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  • The authors combine tracking and body mass data from five migratory waterfowl species to understand their capacity to accelerate migration in response to earlier spring. They show considerable scope for faster migration by reducing the fuelling time before departure and subsequently on stopovers

    • Hans Linssen
    • Thomas K. Lameris
    • Bart A. Nolet
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 1107-1114
  • Trees come in all shapes and size, but what drives this incredible variation in tree form remains poorly understood. Using a global dataset, the authors show that a combination of climate, competition, disturbance and evolutionary history shape the crown architecture of the world’s trees and thereby constrain the 3D structure of woody ecosystems.

    • Tommaso Jucker
    • Fabian Jörg Fischer
    • Niklaus E. Zimmermann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16
  • Although tyre-related chemicals are raising concerns, information about their toxicity after water disinfection is still lacking. Data on Chinese hamster ovary cell cytotoxicity now show that chloramine, chlorine and ozone disinfection substantially elevated the cytotoxicity of tyre-impacted water.

    • Hang Liu
    • Renqi Wang
    • Chao Liu
    Research
    Nature Water
    Volume: 3, P: 902-912
  • The authors used an autonomous biophysical observatory to estimate the light intensity triggering seasonal zooplankton vertical migration under Arctic sea ice. Considering this trigger, they project future reductions in time spent in the under-ice habitat, with implications for Arctic ecosystems.

    • Hauke Flores
    • Gaëlle Veyssière
    • Julienne Stroeve
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 13, P: 1122-1130
  • Analysis of ground-sourced and satellite-derived models reveals a global forest carbon potential of 226 Gt outside agricultural and urban lands, with a difference of only 12% across these modelling approaches.

    • Lidong Mo
    • Constantin M. Zohner
    • Thomas W. Crowther
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 624, P: 92-101
  • Amphibians have seen large population declines, but the key drivers are hard to establish. Here, Miller et al. investigate trends of occupancy for 81 species of amphibians across North America and find greater sensitivity to water availability during breeding and winter conditions than mean climate.

    • David A. W. Miller
    • Evan H. Campbell Grant
    • Brent H. Sigafus
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-15
  • Mélange is reported to be thinner in summer during glacier terminus retreat and thicker in winter during terminus advance. A discrete element model is created to estimate the forces that mélange exerts to buttress Greenland glaciers.

    • Yue Meng
    • Ching-Yao Lai
    • Kavinda Nissanka
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16
  • Springtails are omnipresent soil arthropods, vital for ecosystems. In the first global assessment of springtails, this study shows a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, with distinct temperature-related patterns for diversity and metabolism that suggest climate change may restructure the functioning of soil biodiversity.

    • Anton M. Potapov
    • Carlos A. Guerra
    • Stefan Scheu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-13
  • Fibrin drives inflammation and neuropathology in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and fibrin-targeting immunotherapy may represent a therapeutic intervention for patients with long COVID.

    • Jae Kyu Ryu
    • Zhaoqi Yan
    • Katerina Akassoglou
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 633, P: 905-913
  • The awareness of rock shape dependence in rockfall hazard assessment is growing, but experimental and field studies are scarce. This study presents a large data set of induced single block rockfall events quantifying the influence of rock shape and mass on its complex kinematic behaviour.

    • Andrin Caviezel
    • Adrian Ringenbach
    • Perry Bartelt
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9
  • Analyses of the relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

    • Anne D. Bjorkman
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Evan Weiher
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 562, P: 57-62
  • Analysing a database of >1,800 field studies in the terrestrial Arctic, the authors identify large spatial biases in sampling, with nearly one-third of all citations derived from sites located within 50 km of two research stations.

    • Daniel B. Metcalfe
    • Thirze D. G. Hermans
    • Abdulhakim M. Abdi
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 1443-1448
  • The processes that distributed life-forming volatile elements throughout the early Solar System and how they then became incorporated into planetary building blocks are reviewed.

    • Michael W. Broadley
    • David V. Bekaert
    • Bernard Marty
    Reviews
    Nature
    Volume: 611, P: 245-255
  • Multicriteria optimization identifies global priority areas for ecosystem restoration and estimates their benefits for biodiversity and climate, providing cost–benefit analyses that highlight the importance of optimizing spatial planning and incorporating several biomes in restoration strategies.

    • Bernardo B. N. Strassburg
    • Alvaro Iribarrem
    • Piero Visconti
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 586, P: 724-729
  • Observations and regional climate models show that the increasing coverage of ice slabs on the Greenland ice sheet could lead to a global sea-level rise of up to 74 millimetres by 2100.

    • M. MacFerrin
    • H. Machguth
    • W. Abdalati
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 573, P: 403-407
  • Climate change warms extreme hot days over tropical land more strongly than the mean temperature as hot days are dry, according to a new theory and analysis of global climate models.

    • Michael P. Byrne
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 14, P: 837-841
  • Wood density is an important plant trait. Data from 1.1 million forest inventory plots and 10,703 tree species show a latitudinal gradient in wood density, with temperature and soil moisture explaining variation at the global scale and disturbance also having a role at the local level.

    • Lidong Mo
    • Thomas W. Crowther
    • Constantin M. Zohner
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 8, P: 2195-2212
  • The goals, resources and design of the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme are described, and analyses of rare variants detected in the first 53,831 samples provide insights into mutational processes and recent human evolutionary history.

    • Daniel Taliun
    • Daniel N. Harris
    • Gonçalo R. Abecasis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 590, P: 290-299
  • Examining drivers of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in a global database of local tree species richness, the authors show that co-limitation by multiple environmental and anthropogenic factors causes steeper increases in richness with latitude in tropical versus temperate and boreal zones.

    • Jingjing Liang
    • Javier G. P. Gamarra
    • Cang Hui
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 1423-1437
  • How mutations in the microbial receptor NOD2 induce Blau syndrome in humans and related uveitis is unclear. Here the authors show, using Nod2-deficient mice and experimental uveitis, that Nod2 negatively regulates T cell activation and transcription of autoimmunity-related genes to suppress Th17 responses and uveitis.

    • Ruth J. Napier
    • Ellen J. Lee
    • Holly L. Rosenzweig
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-16
  • Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into evolutionary relationships and diversification.

    • Alexandre R. Zuntini
    • Tom Carruthers
    • William J. Baker
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 629, P: 843-850
  • Susac syndrome is an inflammatory pathology of the brain endothelium. Here the authors show that the pathology is driven by CD8 T cells attacking the endothelium, and that blocking T cell-endothelial adhesion ameliorates the disease in a mouse model, and associates with improved clinical score in 4 patients.

    • Catharina C. Gross
    • Céline Meyer
    • Roland Liblau
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-19
  • Antarctic ice core records provide insights into past environmental conditions. Here, an abrupt, synchronous increase in dust from ice cores in Antarctica is identified that suggests a sudden equatorward shift of westerly winds and coincides with a reduction in atmospheric CO2.

    • Abhijith U. Venugopal
    • Nancy A. N. Bertler
    • Marcus J. Vandergoes
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-8
  • Xu et al. show that satellite-measured urbanicity (living in a densely populated area) is correlated with brain volume, cortical surface area and brain network connectivity in a sample of 3,867 people from China and Europe.

    • Jiayuan Xu
    • Xiaoxuan Liu
    • Gunter Schumann
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 6, P: 279-293
  • A major earthquake 2500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change its course. A recurrent event would pose the risk of such cascading hazards to the densely populated floodplains of present-day Bangladesh.

    • Elizabeth L. Chamberlain
    • Steven L. Goodbred
    • Christoph von Hagke
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-12
  • Whole genome sequences enable discovery of rare variants which may help to explain the heritability of common diseases. Here the authors find that ultra-rare variants explain ~50% of coronary artery disease (CAD) heritability and highlight several functional processes including cell type-specific regulatory mechanisms as key drivers of CAD genetic risk.

    • Ghislain Rocheleau
    • Shoa L. Clarke
    • Ron Do
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-13
  • The authors measure numerous ecosystem functions across an elevational gradient on Mt Kilimanjaro and find that species richness impacts function more than species turnover across sites. They also show that variation in species richness impacts ecosystem functioning more strongly at the landscape scale than at the local scale.

    • Jörg Albrecht
    • Marcell K. Peters
    • Matthias Schleuning
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 5, P: 1582-1593
  • Functional trait data could guide predictions of species responses to environmental change. Here, the authors show that winner and loser shrub species in the warming tundra biome overlap in trait space and may therefore be difficult to predict based on commonly measured traits.

    • Mariana García Criado
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Anna-Maria Virkkala
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-17
  • Local extinction of the butterfly Euphydryas editha occurred after the population was caught in an eco-evolutionary trap set when the insects evolved unanimous preference for an exotic host, Plantago lanceolata, and sprung when that host became embedded in grasses after humans removed cattle.

    • Michael C. Singer
    • Camille Parmesan
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 557, P: 238-241
  • Determining stratospheric ozone levels from before instrumental records began has proved difficult. Measurements of the chemical composition of plant spore walls suggest that ultraviolet-B-absorbing compounds have the potential to act as a proxy for past changes in ultraviolet-B radiation and stratospheric ozone.

    • Barry H. Lomax
    • Wesley T. Fraser
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 1, P: 592-596
  • In drylands, there are unique mechanisms that influence multiple ecosystem processes. In this Perspective, the authors identify these dryland mechanisms and show that they could become more important in non-dryland regions or areas that will become drier in the future.

    • José M. Grünzweig
    • Hans J. De Boeck
    • Dan Yakir
    Reviews
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 1064-1076