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  • How trees respond to increasing atmospheric dryness has important implications for forest growth. Here, the authors use a network of tree-ring records to quantify the multidecadal impact of vapour pressure deficit trends on boreal forests in Canada.

    • Ariane Mirabel
    • Martin P. Girardin
    • Peter B. Reich
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-12

  • Atmospheric dryness is increasing as air temperatures rise because of climate change. This Review explores temporal trends and spatial heterogeneity in global atmospheric dryness and the implications for plant growth, productivity and terrestrial carbon cycling.

    • Wenping Yuan
    • Jie Tian
    • Xiuzhi Chen
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
    P: 1-16

  • Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical forest canopies globally.

    • Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez
    • Sami W. Rifai
    • Yadvinder Malhi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 641, P: 129-136

  • Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading not just in the magnitude but in the direction of effects, explain why, and make suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.

    • Margaret E. K. Evans
    • Peter B. Adler
    • Jennifer L. Williams
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 809-812

  • The long-term effectiveness of assisted gene flow of trees could be jeopardised by rapid climate change. Here the authors analyse a large dataset of relocated black spruce populations in Canada, finding that local adaptation to climate of origin improved NPP responses, but only for up to ~15 years after planting.

    • Martin P. Girardin
    • Nathalie Isabel
    • Patrick Lenz
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-15

  • A dataset of 16 plant traits sampled from 2,461 individual trees from 74 tropical forest sites around the world is used to show a strong link between climate and plant functional diversity and redundancy, with drier tropical forests likely being less able to respond to declines in water availability.

    • Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez
    • Erika Berenguer
    • Yadvinder Malhi
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 878-889

  • The record-breaking 2023 wildfire season in Canada ( ~ 15 Mha burned) was enabled by early snowmelt, drought, and extreme weather. It had profound impacts that included evacuation of >200 communities, millions exposed to hazardous smoke, and a strain on fire-fighting resources.

    • Piyush Jain
    • Quinn E. Barber
    • Marc-André Parisien
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-14

  • Pyramidal cells in superficial layers of neocortex form a lateral network of synaptic bouton clusters, but its functional implication remains unclear. Here the authors overlaid activity maps of orientation preference in cat visual cortex with single-cell anatomy and observed projections to multiple functional domains.

    • Kevan A. C. Martin
    • Stephan Roth
    • Elisha S. Rusch
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-13

  • The boreal forest transformed into a dry oak-pine ecosystem in the hemiboreal zone of North America 7000 years ago, probably as a result of rising temperatures and increased fire activity, according to an analysis of palaeoecological records, palaeoclimate simulations, and archaeological data.

    • Martin P. Girardin
    • Dorian M. Gaboriau
    • Jacques C. Tardif
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 5, P: 1-12

  • IgA secreting plasma cells in the lamina propria are shown to be an important source of iNOS and TNF required to maintain the homeostatic balance between intestinal microbes and the immune system.

    • Jörg H. Fritz
    • Olga Lucia Rojas
    • Jennifer L. Gommerman
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 481, P: 199-203