Call for paper: Brain and body physiology in changing ecosystems

Animal brain and body physiology has developed over long evolutionary timescales, enabling organisms to adequately sense and respond to environmental pressures. However, recent accelerated environmental changes induced by global warming, pollution and other stressors are challenging the adaptive capacity of brain and body systems.

In this Collection, the editors at Communications Biology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome original research, Reviews and Perspective articles presenting novel insights into how brain and body physiology across animal species is impacted by or resilient to recent environmental changes. This call for papers includes field studies and experimental models of environmental stressors (e.g. temperature, light, pH, pollutants) describing body and brain responses across scales (e.g. molecular, cellular, circuits), developmental stages, and under physiological or pathological conditions. We also encourage submissions of novel cross-species comparative studies that reveal distinct or shared adaptive mechanisms and strategies of resilience.