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The Tide’s End project will reconnect floodplain, tidal-marsh and wetland processes in the lower Yolo Bypass while maintaining flood conveyance and agricultural functions.
New regulations expand the island's marine protected-area network from 6.5% to 21.7%, targeting maerl, seagrass, kelp and shallow reef habitats while leaving ecological outcomes to future monitoring.
Three neighboring Northeast U.S. shelf food-web models produced different ecosystem-indicator distributions once parameter uncertainty was propagated, complicating simple comparisons of resilience or maturity.
A global common-garden experiment found non-native Erigeron canadensis populations outcompeted neighbors more strongly than native-range populations, with similar shifts emerging independently in multiple genetic lineages.
Field and pot experiments in China found plant richness increased drought resistance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea, reduced it for bacteria and had little direct effect on complete ammonia oxidizers.
Sequencing across diverse European ash captured structural variation missing from a single reference genome and recovered shared genetic signals associated with lower ash-dieback susceptibility.
A multi-country analysis finds greater wildlife import volume associated with the probability of zoonotic emerging-disease occurrence and extreme outbreaks, while effects on outbreak frequency were not detected.
Six to ten years after Chesapeake Bay restoration, stone-plus-spat reefs retained more complex structure and larger nekton than several alternatives, while harvested reefs sometimes held more small fish—evidence that restoration method changes function, not just oyster acreage.
A nationwide analysis of 6,176 habitat patches found mammal richness rose with patch size and connectivity and was lower close to roads, showing that retained habitat can still lose ecological value when the network around it is severed.
A global synthesis of 1,158 paired sites finds afforestation and reforestation generally increase soil microbial biomass and topsoil carbon, with especially strong gains on degraded land and different time courses after forest recovery.
In a four-year Pullman experiment, functional composition—not mix richness—best explained soil and winter-wheat responses; one oilseed–legume combination outperformed the six-species mix.
Spatial models found many terrestrial species more associated with higher-value parts of the city, while aquatic and migratory birds often broke the pattern and tree richness explained only part of the variation.
A 188-signatory community call is pushing coordinated monitoring across marine, freshwater, terrestrial and social-ecological systems ahead of the 2026/27 El Niño.
A pilot in northwestern Saudi Arabia recorded pollination and fruiting signals around managed hives, but its small non-randomized design cannot separate hive effects from site and seasonal change.
A 96-day mesocosm study found that sulfate-driven sulfide destabilized vivianite and reduced phosphorus-binding capacity even beneath oxic overlying water.
A new modeling framework pairs Indigenous seasonal observations with ocean simulations, using mismatches in sea-ice timing and harvest-relevant conditions to redirect model development.
Across two Korean test beds, native Forsythia plantings showed less herbaceous reinvasion than bare-ground and reed treatments after control of invasive plants.
Ministers endorsed shared targets for protected-area effectiveness, ecosystem restoration, species conservation and ecological connectivity across the six Western Balkan economies.
In 410 Brazilian lagoon microcosms, litter richness reduced microbial respiration but did not change dry-mass loss, while species identity still mattered.
A structured elicitation of 24 chronic-wasting-disease practitioners ranked public understanding, outreach and engagement as the highest-priority intervention theme.
Twenty years of permanent plots in the Chisos Mountains show severe drought mortality followed by high-severity fire can compound into much larger structural change than either disturbance alone suggests.
A new assessment framework for semelparous fish and cephalopods removes mature animals after reproduction instead of carrying them unrealistically into older biomass.
A Colorado field experiment found broad-spectrum white LEDs reduced average nocturnal migration height by about 23 metres without changing migration traffic rate.
At two Southeast Alaska commercial farms, eDNA and dive surveys found strong regional ecological variation but little evidence that the farms supported distinct fish or macroinvertebrate assemblages.