Nature Ecology & evolution
Volume 4 Issue 8, August 2020
Pinniped population genomics
A mixed breeding colony of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) and northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) on San Miguel Island, California.
See Peart et al.
Image: Fritz Trillmich. Cover Design: Lauren Heslop.
Editorial
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Editorial | 30 July 2020
Peering into peer review
We are now publishing details of the review process for published manuscripts.
Correspondence
- Chris Turney
- , Anne-Gaelle Ausseil
- & Linda Broadhurst
- Bea Maas
- , Kathleen E. Grogan
- & Anne Toomey
- José Ricardo Paula
- Jørgen Schou Christiansen
Correspondence | 17 June 2020
Urgent need for an integrated policy framework for biodiversity loss and climate change
Correspondence | 03 June 2020 | Open Access
Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19
Correspondence | 03 June 2020 | Open Access
Lockdowns due to COVID-19 threaten PhD students’ and early-career researchers’ careers
Correspondence | 04 June 2020
Whale catches fail to fill quotas
Comment & Opinion
- M. Brock Fenton
- & Sharon Swartz
- Cock van Oosterhout
Obituary | 08 June 2020
Thomas H. Kunz (1938–2020)
Bat biologist and inspirational mentor who developed the concept of aeroecology.
Comment | 04 May 2020
Mutation load is the spectre of species conservation
Genomic regions conserved during evolution are important, but they have been ignored in conservation genetics. Managing deleterious mutations in such ultraconserved elements by genomics-informed conservation would make populations more resilient to future genetic drift.
News & Views
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News & Views | 15 June 2020
Learning from a century of droughts
Tree ring records show that sensitivity of conifer trees to drought has generally increased during the last century, but so has post-drought recovery.
- Timothy J. Brodribb
- Peter R. Leavitt
News & Views | 15 June 2020
Don’t stressor the small stuff
Freshwaters are subject to a multitude of threats, but complex interactions among stressors are context-dependant and less common than expected.
Reviews
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Perspective | 20 July 2020
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development
This Perspective uses a social–ecological systems framework to make recommendations for global targets that capture the interdependencies of biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development to inform the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 process and the future of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
- Belinda Reyers
- & Elizabeth R. Selig
- Amar Sarkar
- , Siobhán Harty
- & Philip W. J. Burnet
Perspective | 22 June 2020
Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome
This Perspective discusses the microbial metacommunity of animal social groups, and the social and environmental forces that shape it at different levels, from individuals to species.
Research
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Article | 22 June 2020
Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change
Developing theory to explore the effects of environmental change on the structure of species interactions within communities, the authors show that enhancing asymmetry in the structure can explain idiosyncratic responses to change. They further confirm these findings on experimental data from microbial species grown together compared with in isolation, subject to different temperature regimes.
- Andrea Tabi
- , Frank Pennekamp
- & Serguei Saavedra
- Jonathan Lenoir
- , Romain Bertrand
- & Gaël Grenouillet
- Sebastian Birk
- , Daniel Chapman
- & Daniel Hering
- Michiel P. Veldhuis
- , Tim R. Hofmeester
- & Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt
- Xiangyi Li
- , Shilong Piao
- & Josep Peñuelas
- David Ben Stern
- & Carol Eunmi Lee
- Claire R. Peart
- , Sergio Tusso
- & Jochen B. W. Wolf
- Bohao Fang
- , Petri Kemppainen
- & Juha Merilä
- Laura J. Kelly
- , William J. Plumb
- & Richard J. A. Buggs
- Anne-Claire Fabre
- , Carla Bardua
- & Anjali Goswami
- Gonçalo S. Faria
- , Andy Gardner
- & Pau Carazo
Article | 25 May 2020
Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land
Compiling a global geo-database of >30,000 range shifts, the authors show that marine species closely track shifting isotherms, whereas terrestrial species lag behind, probably due to wider thermal safety margins and movement constraints imposed by human activities.
Article | 15 June 2020
Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems
A cross-scale analysis of paired-stressor effects on biological variables of European freshwater ecosystems shows that in 39% of cases, significant effects were limited to single stressors, with nutrient enrichment being the most important of these in lakes. Additive and interactive effects were similarly frequent (ca. 30% each), this frequency being independent of the spatial scale of analysis for lakes but increasing with scale for rivers.
Article | 01 June 2020
Predation risk constrains herbivores’ adaptive capacity to warming
Rising temperatures and predator avoidance constrain herbivore activity on the southern African savannas, forcing them into ever-tightening windows of activity, in a ‘timescape of fear’.
Article | 15 June 2020
Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought
A study of global tree ring data records over the last century reveals a temporal trade-off between resistance and resilience to drought for gymnosperms.
Article | 22 June 2020
Evolutionary origins of genomic adaptations in an invasive copepod
Genome sequencing of multiple independent invading freshwater and native saline populations of a copepod reveals a positive association between balancing selection in the native range and parallel directional selection in the invading populations.
Article | 08 June 2020
Determinants of genetic variation across eco-evolutionary scales in pinnipeds
Using comparative population genomics across pinnipeds, this study explores how demographic change and life-history traits are correlated to the effective size of a population and conservation status.
Article | 22 June 2020
On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks
Population genomic data from a global dataset of three-spined sticklebacks show that parallel signatures of marine to freshwater differentiation are less common than previously thought.
Article | 25 May 2020
Convergent molecular evolution among ash species resistant to the emerald ash borer
By assembling the genomes of 22 Fraxinus species and conducting comparisons including further species, the authors identify candidate loci for emerald ash borer resistance that have evolved convergently.
Article | 22 June 2020
Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders
An analysis of geometric morphometric data from 148 species of salamanders shows how life cycle influences cranial shape diversity and rate of evolution.
Article | 25 May 2020
Kin discrimination and demography modulate patterns of sexual conflict
A mathematical model of sexual conflict shows that kin discrimination and group dispersal inhibit harmful male behaviours at an individual level but kin discrimination intensifies sexual conflict at the population level.
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