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Nature ecology & evolution

Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2021

Volume 5 Issue 10

Monarch butterfly declines

Monarch butterflies in eastern North America migrate thousands of kilometers, from central Mexico (seen here in winter colonies) to the Midwestern U.S. and southern Canada, over multiple generations each year. Integrating data on monarchs and potential stressors across the migratory cycle reveals the increasingly important role of breeding-season climate in recent population changes.

See Zylstra et al.

Image credit: Eligio García-Serrano

Editorial

Editorial | 01 October 2021

Expert elicitations are a research tool of growing importance, but more work is needed to ensure that the expert pool is truly diverse.

Comment & Opinion

Comment | 23 August 2021

Global priority maps have been transformative for conservation, but now have questionable utility and may crowd out other forms of research. Conservation must re-engage with contextually rich knowledge that builds global understanding from the ground up.

  • Carina Wyborn
  • Megan C. Evans

Comment | 23 August 2021

Global spatial information on biodiversity, carbon storage and land-use abound. Yet maps are conspicuously absent from national climate and biodiversity strategies, hampering integrated approaches to meeting economic, social and environmental objectives, including those under the forthcoming Global Biodiversity Framework.

  • Guido Schmidt-Traub

Obituary | 16 August 2021

Pioneer of molecular evolution.

  • Liam M. Longo
  • Dragana Despotović
  • Lianet Noda-García

Research Highlights

Research Highlight | 01 October 2021

  • Patrick Goymer

Research Highlight | 01 October 2021

  • Patrick Goymer

Research Highlight | 01 October 2021

  • Patrick Goymer

Research Highlight | 01 October 2021

  • Luíseach Nic Eoin

News & Views

News & Views | 19 July 2021

Insects across the globe are facing multiple anthropogenic pressures. A study combining several data streams and advanced modelling helps to unravel the main factors underlying declines in monarch butterfly populations.

  • Diana E. Bowler

News & Views | 16 August 2021

An international team of authors present a horizon scan of the predominant causes and consequences of pollinator loss, revealing that perceptions of the risks of losing pollinators vary substantially among regions.

  • Dino J. Martins

Reviews

Perspective | 16 August 2021

Sustaining ecosystems is essential for biodiversity conservation and human well-being. This Perspective synthesizes the scientific basis for an effective goal for ecosystem conservation, and associated indicators of progress, that can be applied from global to local scales.

  • Emily Nicholson
  • Kate E. Watermeyer
  • James E. M. Watson

Perspective | 09 August 2021

This Perspective explores the ways in which evolutionary processes can be considered when using species distribution models to predict responses to climate change.

  • Jonás A. Aguirre-Liguori
  • Santiago Ramírez-Barahona
  • Brandon S. Gaut

Research

Brief Communication | 06 September 2021

By surveying ~5,000 citizens across five Asian countries/territories, the authors show that increased awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced self-reported propensity to consume wildlife products. A behavioural intervention simulation also suggests that increasing awareness of zoonotic risks could reduce future wildlife consumption.

  • Robin Naidoo
  • Daniel Bergin
  • Jan Vertefeuille

Article | 19 August 2021 | Open Access

Arabidopsis suecica is a natural allotetraploid species formed via hybridization of Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa. Comparative analysis of genome and transcriptome data shows no evidence for major genomic changes linked to structural and functional alterations in A. suecica but reveals changes to the meiotic machinery and cyto-nuclear processes.

  • Robin Burns
  • Terezie Mandáková
  • Magnus Nordborg

Article | 19 August 2021 | Open Access

Arabidopsis suecica is an allotetraploid derived from Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa. Analysis of resynthesized and natural allotetraploid A. suecica shows balanced genomic variation accompanied by convergent and concerted changes in DNA methylation and gene expression between two subgenomes that probably contributed to genome stability during polyploid evolution.

  • Xinyu Jiang
  • Qingxin Song
  • Z. Jeffrey Chen

Article | 19 August 2021

Experimental evolution shows that sexually antagonistic selection promotes sexual body size dimorphism in the seed beetle. Dimorphism is largely explained by Y-linked genetic variance with contribution from sex-specific dominance, X-linkage and sex differences in autosomal variance.

  • Philipp Kaufmann
  • Matthew E. Wolak
  • Elina Immonen

Article | 23 August 2021

The authors use Bayesian morphological clock modelling and combined trace and body fossil data to examine the evolutionary dynamics of early tetrapodomorphs.

  • Tiago R. Simões
  • Stephanie E. Pierce

Article | 12 August 2021 | Open Access

Dogs exhibit remarkable variation in colour patterns. Here, the authors identify structural variants of independent regulatory modules for ventral and hair cycle expression of the ASIP gene that explain five distinctive dog colour patterns and trace back the origin of one colour pattern to an extinct canid.

  • Danika L. Bannasch
  • Christopher B. Kaelin
  • Tosso Leeb

Article | 19 August 2021

The authors conduct experiments with soil microbes grown in communities with increasing numbers of available carbon sources, each of which can support variable numbers of species. The results show that each additional resource enables only one to two additional species to grow, lower than expectations.

  • Martina Dal Bello
  • Hyunseok Lee
  • Jeff Gore

Article | 12 August 2021

Collective movements such as flocking or schooling can benefit a single species, but there may also be wider implications of such behaviour. The authors use a theoretical model to show that collective movement of consumer species can promote species coexistence and ecosystem stability.

  • Benjamin D. Dalziel
  • Mark Novak
  • Stephen P. Ellner

Article | 19 July 2021

A collation of data on North American monarch butterfly summer breeding and overwintering populations from 1994 to 2018, combined with seasonal covariate data, suggests an increasing role of climate change as a driver of butterfly dynamics.

  • Erin R. Zylstra
  • Leslie Ries
  • Elise F. Zipkin

Article | 16 August 2021

The predominant threats to pollinators vary across locations, as do perceptions of the consequences of pollinator loss. Here, the authors use formal expert elicitation methods to identify how pollination conservation experts rank the various drivers of pollinator decline and the range of risks to humans if pollination activity is lost.

  • Lynn V. Dicks
  • Tom D. Breeze
  • Simon G. Potts

Amendments & Corrections

Author Correction | 27 August 2021

  • Lynn V. Dicks
  • Tom D. Breeze
  • Simon G. Potts

Author Correction | 15 September 2021

  • Martina Dal Bello
  • Hyunseok Lee
  • Jeff Gore

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