There is growing awareness of pollinator declines worldwide. Conservation efforts have
mainly focused on finding the direct causes, while paying less attention to building a …

Animal and plant microbiomes encompass diverse microbial communities that colonize
every accessible host tissue. These microbiomes enhance host functions, contributing to …

Human activity is causing wild populations to experience rapid trait change and local
extirpation. The resulting effects on intraspecific variation could have substantial …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Given the complexity of host-microbiota symbioses, scientists and philosophers are asking
questions at new biological levels of hierarchical organization—what is a holobiont and …

Abstract The 2019 United Nations Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem
services estimated that approximately 1 million species are at risk of extinction. This …

Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge.
Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused on …

Can heritable traits in a single species affect an entire ecosystem? Recent studies show that
such traits in a common tree have predictable effects on community structure and ecosystem …

Holobionts, consisting of a host and diverse microbial symbionts, function as distinct
biological entities anatomically, metabolically, immunologically, and developmentally …

A synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology is emerging that identifies
how genetic variation and evolution within one species can shape the ecological properties …