Telmo Morato,Luís Rodrigues,Marina Carreiro-Silva et al.
Telmo Morato et al.
Conservation of deep-sea ecosystems is often hindered by insufficient data on biodiversity composition, distribution, and ecological status. As global efforts to expand deep-sea exploration continue, we illustrate how cost-effective deep-se...
Sandra Neubert,Jennifer McGowan,Kristian Metcalfe et al.
Sandra Neubert et al.
Growing global demands for food, energy, and resources drive competition for space while increasing pressure on natural systems, highlighting the need to balance sustainable resource use with biodiversity conservation. While multiple-use sp...
John J Dennehy,Tara Cronin
John J Dennehy
Ademir S F Araujo,Arthur P A Pereira,Erika V de Medeiros et al.
Ademir S F Araujo et al.
Soil microbes act as below-ground defenders against desertification by several mechanisms, such as rhizosheath formation, necromass accumulation, biological soil crusts, exopolysaccharide (EPS) production, hyphal networks, and calcium carbo...
Beyond mutualism: the nature of domesticator-domesticate interactions [0.03%]
超越互惠主义：驯化者与被驯化者之间的关系性质分析
Guillaume Chomicki,Judith L Bronstein
Guillaume Chomicki
The literature on domestication commonly calls the association between human domesticators and their plant and animal domesticates mutualistic, yet this designation is rarely examined critically. Here, we assess its validity based on the lo...
Marcin Czarnoleski,Wilco C E P Verberk
Marcin Czarnoleski
Cell size shapes how organisms interact with their environment, yet our understanding of these effects remains fragmented. We synthesise these effects into a Theory of Optimal Cell Size (TOCS), predicting that the size of single-cell organi...
Aisling Rayne,Axel Moehrenschlager,Tammy E Steeves et al.
Aisling Rayne et al.
Human or 'social' dimensions are increasingly prominent in the conservation translocation literature yet in practice they tend to be infrequently or narrowly applied. To assist biophysical scientists and practitioners to act upon social dim...
Delphine De Moor,Lauren J N Brent
Delphine De Moor
Affiliative social relationships have clear links to fitness in many species, yet exactly why that is the case remains elusive. We unify theory from socioecology and network science to set forth testable predictions of how individuals shoul...
Min-Sheng Peng,Xueping Ji,Ya-Ping Zhang
Min-Sheng Peng
The spread of millet and rice agriculture has significantly impacted human societies in Asia and the Pacific. Recent ancient genomic studies by Xiong et al. and Wang et al. uncover three East Asian farmer ancestries and their migrations dur...
'Earth system engineers' and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time [0.03%]
地球系统工程师与生命在深时的累积效应
Simon A F Darroch,Michelle M Casey,Alison T Cribb et al.
Simon A F Darroch et al.
Understanding the role of humans as 'ecosystem engineers' requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. However, no conceptual framework exists for studying the rise of ecosystem engineering in deep ...