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{"title":"Key lessons from 50 years of Germany's impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting.","authors":"Fritz Kleinschroth, Wolfgang Wende, Christian Albert, Christina von Haaren","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02996-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02996-5","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":"146195062","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}

{"title":"Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response","authors":"Samantha J. Worthy, Justin C. Luong, Brooke E. Wainwright, Jonathan Aguiñaga, Harald Auge, Anca C. Barcu, Amgaa Batbaatar, Karen H. Beard, Edward W. Bork, Katherine E. Brafford, Kerry M. Byrne, James F. Cahill, Michele Carbognani, Cameron N. Carlyle, Karen Castillioni, Manjunatha H. Chandregowda, Scott X. Chang, Jeff Chieppa, Amber C. Churchill, Jennifer E. Cribbs, Thomas Deola, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Elise C. Elwood, Regina A. Fairbanks, T’ai G. W. Forte, Flavia A. Funk, Anjum K. Gujral, Siri V. Haugum, Yann Hautier, Hugh A. L. Henry, Forest Isbell, Anke Jentsch, Samuel E. Jordan, Sally E. Koerner, Juergen Kreyling, György Kröel-Dulay, Andrew Kulmatiski, Eric G. Lamb, Michael E. Loik, María G. Longo, Alejandro Loydi, Dylan J. MacArthur-Waltz, Clara Milano, John W. Morgan, Akira S. Mori, Seth M. Munson, Gregory S. Newman, Uffe N. Nielsen, Rory C. O’Connor, Timothy J. Ohlert, Brooke B. Osborne, Rafael Otfinowski, Meelis Pärtel, Pablo L. Peri, Guadalupe Peter, Alessandro Petraglia, Juan M. Piñeiro-Guerra, Laura W. Ploughe, Cristy Portales-Reyes, Sally A. Power, Suzanne M. Prober, Yolanda Pueyo, Christiane Roscher, Bráulio A. Santos, Melinda D. Smith, Lara A. Souza, Andreas Stampfli, Rachel J. Standish, Marie Sünnemann, Michelle J. Tedder, Pål Thorvaldsen, Katja Tielbörger, Alejandro Valdecantos, Liesbeth van den Brink, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv G. Velle, Jennifer L. Williams, Amelia A. Wolf, Laura Yahdjian, Alyssa L. Young, Juan M. Zeberio, Michaela Zeiter, Richard P. Phillips, Jennifer L. Funk","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02989-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-02989-4","url":null,"abstract":"Increased climate variability is expected to intensify short-term drought events. Plants have evolved stress tolerance strategies involving trade-offs in resource conservation, mycorrhizal collaboration and plant size, yet how these strategies promote drought resistance across different herbaceous plant groups remains unknown. Leveraging 63 globally distributed grassland and shrubland sites from the International Drought Experiment, we identified plant traits linked to drought resistance in 661 populations of 421 species after 1 year of extreme drought. We assessed how traits, site precipitation and drought severity affected cover change across growth forms and lifespans, and how trait–environment interactions influenced drought resistance. Across all species, leaf N (an acquisitive trait) was associated with drought resistance, whereas in forbs, drought resistance was also associated with a conservative root trait and plant size. In addition, interactions among traits mediated drought resistance; root traits predicted performance only in concert with other traits. Environmental variables influenced trait effects on drought resistance, notably for annuals in wetter sites, suggesting that drought-escape strategies in annuals may be advantageous only under mild stress. Our study highlights variability in traits that predict drought resistance across herbaceous plant groups, emphasizing the importance of species context, environmental stress and the selection of traits in research and management. Using 63 globally distributed grassland and shrubland sites from the International Drought Experiment, this study identified plant traits linked to drought resistance after 1 year of extreme drought across growth forms, lifespans and climate.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 3","pages":"512-522"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152322","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}

{"title":"Climate change breakups","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02992-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-02992-9","url":null,"abstract":"As with plants and animals, microorganisms are affected by climate change. This could destabilize mutualisms that are key to species’ survival and ecosystem resilience.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 2","pages":"157-157"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02992-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146148359","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}

{"title":"The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases","authors":"Elizabeth M. Dowding, Emma M. Dunne, Katie S. Collins, Katheryn Cryer, Kenneth De Baets, Danijela Dimitrijević, Stewart M. Edie, Seth Finnegan, Wolfgang Kiessling, Kari Lintulaakso, Lee Hsiang Liow, Holly Little, Lin Na, Shanan E. Peters, Johan Renaudie, Erin E. Saupe, Barbara Seuss, Jocelyn A. Sessa, Jansen A. Smith, Mark D. Uhen, John W. Williams, Ádám T. Kocsis","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02985-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-02985-8","url":null,"abstract":"The digital revolution has transformed palaeontology through the development of openly accessible, community-driven databases that underpin some of the most complex and large-scale empirical studies of the history of life on Earth. These systems safeguard high-effort, volunteered data and have revealed major macroevolutionary patterns, including the ‘Big 5’ mass extinctions. These efforts also represent remarkable global scientific and financial investment, which is continually required to support the next generation of databases and associated research. Here we conducted a survey of 118 palaeontological and allied Earth science databases, analysing their diversity dynamics, including origination and extinction rates. We show that approximately 85% of all community-curated databases have lifespans of less than 15 years, putting decades of investment at risk. We show that database creation effort has increased in the past 30 years, with peaks in database loss related to 5-year funding cycles. We advocate for strategies to enhance database longevity, including sustained funding models, stronger institutional support and modular backend architectures that better link international community databases to each other and to fossil specimens. The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databases.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 3","pages":"594-605"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02985-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152323","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}

{"title":"Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory","authors":"Arjan Mann, Zifang Xiong, Ami S. Calthorpe, Hans-Dieter Sues, Hillary C. Maddin","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02929-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02929-8","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of herbivory is one of the most important ecological events in the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates and impacted the ecosystems they inhabited. Herbivory independently developed in a number of tetrapod clades during the Late Carboniferous and Permian, eventually leading to the establishment of the basic structure of modern terrestrial ecosystems. Here we describe a Late Carboniferous pantylid ‘microsaur’, Tyrannoroter heberti gen. et sp. nov., with expansive occluding palatal and coronoid dental batteries. The shape of the teeth, as revealed by high-resolution micro-computed tomography data, indicates wear from both shearing and grinding motions consistent with herbivory. New data from historical pantylid fossils show that similar adaptations can be traced back as far as the Bashkirian (~318 million years ago), indicating that terrestrial herbivory was already widespread within this group, and originated rapidly following the terrestrialization of tetrapods. The placement of recumbirostran ‘microsaurs’ on the amniote stem suggests that terrestrial herbivory is not an amniote innovation, although the phylogenetic position of ‘microsaurian’ tetrapods remains uncertain. Under any phylogenetic scenario, the data presented here reveal that pantylids acquired adaptations to herbivory independently, probably via durophagous omnivory, feeding on insects, shelled animals and tough plant material. A new species of pantylid microsaur from the Late Carboniferous of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has teeth with dental occlusion consistent with herbivory, indicating an early transition to this condition among terrestrial tetrapods.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 2","pages":"193-202"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146148353","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}

{"title":"Temperature variation and life history mediate nonlinearity in fluctuations of marine fish populations worldwide.","authors":"Robert M Hechler, Martin Krkosek","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02968-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02968-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonlinear dynamics readily occur in natural ecosystems and can drive irregular population fluctuations through oscillations, chaos and alternative stable states. However, the effects of anthropogenic changes, such as to demography and the climate, on nonlinearity of population fluctuations are unknown. We evaluated the extent and magnitude of nonlinearity and its environmental and life history correlates in 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series of 143 marine fish species, worldwide. Here we show that temperature variation amplifies nonlinearity in recruitment and spawner biomass, while life history mediates the degree of nonlinearity for the latter, dampening it in slow-lived species. Nonlinearity was shown by 81% of populations and correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations. These nonlinear dynamics were low dimensional and causally forced by temperature in 69% of populations with the probability of forcing increasing for recruits in variable-temperature environments and fast-lived spawners. Our results challenge assumptions of stable dynamics and sustainable yield common to fisheries management, and suggest that nonlinear fluctuations of fish populations are magnified by size-selective fisheries and environmental variability from global climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150180","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}

{"title":"Rebuilding Ukraine's capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology.","authors":"Oleksandr M Maistrenko, Natalia Volkova, Vladyslav Mirutenko, Walter Wolfsberger, Yaroslava Hasynets, Tetiana Barannik, Serhii Sydorovskyi, Yurii Gamulya, Taras K Oleksyk, Svitlana Serga","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03002-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03002-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150106","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}

{"title":"Eliminating invasive predators.","authors":"Marian Turner, James C Russell, Margaret Nichols","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-03001-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03001-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150099","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}

{"title":"Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories.","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02962-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02962-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150177","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}

{"title":"Warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands","authors":"Yunpeng Zhao,&nbsp;Xiaojuan Feng,&nbsp;Mari Pihlatie,&nbsp;Anuliina Putkinen,&nbsp;Milja Männikkö,&nbsp;Houquan Wang,&nbsp;Chengzhu Liu,&nbsp;Mika Aurela,&nbsp;Xuefei Li","doi":"10.1038/s41559-026-02982-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-026-02982-x","url":null,"abstract":"Boreal ecosystems store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and warm faster than the global average. The current paradigm based on boreal forests and tundra considers that warming will accelerate boreal carbon loss. However, the warming response of Sphagnum peatlands, storing ~40% of boreal carbon stocks, remains under-investigated. Here by coupling meta-analysis of 735 paired observations from 93 boreal warming studies with mechanistic investigations into two long-term warming experiments in Finnish peatlands, we demonstrate that warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands. This result sharply contrasts with warming-induced carbon loss from boreal forests and tundra, owing to the unique metabolic response of Sphagnum, leading to increased plant productivity, reduced microbial decomposition and enhanced iron-mediated protection of soil organic matter. Our estimates suggest that warming-induced increase of soil carbon in boreal Sphagnum peatlands (assuming no hydrological changes or plant species shifts) may offset nearly half the boreal forest carbon-sink decline or heterotrophic respiration increases in Arctic tundra under warming. These findings highlight the vital but overlooked role of Sphagnum peatlands in counteracting boreal carbon loss under future warming. Data from long-term experiments in Finnish peatlands shows that warming induces a metabolic response in boreal Sphagnum peatlands that enhances accumulation of soil carbon, in contrast to the carbon losses in response to warming in boreal forests and tundra.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 3","pages":"496-511"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150153","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}