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A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Núria Roura‐Pascual, Wolf‐Christian Saul, Cristian Pérez‐Granados, Lucas Rutting, Garry D Peterson, Guillaume Latombe, Franz Essl, Tim Adriaens, David C Aldridge, Sven Bacher, Rubén Bernardo‐Madrid, Lluís Brotons, François Diaz, Belinda Gallardo, Piero Genovesi, Marina Golivets, Pablo González‐Moreno, Marcus Hall, Petra Kutlesa, Bernd Lenzner, Chunlong Liu, Konrad Pagitz, Teresa Pastor, Wolfgang Rabitsch
Future dynamics of biological invasions are highly uncertain because they depend on multiple social–ecological drivers. We used a scenario‐based approach to explore potential management options for invasive species in Europe. During two workshops involving a multidisciplinary team of experts, we developed a management strategy arranged into 19 goals relating to policy, research, public awareness, and
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From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Maria‐Victoria Piazza, Priscila Pinto, Bruno Bazzoni, Paula Berenstecher, Cecilia Casas, Ximena López Zieher, Julieta Mallerman, M Soledad Méndez, Marina Omacini, Gervasio Piñeiro, María Semmartin, Lucía Vivanco, Laura Yahdjian
Managing ecosystems to sequester soil carbon requires a thorough understanding of complex soil processes. Here, we integrate these soil processes through the metaphor of a game—one that moves through multiple dimensions (from macro‐aggregates to micropores and clay particles) and scales (from centimeters to nanometers) of the soil. The rules of the game are based on current understanding of soil carbon
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Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 David D Briske, Susanne Vetter, Corli Coetsee, Matthew D Turner
Large‐scale tree planting on global rangelands is promoted as a natural climate solution (NCS), but there is little scientific evidence to support this narrative. The presumed benefits of rangeland afforestation originate from five major misconceptions: (1) conflation between reforestation and afforestation, (2) overestimation of carbon (C) sequestration potential, (3) insufficient recognition of rangeland
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Local knowledge reconstructs historical resource use Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Leandro Castello, Eduardo G Martins, Michael Sorice, Eric Smith, Morgana Almeida, Gastao CC Bastos, Luis G Cardoso, Mariana Clauzet, Alisson P Dopona, Beatrice Ferreira, Manuel Haimovici, Marcelo Jorge, Jocemar Mendonça, Antonio O Ávila‐da‐Silva, Ana PO Roman, Milena Ramires, Laura V de Miranda, Priscila FM Lopes
Information on natural resource exploitation is vital for conservation but scarce in developing nations, which encompass most of the world and often lack the capacity to produce it. A growing approach to generate information about resource use in the context of developing nations relies on surveys of resource users about their recollections (recall) of past harvests. However, the reliability of harvest
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The cephalopod beats the elasmobranch Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Víctor Orenes‐Salazar, Javier Ferrer
Three major taxa comprise the bulk of the diet of the common octopus Octopus vulgaris (class Cephalopoda). Besides mollusks and crustaceans, some small fishes (infraclass Teleostei) are also typically found in octopus stomachs (Thalassas 2018; doi.org/10.1007/s41208-018-0084-z). In June 2020, we witnessed a predation event of O vulgaris on the common guitarfish or shovelnose ray Rhinobatos rhinobatos
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Why we all lose when Indigenous women suffer: an ecological perspective Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Joseph Gazing Wolf
Indigenous women are the guardians of the environmental foundations of life on Earth. From the Idle No More movement to the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline to countless camps, sit-ins, political campaigns, and litigations, Indigenous women defend Earth from the extractive onslaught she experiences. Importantly, they are not just “climate leaders” who function at the proverbial altitude of
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Whale sharks and tunas hunt together Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jorge Fontes, Pedro Afonso, Bruno Macena
The world's largest extant fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), is a docile giant that occurs in tropical and subtropical regions globally. It prefers to feed on plankton, which it filters through its wide mouth. Adult whale sharks have been reported to occur in large numbers during warm summers off the Azores, an isolated archipelago on the mid-North Atlantic ridge (PLoS ONE 2014; doi.org/10.1371/journal
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Standing on one foot Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Cássio Cardoso Pereira
As their name implies, ground birds typically spend much of their time foraging on the ground. Regardless of their capacity to fly, ground birds all use their legs more than their wings; for those that can fly, they usually do so to escape predators or reach areas that are inaccessible by walking. This is the case of the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata; Cariamidae), avian symbol of the Cerrado
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Male and female crab spiders “cooperate” to mimic a flower Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Shi‐Mao Wu, Jiang‐Yun Gao
Female crab spiders (Thomisus spp) are able to camouflage themselves as flowers not only to successfully avoid being preyed upon by birds but also to ambush flower-visiting insect prey (Nature 2002; doi.org/10.1038/415133a). This mimicry manipulates flower signals and may vary from species to species. However, do male crab spiders, which are usually much smaller in size and darker in coloration than
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Dynamic connectivity assessment for a terrestrial predator in a metropolitan region Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tiziana A Gelmi-Candusso, Andrew TM Chin, Connor A Thompson, Ashley AD McLaren, Tyler J Wheeldon, Brent R Patterson, Marie-Josée Fortin
Protecting wildlife movement corridors is critical for species conservation. Urban planning often aims to create corridors for animal movement through conservation initiatives. However, research on connectivity for urban wildlife is limited. Here, we assessed connectivity for coyotes (Canis latrans) dynamically across temporal scales and demographic traits, parametrized using the habitat selection
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Unusual nectar-thieving behavior in Brazil Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Izadora Nardi Gonzalez, João Vitor de Alcantara Viana
When an animal is observed visiting a flower, we tend to think of it as a mutualistic interaction, in which both participants benefit to some degree. However, not all such interactions are mutualisms, as in instances where one partner (the animal) benefits at the expense of the other partner (the plant). In pollination ecology, the lopsided beneficiaries of interactions like these are called nectar
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The highest butterfly in North America Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Zachary G MacDonald, Thomas Gillespie, H Bradley Shaffer
Despite the expansive old-growth forests of California's Sierra Nevada, its greatest diversity of butterflies is found in non-forested habitats, such as alpine meadows and fell-fields. These unique “sky island” habitats support a number of endemic butterflies, such as the Ivallda Arctic (Oeneis chryxus ivallda). Unlike other, more colorful butterflies in the region, the dark, cryptic coloration of
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Incomplete albinism in the Eurasian eagle owl Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mario León-Ortega, José A Lacalle, Antonio Zamora-López, José M Zamora-Marín
While frequently reported in birds, albinism is only rarely observed in cryptically colored avian species such as owls. These images represent—to the best of our knowledge—the first reported case of incomplete albinism in the Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo). The female protagonist of this story (hereafter, Blanquita) was first observed as a 40-day-old owlet in a nest within the “Monte El Valle y Sierras
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The agency of urban carnivores in human politics: leopards in Mumbai, India Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Émilie Edelblutte, Anne G Short Gianotti, Yanni Gunnell
Across the world, increasing urbanization is leading to more frequent encounters between humans and wildlife. The resulting cohabitation promotes new human–wildlife dynamics in cities and requires innovative approaches for coping with wildlife in habitats that are not conventionally considered as suitable. Here we examined how leopards (Panthera pardus) acclimate to the urban environment in Mumbai
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Evaluating conservation units using network analysis: a sea duck case study Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Juliet S Lamb, Clara Cooper-Mullin, Scott G Gilliland, Alicia M Berlin, Timothy D Bowman, W Sean Boyd, Susan EW De La Cruz, Daniel Esler, Joseph R Evenson, Paul Flint, Christine Lepage, Dustin E Meattey, Jason E Osenkowski, Peter WC Paton, Matthew C Perry, Dan Rosenberg, Jean-Pierre L Savard, Lucas Savoy, Jason Schamber, David H Ward, John Y Takekawa, Scott R McWilliams
Conserving migratory wildlife requires understanding how groups of individuals interact across seasons and landscapes. Telemetry reveals individual movements at large spatiotemporal scales; however, using movement data to define conservation units requires scaling up from individual movements to species- and community-level patterns. We developed a framework to define flyways and identify important
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Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Laura Duque, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Entomophilous plants rely on insects for pollination and consequently for reproduction. However, insect pollinators are facing multiple human-driven pressures, from climate change to habitat loss to increased pesticide application. Anthropogenic activities have also led to critical increases in air pollution. A recent body of research focusing on the effects of air pollution on plant–pollinator interactions
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How has the concept of resilience been applied in research across forest regions? Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mary K Strickland, Michael A Jenkins, Zhao Ma, Bryan D Murray
There are three common conceptualizations of resilience: persistence, recovery, and adaptability. While researchers apply all three in studies of forest ecosystems, the conceptualization used can have important empirical implications. We conducted a systematic literature review of empirical studies of forest resilience in the US from 2010 to 2020 to determine how researchers conceptualized, measured
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High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Yuanbao Du, Yonghong Xi, Zhixu Yang, Dangen Gu, Zhixin Zhang, Weishan Tu, Yan Zeng, Ruina Cui, Zhuo Yan, Yusi Xin, Wenjia Jin, Yan Zhang, Le Yang, Baocheng Guo, Zunwei Ke, Jason R Rohr, Xuan Liu
Prayer animal release (PAR)—a traditional “compassion-based” religious practice of releasing captive animals into the wild to improve the karma of the releaser—has been regarded as a major anthropogenic pathway facilitating species invasions worldwide. However, comprehensive, quantitative assessments of PAR-related invasion risks, crucial for the development of mitigation strategies, are lacking. To
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Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Brian J Irwin, Megan M Tomamichel, Marc E Frischer, Richard J Hall, Alaina DE Davis, Thomas H Bliss, Pejman Rohani, James E Byers
Fisheries and aquaculture provide food and economic security, especially in the developing world, but both face challenges from infectious disease. Here, we consider management of disease issues from a structured decision-making perspective to examine how infectious disease can threaten seafood production and influence management decisions. For both wild fisheries and aquaculture, disease-management
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Emerging opportunities for wildlife conservation with sustainable autonomous transportation Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Inês Silva, Justin M Calabrese
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to play a key role in the future of transportation, and to introduce a disruptive yet potentially beneficial change for wildlife–vehicle interactions. However, this assumption has not been critically examined, and reducing the number of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) may be beyond current technological capabilities. Here, we introduce a conceptual framework
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Erratum Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
In Nori et al. (2023; 21[9]: 411–17; doi.org/10.1002/fee.2625), the surname of the third author, Luis Osorio-Olvera, was misspelled as “Osorio-Olivera” on page 411. The PDF and HTML versions of the article have been corrected.
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Fireworks disturbance across bird communities Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Bart Hoekstra, Willem Bouten, Adriaan Dokter, Hans van Gasteren, Chris van Turnhout, Bart Kranstauber, Emiel van Loon, Hidde Leijnse, Judy Shamoun-Baranes
Fireworks are important elements of celebrations globally, but little is known about their effects on wildlife. The synchronized and extraordinary use of fireworks on New Year's Eve triggers strong flight responses in birds. We used weather radar and systematic bird counts to quantify how flight responses differed across habitats and corresponding bird communities, and determined the distance-dependence
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No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jesús N Pinto-Ledezma, Sandra Díaz, Benjamin S Halpern, Colin Khoury, Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Biodiversity is ultimately the outcome of millions of years of evolution; however, due to increasing human domination of the Earth, biodiversity in its multiple dimensions is changing rapidly. Here, we present “phylogenetic completeness” (PC) as a concept and method for safeguarding Earth's evolutionary heritage by maintaining all branches of the tree of life. Using data for five major terrestrial
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Improving estimates of land protection costs in a tropical biodiversity hotspot Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Christoph Nolte, Ana Reboredo Segovia, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Jaime Burbano-Girón
Accurate estimates of the costs of land protection are useful for understanding where biodiversity conservation goals can be achieved at the lowest cost to society. However, because of the scarcity of high-quality cost maps for tropical countries, conservation planning studies often ignore cost or rely on untested proxies, such as agricultural rent or land-use intensity. Here, we show how analysts
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Impulse and momentum Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Scott Collins
It is both an honor and a privilege to be selected as the next Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which will be starting its 22nd year of publication in 2024. The journal is an amazing legacy of Sue Silver, whose creative energy and leadership helped to establish and define the journal for many years. I will be taking over this role from Rich Wallace, who further increased
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Hunting on dangerous ground Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Rosario Balestrieri, Fabio Crocetta
Distributed within tropical to temperate regions globally, the little egret (Egretta garzetta) is an aquatic bird that occupies a wide range of inland and coastal habitats (Collins Bird Guide 2011, 2nd edn; New York, NY: HarperCollins). While monitoring avifauna in the Tanagro River (Sala Consilina, Italy), we were alerted about a little egret that was unable to fly and appeared to be stuck in the
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Blackbird dominance and habitat loss Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Isaac Eckert
Yellow-headed (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) and red-winged (Agelaius phoeniceus) blackbirds coexist in marshes across North America. Pictured here at Iona Beach Regional Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, males of each species compete for nesting areas. In wetlands across their overlapping ranges, yellow-heads are dominant over red-wings, pushing them out of valuable marsh real-estate to secure
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Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Katherine González, Jaime Culebras
Antagonistic interactions between frogs and insects are generally well-documented. In typical predator–prey interactions, these taxa feed on one another at different life stages. Moreover, insects can function as disease vectors or as parasites of frogs, an example being myiasis-causing flies. However, certain antagonistic interactions between frogs and insects are poorly known, specifically interactions
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Castaway coconuts Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Adrian Burton
Had you lived in the Maldives in centuries long past, you might just have stumbled across a huge “nut” – the largest in the world – washing up on your beach. There would be no mistaking it, its remarkable shape and size identifying it beyond all doubt (Figure 1). Unfortunately, you wouldn't have been able to keep it; local law demanded (upon pain of hand amputation or even death!) that it be immediately
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Tree removals as socioecological experiments in cities Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Caragh G Threlfall, Camilo Ordóñez-Barona, Stephen J Livesley, Jess Baumann, David Callow, Melanie Davern, Alex English, Richard A Fuller, Kelly Hertzog, Dieter F Hochuli, Rodney van der Ree, Dave Kendal
As keystone structures in urban ecosystems, trees are critical to addressing many of the current livability, health, and environmental challenges facing cities. Every day, trees are removed from urban landscapes as part of routine management. These tree removals are an opportunity for implementing manipulative experiments to directly measure the social and ecological functions of trees. Here we review
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Overcoming obstacles to prescribed fire in the North American Mediterranean climate zone Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 John N Williams, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Hugh D Safford, Ashley Grupenhoff, Beth Rose Middleton, Joe Restaino, Edward Smith, Chris Adlam, Hiram Rivera-Huerta
Prescribed fire is an important management tool for restoring fire-adapted ecosystems and mitigating the risk of high-severity wildfire in the North American Mediterranean climate zone (NAMCZ), much of which was historically characterized by frequent low- to moderate-severity fire. For over a century, policies that excluded fire, curtailed Indigenous cultural burning, and prioritized timber harvesting
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Fostering ecological understanding in and engagement with local communities Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Lauren McGrath
While growing up in the forests and fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, I spent time with some of the best homegrown naturalists in the country. Anglers, hunters, and trackers taught me firsthand how to look at nature, as they themselves had been instructed by previous generations – and I was gifted with taxonomic keys for identifying plants and wildlife, which sparked what would be a lifelong desire
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Choosing suitable hosts Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Marcelo O Gonzaga
The parasitoid wasp Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Ichneumonidae) is able to manipulate the web-building behavior of its host, the golden silk orb-weaver Trichonephila clavipes (Araneidae). The host spider constructs a modified and complex web, which serves not only as a stable platform to suspend the wasp larva's cocoon but also as a barrier against hyperparasitoids and potential predators. Before depositing
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The curious case of leaf-rolling nematodes Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Tatiana Cornelissen
Several arthropod species, including caterpillars and spiders, commonly construct leaf-based shelters in the form of rolls, tents, and tiers for protection from predators and extreme physical conditions, affording them safety during development and reproduction. By building such shelters, these organisms qualify as ecosystem engineers (Neotrop Entomol 2016; doi.org/10.1007/s13744-015-0348-8), indirectly
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Glass-like flowers in the rain Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Tsubasa Toji
In June 2022 during the Tsuyu, a month-long season of persistent light rain unique to East Asia, I observed Diphylleia grayi flowers taking on a fantastic glass-like appearance in Nagano, Japan. Endemic to Japan and Sakhalin but distributed mostly in central Japan, the species is known informally as the “skeleton flower” outside of Japan. In dry weather, the petals of the skeleton flower appear white
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Disgusting, delicious durians Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-01
On the stairway in a rather nice hotel where I stayed once in Thailand, a prominent plaque insisted: No durians. Bananas, fine; papaya, no problem; rambutan, knock yourself out. But the spiky, foot-long products of Durio spp (commonly Durio zibethinus)? Absolutely not! Yet durian flesh is widely regarded as exquisite (Figure 1). So why ban it? The renowned English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace can
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Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Ivan Jarić, Iran C Normande, Ugo Arbieu, Franck Courchamp, Sarah L Crowley, Jonathan M Jeschke, Uri Roll, Kate Sherren, Laura Thomas-Walters, Diogo Veríssimo, Richard J Ladle
Flagship species are an important tool for mobilizing support for conservation. Here, we extend this concept to include individual organisms, whose characteristics, fates, and connections to people can garner public attention, attract conservation support, and spur activism. Flagship individuals typically share a similar suite of characteristics, including (1) species-level traits associated with charisma;
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How to pay for ecosystem services Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Andrew J Plantinga, Katherine Millage, Erin O'Reilly, Tamaki Bieri, Nick Holmes, Jono Wilson, Darcy Bradley
New investments in conservation are needed to halt and reverse the rapid and extensive changes to ecosystems driven by growing human demands for natural resources. A major barrier is matching viable financing solutions to conservation projects. Recent conservation finance studies catalog available financing options but do not provide adequate guidance on which financing pathways are suitable for a
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Multiplying the impact of conservation funding using spatial exchange rates Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Paul R Armsworth, Bistra Dilkina, Joe Fargione, Maria Fisher, Rachel Fovargue, Jamal Harris, Heather B Jackson, Diane Le Bouille, Christoph Nolte, Casey Richards
Given declines in biodiversity and ecosystem services, funding to support conservation must be invested effectively. However, funds for conservation often come with geographic restrictions on where they can be spent. We introduce a method to demonstrate to supporters of conservation how much more could be achieved if they were to allow greater flexibility over conservation funding. Specifically, we
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Riverine nitrogen source and yield in urban systems Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Angela H Chung, Emily M Elliott, Daniel J Bain, Brian F Thomas, Mark River, Carl J Nim, Julie A Darden
Although human reshaping of the nitrogen (N) cycle is well established, contributions of individual N sources to riverine and coastal eutrophication are less certain. Urban N fluxes are potentially substantial, particularly from sewer overflows. Results from four longitudinal surveys in rivers in and around the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were used to characterize N chemistry and isotopic composition
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Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Adrian Treves
The purpose of a fire tower – wildfire monitoring and warning – derives from its tall, open design. As a metaphor for science, the fire tower would mark an improvement over the ivory tower. Inside its impenetrable walls, the opaque ivory tower hides its purpose. Conversely, with its scaffolding, staircases, communications tech, and observation deck, a fire tower neither conceals arcana nor serves as
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Discovery of solar sea slugs in the Falkland Islands Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Narissa Bax, Stefanie Carter
© S Carter SAERI E lysia patagonica – a small (~70 mm) sea slug – is known to occur along coasts of mainland South America (J Mollus Stud 2022; doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab003). In 2020, E patagonica or a close relative (pictured here) was first sighted in the Falkland Islands. However, specimens have not been formally described. Considering the distance and oceanic currents between the Falklands and
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Pacific herring spawns transfer energy to coastal ecosystems Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Robert M Hechler, Martin Krkosek
Through their interspecific interactions, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) are foundational to coastal marine ecosystems in the North Pacific Ocean. During annual herring spawns, hundreds of thousands of individuals migrate to sheltered nearshore waters, where males release sperm and females deposit millions of adhesive eggs onto substrates such as seagrass, kelp, and rock. This aggregation of herring
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Exoneration of the shrike Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Adrian Burton
Few birds get worse press than shrikes (Laniidae). Sift through popular articles on them – even news features in scientific publications – and you will almost assuredly run across words such as “assassin”, “murderer”, “sadistic”, “vicious”, “macabre”, “gruesome”, and the like. It's all because these predatory birds commonly cache the prey they kill – which might include insects, lizards, small birds
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Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low-resource settings Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Maya L Nadimpalli, Marc Stegger, Roberto Viau, Vuthy Yith, Agathe de Lauzanne, Nita Sem, Laurence Borand, Bich-tram Huynh, Sylvain Brisse, Virginie Passet, Søren Overballe-Petersen, Maliha Aziz, Malika Gouali, Jan Jacobs, Thong Phe, Bruce A Hungate, Victor O Leshyk, Amy J Pickering, François Gravey, Cindy M Liu, Timothy J Johnson, Simon Le Hello, Lance B Price
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. International efforts to curb resistance have largely focused on drug development and limiting unnecessary antibiotic use. However, in areas where water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure is lacking, we propose that bacterial flow between humans and animals can exacerbate the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens
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Prioritizing science efforts to inform decision making on public lands Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Sarah K Carter, Travis S Haby, Jennifer K Meineke, Alison C Foster, Laine E McCall, Leigh D Espy, Megan A Gilbert, Jeffrey E Herrick, Karen L Prentice
Public land management agencies in the US are committed to using science-informed decision making, but there has been little research on the types and topics of science that managers need most to inform their decisions. We used the National Environmental Policy Act to identify four types of science information needed for making decisions relevant to public lands: (1) data on resources of concern, (2)
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Informing management of recovering predators and their prey with ecological diffusion models Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Joseph M Eisaguirre, Perry J Williams, Xinyi Lu, Michelle L Kissling, Paul A Schuette, Benjamin P Weitzman, William S Beatty, George G Esslinger, Jamie N Womble, Mevin B Hooten
The reintroduction and recovery of predators can be ecologically beneficial as well as socially and economically controversial. However, the growth and expansion of predator populations, and thus their ecological, social, and economic impacts, are not static but rather they vary in space and time. We propose a spatiotemporal statistical modeling framework based on ecological diffusion to better inform
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Collateral damage: military invasions beget biological invasions Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Alberto Santini, Giorgio Maresi, David M Richardson, Andrew M Liebhold
Biological invasions are frequently and closely associated with armed conflict. As a key element of human history, war involves the invasion of (often distant) enemy territories, during which time species can be translocated, intentionally or unintentionally. Large-scale conflicts such as World War I and II, in which thousands of soldiers and supplies (including foodstuffs) were transported within
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Rethinking scholarly communication Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Adrienne Sponberg, Matthew A McCary, Catherine O'Riordan, Pamela Padilla, Richard L Wallace
Publish or perish. To researchers, the importance of scholarly publishing has always been clear. Academic publications, and their associated metrics, are critical in determining who enters and who succeeds in research. Because of this, a publishing process that is equitable, fair, and inclusive to authors of diverse identities is essential to fostering a more diverse scientific community, ensuring
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Grand strategy for human–wildlife coexistence Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Yufang Gao, Ana Lambert, Susan Clark
Conservationists and their allies worldwide are dedicated to effective management of human–wildlife interactions in order to minimize conflicts for coexistence (CBD 2022). Despite varying definitions of human–wildlife coexistence (Gao and Clark 2023), coexistence as a goal generally requires humans to share landscapes and natural resources with wildlife in sustainable ways (IUCN 2023). But it presents
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Vagrant harlequin ducks feed on a buffet of blennies Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jordan M Casey, Simon J Brandl
Typically found in eastern Russia, northern North America, Greenland, and Iceland, harlequin ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) breed near whitewater rivers and spend the winter on rocky coastlines, where they feed on invertebrates and small fishes (Ecology 1986; doi.org/10.2307/1939078). Despite their temperate and subarctic distribution, two vagrant female harlequin ducks were observed in the Corpus
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Doubts about a mouse deer Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Adrian Burton
Home to some 64,000 people, the small, cosmopolitan city of Melaka (or alternately, Malacca) lies at the mouth of its eponymous river on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. Founded in 1402, it soon became rich by trading goods from China and Arabia. Its historic buildings bear witness to the long presence of its many Chinese settlers, and to that of the Portuguese, Dutch, and British
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Are all-girls programs sexist? Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Wiebke J Boeing
Feminism is a movement that aims to provide women with professional and personal growth opportunities. Improving the ways in which girls are encouraged to overcome physical and mental challenges is integral toward achieving equity. Thus, in 2018, I started a program that took a dozen high-school girls from low-income families on a backpacking adventure to teach outdoor, leadership, and environmental
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The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old-growth forest Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Paul Nelson
On Earth Day 2022, US President Biden issued Executive Order 14072 (https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-order/14072), calling for – among other actions – an enduring definition of mature and old-growth forests. The assignment is not just an intellectual exercise. How forests are mapped in the mind will determine how forests are mapped on the ground, shaping both landscapes and policies. In their
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Fire and frost in the Veredas wetlands Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Rogério Victor Gonçalves, Paulo Eugênio Oliveira, João Custódio Fernandes Cardoso
At roughly two million square kilometers, the Cerrado savanna – Brazil's second largest biome – contains wetlands, which are collectively known as the Veredas. These are situated within valleys embedded in the landscape where the water table is characteristically shallow. Occupying a high plateau in the center of Brazil, the Cerrado functions as the country's “water tank”, stocking and distributing
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Taming a wolf Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Lech Stempniewicz
The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) and the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) are considered, respectively, the only graminivorous monkey and the rarest canid worldwide. Endemic to Ethiopian alpine grasslands, both species have very limited ranges and are threatened by agricultural expansion, shrinking habitats, and poaching. The wolves are further imperiled by rabies transmitted by feral dogs. While grazing
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Temporary access permit Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jorge Hernández-Urcera, Manuel Enrique Garci, Angel Francisco González
The triton (Charonia lampas; family Ranellidae) is a large, carnivorous, gonochoristic gastropod that inhabits the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. Formerly abundant, many Charonia populations are on the decline, in some cases due to overharvesting. The early stages of the species’ reproductive biology are relatively understudied. C lampas females are known to deposit hundreds of eggs
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Ejection by solifuge Front. Ecol. Environ. (IF 10.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Adrian Burton
There is nothing quite like a solifuge – an arachnid of the order Solifugae (aka camel spider, sun spider, or wind scorpion) – for clearing a room (Figure 1). The one that shot out from under the stove at our research camp in the South African bush sent my ranger friends leaping onto the kitchen furniture and running out into the night, and not at all silently. Now, there is no doubting these people's