Pub Date : 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02934-x
Luíseach Nic Eoin
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Pub Date : 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02949-4
Marian Turner
{"title":"Deforestation rolls back bed net success","authors":"Marian Turner","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02949-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02949-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 1","pages":"10-10"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145931242","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 : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02958-3
Guangdong Li, Zhenbo Wang, Siao Sun, Wei Qi, James E. M. Watson
A key target in the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is to conserve at least 30% of global lands through protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, recent research indicates extensive habitat destruction within the global terrestrial protected area network and it is unknown how future, predictable risks of habitat destruction may severely undermine this target. Here, using high-resolution satellite datasets and machine learning models, we provide a global assessment of likely future human land-use expansion and associated natural habitat conversion risk within the terrestrial protected area estate under various socio-economic and climate scenarios. Human land use within protected areas is projected to rise by 27.50–51.17% by 2050 under four shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios. Consequently, 31.03–39.07% of terrestrial vertebrate species are expected to experience increases in human-dominated land uses inside protected areas. Protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Southeast Asia are particularly at risk, where the need to balance food security, urbanization and biodiversity conservation presents substantial challenges. The SSP5-Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario is projected to exacerbate natural habitat conversion most severely, while SSP3-RCP7.0 and SSP2-RCP4.5 have comparatively lower impacts. Our findings underscore the necessity of addressing accelerated natural habitat conversion, ensuring the resilience of both existing and newly established protected areas against future threats. Predictions of human land-use expansion within existing terrestrial protected areas under four shared socio-economic pathways identify locations of particular vulnerability to natural habitat conversion and resulting effects on species’ habitat availability.
{"title":"Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas","authors":"Guangdong Li, Zhenbo Wang, Siao Sun, Wei Qi, James E. M. Watson","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02958-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02958-3","url":null,"abstract":"A key target in the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is to conserve at least 30% of global lands through protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, recent research indicates extensive habitat destruction within the global terrestrial protected area network and it is unknown how future, predictable risks of habitat destruction may severely undermine this target. Here, using high-resolution satellite datasets and machine learning models, we provide a global assessment of likely future human land-use expansion and associated natural habitat conversion risk within the terrestrial protected area estate under various socio-economic and climate scenarios. Human land use within protected areas is projected to rise by 27.50–51.17% by 2050 under four shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios. Consequently, 31.03–39.07% of terrestrial vertebrate species are expected to experience increases in human-dominated land uses inside protected areas. Protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Southeast Asia are particularly at risk, where the need to balance food security, urbanization and biodiversity conservation presents substantial challenges. The SSP5-Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario is projected to exacerbate natural habitat conversion most severely, while SSP3-RCP7.0 and SSP2-RCP4.5 have comparatively lower impacts. Our findings underscore the necessity of addressing accelerated natural habitat conversion, ensuring the resilience of both existing and newly established protected areas against future threats. Predictions of human land-use expansion within existing terrestrial protected areas under four shared socio-economic pathways identify locations of particular vulnerability to natural habitat conversion and resulting effects on species’ habitat availability.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 2","pages":"281-292"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145919990","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 : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02941-y
Marta S. Magri, Danila Voronov, Saoirse Foley, Pedro Manuel Martínez-García, Martin Franke, Gregory A. Cary, José M. Santos-Pereira, Claudia Cuomo, Manuel Fernández-Moreno, Marta Portela, Alejandro Gil-Galvez, Rafael D. Acemel, Periklis Paganos, Carolyn Ku, Jovana Ranđelović, Maria Lorenza Rusciano, Panos N. Firbas, José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Veronica F. Hinman, Maria Ina Arnone, Ignacio Maeso
Despite the growing abundance of sequenced animal genomes, we only have detailed knowledge of regulatory organization for a handful of lineages, particularly flies and vertebrates. These two taxa show contrasting trends in the molecular mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization and long-term evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory element (CRE) conservation. Here we study the evolution and organization of the regulatory genome of echinoderms, a lineage whose phylogenetic position and relatively slow molecular evolution have proven particularly useful for evolutionary studies. We generated new reference genome assemblies for two species belonging to two different echinoderm classes: the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and the bat sea star Patiria miniata using PacBio and HiC data and characterize their 3D chromatin architecture. We show that these echinoderms have TAD-like domains that, such as in flies, do not seem to be associated with CTCF motif orientation. We systematically profiled CREs during sea star and sea urchin development using ATAC-seq, comparing their regulatory logic and dynamics over multiple developmental stages. Finally, our analysis of sea urchin and sea star CRE evolution across multiple evolutionary distances and timescales showed several thousand elements conserved for hundreds of millions of years, revealing a vertebrate-like pattern of CRE evolution that probably constitutes an ancestral property of the regulatory evolution of animals. Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms and the long-term evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory elements in animals.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02965-4
Jeroen Ingels, Daniel Leduc, Ailish Ullmann, Ashley Rowden
New studies that document the effect of polymetallic nodule mining vehicles on deep-sea biodiversity suggest that keeping up with technological innovations will be key to more realistic impact assessments of deep-sea mining.
{"title":"Assessing mining impacts in the deep sea","authors":"Jeroen Ingels, Daniel Leduc, Ailish Ullmann, Ashley Rowden","doi":"10.1038/s41559-025-02965-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41559-025-02965-4","url":null,"abstract":"New studies that document the effect of polymetallic nodule mining vehicles on deep-sea biodiversity suggest that keeping up with technological innovations will be key to more realistic impact assessments of deep-sea mining.","PeriodicalId":18835,"journal":{"name":"Nature ecology & evolution","volume":"10 2","pages":"172-174"},"PeriodicalIF":13.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145903427","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}
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