
{"title":"Author Correction: Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change","authors":"B. Fadrique, F. Costa, F. Cuesta, G. Arellano, L. Cayuela, T. R. Baker, F. C. Draper, A. Esquivel-Muelbert, H. ter Steege, M. Bauters, J. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Z. Aguirre-Mendoza, M. N. Alexiades, E. Alvarez-Davila, E. Arets, E. Ayala, C. G. A. Aymard, F. Baccaro, S. Báez, C. Baraloto, R. I. Barbosa, P. Barbosa Camargo, J. Barlow, P. E. Barni, J. Barroso, M. Benchimol, A. C. Bennett, E. Berenguer, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, F. Bongers, R. Brienen, F. Brown, M. BT Andrade, B. Burban, R. J. Burnham, J. L. Camargo, S. P. C. Carvalho, C. Castilho, J. Chave, F. Coelho de Souza, J. Comiskey, L. da Costa, R. B. de Lima, E. A. de Oliveira, R. L. C. de Oliveira, R. de Oliveira Perdiz, J. De Rutte, J. del Aguila-Pasquel, G. Derroire, A. Di Fiore, M. Disney, A. Duque, T. Emilio, W. Farfan-Rios, S. Fauset, P. M. Fearnside, K. J. Feeley, T. R. Feldpausch, J. Ferreira, L. Ferreira, G. R. Flores Llampazo, D. Galbraith, K. García-Cabrera, M. García Criado, E. Gloor, J. M. Grandez-Rios, B. Hérault, J. Homeier, E. N. Honorio Coronado, I. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, W. Huaraca Huasco, Y. T. Huillca-Aedo, Á. Idárraga, O. Jadán-Maza, M. Kalamandeen, T. J. Killeen, S. G. W. Laurance, W. F. Laurance, A. Levesley, W. Lopez, M. J. Macía, W. E. Magnusson, Y. Malhi, A. G. Manzatto, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Marimon Junior, J. A. Martínez-Villa, M. B. Medeiros, K. Melgaço, L. Melo, T. Metzker, A. Monteagudo, P. S. Morandi, J. A. Myers, H. M. Nascimento, R. Nascimento, D. Neill, B. Nieto-Ariza, W. A. Palacios, S. Palacios-Ramos, N. C. Pallqui-Camacho, G. Pardo Molina, J. Peacock, M. A. Peña, R. T. Pennington, M. C. Peñuela, C. A. Peres, Á. J. Pérez, G. C. Pickavance, E. Pinto, J. Pipoly, N. Pitman, A. Prieto, H. Ramírez-Angulo, S. M. Reis, Z. Restrepo, C. Reynel, S. Ribeiro, G. Rivas-Torres, R. Rojas, A. Rudas, N. Salinas, R. P. Salomão, F. Santana, J. Schietti, G. Schwartz, J. Serrano, M. Silman, C. Silva, C. A. Silva, R. C. Silva, R. S. A. Silva, J. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, M. F. Simon, Y. C. Soto-Shareva, P. F. Souza, D. Storck-Tonon, J. Stropp, V. Swamy, J. S. Tello, J. Terborgh, R. Thomas, A. Torres-Lezama, J. D. Vale, L. Valenzuela Gamarra, G. van der Heijden, P. van der Hout, P. J. van der Meer, R. Vasquez Martinez, L. Vedovato, H. Verbeeck, I. Vieira, S. A. Vieira, E. Vilanova, B. Vinceti, V. A. Vos, R. Zagt, P. A. Zuidema, O. L. Phillips","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03019-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-03019-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 3","pages":"606-607"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03019-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146258632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-18DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-02997-4
Hongying Zhang, Yao Zhang, Diego G. Miralles, Xiaonan Tai, Akash Koppa, Hui Yang, Stephen Sitch, Michael O’Sullivan
{"title":"Increase in plant reliance on past precipitation associated with greening and drying","authors":"Hongying Zhang, Yao Zhang, Diego G. Miralles, Xiaonan Tai, Akash Koppa, Hui Yang, Stephen Sitch, Michael O’Sullivan","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02997-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02997-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146209988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-13DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03000-w
Miguel Gómez-Llano, Stephen P De Lisle
{"title":"Demonstrations of reproducibility are not reproducibility.","authors":"Miguel Gómez-Llano, Stephen P De Lisle","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03000-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03000-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146195025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}