How many species will Earth lose to climate change?

JJ Wiens, J Zelinka - Global Change Biology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

IR McFadden, A Sendek, M Brosse, PM Bach… - Ecology …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Human impacts such as habitat loss, climate change and biological invasions are radically
altering biodiversity, with greater effects projected into the future. Evidence suggests human …

Growing prominence of deep-sea life in marine bioprospecting

E Zhivkoplias, JB Jouffray, P Dunshirn… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Marine bioprospecting, which involves the exploration of genetic and biochemical material
from marine organisms, can be used towards addressing a broad range of public and …

[HTML][HTML] Shortfalls in our understanding of the causes and consequences of functional and phylogenetic variation of freshwater communities across continents

J García-Girón, LM Bini, J Heino - Biological Conservation, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Freshwater ecosystems harbour a disproportionately high biodiversity relative to their area,
being also one of the most threatened ecosystem types worldwide. However, our capacity to …

[HTML][HTML] One-way ticket to the blue: A large-scale, dated phylogeny revealed asymmetric land-to-water transitions in acariform mites (Acari: Acariformes)

AR Pepato, SGS Costa, MS Harvey… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Acariform mites are an ancient and megadiverse lineage that may have experienced a
complex pattern of invasions into terrestrial and aquatic habitats. These among-realm …

Riverine microplastic pollution: insights from Cagayan de Oro River, Philippines

AD Gabriel, RF Amparado Jr, AA Lubguban… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Rivers are vital water sources for humans and homes for aquatic organisms. Conversely,
they are well known as the route of plastics into the ocean. Despite being the world's number …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent adaptation of true crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a gradient of terrestrial environments

JM Wolfe, L Ballou, J Luque, VM Watson-Zink… - Systematic …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
For much of terrestrial biodiversity, the evolutionary pathways of adaptation from marine
ancestors are poorly understood and have usually been viewed as a binary trait. True crabs …

How life became colourful: colour vision, aposematism, sexual selection, flowers, and fruits

JJ Wiens, Z Emberts - Biological Reviews, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants and animals are often adorned with potentially conspicuous colours (eg red, yellow,
orange, blue, purple). These include the dazzling colours of fruits and flowers, the brilliant …

Geodiversity of a European river network controls algal biodiversity and function

T Fuß, L Thuile Bistarelli, F Walther, S Vitecek… - … Earth & Environment, 2024‏ - nature.com
Biodiversity and functioning often follow spatial gradients, yet with unclear causal linkage. In
spatially complex rivers, regional-scale factors associated with hydrological connections and …

H ow on Earth did that get there? Natural and human vectors of aquatic macrophyte global distribution

T Lobato‑de Magalhães, K Murphy, A Efremov… - Hydrobiologia, 2023‏ - Springer
No previous study has examined the large-scale distributional drivers of the entire global
pool of 3,499 macrophyte species, despite the obvious importance of this for understanding …