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The WorldClim dataset is a comprehensive resource providing global climate information through maps, graphs, tables, and raw data. It offers detailed bioclimatic variables essential for ecological studies and environmental research. The dataset serves to support analyses of species distribution, habitat modeling, and understanding climatic impacts on ecosystems worldwide.
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Deforestation is currently the major threat to Amazonian tree species but climate change may surpass it in just a few decades. Here, we show that climate and deforestation combined could cause a decline of up to 58% in Amazon tree species richness, whilst deforestation alone may cause 19–36% and cli...
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2018
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Nature Communications
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2021
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2024
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The forests of Southeast Asia harbour high levels of species diversity, providing a plethora of ecosystem services. However, this biodiversity is threatened by both climate and land-use change, the impacts of which are poorly understood. We modelled 1,498 tree species distributions under four shared...
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Climate change has the potential to change the distribution of pests globally and their resistance to pesticides, thereby threatening global food security in the 21st century. However, predicting where these changes occur and how they will influence current pest control efforts is a challenge. Using...
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2021
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Male fertility thermal limits predict vulnerability to climate warming
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Nature Communications
2021
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Nature Communications
2024
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The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens
Judy M. Bettridge•Androniki Psifidi•Zelalem G. Terfa•Takele T. Desta•Maria Lozano-Jaramillo等 10 人
Nature Sustainability
2018
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Village chickens are ubiquitous in smallholder farming systems, contributing to household, local and national economies under diverse environmental, economic and cultural settings. However, they are raised in challenging environments where productivity is low while mortality is high. There is much i...
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ISSN:2398-9629
Natural forest regeneration is projected to reduce local temperatures
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Communications Earth & Environment
2024
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Nature Communications
2025
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Nature Communications
2021
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Soil seed banks represent a critical but hidden stock for potential future plant diversity on Earth. Here we compiled and analyzed a global dataset consisting of 15,698 records of species diversity and density for soil seed banks in natural plant communities worldwide to quantify their environmental...
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Reassessment of growth-climate relations indicates the potential for decline across Eurasian boreal larch forests
Wenqing Li•Rubén D. Manzanedo•Yuan Jiang•Wenqiu Ma•Enzai Du等 14 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/6/8
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-13
Larch, a widely distributed tree in boreal Eurasia, is experiencing rapid warming across much of its distribution. A comprehensive assessment of growth on warming is needed to comprehend the potential impact of climate change. Most studies, relying on rigid calendar-based temperature series, have de...
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ISSN:2041-1723
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Nature Communications
2026
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Nature
2023
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ISSN:0028-0836
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Nature Communications
2023
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ISSN:2041-1723
The beneficial relation between soil organic carbon and maize yield in field trials does not translate to real-world farms in Northeast China
Shuaixiang Zhao•Susanne Schmidt•Zhi Quan•Fenglan Li•Shuqi Qin等 7 人
Nature Food
2026
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Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils is an economically viable pathway to achieve climate and food co-benefits, but it remains unclear whether the positive soil organic carbon (SOC)–yield relationship observed in field trials applies to real-world farms. Here we analysed maize yield responses ...
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10.1038/S43016-026-01401-5
ISSN:2662-1355
Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies
Luo Shan•Phillips Richard P.•Jo Insu•Fei Songlin•Liang Jingjing等 7 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/3/13
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-10
Decades of theory and empirical studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet the putative processes that underlie these patterns remain elusive. This is especially true for forest ecosystems, where the functional traits of plant species are challenging to quant...
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10.1038/S41467-023-36888-0
ISSN:2041-1723
Tree community resource economics control soil food web multifunctionality
Ludovic Henneron•David A. Wardle•Matty P. Berg•Stephan Hättenschwiler•Jürgen Bauhus等 21 人
Nature
2026
•2026/5/6
•00 p.1-8
Plants affect terrestrial ecosystem functioning by shaping microenvironments1 and by providing the primary production that fuels energy flow into food webs2. However, how plant community properties affect ecosystem functioning via energy fluxes in food webs has been little studied3,4, especially for...
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10.1038/S41586-026-10455-1
ISSN:0028-0836
Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands
David J. Eldridge•Jingyi Ding•Josh Dorrough•Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo•Osvaldo Sala等 119 人
Nature Plants
2024
•2024/4/12
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Perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing ...
Biogeochemistry
10.1038/S41477-024-01670-7
ISSN:2055-0278
The overlooked role of root water content in the root economics space
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Nature Plants
2026
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Root traits are fundamental to plant survival, growth and adaptation to environmental changes. Despite increasing attention to the root economics space, a quantitative understanding of global patterns and key drivers of root trait variation remains elusive. By combining metabolic theory with global ...
Plant ecologyTheoretical ecology
10.1038/S41477-026-02232-9
ISSN:2055-0278
Global diversity and biogeography of potential phytopathogenic fungi in a changing world
Pengfa Li•Leho Tedersoo•Thomas W. Crowther•Baozhan Wang•Yu Shi等 18 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/10/14
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-13
Phytopathogenic fungi threaten global food security but the ecological drivers of their global diversity and biogeography remain unknown. Here, we construct and analyse a global atlas of potential phytopathogenic fungi from 20,312 samples across all continents and major oceanic island regions, eleve...
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10.1038/S41467-023-42142-4
ISSN:2041-1723
An updated floristic map of the world
Yunpeng Liu•Xiaoting Xu•Dimitar Dimitrov•Loic Pellissier•Michael K. Borregaard等 11 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/5/30
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-11
Floristic regions reflect the geographic organization of floras and provide essential tools for biological studies. Previous global floristic regions are generally based on floristic endemism, lacking a phylogenetic consideration that captures floristic evolution. Moreover, the contribution of tecto...
BiodiversityBiogeographyMacroecology
10.1038/S41467-023-38375-Y
ISSN:2041-1723
Different roles of concurring climate and regional land-use changes in past 40 years’ insect trends
Neff Felix•Korner-Nievergelt Fränzi•Rey Emmanuel•Albrecht Matthias•Bollmann Kurt等 15 人
Nature Communications
2022
•2022/12/12
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Climate and land-use changes are main drivers of insect declines, but their combined effects have not yet been quantified over large spatiotemporal scales. We analysed changes in the distribution (mean occupancy of squares) of 390 insect species (butterflies, grasshoppers, dragonflies), using 1.45 m...
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10.1038/S41467-022-35223-3
ISSN:2041-1723
Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity
Minna Zhang•Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo•Guangyin Li•Forest Isbell•Yue Wang等 11 人
Nature Communications
2023
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Grazing by domestic herbivores is the most widespread land use on the planet, and also a major global change driver in grasslands. Yet, experimental evidence on the long-term impacts of livestock grazing on biodiversity and function is largely lacking. Here, we report results from a network of 10 ex...
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10.1038/S41467-023-40809-6
ISSN:2041-1723
Global distribution and changes of leaf-level intrinsic water use efficiency and their responses to water stress
Xiang Wang•Zheng Fu•Philippe Ciais•Lixin Wang•Nina Buchmann等 20 人
Nature Communications
2026
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Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) at the leaf level measures water expenditures by terestrial plants during photosynthesis, yet its global spatiotemporal dynamics and responses to water stress remain poorly understood. Using machine-learning models and carbon isotope observations in C3 foliage, ...
BiogeochemistryHydrology
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Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions
Martins Lucas P.•Stouffer Daniel B.•Blendinger Pedro G.•Böhning-Gaese Katrin•Buitrón-Jurado Galo等 30 人
Nature Communications
2022
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Species interactions can propagate disturbances across space via direct and indirect effects, potentially connecting species at a global scale. However, ecological and biogeographic boundaries may mitigate this spread by demarcating the limits of ecological networks. We tested whether large-scale ec...
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10.1038/S41467-022-34355-W
ISSN:2041-1723
Allelic variations in GA20ox3 regulate fruit length and seed germination timing for high-altitude adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Xuemeng Gao•Shangling Lou•Yu Han•Yudan Zheng•Xiaoqin Feng等 21 人
Nature Communications
2025
•2025/5/30
•Vol.16 No.1 p.1-14
Altitude significantly affects both fruit length (FL) and seed germination timing (SGT) in plants. Alpine plants often require prolonged chilling to enhance seed germination rates, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these adaptations remain largely unexplored. In this study, we have identified ...
Ecological geneticsNatural variation in plantsPopulation genetics
10.1038/S41467-025-60436-7
ISSN:2041-1723
Metabolic coupling between soil aerobic methanotrophs and denitrifiers in rice paddy fields
Kang-Hua Chen•Jiao Feng•Paul L. E. Bodelier•Ziming Yang•Qiaoyun Huang等 9 人
Nature Communications
2024
•2024/4/24
•Vol.15 No.1 p.1-15
Paddy fields are hotspots of microbial denitrification, which is typically linked to the oxidation of electron donors such as methane (CH4) under anoxic and hypoxic conditions. While several anaerobic methanotrophs can facilitate denitrification intracellularly, whether and how aerobic CH4 oxidation...
AgroecologyBiogeochemistryMicrobial ecology
10.1038/S41467-024-47827-Y
ISSN:2041-1723
Accelerated body size evolution in upland environments is correlated with recent speciation in South American freshwater fishes
Felipe O. Cerezer•Cristian S. Dambros•Marco T. P. Coelho•Fernanda A. S. Cassemiro•Elisa Barreto等 8 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/9/28
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-11
Speciation rates vary greatly among taxa and regions and are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors. However, the relative importance and interactions of these factors are not well understood. Here we investigate the potential drivers of speciation rates in South American freshwater fishes, the m...
Adaptive radiationCommunity ecology
10.1038/S41467-023-41812-7
ISSN:2041-1723
Vulnerabilities of protected lands in the face of climate and human footprint changes
Nawal Shrestha•Xiaoting Xu•Jiahui Meng•Zhiheng Wang
Nature Communications
2021
•2021/3/12
•Vol.12 No.1 p.1-9
Protected areas (PAs) play a pivotal role in maintaining viable populations of species and minimizing their habitat loss. Globally, there are currently over 200,000 PAs that cover approximately 15% of land area. The post-2020 global biodiversity framework aims to expand this coverage to 30% by 2030....
BiodiversityConservation biologyMacroecology
10.1038/S41467-021-21914-W
ISSN:2041-1723
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes
McKenzie Kuhn•David Olefeldt•Kyle A. Arndt•David Bastviken•Lori Bruhwiler等 22 人
Nature Climate Change
2025
•2025/8/28
•00 p.1-6
Methane emissions from the boreal-Arctic region are likely to increase due to warming and permafrost thaw, but the magnitude of increase is unconstrained. Here we show that distinguishing several wetland and lake classes improves our understanding of current and future methane emissions. Our estimat...
BiogeochemistryClimate change
10.1038/S41558-025-02413-Y
ISSN:1758-678X
Divergent phenological responses of soil microorganisms and plants to climate warming
Hao Wang•Huimin Zhou•Jin-Sheng He•Chunyan Lu•Yixuan Huang等 8 人
Nature Geoscience
2025
•2025/7/29
•00 p.1-8
Anthropogenic climate warming is altering phenology—the biological timing of life-cycle events—across trophic levels worldwide. However, it remains unclear whether warming induces differential changes in phenology between plants and soil microorganisms—two fundamental components of terrestrial biodi...
Climate-change ecologyEcosystem ecologyMicrobial ecology
10.1038/S41561-025-01738-9
ISSN:1752-0894
Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology
Catherine Sheard•Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg•Nico Alioravainen•Samuel E. I. Jones•Claire Vincent等 9 人
Nature Communications
2020
•2020/5/18
•Vol.11 No.1 p.1-9
An organism’s ability to disperse influences many fundamental processes, from speciation and geographical range expansion to community assembly. However, the patterns and underlying drivers of variation in dispersal across species remain unclear, partly because standardised estimates of dispersal ab...
BiogeographyMacroecologyZoology
10.1038/S41467-020-16313-6
ISSN:2041-1723
Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean
Bellucci Elisa•Benazzo Andrea•Xu Chunming•Bitocchi Elena•Rodriguez Monica等 29 人
Nature Communications
2023
•2023/4/5
•Vol.14 No.1 p.1-15
Domesticated crops have been disseminated by humans over vast geographic areas. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was introduced in Europe after 1492. Here, by combining whole-genome profiling, metabolic fingerprinting and phenotypic characterisation, we show that the first common bean cultigens s...
Agricultural geneticsEvolutionary geneticsPlant domesticationPlant evolution
10.1038/S41467-023-37332-Z
ISSN:2041-1723
Fossil-fuel-dependent scenarios could lead to a significant decline of global plant-beneficial bacteria abundance in soils by 2100
Pengfa Li•Leho Tedersoo•Thomas W. Crowther•Alex J. Dumbrell•Francisco Dini-Andreote等 16 人
Nature Food
2023
•2023/10/30
•00 p.1-11
Exploiting the potential benefits of plant-associated microbes represents a sustainable approach to enhancing crop productivity. Plant-beneficial bacteria (PBB) provide multiple benefits to plants. However, the biogeography and community structure remain largely unknown. Here we constructed a PBB da...
Environmental microbiologyMicrobial ecology
10.1038/S43016-023-00869-9
ISSN:2662-1355
Global topographic uplift has elevated speciation in mammals and birds over the last 3 million years
Igea Javier•Tanentzap Andrew J.
Nature Ecology & Evolution
2021
•2021/9/2
•00 p.1-6
Topographic change shapes the evolution of biodiversity by influencing both habitat connectivity and habitat diversity as well as abiotic factors like climate. However, its role in creating global biodiversity gradients remains poorly characterized because geology, climate and evolutionary data have...
BiodiversityPalaeoecologySpeciation
10.1038/S41559-021-01545-6
ISSN:2397-334X
Leaf water content contributes to global leaf trait relationships
Wang Zhiqiang•Huang Heng•Wang Han•Peñuelas Josep•Sardans Jordi等 10 人
Nature Communications
2022
•2022/9/21
•Vol.13 No.1 p.1-9
Leaf functional traits are important indicators of plant growth and ecosystem dynamics. Despite a wealth of knowledge about leaf trait relationships, a mechanistic understanding of how biotic and abiotic factors quantitatively influence leaf trait variation and scaling is still incomplete. We propos...
Ecological modellingPlant ecology
10.1038/S41467-022-32784-1
ISSN:2041-1723
Current and future distributions of main dermatitis-causing insects and risks of dermatitis across China
Kunyi Wu•Chengke Bai•Ting La•Yale Liu•Wenwen Chen等 11 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
•2025/5/10
•Vol.6 No.1 p.1-12
Insect-related dermatitis (IRD) has emerged as a significant public health concern. However, its risk distribution and epidemic dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, we project the current and future risk distributions of dermatitis-causing insects (DCIs) across China. The maximum entropy modelin...
Ecological modellingEnvironmental health
10.1038/S43247-025-02352-8
ISSN:2662-4435
Animal invaders threaten protected areas worldwide
Xuan Liu•Tim M. Blackburn•Tianjian Song•Xuyu Wang•Cong Huang等 6 人
Nature Communications
2020
•2020/6/8
•Vol.11 No.1 p.1-9
Protected areas are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. However, alien species invasion is an increasing threat to biodiversity, and the extent to which protected areas worldwide are resistant to incursions of alien species remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate establishment by 8...
BiodiversityConservation biologyInvasive speciesMacroecology
10.1038/S41467-020-16719-2
ISSN:2041-1723
High-resolution global maps of yield potential with local relevance for targeted crop production improvement
Fernando Aramburu-Merlos•Marloes P. van Loon•Martin K. van Ittersum•Patricio Grassini
Nature Food
2024
•2024/7/29
•00 p.1-6
Identifying untapped opportunities for crop production improvement in current cropland is crucial to guide food availability interventions. Here we integrated an agronomically robust bottom-up approach with machine learning to generate global maps of yield potential of high resolution (ca. 1 km2 at ...
Ecological modellingEcophysiologyPlant ecology
10.1038/S43016-024-01029-3
ISSN:2662-1355
Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling
Barnes Mallory L.•Farella Martha M.•Scott Russell L.•Moore David J. P.•Ponce-Campos Guillermo E.等 9 人
Communications Earth & Environment
2021
•2021/12/2
•Vol.2 No.1 p.1-9
Dryland ecosystems are dominant influences on both the trend and interannual variability of the terrestrial carbon sink. Despite their importance, dryland carbon dynamics are not well-characterized by current models. Here, we present DryFlux, an upscaled product built on a dense network of eddy cova...
Carbon cycle
10.1038/S43247-021-00308-2
ISSN:2662-4435
A global meta-analysis on the effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on grasslands and croplands
Ting-Shuai Shi•Scott L. Collins•Kailiang Yu•Josep Peñuelas•Jordi Sardans等 7 人
Nature Communications
2024
•2024/4/22
•Vol.15 No.1 p.1-10
A central role for nature-based solution is to identify optimal management practices to address environmental challenges, including carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. Inorganic fertilization increases plant aboveground biomass but often causes a tradeoff with plant diversity loss. I...
AgroecologyClimate-change ecologyGrassland ecology
10.1038/S41467-024-47829-W
ISSN:2041-1723
The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited
Adrián García-Rodríguez•Fabricio Villalobos•Julián A. Velasco•Franz Essl•Gabriel C. Costa
Communications Biology
2025
•2025/5/28
•Vol.8 No.1 p.1-11
Speciation can increase regional species richness, however, our knowledge of how and why speciation rates vary across space is still incomplete. Using comprehensive information on species distributions and their phylogenetic relationships, we describe the global spatial patterns of variation in amph...
MacroecologySpeciation
10.1038/S42003-025-08225-2
ISSN:2399-3642
Deterministic responses of biodiversity to climate change through exotic species invasions
Pengdong Chen•Changchao Shen•Zhibin Tao•Wenchao Qin•Wei Huang等 6 人
Nature Plants
2024
•2024/9/18
•00 p.1-9
Biodiversity is increasingly threatened by local extinction under global climate change. This may reflect direct effects of climate on poorly adapted native species or increased impacts of exotic species in these conditions, but their relative importance is poorly understood. By examining global occ...
BiodiversityBiogeographyClimate-change ecologyConservation biologyInvasive species
10.1038/S41477-024-01797-7
ISSN:2055-0278
Urbanization signatures on climate and soils uncovered by crowd-sensed plants
Susanne Tautenhahn•Martin Jung•Michael Rzanny•Patrick Mäder•Markus Reichstein等 18 人
Nature Cities
2026
•2026/1/15
•Vol.3 No.2 p.126-135
Human populations are increasingly concentrated in cities, creating some of Earth’s most modified ecosystems. However, we lack concepts for assessing heterogenous urban environments, especially their soils, at large spatial scales. Here we uncover fine-scale urban climate and soil patterns across 32...
BiogeographyClimate-change ecologyEnvironmental impactPlant ecologyResearch data
10.1038/S44284-025-00378-9
ISSN:2731-9997