Soil-carbon results can reverse when you sample below the surface
Midwest long-term experiments argue for depth-aware stewardship and monitoring.
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Ecology, evidence and perspective.
Nigeria's urban expansion fragmented nature even as built-up patches joined
Land-cover classifications document growth; a model explores one possible future.
The same drone vegetation index may mean something else next month
Potato growth stage and crop variety shifted NDVI's link to irrigation and yield.
PFAS were not detectable everywhere in Queensland's sampled waters
A geographic null finding complicates sweeping contamination claims.
Food-system carbon accounting overlooks the effects of saving money
Practitioners model substitution assumptions more readily than consumption rebound.
Mountain forest maps predicted tree carbon better than soil carbon
Gansu field plots expose uncertainty hidden beneath a mapped total.
A reservoir's unpleasant odor can reflect upstream microbial ecology
Taste-and-odor science links cyanobacteria to stratification, nutrients and redox cycles.
Patchy clover failures may involve micronutrients as well as pathogens
Paired soil testing suggests multiple interacting stresses rather than one cause.
Climate reanalysis performed well in Brazil—with a hot-season bias
Monthly temperatures in Mato Grosso were checked against fourteen stations.
Kerala's multi-hazard risk ranking survived an uncertainty test
An Indian watershed tool evaluated 31 units against damage reports.
Jordan's projected soil carbon is an investment scenario, not field evidence
Economic and sequestration simulations still require actual soil sampling.
Cassava pests and crop traits varied across Sierra Leone's regions
Farm visits expose disease, planting-material and agroecological heterogeneity.
Rwanda's worst erosion hotspots combined bare ground and steep slopes
Catchment modelling can focus field verification and conservation investment.
Crop rotation changed pathogen signals more clearly than soil diversity
A tropical Brazilian experiment reports mixed, underpowered microbial outcomes.
Delta restoration fails when river, coast and wetland are managed separately
A Yellow River Delta review links sediment, salinity, invasions and institutions.
Madeira's pilot whales were residents and travelers at the same time
Ocean structure helped distinguish seasonal aggregation near an island from Atlantic travel.
Mixed forests scored highest—and still left important functions behind
A Chinese forest comparison shows how an impressive multifunctionality score conceals service imbalances.
A drainage ditch can hold river life without becoming a natural stream
Swedish boreal channels approached natural-stream communities—but soils and chemistry still mattered.
Cover crops helped some tropical vegetable soils more quickly than others
Commercial-farm observations in Puerto Rico link rotations to soil-health changes that depend on soil texture and initial condition.
City bird-diversity gradients change with season and latitude
A 17-million-record North American citizen-science analysis shows why an urban wildlife signal depends on winter, latitude and the mix of native and introduced birds.
A border-region flea survey detects pathogens, not proven transmission
Molecular signals in sheep-associated fleas near Kazakhstan suggest a One Health surveillance question without establishing vector competence.
High flood-model accuracy can hide how a map will fail in the next flood
A 200-study review found widespread spatially naive validation and thin uncertainty reporting in AI susceptibility maps.
Two deer species shared much of a captive gut-microbiome signal
A small zoological comparison found substantial overlap, with exploratory differences too limited to support general wildlife-health claims.
High-seas treaty design also turned on who would bear information costs
A historical institutional analysis of BBNJ negotiations explores how requirements to disclose and share data shape cooperation.