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A 13,000-bird tracking synthesis suggests today’s Atlantic protected-area footprint captures far less migratory seabird use than the same area could if biodiversity layers shaped placement.
Across Bsal-positive European sites, infection prevalence fell as amphibian richness rose, while fire salamanders showed a reversed density relationship consistent with disease-driven population loss.
A 7,680-km basin survey found 3,037 gharials across 13 rivers, with roughly seven in ten in the Chambal; most of the modeled river network remains low-suitability or sparsely occupied.
Four years of fortnightly household data paired with 15 years of forestry enforcement records link predictable income troughs to more illegal timber extraction—suggesting conservation pressure can be seasonal, not just chronic.
A three-year Chihuahuan Desert study suggests that dryland state change redistributes regenerative resources under shrubs, creating both a restoration barrier and a potential target for intervention.
Across 30 Gothenburg sites, dense and compact neighborhoods had fewer bird species than greener reference areas, but the three urban form types did not differ significantly from one another; local natural habitat area and connectivity were the stronger within-city signals.
A camera-trap record in the Alma Guaraní Reserve is a promising restoration signal precisely because it is not yet evidence of population recovery.
Two grassland experiments found stronger support for drought-tolerance traits than for the traits chosen to resist invasive annual grasses, while functionally diverse mixes appeared more robust across changing conditions.
A new mixed-methods study in Colombia’s upper Ariguaní basin links Indigenous water knowledge, sacred sites, land-use change and socio-hydrological modeling.
The awards span fish passage, floodplains, salt marsh, coral reefs and coastal habitat, turning a national funding round into a useful map of implementation capacity and unmet demand.
A year of site-level monitoring across healthy, transitional and degraded red-mangrove stands identified hydrological and salinity differences that can help locate plausible rehabilitation sites.
On two North Sea transects, a high-resolution Plankton Imager counted far more copepods than the Continuous Plankton Recorder while the two methods captured different spatial signals.
A U.S.-focused expert synthesis identifies additionality, permanence, leakage, MMRV, market structure and social–ecological effects as linked priorities for higher-integrity forest carbon credits.
An analysis of 1,624 global irrigation-water-withdrawal estimates found that only 17% of plausible analytical pathways showed uncertainty shrinking over time.
Surveys across natural forest, plantation, shrubland and grassland found richer bird assemblages in forested habitats and strong similarity between natural and plantation forests.
A new applied perspective lays out gate openings, small mammal passages and river-corridor permeability as interim connectivity measures across the Poland–Belarus barrier.
Annual 10-m canopy-height maps for 2019–2022 found that 87% of detected disturbance patches were under one hectare, while dense Central African forests showed a net aboveground biomass-carbon loss.
Across more than three million hectares in Pará, counterfactual analysis found that preventing disturbance delivered the largest biodiversity gains, while restoration mattered most where forest loss was already extensive.
Linking Red List action records for nearly 25,000 vertebrates with 1,420 intervention assessments exposes both a large implementation footprint and major gaps in demonstrated effectiveness.
A global analysis of thousands of fishery time series finds that extreme heat and low net primary productivity raise the odds of very low catches, with compound events producing the strongest signal.
WMO’s 2025 water assessment finds one of the driest river-flow years in 35 years, continued terrestrial-water-storage decline and a fourth consecutive year of glacier loss across all regions.
Whole-genome and museum-DNA evidence resolves the tiger-cat complex into five species, including the newly described Bolivian tilcayo and a new Peruvian subspecies—changing the conservation unit before population risk is even fully known.
Models from the Pacific Northwest place fire-persistent nesting and roosting forest in sheltered topography and lower slope positions, suggesting a way to spatially reconcile fuels restoration with habitat retention.
New analysis finds 238 English constituencies where at least 20% of properties lie more than a 15-minute walk from green or blue space, with deprivation and access gaps overlapping in many places.