Diversity News

• Maine’s Once Abundant Kelp Forests Face an Array of Growing Threats (Inside Climate News 19Dec2025)

└Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery (Farrell et al., 2025)

• Bromeliads promote plant diversity in the forest by enriching the soil with nutrients (Phys.org 18Dec2025)

└Epiphytic tank bromeliads enhance nutrition and growth of terrestrial seedlings: Experimental evidence of a novel mechanism of facilitation (Pereira et al., 2025)

• Recent tundra fires exceed anything in past 3,000 years (Phys.org 18Dec2025)

└Fire activity in the northern Arctic tundra now exceeds late Holocene levels, driven by increasing dryness and shrub expansion (Feurdean et al., 2025)

• Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change (Phys.org 18Dec2025)

• Urban lichens as an emerging model for urban evolution (Evankow et al., 2025)

• Anatomy of a phytoplankton bloom revealed north of Hawai'i (16Dec2025 Phys.org)

└Biogeochemical anatomy and ecosystem dynamics of a large phytoplankton bloom north of the Hawaiian Islands (Foreman et al., 2025)

• Your next puffer jacket could be made from bulrushes, as carbon-storing peat farming takes off (The Conversation 16Dec2025)

• New way to track toxic algae that threaten shellfish industries (Phys.org 16Dec2025)

└Characterizing seasonal persistence of low levels of Pseudo-nitzschia australis in the Gulf of Maine with environmental DNA (Greenlee et al., 2025)

• How microbial consortia break down lignin (Phys.org 17Dec2025)

└Screening of microbial consortium with high efficiency of lignin-degrading and its synergistic metabolic mechanism (Ru et al., 2025)

• A fungus that kills toxic algae threatening human health (Phys.org 17Dec2025)

└Algophthora mediterranea, gen. et sp. nov.: Novel dinoflagellate- and diatom-infecting generalist marine chytrid from the Mediterranean Sea (Pou-Solà et al., 2025)

• Evaluating the evaluators: How do plant virus genome analysis tools stack up? (Phys.org 15Dec2025)

└Defective but promising: evaluating the utility of currently available bioinformatic pipelines for detecting defective viral genomes in RNA-Seq data 

• Moss and symbionts offer a promising solution for removing metals from mining and forestry-impacted waters (15Dec2025 Phys.org)

└Aquatic moss precipitates metals in the presence of a specific endophytic microbiome (Lehosmaa et al., 2025)

• Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment (The Conversation 13Dec2025)

• Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end (15Dec2025 Phys.org)

└Amazon forest faces severe decline under the dual pressures of anthropogenic climate change and land-use change (Bultan et al., 2025)

• Nutritional properties of acorns confirmed (Phys.org 11Dec2025)

└Phytochemical and metabolomics analysis of Quercus ilex acorns reveals substantial intraspecific variation, high nutritional and nutraceutical potential and rich associated microbiome (Tienda-Parrilla et al., 2025)

• Fungal allies arm plant roots against disease by rewriting the rules of infection (Phys.org 11Dec2025)

└Mutualist-pathogen co-colonization modulates phosphoinositide signatures at host intracellular interfaces (Guyon et al., 2025)

• Infrared radiation may be one of the most ancient plant signals to pollinating insects (Phys.org 11Dec2025)

├Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal (Valencia-Montoya et al., 2025)

└Infrared as a pollination signal (Glover et al., 2025)

• Sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years (Phys.org 10Dec2025)

└High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys (Pyenson et al., 2025)

• The evolutionary mysteries of a rare parasitic plant: Shrinking plastids and strange reproductive strategies (Phys.org 10Dec2025)

└Phylogenomics clarifies Balanophora evolution, metabolic retention in reduced plastids, and the origins of obligate agamospermy (Svetlikova et al., 2025)

• AI pinpoints aspens and standing dead trees in forests using aerial imagery (Phys.org 10Dec2025)

├Dual-task learning for dead tree detection and segmentation with hybrid self-attention U-Nets in aerial imagery (Rahman et al., 2025)

└Mapping large European aspens (Populus tremula L.) using national aerial imagery and a U-Net convolutional neural network (Chowdhury et al., 2025)

• Prairie strips can rapidly improve soil health (Phys.org 10Dec2025)

└Prairie strips improve many measures of soil health in nearly a decade (Dutter et al., 2025)

• Protecting orchids found nowhere else on Earth (Phys.org 9Dec2025)

• Elusive species face the greatest threat from human land use (Phys.org 9Dec2025)

└Hard‐To‐Sample Species Are More Sensitive to Land‐Use Change: Implications for Global Biodiversity Metrics (Gutiérrez‐Arellano et al., 2025)

• Ponderosa pines, American West's most iconic tree, is disappearing (Phys.org 9Dec2025)

• Parasitic fungus may have emerged 18 million years before the ants with which it lives today (Phys.org 8Dec2025)

└Digging into the evolutionary history of the fungus-growing-ant symbiont, Escovopsis (Hypocreaceae) (Montoya et al., 2025)

• Climate change threatens Europe's remaining peatlands (Phys.org 6Dec2025)

└Shifting climate boundaries for European peatlands (Tahitu et al., 2025)

• An ancient genetic switch that lets plants grow, adapt and survive (Phys.org 8Dec2025)

└The B-class auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for meristem organization in free-living plant gametophytes (Flores-Sandoval et al., 2025)

• Helping crops survive in saltwater: Mangroves reveal key cellular traits (Phys.org 8Dec2025)

└Convergent evolution of cell size enables adaptation to the mangrove habitat (Jiang et al., 2025)

• Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertilizer (Phys.org 4Dec2025)

└Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient (O'Malley et al., 2025)

• Degraded peatlands emit nearly twice as much greenhouse gas as previously thought (Phys.org 3Dec2025)

└Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union (Giersbergen et al., 2025)

• Vital seaweed habitats aren't being protected by ocean reserves (Phys.org 4Dec2025)

└Global seaweed stock and Marine Protected Area assessments provide potential opportunities to protect wild seaweeds (Brodie et al, 2025)

• Researchers find promising adaptations to climate change in tropical forests (Phys.org 4Dec2025)

└Drying suppresses fine root production to 1 m depths and alters root traits in four distinct tropical forests (Cordeiro et al., 2025)

• Sargasso Sea shift reveals dramatic decline in some historic seaweed populations (Phys.org 4Dec2025)

└Dramatic decline of Sargassum in the north Sargasso Sea since 2015 (Zhang et al., 2025)

• Garden ponds often serve as potential sources of plant invasions (Phys.org 3Dec2025)

└Garden Ponds: Hidden Sources for Plant Invasions? (Barta et al., 2025) 

• How can cacao farmers adapt to climate change? (Phys.org 2Dec2025)

└Agroforestry as a climate change adaptation strategy: Evidence from Ghana's cocoa sector (Wätzold et al., 2025)

• Fungi from Minnesota can kill emerald ash borer beetles (Phys.org 2Dec2025)

└Entomopathogenic Fungi from Minnesota Are Virulent Against Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Adults in a Laboratory Autodissemination Device Assay (Peters et al., 2025)

• Temperatures in a patch of Antarctic moss can vary as much as an entire mountain range (Phys.org 2Dec2025)

└Centimetre-Scale Micro-Topography Structures Biologically Relevant Microclimates in Antarctic Moss Beds (Randall et al., 2025)

• New critically endangered 'fairy lantern' plant species discovered in Malaysia (Phys.org 2Dec2025)

└Thismia selangorensis (Thismiaceae): a new mitriform fairy lantern species from Selangor, Malaysia (Siti-Munirah et al., 2025)

• Study reveals how pond depth and light drive greenhouse gas emissions (Phys.org 1Dec2025)

└Carbon fluxes in two temperate ponds are mediated by stratification and primary producers (Holgerson et al,. 2025)

• Fire suppression and winter warming jointly drive dieback of natural Mongolian pine forests (Phys.org 1Dec2025)

└Anthropogenic fire suppression and climate change-driven winter warming inducing the dieback of natural Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica forests on sandy land (Song et al., 2025)

• From the volcanic crater to the lab: Extremophiles offer a lesson in survival (Phys.org 29Nov2025)

└Pan-modification profiling facilitates a cross-evolutionary dissection of the thermoregulated ribosomal epitranscriptome (Garcia-Campos et al., 2025)

• A taste of the sea: Comparing five edible seaweeds (Phys.org 28Nov2025)

└Comparative analysis of the nutritional profiles of five edible macroalgae as sustainable food sources (Costa et al., 2025)

• Desert microbes drive soil carbon sinks in arid regions (Phys.org 28Nov2025)

└Long‐term fate of photosynthetic carbon in desert plants: microbial necromass‐driven pathways for soil carbon stabilization (Cong et al., 2025)

• Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution – how constraints in development can lead to new forms (The Conversation, 25Nov2025)

└Fern vascular architecture reveals how developmental constraint can generate novel morphology (Suissa, 2025)

• Uncovering a new genetic code in archaea opens doors for bioengineering applications (Phys.org 26Nov2025)

└An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine (Kivenson et al., 2025)

• What meadows reveal about the future: Spatial data can predict biodiversity loss before species disappear (Phys.org 26Nov2025)

└Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time (Neuenkamp et al., 2025)

• Moss spores in old air samples hint at effects of climate change (Phys.org 26Nov2025)

└Rapid shifts in bryophyte phenology revealed by airborne eDNA (Bengtsson et al., 2025)

• Heat-resistant kelp cultivars for warmer seas: A novel triploid breeding method (Phys.org 19Nov2025)

└Breeding of triploid Undaria pinnatifida through crossing aposporous gametophytes derived from doubled haploid sporophytes with haploid gametophytes (Shan et al., 2025)

• Death Valley shrub rearranges its insides to thrive in one of the hottest places on Earth (LiveScience 20Nov2025)

└Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer (Prado et al., 2025)

• Newly discovered Colombian orchid faces 'foretold' extinction under climate change (Phys.org 19Nov2025)

└Chronicle of a death foretold: Lepanthes nasariana (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a newly described high-Andean orchid facing a worst-case climate change scenario (Moreno et al., 2025)

• Report calls for protection and restoration to help temperate rainforests thrive (The State of the South West Rainforests, 2025)

• Two woody meadows planted a decade ago to see what would thrive. Now the concept is popular across Australia (The Conversation, 13Nov2025)

• Biotechnology from the tropics: Ecuador fights against fungus that withers bananas (Phys.org 13Nov2025)

└Optimization of a CRISPR-Cas9 in vitro protocol for targeting the SIX9 gene of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense race 1 associated with banana Fusarium wilt (Villao et al., 2025)

• Longer growing seasons fail to counteract drought-driven declines in forest growth (Phys.org 13Nov2025)

└Longer growing seasons will not offset growth loss in drought-prone temperate forests of Central-Southeast Europe (Tumajer et al., 2025)

• A wealth of genes for seed improvement uncovered in living fossils (Phys.org 13Nov2025)

└Developmentally regulated genes drive phylogenomic splits in ovule evolution (Sondervan et al., 2025)

• A fern that makes rare earth elements (Phys.org 13Nov2025)

└Discovery and Implications of a Nanoscale Rare Earth Mineral in a Hyperaccumulator Plant (He et al., 2025)

• Non-native plant species adapt to natural ecosystems faster than expected (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Non‐Native Plants Attain Native Levels of Microherbivory Richness With Time and Range Expansion (Schulte et al., 2025)

• Redwoods stand strong amid wildfires—but management matters (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Tree and stand characteristics moderate wildfire severity and promote resilience in secondary coast redwood forests (Kane et al., 2025)

• Solving mysteries with moss: The history of using tiny plants as forensic evidence (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Green clues: unveiling the role of bryophytes in forensic science (Merkel et al., 2025)

• Grassland degradation shifts biodiversity's role from plants to soil microbes (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Grassland degradation alters plant and soil biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships (Gao et al., 2025)

• Desert ecosystems emerge as frontiers for carbon sequestration and climate action (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Desert ecosystems as carbon frontiers: innovations in sequestration and climate adaptation strategies (Islam et al., 2025)

• Hawaiian blueberries traced back to Northeast Asia (Phys.org 10Nov2025)

└The spatiotemporal origin of Polynesian blueberries (Vaccinium) (Becker et al., 2025)

• The presence of exotic giant reeds (Arundo donax) on riverbanks could be beneficial for fish (Phys.org 7Nov2025)

└Effects of the invasive riparian plant Arundo donax on riverine fish: a call for action? (Maceda-Veiga et al., 2025)

• Soil health in organic orchards isn't so different to conventional orchards (Phys.org, 7Nov2025)

└Comparing apples and apples; evaluating the impact of conventional and organic management on the soil microbial communities of apple orchards (Matthews et al., 2025)

• Death Valley plant yields blueprint for building heat-resilient crops (Phys.org, 7Nov2025)

└Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer (Prado et al., 2025)

• Deer can slow forest diversity—even in sunny forest gaps (Phys.org 6Nov2025)

└Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration (Lettenmaier et al., 2025)

• An accidentally introduced parasitoid could save box trees from ecological extinction (Phys.org 6Nov2025)

└Will an accidentally introduced parasitoid save European box trees? (Kenis et al., 2025)

• Who is setting fire to the Amazon? (Phys.org 6Nov2025)

• Tiny diatoms, big climate impact: How microscopic skeletons rapidly shape ocean chemistry (Phys.org 5Nov2025)

└Rapid transformation of biogenic silica to authigenic clay: Mechanisms and geochemical constraints (Zhao et al, 2025)

• The 'blue forest' in figures: First global inventory of carbon stored by seagrass meadows (Phys.org 5Nov2025)

└Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production (Gomis et al, 2025)

• Main driver of Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean revealed (Phys.org 5Nov2025)

└Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms (Jung et al., 2025)

• Second species of wild leeks discovered, solving long-standing debate (Phys.org 4Nov2025)

└New microsatellite markers distinguish two species of ramps (Allium tricoccum Aiton Complex, Amaryllidaceae) and show variation in clonality and genetic diversity between species and among populations (Nilson et al., 2025)

• Tree mortality from insects is rising across Europe (Phys.org 3Nov2025)

└Divergent Trends in Insect Disturbance Across Europe's Temperate and Boreal Forests (Hlásny et al., 2025)

• Fire fuels resilience in Florida's subtropical forests (Phys.org 29Oct2025)

• Kilimanjaro has lost 75% of its natural plant species over the last century (Phys.org 29Oct2025)

└Fires enhanced productivity in fire-adapted subtropical pinelands of the Florida Everglades (McLeod et al., 2025)

• Climate change is making cities hotter. Here’s how planting trees can help (The Conversation 28Oct2025)

└Gain and loss: Human and environmental wellbeing – drivers of Kilimanjaro’s decreasing biodiversity (Hemp et al., 2025)

• Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities (Phys.org 28Oct2025)

└Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality (Karwowski et al., 2025)

• White oak genome reveals genetic markers for climate adaptability and pest resistance (Phys.org 26Oct2025)

• Forests recovering from acid rain mine rocks for nutrients (Phys.org 23Oct2025)

└Forest recovery after deforestation is fueled by mineral weathering at the expense of ecosystem buffering capacity (Bernhardt et al., 2025)

• Scientists Turn Supermarket Seaweed Into Heart Tissue (ScienceBlog 22Oct2025)

└Development and optimization of decellularized seaweed scaffolds for tissue engineering (Chithiravelu et al., 2025)

• Natural Japanese and Taiwanese hinoki cypresses genetically differentiated 1 million years ago (Phys.org 20Oct2025)

└The Historical Biogeography of Divergence in the Relict Cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa, and the Implications for Conservation and Management in East Asia (Aihara et al., 2025)

• Nitrogen fixation phenomenon discovered in the Arctic could boost marine life (Phys.org 20Oct2025)

└Nitrogen fixation under declining Arctic sea ice (von Friesen et al., 2025)

• The northern migration of the temperate forest isn't proceeding as expected (The Conversation, 16Oct2025)

• Manchurian walnut tree may hold key to eco-friendly weed control (Phys.org 16Oct2025)

└Allelochemical from leaves of Juglans mandshurica Maxim. And Its Transcriptomic Effects in Plants (Nuntawong et al., 2025)

• Palm oil isn't necessarily less sustainable than other oil crops (Phys.org 16Oct2025)

└No oil crop is inherently bad—But our thinking might be (Meijaard et al., 2025)

• Wild lupine flower genetics could be key to conservation of species (Phys.org 10Oct2025)

└Assessing the status of sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) genetic diversity and population structure throughout its distribution (Petitta et al., 2025)

• Researchers uncover hidden plant-microbe strategy that boosts crop growth under nutrient stress (Phys.org 10Oct2025)

└A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants (Mukherjee et al., 2025) 

• How forest biodiversity increases productivity via complementary use of canopy space (Phys.org 15Oct2025)

└Forest biodiversity increases productivity via complementarity from greater canopy structural complexity (Deng et al., 2025)

• Deadwood brings wild orchids to life: Study uncovers important carbon flux in the ecosystem (Phys.org 8Oct2025)

└The nexus of decay and birth: Ecological and evolutionary significance of wood‐decaying fungi in green Calypsoinae orchid germination (Suetsugu et al., 2025)

• Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk (Phys.org 8Oct2025)

└Interception reduction from deforestation and forest fire increases large-scale fluvial flooding risk (Kang et al., 2025)

• Slime mold soil microbes could be a source of potent antimicrobials (Phys.org 8Oct2025)

└Production of anti-bacterial compounds by a Steely hybrid polyketide synthase in Dictyostelium (Yamashita et al., 2025)

• Wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security (Phys.org 6Oct2025)

└De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome (White et al., 2025)

• How forest soil properties influence arsenic mobility and toxicity in soil organisms (Phys.org 6Oct2025)

└Forest soil properties regulate arsenic mobility and life stage-specific ecotoxicity in Collembola: Implications for early-stage contamination risk (Min et al, 2025)

• Brewing resilience: Researchers safeguard coffee and chocolate from climate threats (Phys.org 2Oct2025)

• Fungi may have set the stage for life on land hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought (Phys.org 1Oct2025)

└A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers (Szánthó et al., 2025)

• How do plant hormones facilitate plant survival in extreme environments? (Phys.org 1Oct2025)

└Phytohormones revisited: what makes a compound a hormone in plants (Munné-Bosch, 2025)

• How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick (The Conversation, 1Oct2025)

• How does neighbor density affect seedling survival in tropical trees and lianas? (Phys.org 26Sep2025)

└Lianas exhibit stronger conspecific negative density dependence than trees on tropical seedling survival (Sun et al., 2025)

• How could AI help (and hurt) forestry? (Phys.org 26Sep2025)

└Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of forestry professionals towards artificial intelligence (Ritter et al., 2025) 

• Global project unearths new species of wildflowers (Phys.org 26Sep2025)

└An annotated checklist of Haemodoraceae, including new taxa and new combinations (Hopper et al., 2025)

• Baltic diatoms remained genetically stable for millennia—then humans came into play (Phys.org 26Sep2025)

└Multi‐Millennial Genetic Resilience of Baltic Diatom Populations Disturbed in the Past Centuries (Schmidt et al., 2025)

• Hot springs in Japan give insight into ancient microbial life on Earth (Phys.org 25Sep2025)

└Metabolic Potential and Microbial Diversity of Late Archean to Early Proterozoic Ocean Analog Hot Springs of Japan (Li-Hau et al., 2025)

• Average size of trees in Amazon has increased as CO₂ levels rise (Phys.org 25Sep2025)

└Increasing tree size across Amazonia (Esquivel-Muelbert et al., 2025) 

• Plant mimicking ants to attract pollinators (Phys.org 24Sep2025)

└Olfactory floral mimicry of injured ants mediates the attraction of kleptoparasitic fly pollinators (Mochizuki, 2025)

• Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires (Keeley & Paulus, 2025)

• Forest plants increasingly colonize Arctic tundra, altering ecosystems and permafrost (Phys.org 22Sep2025)

└Criado et al. (2025) Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal-Tundra Species

• Study finds 72% of Illinois wetlands no longer protected by federal Clean Water Act (Phys.org 24Sep2025)

└Peterson et al. (2025) A national policy with local consequences: Quantifying the downstream effects of Sackett on Illinois wetlands and communities

• Climate change could erase 80% of whitebark pine's current habitat across the Rockies and Northwest (Phys.org 23Sep2025)

└Parks et al. (2025) Whitebark pine in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century

• Ancient lentils discovered in the Canary Islands thanks to archaeological DNA (Phys.org 16Sep2025)

└Hagenblad et al. (2025) Ancient DNA from lentils (Lens culinaris) illuminates human - plant - culture interactions in the Canary Islands

• The role of the microbiome in the successful transplantation of seagrass meadows (Phys.org 18Sep2025)

└Boulenger et al. (2025) Microbiome matters: how transplantation methods and donor origins shape the successful restoration of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica

• Polyploid plants maintain several distinct flower types through ancient genetic architecture (Phys.org 18Sep2025)

└Luo et al. (2025) Genetic architecture of the S‐locus supergene revealed in a tetraploid distylous species

• Biodiversity needs more than just flower strips (Phys.org 18Sep2025)

└Tscharntke et al. (2025) Beyond flower strips—restoring biodiversity needs more landscape heterogeneity

• Mixing tree species does not always make forests more drought-resilient (Phys.org 18Sep2025)

└Serrano‐León et al. (2025) Multiyear Drought Strengthens Positive and Negative Functional Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Response

• Using only genomics and a one-time tree count, a new model can accurately predict a forest's future (Phys.org 18Sep2025)

└O'Dwyer (2025) Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest

• Reviving South Africa’s grasslands: Eastern Cape villagers explain the challenges they face (The Conversation 17Sep2025)

• Study calculates value of Virginia coastal wetlands at $90 million (Phys.org 16Sep2025)

• Messy backyard gardens could help save biodiversity, but who wants one? (Phys.org 12Sep2025)

└Woods et al. (2025) Backyard Biophilia: A Survey Instrument to Measure an Attraction to Biodiversity in the Home Garden

• Invasive plants are rapidly changing tropic ecosystems across three continents (Phys.org 11Sep2025)

└Mungi et al. (2025) Alien plants and novel ecosystems in the Greater Tropics 

• Seaweed cells could give solar panels a boost (Phys.org  11Sep2025)

└Arnould-Pétré et al. (2025) Structural colour in red seaweeds is more common and diverse than has been presumed

• How Indigenous fire stewardship continues to shape North American forests (Phys.org 10Sep2025)

└Larson et al. (2025) Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests

• Genomes uncover the extraordinary drive to survive in microbes beneath Antarctic ice (Phys.org 10Sep2025)

└Kim et al. (2025) Genetic isolation and metabolic complexity of an Antarctic subglacial microbiome

• Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice (Phys.org 10Sep2025)

└Zhang et al. (2025) Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell

• Joshua trees face climate threat despite heat adaptation (Phys.org 8Sep2025)

└Heyduk et al. (2025) Cryptic CAM photosynthesis in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia, Y. jaegeriana)

• Plants that dominate at home often thrive as invasive species abroad (Phys.org 8Sep2025)

└Paudel et al. (2025) Many plants naturalized as aliens abroad have also become more common within their native regions

• New tech to combat toxic algal blooms and fish death events (Phys.org 8Sep2025)

• Cities need trees, but sometimes they have to be cut down. Here's why, and how to do it properly (The Conversation, 8Sep2025)

• Beavers return to the forest landscape, reviving its natural environment (5Sep2025)

└Kivinen et al. (2025) Immediate facilitation and engineering legacy of beavers: 54 years of patch dynamics in a boreal landscape

• Bark beetle outbreaks raise forest temperatures, but deciduous trees offer cooling effect (Phys.org 5Sep2025)

└Greiser et al. (2025) Bark beetles as microclimate engineers – thermal characteristics of infested spruce trees at the canopy surface and below the canopy

• Seagrass swap could reshape Chesapeake Bay food web (Phys.org 3Sep2025)

└Alvaro et al. (2025) Changing foundation species in Chesapeake Bay: implications for faunal communities of two dominant seagrass species

• Nutrient-enriched seagrass can store more carbon, but too much nutrition—especially nitrogen—can be its undoing (Phys.org 3Sep2025)

└Shayka et al. (2025) Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds

• Researchers uncover molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in desert moss (Phys.org 2Sep2025)

└Yin et al. (2025) Phosphoproteomics analysis provides novel insight into the mechanisms of extreme desiccation tolerance of the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis

• Tiny ocean partnership between diatoms and N2-fixing bacteria reveals secrets of evolution (Phys.org 29Aug2025)

└Grujcic et al. (2025) Stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses

• Plant samples preserved in museums may hold key to advancing biodiversity (Phys.org 28Aug2025)

└Daru (2025) Tracking hidden dimensions of plant biogeography from herbaria

• When trees can protect against avalanches: Tree height and species play key roles (Phys.org 28Aug2025)

└Piazza et al. (2025) Growing trees decrease the frequency of avalanche release in an alpine afforestation in the Swiss Alps

• Seaweed-infused ceramic clay offers lighter, greener option for construction materials (Techxplore 28Aug2025)

└Lyra et al. (2025) Life Cycle Assessment of Lightweight Ceramic Clay Aggregates Sintered in a Microwave Oven with the Incorporation of Sargassum spp.

• Telling the story of the Atlantic's sargassum surge with 40 years of data (Phys.org 28Aug2025)

└Lapointe et al. (2025) Productivity, growth, and biogeochemistry of pelagic Sargassum in a changing world

• Snow algae accelerate Antarctic ice shelf melting (Phys.org 27Aug2025)

└Liang et al. (2025) Seasonal cycles of snow algal blooms intensify surface melting on Antarctic ice shelves

• Desert bacterium shows promise in combating crop fungi and boosting plant growth (Phys.org 27Aug2025)

└Mohamad et al. (2025) Dual-functionality of Nocardiopsis alba B57 in biocontrol and plant growth: a metabolomic approach to agricultural sustainability

• Fungi found on dying buckthorn could control the highly invasive species (Phys.org 27Aug2025)

└Franke et al. (2025) Fungi Associated with Dying Buckthorn in North America

• Brown algae genomes reveal ancient origins and evolutionary fate of sex chromosomes (Phys.org 26Aug2025)

└Barrera-Redondo et al. (2025) Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes

• Family webs may capture evolutionary change in plants better than family trees (Phys.org 25Aug2025)

└Kong et al. (2025) Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research

• DNA from rainwater provides a window into tropical canopy biodiversity (Phys.org 24Aug2025)

└Zinger et al. (2025) Elusive tropical forest canopy diversity revealed through environmental DNA contained in rainwater

• Saving the giants of the Australian forest (Phys.org 21Aug2025)

└Trouvé et al. (2025) Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans)

• Bison herds 'reawaken' Yellowstone's prairies (Phys.org 31Aug2025)

└Geremia et al. (2025) Yellowstone's free moving large bison herds provide a glimpse of their past ecosystem function

• Kelp forests in Marine Protected Areas are more resilient to marine heat waves (Phys.org 19Aug2025)

└Ortiz-Villa et al. (2025) Marine protected areas enhance climate resilience to severe marine heatwaves for kelp forests

• California approves an unprecedented plan to protect Joshua trees from climate change threats (LA Times 18Aug2025)

• Fern leaf pockets hide secrets of plant-microbe symbiosis (Phys.org 18Aug2025)

└Armitage et al. (2025) Adaptive pangenomic remodeling in the Azolla cyanobiont amid a transient microbiome

• Hypergravity boosts moss photosynthesis (Phys.org 11Aug2025)

└Hanba et al. (2025) First contact with greater gravity: Moss plants adapted via enhanced photosynthesis mediated by AP2/ERF transcription factors

• 'Plant-mycorrhiza synergy' can revitalize forest restoration (Phys.org 15Aug2025)

└Li et al. (2025) Mycorrhizal allies: synergizing forest carbon and multifunctional restoration

• Diatoms bind uranium inside and out, raising food chain concerns (Phys.org 7Aug2025)

└He et al. (2025) A multiscale investigation of uranium(VI) interaction with a freshwater diatom species

• How biocrusts form self-organized patterns and potentially influence dryland ecosystem functioning (Phys.org 6Aug2025)

└Sun et al. (2025) Spatial and temporal scale–dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands

• Piñon pine and juniper react differently to drought than expected (Phys.org 5Aug2025)

└Kraklow et al. (2025) Increased water availability at various timescales has different effects on stomatal closure point in isohydric piñon pine and anisohydric juniper

• Kelp could protect Scotland's coast from erosion (Phys.org 5Aug2025)

• Ancient alliance between woody plants and microbes has potential to protect precious peatlands (Phys.org 4Aug2025)

└Zhang et al. (2025) Microbial responses to changing plant community protect peatland carbon stores during Holocene drying

• Biodiversity matters in every forest, but even more in wetter ones (Phys.org 4Aug2025)

└Zheng et al. (2025) Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years

• 5 ingenious things trees do that human designers can learn from (The Conversation 3Aug2025)

• Previously unreported 'plant destroyers' detected in Minnesota (Phys.org 4Aug2025)

└Rajtar et al. (2025) Surveys of nurseries, forests and waterways in Minnesota revealed the presence of 14 new records of Phytophthora species

• Pacific algae invade Algeria beaches, pushing humans and fish away (Phys.org 4Aug2025)

• Global study identifies upswing in photosynthesis driven by land, offset by oceans (Phys.org 1Aug2025)

└Zhang et al. (2025) Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean

• Drought has a limited effect on tropical-tree growth—but hotter planet threatens that resilience (Phys.org 1Aug2025)

└Zuidema et al. (2025) Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth

• Uncovering an ancient mechanism of growth and development in land plants (Phys.org 1Aug2025)

└Rana et al. (2025) GA-independent DELLA regulation by inositol pyrophosphate in a nonvascular land plant

• How you can make your garden a safe and biodiverse space for urban wildlife (The Conversation 31Jul2025)

• Uncovering an ancient mechanism of growth and development in land plants (Phys.org 1Aug2025)

└Rana et al. (2025) GA-independent DELLA regulation by inositol pyrophosphate in a nonvascular land plant

• Grasses are spendthrifts, forests are budgeters, in a nuanced account of plant water use (Phys.org 31Jul2025)

└Morgan et al. (2025) Ecological and hydroclimatic determinants of vegetation water-use strategies

• 'Insect highways'—flower-filled dikes attract rare and diverse bee populations (Phys.org 30Jul2025)

└Swinkels et al. (2025) Phenology and flower species availability define wild bee communities on river embankments

• The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants (Phys.org 30Jul2025)

└Bock et al. (2025) Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor

• Through the shot glass, and what can be found in liverworts (Phys.org 30Jul2025)

└Sakai et al. (2025) SHOT GLASS, an R2R3-MYB transcription factor, promotes gemma cup and gametangiophore development in Marchantia polymorpha

• Raised bogs and fens: Nature's carbon vaults need different care (Phys.org 29Jul2025)

└Pierce et al. (2025) Assessing localised rainfall and water table depth relationships in agricultural grassland peat soils

• Potatoes came from tomatoes 9 million years ago (ScienceBlog 31Jul2025)

└Zhang et al. (2025) Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

• Science by the millions: How everyday people are revolutionizing global biodiversity research with tech (Phys.org 28Jul2025)

└Mason et al. (2025) iNaturalist Accelerates Biodiversity Research

• Students discover sunflower sea stars keep kelp-hungry urchins at bay (Phys.org 28Jul2025)

└Mancuso et al. (2025) Sunflower sea star chemical cues locally reduce kelp consumption by eliciting a flee response in red sea urchins

• New method detects toxic blue-green algae in lakes before blooms form (Phys.org 28Jul2025)

└Sound et al. (2025) A Protein-Centric Mass Spectrometry Approach for Species Identification within Harmful Algal Blooms

• Grassland loss and woody plant encroachment drive decline of golden-shouldered parrot (Phys.org 24Jul2025)

└Crowley et al. (2025) Woody plant encroachment drives the decline of a grassland bird: The fate of golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotellus chrysopterygius) nests

• Researchers look to microbial interactions for early indicators of harmful algal blooms (24Jul2025)

└Siddiquee et al. (2025) Uncovering microbial interactions in a persistent Planktothrix bloom: Towards early biomarker identification in hypereutrophic lakes

• Forest census over 96 years shows loss of tree diversity and resilience (Phys.org 24Jul2025)

└Álvarez et al. (2025) Homogenization of a temperate old-growth forest remnant in central Illinois following the introduction of Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi) and emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)

• Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters (Phys.org 23Jul2025)

└Swindles et al. (2025) Climate and water-table levels regulate peat accumulation rates across Europe

• Underground maps reveal 90% of mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas (Phys.org 23Jul2025)

└Nuland (2025) Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected

• Study uncovers technologically appealing trick used by microalgae to manipulate light (Phys.org 23Jul2025)

└Dyakov et al. (2025) Talbot effect in nanostructured diatom frustules

• Study finds certain fungi boost the micronutrient content of bread wheat (Phys.org 23Jul2025)

└Nguyen et al. (2025) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculation increases the bioavailability of zinc and iron in wheat grain

• How Lightning Is Quietly Reshaping Forests (ScienceBlog 22Jul2025)

└Krause et al. (2025) Simulating Lightning-Induced Tree Mortality in the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJ-GUESS

• Restoring nature beyond forests: A new map for rethinking ecological conservation (Phys.org 18Jul2025)

└Bastin et al. (2025) Global alternatives of natural vegetation cover

• From kelp to whales: How marine heat waves are reshaping ocean life (Phys.org 18Jul2025)

└Starko et al. (2025) Ecological Responses to Extreme Climatic Events: A Systematic Review of the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave

• Delicious but damaging invasive golden oyster mushrooms found decreasing fungal community richness (Phys.org 16Jul2025)

└Veerabahu et al. (2025) Invasive golden oyster mushrooms are disrupting native fungal communities as they spread throughout North America

• Control fire and ferals in tropical savannas to bring small mammals back (Phys.org 16Jul2025)

└Stobo‐Wilson et al. (2025) Feral cats and habitat degradation drive mammal declines in northwestern Australia: An expert elicitation to prioritize management actions

• Nitrogen in forests and grasslands overestimated, new global analysis shows (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 16Jul2025)

└Ely (2025) Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture

• Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year, study shows (Phys.org 16Jul2025)

└Schuster et al. (2025) Restoring riparian wetlands for carbon and nitrogen benefits and other critical ecosystem functions

• Mangrove as metaphor: Adaptable plant offers inspiration for sustainable food systems model (Phys.org 14Jul2025)

└Baur et al. (2025) A mangrove metaphor for sustainable food systems centres diversification as the root of human and planetary health

• Forest trees and microbes choreograph their hunt for a 'balanced diet' under elevated CO₂ (Phys.org 14Jul2025)

└Michaela et al. (2025) Elevated CO2 alters relative belowground carbon investment for nutrient acquisition in a mature temperate forest

• Permanent retention of exceptional trees can improve ecosystem integrity in managed forests (Phys.org 12Jul2025)

└Sillett et al. (2025) Contributions of exceptional trees to improved management of coast redwood forests in California

• Four fungi related to species that hijack brains of insects discovered in Thailand (Phys.org 11Jul2025)

└Mongkolsamrit et al. (2025) Multi-locus molecular phylogenetic analysis reveals four new species and a new record of Ophiocordyceps (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) on dipteran hosts in Thailand

• Bioluminescent dress glows with 125 million living algae at fashion show (Phys.org 9Jul2025)

• Resolving the debate over forest fragmentation's impact on ecosystem resilience (Phys.org 9Jul2025)

└Su et al. (2025) Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests

• Virtual forest simulations show that randomly distributed planting designs enhance productivity (Phys.org 9Jul2025)

└Beugnon et al. (2025) Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement

• Daily mismatch between temperature and humidity helps shield cloud forests from dryness (Phys.org 8Jul2025)

└Shih et al. (2025) Impact of Diurnal Temperature and Relative Humidity Hysteresis on Atmospheric Dryness in Changing Climates

• Satellites reveal tropical wetland flooding did not cause methane surge (Phys.org 8Jul2025)

└Xiong et al. (2025) Limited evidence that tropical inundation and precipitation powered the 2020–2022 methane surge

• The multitasking microbe that turns CO₂ into minerals (Phys.org 8Jul2025)

└Cappa et al. (2025) Bacillus megaterium favours CO₂ mineralization into CaCO₃ over the ureolytic pathway

• Scientists reveal structural mechanism behind photosystem II in green algae (Phys.org 8Jul2025)

└Wang et al. (2025) Roles of multiple TEF30-associated intermediate complexes in the repair and reassembly of photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

• Trees and hedges on farmland significantly boost butterfly numbers (Phys.org 7Jul2025)

• Mediterranean bacteria may harbor new mosquito solution (Phys.org 7Jul2025)

└Wood et al. (2025) Bacteria isolated from biodiverse Mediterranean island habitats yield a large array of biopesticidal metabolites against mosquito larvae

• Most plant-friendly fungi are a mystery to scientists (The Conversation 5Jul2025)

└van Galen et al. (2025) The biogeography and conservation of Earth's 'dark' ectomycorrhizal fungi,

• It isn't all bloom and doom: Why algal blooms are becoming more prevalent (Particle 7Jul2025)

• Trees and hedges on farmland significantly boost butterfly numbers (Phys.org 7Jul2025)

└Feber et al. (2025) Quantifying the value of trees outside woods for promoting biodiversity on farmland

• Rain showers can dramatically impact fungal communities in urban lakes (Phys.org 7Jul2025)

└Li et al. (2025) Rainfall's ripple effect: unveiling the hidden impact on planktonic fungi in urban lakes

• Green algae-based systems improve wastewater recycling for rural and regional communities (Phys.org 4Jul2025)

└Sabatte et al. (2025) High-rate algal ponds operated as sequencing batch reactors: Towards wastewater treatment with filamentous algae

• Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' (Phys.org 30Jun2025)

└Dissawa et al. (2025) Chlorothalonil exposure impacts larval development and adult reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster

• Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight (Phys.org 2Jul2025)

└Robinson et al. (2025) Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal

• Ignoring peatlands could derail climate goals (Phys.org 2Jul2025)

└Zhu et al. (2025) Warming of northern peatlands increases the global temperature overshoot challenge

• Thunderstorms are a major driver of tree death in tropical forests (Phys.org 1Jul2025)

• Jewelflowers seek friendly environments rather than adapt (Phys.org 1Jul2025)

└Bontrager et al. (2025) Herbarium specimens reveal a constrained seasonal climate niche despite diverged annual climates across a wildflower clade

• Restoring kelp forests by culling sea urchins makes financial and ecological sense (Phys.org 1Jul2025)

└Carnell et al. (2025) Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia

• Fossil fungi trapped in amber reveal ancient origin of parasitic zombie-ants (27Jun2025)

└Zhuang et al. (2025) Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect–fungal associations

• Plant genome evolution shows both episodic and gradual diploidization patterns (Phys.org 27Jun2025)

└Wang et al. (2025) Diploidization in a wild rice allopolyploid is both episodic and gradual

• Scientists predict Lake Erie's algae bloom will be smaller than last year (Phys.org 27Jun2025)

• Snow cloaks Atacama, the world's driest desert (Phys.org 27Jun2025)

• New study reveals consistent nitrate preference across temperate forest tree species in Northeast China (Phys.org 26Jun2025)

└Qu et al. (2025) Paired 15N labeling reveals that temperate broadleaved tree species proportionally take up more nitrate than conifers

• Some sea slugs consume algae, incorporate photosynthetic parts into their own bodies to keep producing nutrients (Phys.org 26Jun2025)

└Allard et al. (2025) A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

• Soil-dwelling fungi shape tree diversity through complex underground partnerships, global study reveals (Phys.org 25Jun2025)

└Jiang et al. (2025) Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities

• Norway spruce trees produce a mixture of substances as protection against insects and fungal infestation (Phys.org 24Jun2025)

└Zaman et al. (2025) Both synergism and interaction diversity explain the mixtures of defensive monoterpenes in spruce oleoresin

• New research identifies potential source populations of invasive red alga threatening Hawaii's protected coral reefs (Phys.org 24Jun2025)

└Fumo et al. (2025) A predictive framework for identifying source populations of non-native marine macroalgae: Chondria tumulosa in the Pacific Ocean

• Most tree species face serious climate threat even under modest warming, study reveals (Phys.org 24Jun2025)

└Boonman et al. (2025) High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change

• Tomatoes in the Galápagos are quietly de-evolving (Phys.org 24Jun2025)

└Jozwiak et al. (2025) Enzymatic twists evolved stereo-divergent alkaloids in the Solanaceae family

• Modeling study finds early signs of widespread coastal marsh decline (Phys.org 23Jun2025)

└Runion et al. (2025) Early warning signs of salt marsh drowning indicated by widespread vulnerability from declining belowground plant biomass

• Killer whales make seaweed 'tools' to scratch each other's backs (Phys.org 23Jun2025)

└Weiss et al. (2025) Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales

• Pharaoh’s Curse Fungus Becomes Potent Cancer Fighter (ScienceBlog 23Jun2025)

└Nie et al. (2025) A class of benzofuranoindoline-bearing heptacyclic fungal RiPPs with anticancer activities

• Searching for Hidden Fungi in the Sonoran Desert (Inside Climate News 22Jun2025)

• Marine snow provides new clues about the export of carbon to the deep sea (Phys.org 19Jun2025)

└Kramer et al. (2025) Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux 

• Enzymes from fungi can be used to extract plant components for biofuels and bioplastics (Phys.org 18Jun2025)

└Giorgianni et al. (2025) Interaction of class III cellobiose dehydrogenase with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase

• Deep-Sea Spiders Farm Methane-Eating Bacteria on Their Bodies (ScienceBlog 18Jun2025)

└Bó et al. (2025) Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep Sericosura

• Tree Planting Can’t Save Big Oil, as Study Reveals Math Problem (Phys.org 19Jun2025)

└Naef et al. (2025) Carbon offsetting of fossil fuel emissions through afforestation is limited by financial viability and spatial requirements

• Fungal Spores in the Air May Signal Upcoming Flu and COVID Surges (ScienceBlog 20Jun2025)

• Native forests sink more carbon than expected, inverse modeling reveals (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Bukosa et al. (2025) Inverse modelling of New Zealand's carbon dioxide balance estimates a larger than expected carbon sink

• Wetland restoration is seen as sunk cost—but new research shows why it should be considered an investment (The Conversation 17Jun2025)

• Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Cintra et al. (2025) Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon

• Unexpectedly deep roots in plants unearth new questions about soil carbon storage (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Malhotra et al. (2025) Continental-scale relationships of fine root and soil carbon stocks hold in grasslands but not forests

• Coveted red dye may owe its origins to a hidden fungal partner in lac insects (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Vaishally et al. (2025) An endosymbiotic origin of the crimson pigment from the lac insect

• Ensuring the future of flora: Ecologists release dataset of climate-smart plants (Univ. of Mass. Amherst 17Jun2025)

• Colonization cleared 95% of these woodlands—Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Bowd et al. (2025) Plant Responses to a Re‐emergence of Cultural Burning in Long‐Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands

• Grassland ecosystems show abrupt changes when nitrogen fertilization exceeds key threshold (Phys.org 16Jun2025)

└Bagousse-Pinguet et al. (2025) Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification

• Yeast Converts Human Urine Into Valuable Bone Material (ScienceBlog 17Jun2025)

└Muller et al. (2025) Cost-effective urine recycling enabled by a synthetic osteoyeast platform for production of hydroxyapatite

• Living Near Toxic Algae Blooms Cuts ALS Survival by Year (ScienceBlog 17Jun2025)

└Batterman et al. (2025) Life Course Exposure to Cyanobacteria and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Survival

• Grassland ecosystems show abrupt changes when nitrogen fertilization exceeds key threshold (Phys.org 16Jun2025)

└Bagousse-Pinguet et al. (2025) Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification

• Stocking up on snacks: How phytoplankton prepare for the future (Phys.org 16Jun2025)

└Anderson et al. (2025) Nutrient storage links past thermal exposure to current performance in phytoplankton

• PFAS-eating bacteria discovered in Veneto soil (Phys.org 16Jun2025)

• 'Like an underwater bushfire': South Australia's marine algal bloom is still killing almost everything in its path (Phys.org 15Jun2025)

• Amazon canopy trees reveal complex strategies for managing intense light and heat (Phys.org 15Jun2025)

└Ziccardi et al. (2025) Seasonal and intracanopy shifts in the fates of absorbed photons in central Amazonian forests: implications for leaf fluorescence and photosynthesis

• Marine fungi could help feed the world and fight disease (The Conversation 13Jun2025)

• How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests (Phys.org 13Jun2025)

└Gonzalez-Guarda et al. (2025) Fossil evidence of proboscidean frugivory and its lasting impact on South American ecosystems

• Keeping time in cyanobacteria: Scientists discover 'ticking' mechanism driving nature's simplest circadian clock (Phys.org 13Jun2025)

└Furuike et al. (2025) The priming phosphorylation of KaiC is activated by the release of its autokinase autoinhibition

• Making trees in fire-maintained forest less susceptible to drought (Phys.org 13Jun2025)

└Wilson & Hurteau (2025) Trees in Fire-Maintained Forests Have Similar Growth Responses to Drought, but Greater Stomatal Conductance Than Trees in Fire-Excluded Forests

• Single Mushroom Dose Fights Cancer Depression for 2 Years (Science Blog 16Jun2025)

└Agrawal et al. (2025) Long-term benefits of single-dose psilocybin in depressed patients with cancer

• Microbiologists document algal toxins in Lake Erie beach (Phys.org 12Jun2025)

└Moots et al. (2025) Microcystin persistence in Lake Erie foreshore sands

• Mysterious fungi: Researchers pinpoint hotspots of 'dark taxa' across Earth's underground ecosystems (Phys.org 10Jun2025)

└van Galen et al. (2025) The biogeography and conservation of Earth’s ‘dark’ ectomycorrhizal fungi

• Rings of time: Unearthing climate secrets from ancient trees (Phys.org 9Jun2025)

└Napora et al. (2025) Subfossil bald cypress trees suggest localized, enduring effects of major climatic episodes on the Southeast Atlantic Coast of the United States

• Kelp forest collapse alters food web and energy dynamics in the Gulf of Maine (Phys.org 6Jun2025)

└Yiu et al. (2025) Kelp forest loss and emergence of turf algae reshapes energy flow to predators in a rapidly warming ecosystem

• What are runnels, the man-made channels that help restore salt marshes? (Phys.org 6Jun2025)

└Sullivan et al. (2025) The Effect of Runnels on Salt Marsh Sediment Dynamics, Vegetation, and Nitrogen Cycling

• Algae bloom ends along Southern California coast, but marine mammals remain at risk (Phys.org 6Jun2025)

• Ancient trees find sanctuary on temple grounds across China (Phys.org 5Jun2025)

└Huang et al. (2025) Religious temples are long-term refuges for old trees in human-dominated landscapes in China

• Permanently frozen palsa mires could be lost by the end of the century (Phys.org 5Jun2025)

└Leppiniemi (2025) Palsa mires of the Northern Hemisphere: environmental characteristics, degradation, and morpho-ecological state

• Life from oceans to savannas explained with one single rule (Phys.org, 4Jun2025)

└Bernardo-Madrid et al. (2025) A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions

• Wetland habitat conservation can help waterbird communities to adjust to climate warming (Phys.org 4Jun2025)

└Jonas et al. (2025) Interactions between climate warming and management actions determining bird community change in protected areas

• Bacteria hitch a ride on yeast puddles to zoom around (Phys.org 4Jun2025)

└Badal et al. (2025) Dynamic fluid layer around immotile yeast colonies mediates the spread of bacteria

• How Phytophthora affects urban linden trees (Phys.org 4Jun2025)

└Absalom et al. (2025) Impact of Phytophthora Disease on the Growth, Physiology and Ecosystem Services of Common Lime (Tilia × europaea) Street Trees

• Invasive South African Gazania poses huge risk in Australia (Phys.org 4Jun2025)

└Adnan et al. (2025) Seeds of success: seed biology and germination response of Gazania weed in Australia

• Trees vs. disease: Tree cover reduces mosquito-borne health risk (ScienceDaily 28May2025)

└Farner et al. (2025) Local tree cover predicts mosquito species richness and disease vector presence in a tropical countryside landscape

• Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity (Phys.org 3Jun2025)

└Di Santo et al. (2025) Genetic Basis of Reproductive Isolation in Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana Parry): Insights from Hybridization and Adaptation

• How seaweed is a powerful, yet surprising, climate solution (Phys.org 2Jun2025)

• Research shows how solar arrays can aid grasslands during drought (ScienceDaily 2Jun2025)

└Sturchio & Knapp (2025) Evidence of photovoltaic aridity mitigation in semi-arid grasslands. 

• Why Amazon Forests Can’t Regrow After Gold Mining (ScienceBlog 2Jun2025)

└Atwood et al. (2025) Landscape controls on water availability limit revegetation after artisanal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon

• The greener the trees around a volcano look from space, the closer it is to erupting (LiveScience 30May 2025)

└Guinn et al. (2025) Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy

• Mangroves show surprising resilience to storms in a changing climate (Phys.org 30May2025)

└Reed et al. (2025) Resilience to Hurricanes Is High in Mangrove Blue Carbon Forests

• Warming climate may flip the script on the amount of CO₂ released by trees, study finds (Phys.org 30May2025)

└Zhang et al. (2025) Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback

• What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers (Phys.org 29May2025)

└Sanchez-Martinez et al. (2025) Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought

• Does planting trees really help cool the planet? (Phys.org 29May2025)

└Allen et al. (2025) Atmospheric chemistry enhances the climate mitigation potential of tree restoration

• Drought-fighting soil bacteria help wheat beat the heat (Phys.org 29May2025)

└Li et al. (2025) Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

• Democratic Republic of the Congo's plan for the world's largest tropical forest reserve would be good for the planet: Can it succeed? (Phys.org 28May2025)

• Slowly dying trees impact forest recovery post-wildfires, according to study of 2020 fires (Phys.org 28May2025)

└Dyer et al. (2025) Post-fire delayed tree mortality in mesic coniferous forests reduces fire refugia and seed sources

• A new pathogenic fungus is threatening bats (Phys.org 28May2025)

└Fischer et al. (2025) Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats

• Endangered frogs fight back: Deadly fungus spurs breeding increase (Phys.org 28May2025)

└Brannelly et al. (2025) Devastating disease can cause increased breeding effort and success that improves population resilience

• Extreme drought can disrupt grassland stability, weakening dominant grasses' influence (Phys.org 27May2025)

└Luo et al. (2025) Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses

• Nordic studies show the significance of old-growth forests for biodiversity (Phys.org 27May2025)

└Nirhamo et al. (2025) Forest biodiversity in boreal Europe: Species richness and turnover among old-growth forests, managed forests and clearcut sites

• How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking 'tree cover' (Phys.org 27 May 2025)

└Murphy et al. (2025) Native woodland establishment improves soil hydrological functioning in UK upland pastoral catchments

• Managing forests and other ecosystems under rising threats requires thinking across wide-ranging scenarios (Phys.org 27May2025)

• Plant partnership: Fungi help spruce trees fight off budworm attacks (Phys.org 23May2025)

└Ullah et al. (2025) Alliance Between Conifer Trees and Endophytic Fungi Against Insect Defoliators

• Young trees face 'make or break' moment as drought reshapes Europe's forests (Phys.org 26May2025)

└König et al. (2025) Combining national forest inventories reveals distinct role of climate on tree recruitment in European forests

• How competition between algae is transforming the gulf of Maine (Phys.org 22May2025)

└Farrell et al. (2025) Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery

• Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate (Phys.org 21May2025)

└Molinet & Stelkens (2025) The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast

• Hidden Life Flourishes in Antarctica’s Harshest Soils Through Unlikely Partnerships (ScienceBlog 21May2025)

└Amen et al. (2025) From single pioneers to complex pro- and eukaryotic microbial networks in soils along a glacier forefield chronosequence in continental Antarctica

• On the origin (and fate) of plants that never bloom (20May2025)

└Suetsugu et al. (2025) Genomic signature and evolutionary history of completely cleistogamous lineages in the non-photosynthetic orchid Gastrodia

• How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world (The Conversation 19May2025)

• Faced with drought, fertilizer helps grasslands grow strong (Phys.org 19May2025)

└Bondaruk et al. (2025) Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition

• Alpine plant decline linked to smaller rhizomes and shorter fine roots (19May2025)

└Kobayashi et al (2025) Belowground traits significantly differ between decreasing and increasing plant species in alpine meadows: implications for vegetation response to climate change

• How a worm perpetuated wildfires in northern (boreal) Minnesota (Phys.org 15May2025)

• Protecting seagrasses could prevent billions of dollars in damages (Phys.org 14May2025)

└Krause et al. (2025) Global seagrass carbon stock variability and emissions from seagrass loss

• North American boreal forest holds 31% more trees than thought (Phys.org 13May2025)

└Xu et al. (2025) How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?

• Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space (Phys.org 6May2025)

└Rueda-Trujillo et al. (2024) Global increase of lianas in tropical forests

└Visser et al. (2025) When can we detect lianas from space? Toward a mechanistic understanding of liana-infested forest optics

• Simple method precisely calculates how mangroves protect coasts against strong waves (Phys.org 1May2025)

└Hu et al. (2025) Predicting nature-based coastal protection by mangroves under extreme waves

• Global estimate finds mangrove forests nurture vast populations of commercially important marine species (Phys.org 23Apr2025)

└zu Ermgassen et al. (2025) Mangroves support an estimated annual abundance of over 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates

• Global map reveals seagrass meadows under threat—even inside protected areas (Phys.org 23Apr2025)

└Jones et al. (2025) Mapping global threats to seagrass meadows reveals opportunities for conservation

• Nutrient additions amplify grassland response to rainfall, study finds (Phys.org 17 Apr20205)

└Fay et al. (2025) Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass–precipitation relationship

• Peatlands' carbon capture potential increases with rising temperatures (Phys.org 20Mar2025)

└Hamard et al (2025) Microbial photosynthesis mitigates carbon loss from northern peatlands under warming

• A long wait for pollinators: Restored grasslands need 75+ years for full biodiversity recovery, study finds (Phys.org 13Mar2025)

└Hirayama et al. (2025) Long-term management is required for the recovery of pollination networks and function in restored grasslands

• Desert plants' clever survival trick: Two dormancy cycles a year ensure survival in harsh conditions (Phys.org 19Feb2025)

└ Guo et al. (2025) Semiannual dormancy cycling results in two seedling cohorts of annual species in the cold desert of Central Asia

• Seagrasses filter human pathogens in marine waters (Phys.org 9Aug2024)

└Dawkins et al. (2024) Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood

• Climate change alters the hidden microbial food web in peatlands, study shows (Phys.org 18Mar2024)

└Kilner et al. (2024) Temperature and CO2 interactively drive shifts in the compositional and functional structure of peatland protist communities

• Vital seagrasses in gulf of Mexico are retreating amid rapid sea level rise (Phys.org 27Feb2024)

└Capistrant-Fossa & Dunton (2024) Rapid sea level rise causes loss of seagrass meadows