Charles University-led researchers pooled 3,415 plant-pollinator networks and found climate explains specialization better than latitude does. The result challenges the classic expectation that pollination grows more specialized toward the tropics.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Researchers in Japan report that a stickleback population hybridized by the 2011 tsunami purged most of its foreign genome within about 10 generations. It is a rate measured in the wild after habitat upheaval, though it comes from one population living in pools that suited one parent.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
Lidar resolves the ground under a closed canopy. A team writing in Nature Ecology & Evolution says that visibility can cost forest communities their cover, so the decision to map belongs in project planning.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
A Nature Ecology & Evolution study maps where assisted natural regeneration beats planting on carbon, biodiversity and price. The headline saving is a ceiling, not an average.
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- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives66
- Confidence44
A Nature Ecology & Evolution study reports PHA-degrading enzymes in more than 66 animal species across nine phyla. Environmental-fate models built on microbes alone are incomplete.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence56