Ecologie, Société, Evolution

Limited global awareness of invasive alien species and little support for their management

Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the main drivers of global change and can cause a wide range of negative ecological and social impacts. Addressing these impacts requires management actions, which can fail to be effective when not supported by the public. Here, we conducte...

From online traces to upstream surveillance: Large language models uncover the hidden status of non-native freshwater apex predators in China

Biological invasions are often recognised only after ecological damage has become visible in the wild, even though the human-mediated processes that drive introductions may already be underway through private rearing, trade, and release. This gap in upstream surveillance is espec...

Functional niche partitioning influences species turnover across supraglacial microbial communities on the Longxiazai glacier, Tibetan Plateau

Glaciers represent unique ecosystems harboring diverse microbial communities that dominate biomass and drive biogeochemical cycling across supraglacial habitats. These microbes transform deposited modern and ancient carbon/nitrogen, and these elements are subsequently transferred...

Phylogeny-guided curation reveals widespread misannotation of Asgard archaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences in public databases

Abstract Accurate taxonomic assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequences is essential for the reliable interpretation of microbial community studies based on amplicon sequence data. Yet, it critically depends on the reliability of reference databases such as the Genome Taxonomy Database...

Vulnerable microbial communities in Atacama-Altiplano wetlands: modern analogs of ancient ecosystems with implications for sustainability and conservation

Abstract The Altiplano-Puna plateau lies at ∼4,000 m above sea level in the volcanic Andes cordillera. Together with the adjacent Atacama Desert, it forms one of the most hyperarid regions on the planet. Wetlands are rare, influenced by hydrothermalism and, due to high evaporatio...