Reviews & Analysis

Experimentally manipulating precipitation levels in a plant–soil feedback experiment reveals changes to the interactions between plants and soil microbes that render community dynamics less predictable under wetter conditions.

This Perspective discusses how the latest advances in remote sensing can be used to answer basic ecological and evolutionary questions, as well as contribute to important biodiversity monitoring.

Taking advantage of natural variation present in six populations of wild orangutans, a new study correlates population density with multiple facets of individuals’ vocal phenotype and demonstrates that sociality influences vocal plasticity in great apes.

Age estimation based on DNA methylation levels suggests that hibernation arrests biological ageing in wild yellow-bellied marmots.

The rate of fixation of different antibiotic-resistance mutation types demonstrates a trade-off shaped by population size.

Population genomic and phylogenomic analyses of Atlantic cod provide new insights into the origin and maintenance of supergenes and highlight the role of recombination and structural variants.

An exceptionally large species of sauropod titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous of northern Spain provides insight into changing diversity dynamics of titanosaurs over time, and sheds light on faunal turnover and migration.

Rapid morphological evolution in early echinoderms was later outpaced by increases in ecological diversification, indicating the phylum exhibited morphological volatility and ecological constraints at its origin.

A landscape-level natural experiment in free-ranging pumas reveals how changes in hunting pressure alter viral evolution and infection dynamics through indirect effects on puma population size, demography and behaviour.