Tropical wetlands have historically been resilient to fire, but ongoing climate and hydrological changes are undermining this stability. Here, we provide robust multi‐decadal evidence (1985–2024) of structural changes in the contemporary fire regime of the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, associated with hydroclimatic disruption. We investigated changes in burned area, mean fire size, and fire seasonality using hydrologi...

Ungulates play a crucial ecological role in tropical forests by influencing various ecosystem processes, including herbivory, seed dispersal and predation, and seedling recruitment. These large mammalian herbivores, including tapirs, camelids, cervids, and peccaries, have a significant impact on plant community structure, composition, and dynamics, especially in the Neotropics. Despite their ecological importance, a systematic...

Otolith microchemistry analysis revealed that bycatch of European shads, allis shad Alosa alosa and twaite shad Alosa fallax , in western Iberian commercial fisheries removes individuals from a wide array of natal origins, with the most abundant source rivers suffering the heaviest losses. Spatial variation in bycatch risk was evident: Specific marine areas exhibited high natal origin diversity, reflecting complex dispersal. A...

The ophthalmic industry’s eyewear lens production generates substantial waste during the lens grinding processes, contributing to significant environmental challenges. This process consumes approximately 20 L of water per eyeglass lens pair, which is subsequently discharged directly into wastewater systems, releasing a complex mixture of pollutants, including micro- and nanoplastics, into the environment. This study investigat...

Light-driven water oxidation by photosystem II sustains life on Earth by providing the electrons and protons for the reduction of CO 2 to carbohydrates and the molecular oxygen we breathe. The inorganic core of the oxygen evolving complex is made of the earth-abundant elements manganese, calcium and oxygen (Mn 4 CaO 5 cluster), and is situated in a binding pocket that is connected to the aqueous surrounding via water-filled ch...

We have followed the recovery of gaps produced either by harvesters or by scientists in stands of stalked barnacle ( Pollicipes pollicipes ) during two years in four regions of Europe (SW Portugal, Galicia and Asturias in Spain and Brittany in France; n = 423 gaps), which was extended to four years in Asturias (n = 252 gaps). The presence of adult conspecifics in the margins of the gaps increased by at least four times the pro...

Motivation The accelerated and widespread conversion of once continuous ecosystems into fragmented landscapes has driven ecological research to understand the response of biodiversity to local (fragment size) and landscape (forest cover and fragmentation) changes. This information has important theoretical and applied implications, but is still far from complete. We compiled the most comprehensive and updated database to inves...

Motivation Freshwater ecosystems have been heavily impacted by land‐use changes, but data syntheses on these impacts are still limited. Here, we compiled a global database encompassing 241 studies with species abundance data (from multiple biological groups and geographic locations) across sites with different land‐use categories. This compilation will be useful for addressing questions regarding land‐use change and its impact...