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Climate variability disrupts crucial plant–fungal mutualisms 气候变化破坏了至关重要的植物与真菌的共生关系
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02944-9
Global climate change has the potential to shift the roles and prevalence of mutualisms, including the positive interactions between plants and microorganisms. A combination of field surveys and common garden experiments has revealed a paradox: fungal mutualists promote long-term, range-wide population persistence of their host plants, especially under drought, yet are selected against by interannual climate variability.
全球气候变化有可能改变相互作用的角色和普遍性,包括植物和微生物之间的积极相互作用。野外调查和普通园林实验的结合揭示了一个悖论:真菌互惠共生促进寄主植物的长期、大范围种群持久性,特别是在干旱条件下,但却被年际气候变化所选择。
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Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands 植物多样性增强了全球旱地生态系统对日益增加的放牧压力的抵抗力
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02952-9
Lucio Biancari, Gastón R. Oñatibia, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Nicolas Gross, Laura Yahdjian, Martín R. Aguiar, Hugo Saiz, David J. Eldridge, Enrique Valencia, Xoaquín Moreira, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Sergio Asensio, César Plaza, Emilio Guirado, Miguel García-Gómez, Juan J. Gaitán, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Betty J. Mendoza, Fernando T. Maestre
Understanding the mechanisms that shape ecosystem resistance to increasing livestock grazing pressure, a major driver of land degradation, is essential for predicting its impacts and informing sustainable land management strategies. This issue is particularly relevant in drylands, which host half of the world’s livestock production and are highly vulnerable to desertification caused by overgrazing. Here we conduct a standardized field survey across 73 dryland sites in 25 countries to simultaneously evaluate how climatic, edaphic, vegetation and grazing-related factors influence ecosystem resistance—defined here as the capacity to maintain vegetation cover under increasing grazing pressure. We found that increasing grazing pressure reduced vegetation cover in 80% of sites, with an average decline of 35%. Plant species richness emerged as the strongest predictor of ecosystem resistance, with higher richness associated with lower vegetation cover loss. Functional trait data indicated that this positive effect was mainly explained by complementarity in trait values among plants, rather than by functional redundancy. Our results indicate that conserving plant diversity is key to strengthening ecosystem resistance and sustaining dryland functioning under intensifying grazing pressure. Grazing affects plant diversity, but plant diversity in turn may modulate the effect of grazing on the plant community. This global analysis explores the association between plant species richness and plant cover resistance to grazing intensity in drylands.
了解形成生态系统抵抗牲畜放牧压力(土地退化的主要驱动因素)的机制,对于预测其影响和为可持续土地管理战略提供信息至关重要。这一问题在旱地尤为重要,因为旱地的牲畜产量占世界的一半,而且极易受到过度放牧造成的荒漠化的影响。在这里,我们对25个国家的73个旱地站点进行了标准化的实地调查,以同时评估气候、土壤、植被和放牧相关因素如何影响生态系统抗性——这里的定义是在不断增加的放牧压力下维持植被覆盖的能力。我们发现,放牧压力的增加减少了80%的地点的植被覆盖,平均下降了35%。植物物种丰富度是生态系统抗性的最强预测因子,丰富度越高,植被覆盖损失越小。功能性状数据表明,这主要是由于植物间性状价值的互补性,而不是功能冗余。研究结果表明,保护植物多样性是增强生态系统抗逆性和维持放牧压力下旱地功能的关键。放牧影响植物多样性,而植物多样性反过来又调节放牧对植物群落的影响。这一全球分析探讨了干旱地区植物物种丰富度与植物覆盖对放牧强度的抗性之间的关系。
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Climate variability disrupts microbial mutualism-driven population persistence 气候变化破坏了微生物相互作用驱动的种群持久性
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02943-w
Vicki W. Li, Joshua C. Fowler, Aaron S. David, Sharon Y. Strauss, Christopher A. Searcy, Michelle E. Afkhami
Understanding how species interactions impact population dynamics and long-term persistence over broad temporal and spatial scales is crucial for predicting species distributions and responses to global change. Here we investigate how microbial mutualisms can promote long-term and range-wide population persistence of plants, particularly by ameliorating drought stress. We integrate range-wide field surveys of ~90 grass host populations spanning 13 years with demographic modelling based on 6-year common garden experiments conducted across the host range. We found that mutualistic fungal endophytes (genus Epichloë) promote population-level persistence and growth of their native host grass (Bromus laevipes) across its distribution, with non-mutualistic populations four times more likely to go locally extinct. However, endophyte prevalence declined eightfold more in historically mutualistic populations that experienced high climate variability. This demonstrates that mutualisms can underpin population persistence and buffer hosts against environmental stress but may themselves be vulnerable to global change, with concerning implications for long-term population viability and, ultimately, species distributions under an increasingly uncertain climate. Microbial mutualists could affect plant population persistence under climate change. Here the authors show that fungal endophytes contribute to the population persistence of a grass species by ameliorating drought stress but are more likely to disappear locally under climate variability.
了解物种相互作用如何影响种群动态和长期持久性,对于预测物种分布和对全球变化的响应至关重要。在这里,我们研究了微生物共生如何促进植物的长期和广泛的种群持久性,特别是通过改善干旱胁迫。我们将对大约90个草寄主种群进行了为期13年的实地调查,并基于在寄主范围内进行的6年普通花园实验建立了人口统计学模型。我们发现,共生内生真菌(Epichloë属)促进了其本地寄主草(Bromus laevipes)在其分布范围内的种群水平的持久性和生长,而非共生种群在当地灭绝的可能性是其4倍。然而,在经历高气候变率的历史互惠种群中,内生菌流行率下降了8倍以上。这表明,共生关系可以支撑种群持久性和缓冲宿主抵御环境压力,但本身可能容易受到全球变化的影响,这对种群的长期生存能力和最终在日益不确定的气候下的物种分布产生了令人担忧的影响。在气候变化条件下,微生物共生关系可能影响植物种群的持久性。在这里,作者表明真菌内生菌通过改善干旱胁迫有助于草物种的种群持久性,但更有可能在气候变化下局部消失。
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Hidden outbreaks in an amphibian pandemic 两栖动物大流行中隐藏的爆发。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02950-x
Gabriel Maturani Barrile
Zooming in at fine spatial scales reveals that pathogens spread through close contact can produce striking variation in infection rates among groups of host animals just metres apart, which drives hidden epidemics and population collapse.
在精细的空间尺度上放大显示,通过密切接触传播的病原体可以在相距仅几米的宿主动物群体中产生惊人的感染率差异,从而导致隐藏的流行病和种群崩溃。
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When local arthropod biomass declines, every species counts 当当地节肢动物生物量下降时,每个物种都很重要。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02918-x
By disentangling the mechanisms that underpin changes in community biomass, we show that local arthropod biomass declines are overwhelmingly associated with species losses, independent of which species are lost and with only minor contributions of abundance change. High plant diversity and low land-use intensity mitigate arthropod biomass declines and community homogenization.
通过解开支持群落生物量变化的机制,我们发现当地节肢动物生物量的下降绝大多数与物种损失有关,与物种损失无关,并且丰度变化的贡献很小。高植物多样性和低土地利用强度减缓了节肢动物生物量下降和群落同质化。
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Europeans like wolves, lynx and bears and oppose hunting them but do not want more of these animals 欧洲人喜欢狼、山猫和熊,反对猎杀它们,但不想要更多的这些动物。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02915-0
A Europe‑wide survey of 10,000 respondents shows strong backing for the recovery of wolves, lynx and bears, as well as opposition to hunting and culling, but also shows that a majority opposes any further population growth. Many respondents remain neutral, which indicates that large carnivore recovery is far less polarizing than commonly portrayed.
一项在欧洲范围内对1万名受访者进行的调查显示,人们强烈支持恢复狼、猞猁和熊的数量,反对狩猎和扑杀,但也显示大多数人反对进一步的人口增长。许多受访者保持中立,这表明大型食肉动物的复苏远没有通常描绘的那样两极分化。
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Fine-grained mapping of forest diversity in China 中国森林多样性的精细制图。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02925-y
By leveraging a spatially representative dataset that comprises more than 300,000 trees from 3,396 natural forest plots, we fill crucial knowledge gaps regarding fine-grained spatial patterns, driving mechanisms and the future potential of tree species richness and structural diversity in China’s natural forests.
通过利用一个具有空间代表性的数据集,包括来自3,396个天然林样地的30多万棵树,我们填补了关于中国天然林物种丰富度和结构多样性的细粒度空间格局、驱动机制和未来潜力的关键知识空白。
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Repeated adaptation in sperm-related and neuronal genes in brood parasitic birds 寄生幼鸟精子相关基因和神经元基因的重复适应。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02920-3
Population genomic data from five species of brood parasitic birds, representing three independent origins of the trait, enabled the identification of shared signatures of natural selection reflecting repeated adaptation in species with this lifestyle. This repeated signal of adaptation is present in particular in genes involved in spermatogenesis and neural development.
来自五种育雏寄生鸟的种群基因组数据,代表了这一特征的三个独立起源,使人们能够识别出自然选择的共同特征,反映了具有这种生活方式的物种的重复适应。这种重复的适应信号尤其存在于与精子发生和神经发育有关的基因中。
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Localized transmission of an aquatic pathogen drives hidden epidemics and population collapse in a terrestrial host 水生病原体的局部传播会在陆地宿主中引发隐藏的流行病和种群崩溃。
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02930-1
Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez, Soledad Delgado-Oyarzún, Claudio Azat, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Hugo Sentenac, Natashja Haddow, Bastián Santana, Jaiber J. Solano-Iguaran, Andrew A. Cunningham, Leonardo D. Bacigalupe
Understanding fine-scale spatial variation in infection risk is central to epidemiology, disease ecology and conservation, yet its causes and consequences remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the dynamics of infection with the aquatic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in several populations of the fully terrestrial Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) across southern Chile. Using high-resolution spatial capture–recapture data, long-term demographic monitoring and a spatial individual-based model parameterized with empirical estimates, we show that Bd infection in this system exhibits pronounced spatial heterogeneity at scales of only metres. This fine-scale clustering arises from localized transmission of an aquatic pathogen in a terrestrial system, driven by spatial proximity between infected and susceptible individuals. Such transmission generates clustered epidemics and can drive rapid subpopulation collapse in this species, with declines of up to 98% within a year. These epidemics can remain undetected at the broader population level because of spatial decoupling of infection among subpopulations. Our findings provide evidence of epidemic dynamics in a terrestrial Bd host and underscore a broader principle: observational scale fundamentally shapes our ability to detect and interpret infection dynamics in spatially structured populations. Fine-scale field analysis and modelling of the spatial dynamics of infection of Darwin’s frogs with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus identifies highly localized transmission dynamics that generate clustered epidemics and can drive collapse of local subpopulations.
了解感染风险的精细尺度空间变化对流行病学、疾病生态学和保护至关重要,但对其原因和后果的了解仍然很少。在这里,我们研究了智利南部几个完全陆地达尔文蛙(Rhinoderma darwinii)种群中水生真菌Batrachochytrium dendroatidis (Bd)的感染动态。利用高分辨率的空间捕获-再捕获数据、长期人口监测和基于空间个体的模型参数化经验估计,我们发现该系统中的Bd感染仅在米尺度上就表现出明显的空间异质性。由于受感染个体和易感个体之间的空间接近性,这种小尺度聚类是由水生病原体在陆地系统中的局部传播引起的。这种传播产生聚集性流行病,并可能导致该物种的亚种群迅速崩溃,一年内下降高达98%。由于亚种群间感染的空间脱钩,这些流行病在更广泛的种群水平上可能仍未被发现。我们的发现为陆地Bd宿主的流行动态提供了证据,并强调了一个更广泛的原则:观察尺度从根本上决定了我们在空间结构种群中检测和解释感染动态的能力。
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Marine snow fuels an opportunistic small food web in the Late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte 在晚奥陶世的苏姆页岩中,海洋雪为一个机会主义的小型食物网提供了燃料Lagerstätte
IF 13.9 1区 生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02923-0
Claire Browning, Sarah E. Gabbott, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, Abderrazak El Albani, Arnaud Mazurier, Emese M. Bordy
Meiofauna are minute organisms that dominate the ‘small food web’—communities which, in modern sediments, play a key role in ecosystem functioning through benthic–pelagic coupling and carbon drawdown. Despite their importance today, the ecological contribution of such communities in ancient settings remains poorly understood, largely due to the sparse and fragmentary nature of their fossil record. Here we document trace fossils of a meiofaunal ecosystem that flourished in the immediate aftermath of the end-Ordovician extinction event, preserved in the Soom Shale Lagerstätte, South Africa. Micro computed tomography scanning reveals three-dimensionally preserved ichnofossils including two burrow/trail morphotypes and microcoprolites that are attributed to a low-diversity meiofaunal benthic community, dominated by nematodes and foraminifera. The ichnofossils consistently occur within fossilized marine-snow-bearing beds, where there is a clear pattern in their distribution and frequency of occurrence. This pattern mirrors behavioural responses of meiofauna to fluxes in delivery of organic matter to the sea floor recorded in modern oxygen-limited marine environments. The Soom Shale assemblage provides a remarkable insight into, not only one of the oldest meiofaunal trace-fossil records, but also the earliest account of an ancient behavioural response to episodic phytoplankton blooms. Trace fossils from the end Ordovician of South Africa suggest a low-diversity meiofaunal benthic community fed by episodic concentrations of phytoplankton (marine snow).
小型动物是支配“小型食物网”的微小生物,在现代沉积物中,这些群落通过底栖-远洋耦合和碳吸收在生态系统功能中起着关键作用。尽管它们在今天很重要,但这些群落在古代环境中的生态贡献仍然鲜为人知,这主要是由于它们的化石记录的稀缺性和碎片性。在这里,我们记录了保存在南非Soom页岩Lagerstätte的小动物生态系统的痕迹化石,该生态系统在奥陶纪末灭绝事件发生后立即繁荣起来。显微计算机断层扫描显示,三维保存的鱼化石包括两种穴居/小径形态和微粪化石,属于低多样性的小生境底栖生物群落,以线虫和有孔虫为主。鱼化石普遍出现在海洋含雪地层中,其分布规律和出现频率明显。这一模式反映了现代缺氧海洋环境中记录的微量动物对向海底输送有机物通量的行为反应。Soom页岩组合不仅提供了最古老的小型动物化石记录之一,而且还提供了对浮游植物间歇性繁殖的古代行为反应的最早描述。
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