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.

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.

This month’s cover features a group of ancient megalithic jars at the Plain of Jars in Laos, photographed by Khamla Inkhavilay.

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.

A striped marlin (Kajikia audax) closes in on a bait ball of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the Pacific coast of Baja, Mexico.

L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) feeding at Nyungwe Forest National Park (Rwanda). Photo credit: Rafael Barrientos. Read the full open access paper.

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.

This month’s cover depicts an adult edible dormouse, an arboreal rodent, shortly before entering hibernation.