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Cover | EcoCleanR: enhancing biogeographic data quality
This month’s cover illustration by Priyanka Soni features the EcoCleanR workflow, showing transformation of raw biodiversity data into refined geographic and environmental representations of species distributions.
New Editor | Arnost Sizling, subject editor for Ecography
Arnost Sizling is a macroecologist who explores the drivers of species spatial patterns, with interests including how biodiversity patterns shift across the Holocene and along continental-scale gradients.
Cover | First robust population assessment of snow leopards in Pakistan
This month’s cover photo by Muhammad Osama depicts Lovely, an orphan snow leopard cub rescued in 2013, who thrives under rehabilitation in Naltar Valley of northern Pakistan.
New Editor | Jamie Kass, editor for Software Notes
Jamie Kass runs the Macroecology Lab at Tohoku University in Japan, investigating how biodiversity—from plankton to insects to vertebrates—is distributed across space and time.
New Editor | Dan Liang, subject editor for Ecography
Animal ecologist and conservation scientist Dan Liang studies diversity patterns in rapidly changing ecosystems, often involving long-distance migrants crossing national boundaries and elevational migrations in mountains.
Study | The small hosting the small in Antarctica
In the tiny ice-free areas of Antarctica, carpets of mosses, lichens, and algae form miniature forests. These patches host Antarctica’s terrestrial animals: billions of mites and springtails.
New Editor | Babak Naimi, editor for Software Notes
We welcome Babak Naimi, a senior researcher at Utrecht University who focuses on understanding biodiversity change in response to ongoing global change and anthropogenic activities.
New Editor | Tyler Hallman, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist Tyler Hallman, whose recent work includes exploring the wellbeing benefits that humans derive from avian soundscapes.
New Editor | Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, whose research asks how broad patterns of biodiversity emerge across space, time, and different parts of the tree of life.
Award | Announcing the 2026 E4 Award competition
We are happy to announce an open competition for the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution, given to an early career research scientist who submits an exceptional Review manuscript.
Cover | The world's oldest man-made biological experiment
This month’s cover features a group of ancient megalithic jars at the Plain of Jars in Laos, photographed by Khamla Inkhavilay.
*Cover | Rainfall increases conformity and strength of species–area relationships
Atolls like Teti’aroa, French Polynesia, can offer unique windows into the limits and boundary conditions of biogeographic properties, which inherently cannot be examined through the study of larger islands.
*New Editor | Laura Melissa Guzman, new subject editor for Ecography
The goal of Guzman’s research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data.
*Cover | Direct effects and prey-mediated effects of global change in projections of early life stages of pelagic predators
A striped marlin (Kajikia audax) closes in on a bait ball of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the Pacific coast of Baja, Mexico.
*Welcome | Jon Lefcheck, new Subject Editor
We welcome Jon Lefchek, research scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, as new subject editor of Ecography.
*New Editor | Christine Meynard, Editor-in-Chief for Ecography
We welcome Christine Meynard, the new Editor-in-Chief of Ecography.
*Cover | The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes
L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) feeding at Nyungwe Forest National Park (Rwanda). Photo credit: Rafael Barrientos. Read the full open access paper.
Cover | Shape-shifting in relative wing length of juvenile shorebirds
This month’s cover photo features a red knot in flight, illustrating a paper by Ryder et al. that looks at changes in wing length in 20,000 juvenile shorebirds from 11 species over the past four decades.