Protecting aboveground carbon stocks in tropical forests is essential for mitigating global
climate change and is assumed to simultaneously conserve biodiversity. Although the …

Monodominant patches of forest dominated by Gilbertiodendron dewevrei are commonly
found in central African tropical forests, alongside forests with high species diversity. Although …

It seems intuitively obvious that species diversity promotes functional diversity: communities
with more plant species imply more varied plant leaf chemistry, more species of crops …

Understanding the determinants of species coexistence in complex and species-rich
communities is a fundamental goal of ecology. Patterns of species coexistence depend on how …

As viral genomic imprints in host genomes, endogenous viral elements (EVEs) shed light on
the deep evolutionary history of viruses, ancestral host ranges, and ancient viral–host …

Habitat loss and overexploitation are driving differential declines in vertebrate taxa but
variation in responses means it is often difficult to determine where to place conservation effort. …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV; genus Hepacivirus) represents a major public health problem,
infecting about three per cent of the human population. Because no animal reservoir carrying …

Background The speckled-pelage brush-furred rats (Lophuromys flavopunctatus group) have
been difficult to define given conflicting genetic, morphological, and distributional records …

We determined near complete and complete monkeypox virus genomes in a shrew (Crocidura
littoralis), two squirrels (Funisciurus anerythrus, Funisciurus bayonii), and produced …

Although more than 40% of Tanzania mainland is managed for nature conservation, protected
areas are increasingly becoming isolated because of rapid habitat degradation in the …