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Longitudinal monitoring in California’s Klamath Basin linked restored slow-water habitat to cooler refuges, higher juvenile survival and stronger adult returns.
A global synthesis of 166 studies found higher fish abundance and richness around artificial reef units, while exposing how rarely studies can distinguish attraction from new production.
Thirty eastern Amazon streams shifted from sensitive Zygoptera toward more tolerant Anisoptera along habitat-integrity and water-quality gradients.
Four years of Iowa restoration plots found a hump-shaped response in richness, flowering, pollinator visits and invasion resistance—without a detectable productivity penalty.
Restored saltmarsh and mangrove sites aged 6–33 years showed different, often nonlinear trajectories in traits linked to ecosystem services.
Old-growth prairie microbes and stronger site preparation shifted invaded grassland restoration toward later-successional natives and higher floristic quality.
A new conservation roadmap says disease-driven collapses now threaten several suid species and require wildlife surveillance, livestock-interface controls, ex-situ planning and vaccine research to move together.
A seven-country southern African model found weather-informed herd decisions worked better when households also had tools that buffered losses in bad years.
Annual land-use maps show forest loss and fragmentation moving together across the tropics, with especially large declines in Southeast Asia and West Africa.
A global optimization study found that restoring the right 30% of drained inland peatlands could cut roughly three times more greenhouse-gas emissions than restoring the same area without climate-based targeting.
Fine-scale tracking of Eurasian stone-curlews in Catalonia points to heterogeneous farmland mosaics—not one uniform 'wildlife-friendly' land use—as the management asset.
More than 14,000 ultrasonic calls—including a vulnerable bent-winged bat high on the Opera House—show how iconic civic landscapes can also function as nocturnal habitat.
A new Bayesian model allows recently detached seaweed to keep photosynthesizing before decay dominates, outperforming conventional exponential decay across seven empirical datasets.
Four decades of fire records do not support a broad claim that inventoried roadless areas burn more simply because they are roadless.
Dietary DNA networks in Spanish apple and blueberry systems found bats more directly linked to crop pests, while birds more often fed through intraguild pathways that can complicate simple ‘more predators is better’ assumptions.
Three years across 10 French arable landscapes show nectar and pollen supply peaks early, then declines as pollinator demand continues.
A review of 61 non-formal programs argues for place-based, locally grounded and inclusive approaches rather than treating environmental education as culturally neutral.
IUCN reports three years of restoration, nursery and community work around Petra and Shoubak, but project completion should not be confused with independently measured ecological recovery.
A new Berrien County population moves invasive-species surveillance into a high-value agricultural landscape even though the insect has not yet been found in a vineyard there.
A New South Wales synthesis links lower occupancy and abundance most strongly with hotter conditions and severe or frequent fire, while also exposing limits in the historical data.
Denmark's machine-learning framework predicts eelgrass extent and depth limits with independent validation, while making uncertainty visible enough to support site-level planning.
Two decades of satellite data from Hwange, Zimbabwe, show strong internal variation in burned area and recurrence even where park-wide totals show no significant trend.
A national assessment found wide variation in legal restriction, management and threat exposure—showing why protected-area counts alone say little about ecological effectiveness.
More than 439,000 records reveal major sampling gaps in the Ecuador–Peru hotspot, including incompletely surveyed humid forests that can distort richness and protection assessments.