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.

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.

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.

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.

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.