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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on 🧪

🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC

Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the November issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a caterpillar of the emperor moth Gonimbrasia belina feeding on a leaf. The cover headline reads "Tree growth and herbivory"
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Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Jennifer Brisson 👇🧪🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read link: rdcu.be/ePnq4
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Tissue-specific transcriptomics, comparative genomics and genome editing identify a taxon-specific promoter of a Hox gene that controls eyespot size plasticity and probably contributed to wing eyespot diversity in satyrid butterflies 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A novel Hox gene promoter fuels the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in wing eyespots of satyrid butterflies - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Many satyrid butterflies show seasonal variation in wing eyespot size in response to temperature. Tissue-specific transcriptomics, comparative genomics and genome editing identify a taxon-specific pro...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com 'Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot'. Co-led by me and @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social as part of @catalyzconserv.bsky.social at @ic-cep.bsky.social & @imperialsci.bsky.social

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Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on 🧪

🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC

Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the November issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a caterpillar of the emperor moth Gonimbrasia belina feeding on a leaf. The cover headline reads "Tree growth and herbivory"
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on 🧪

🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC

Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the November issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a caterpillar of the emperor moth Gonimbrasia belina feeding on a leaf. The cover headline reads "Tree growth and herbivory"
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I reviewed The Tree of Life by @maxjtelford.bsky.social for @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Nice, intelligent review of my book "The Tree of Life" in Nature Ecology and Evolution by @bethanyjallen.bsky.social.
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Out in USA next Tuesday!

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A beginner’s guide to tree thinking - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A beginner’s guide to tree thinking
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November 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, says research in @natecoevo.nature.com. An accompanying @natcomms.nature.com paper finds wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850: spklr.io/63325Bzu27 & spklr.io/63327Bzu2h
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quantifying the global estimated movement of biomass on Earth, the authors show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to eukaryotic DNA replication machinery. 🧪

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Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Tiago Simões 👇🧪

Diversification dynamics at scale www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪

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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.

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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.

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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Water, water, everywhere 💧 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our October Editorial highlights four articles in this issue tackling distinct questions about how plants respond to water availability.
Screenshot of the full text of the October Editorial in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The title reads "Water, water, everywhere" and the standfirst reads "Understanding how terrestrial plants and ecosystems cope with shifts of water availability in space and time requires multiple approaches and collaborative efforts."
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Water, water, everywhere 💧 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our October Editorial highlights four articles in this issue tackling distinct questions about how plants respond to water availability.
Screenshot of the full text of the October Editorial in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The title reads "Water, water, everywhere" and the standfirst reads "Understanding how terrestrial plants and ecosystems cope with shifts of water availability in space and time requires multiple approaches and collaborative efforts."
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Congratulations to my office-mate, Zach Carter, for making the cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution 🎉
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Our October issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on: 🧪

💧Wetland carbon sequestration
🌊Starfish diversity in the deep sea
🧬Genetic architecture of reproductive success

Cover shows a colony of king penguins, from Carter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the October issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing a colony of king penguins. The headline reads "Antarctic challenges"
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Remembering Mark Norell, the palaeontologist whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs.

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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Our October issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on: 🧪

💧Wetland carbon sequestration
🌊Starfish diversity in the deep sea
🧬Genetic architecture of reproductive success

Cover shows a colony of king penguins, from Carter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the October issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing a colony of king penguins. The headline reads "Antarctic challenges"
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Our October issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on: 🧪

💧Wetland carbon sequestration
🌊Starfish diversity in the deep sea
🧬Genetic architecture of reproductive success

Cover shows a colony of king penguins, from Carter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the October issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing a colony of king penguins. The headline reads "Antarctic challenges"
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Perspective discusses essential considerations for how ecosystem restoration may influence spillover of zoonotic pathogens, and how such considerations may be integrated into restoration design 🧪
Fig 2 from Ecke et al 2025 in Nature Ecology Evolution. The figure legend reads "Zoonotic hazard as a function of habitat degradation and ecosystem restoration" and depicts 6 different habitat scenarios represented by a taiga forest in which habitat degradation, restoration and recovery can potentially influence the levels of zoonotic hazard
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Perspective discusses essential considerations for how ecosystem restoration may influence spillover of zoonotic pathogens, and how such considerations may be integrated into restoration design 🧪
Fig 2 from Ecke et al 2025 in Nature Ecology Evolution. The figure legend reads "Zoonotic hazard as a function of habitat degradation and ecosystem restoration" and depicts 6 different habitat scenarios represented by a taiga forest in which habitat degradation, restoration and recovery can potentially influence the levels of zoonotic hazard
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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More than 20 species of birds produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species 🧪🐦

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Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM