Key message This eight-founder MAGIC population represents a powerful resource for dissecting complex traits in maize, assessing the utility of drought proxy traits, and optimizing low-coverage whole-genome sequencing approaches. Abstract Securing sustainable crop production requires the genetic improvement of abiotic stress tolerance. Due to the broad range of environmental factors causing abiotic stress and complex genotype-...

Pollinators are important to humans and nature due to their role in ecosystem functioning and services. Research on the effects of pollinator management in protected areas is insufficient compared with that on farmlands and urban areas, potentially hindering appropriate policy implementation. We addressed this knowledge gap by conducting a data‐based synthesis on measures to promote pollinators (especially bees, butterflies, a...

This paper examines why robust causality assessment is central to toxicology yet increasingly difficult in networked biological systems, including Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) networks and multi-omics datasets. Classical causal frameworks (e.g., Koch/Dale reasoning and Bradford Hill-type considerations) remain useful for scoping, but they offer limited operational guidance for multifactorial, nonlinear, and feedback-dominated...

Climate change is expected to create a range of impacts on biodiversity, land use, and economic activities, but those sector impacts are rarely analysed together. Here, we assess how climate change and socioeconomic narratives will affect land use and biodiversity in the state of Bavaria, Germany. We apply a multi-sectoral modelling approach with two climate projections (RCP 2.6 and 8.5) downscaled from three different climate...

The Asia region harbors exceptional chondrichthyan (shark, ray, and chimaera) diversity but faces intense fishing pressure. The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process provides a collaborative, evidence-based framework to identify critical habitats and inform spatial management. We assessed ISRAs across the Bay of Bengal, Southeast Asia, and the Northwest Pacific to characterize their extent, ecological significance, and...

The long-term integrity of buried ductile iron pipelines is increasingly compromised by external corrosion, especially where protective coatings are damaged or direct soil contact occurs. While coatings and cathodic protection remain essential for corrosion control, their long-term performance is strongly governed by the surrounding soil environment. In highly corrosive or moisture-retentive backfills, these conventional syste...

Main conclusion Arabidopsis wildtype plants suffer symptoms of stress at a sudden increase in CO 2 concentration, resulting from perturbation of photosynthetic electron transport. Defense-related gene induction includes increased methionine cycle and glucosinolates metabolism. Abstract Elevated CO 2 (eCO 2 ) increases photosynthetic performance of plants, but also leads to decreased nitrogen-to-carbon ratio and a long-term dec...

Aim Understanding the biodiversity and distribution patterns of microbial eukaryotes is fundamental to biosphere research. The biogeography of free‐living protists remains contentious, with the ‘everything is everywhere’ and ‘moderate endemicity’ hypotheses representing competing paradigms. Here, we investigate whether and how global genetic variability within the cosmopolitan species Paramecium caudatum conforms to these mode...