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Cover | SCAPE 2024 Pollination Ecology
Joint special issue with Journal of Pollination Ecology: SCAPE 2024 Pollination Ecology
Cover | The Shape-Shifting Plants of Temporary Ponds
A study across Morocco found that differences in growth and reproduction along a climate gradient are driven largely by phenotypic plasticity rather than local adaptation. Photo by Laïla Rhazi.
Cover | Shifting Ages, Shifting Skies
The cover photo features a Magnolia Warbler in migration in Maine. The photo complements the manuscript, which explores how age- and species-specific differences in migration speed and phenology drive spatiotemporal shifts in the age structure of migrant communities during fall migration. Photo credit: Dylan Osterhaus.
Cover | Red Deer in a Warming Caspian
As an endangered subspecies in Iran, the Caspian red deer faces increasing pressure from poaching, climate change, habitat fragmentation, and restricted access to suitable refuges, underscoring the urgent need for effective conservation.
Cover | How do disease outbreaks reshape the cost of migration?
Our 2026 issue 2 cover depicts a rough-legged buzzard/hawk, photographed by Neil Paprocki.
Cover | First Come, First Served on Hawaiʻi’s Coral
On Hawaiian reefs, a field experiment shows that early-arriving competitors and predators can strongly shape who gets to live on coral colonies. Photo by Erik Brush.
Cover | Modelling LULC effects on biodiversity: a review of practices and risks
This month’s cover photo features a marsh, which is one of the last visible signs of a palaeochannel of the Rhone river, now dedicated to host the Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) among other conservation targets. Photo by Arnaud-Willm-Tour du Valat.
Cover | EcoViz: a visualization tool for forest landscape model simulations
This month’s cover photo features the a scene in the Berchtesgaden National Park in Germany and depicts the hypothetical forest state in the year 2150, blending "symbolic rendering" with a photo-realistic rendering.
Cover | The Herbal Nest Sanitizer
A study of Corsican blue tits shows that adding aromatic plants to nests can reduce bacterial diversity supporting that birds use these plants to protect their offspring from harmful microbes. Illustration by Hélène Dion-Phénix.
Cover | Plant performance and diversity in roadside and railway habitats
Special issue section on plant performance and diversity in roadside and railway habitats
Cover | Phylogenetic evidence for Jatropha benghalensis
Phylogenetic analysis reclassifies a geophytic Jatropha species as J. benghalensis, clarifying its distinction from closely related taxa.
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.
Cover | From Flames to Patterns: What Fuels the Fire in Savannas
A study of Brazilian savannas shows that fuel traits—especially grass biomass—strongly shape fire behavior, helping predict where fires are most likely to occur. Photo by Vínicus de Lima Dantas.
Cover | How complex are parrot duets? Evidence for large repertoires and syntactic structure in a wild species
Our latest cover depicts a yellow-naped amazon, photographed by JD Gilardi, World Parrot Trust.
Cover | Taxonomic investigation of Abrothallus
Phylogenetic analyses reveal new Abrothallus species specialized on Ramalina lichens, highlighting hidden diversity and host specificity.
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.
Cover | What Drives Diversity in Fig Wasp Communities
A study of fig wasps by shows that communities linked to Neotropical fig trees change dramatically across space, with high species turnover. Photo by Jean-Yves Rasplus.
Cover | How does grassland fragmentation affect secretarybirds?
Habitat fragmentation and drought represent a growing threat to many bird species, particularly within grassy biomes, which are especially sensitive to global change.
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 | Pollen limitation in Veratrum grandiflorum
Pollen limitation in Veratrum grandiflorum differed significantly among flower, raceme, and whole plant level.