Diversified farming was not the only factor tied to smallholder food security
A Nicaragua cacao-and-coffee survey links diversity to diets, with important roles for water, staples and income.
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Canadian lakes are following opposite phosphorus trajectories
Modeled Arctic phosphorus increases contrast with declines across several southern watershed classes.
Coral-associated bacteria make steroids that influence their host's heat response
Coral Endozoicomonas bacteria were shown to produce steroid hormones and affect immune signaling in stress experiments.
Ocean acidification may be shifting silicon availability beneath a Pacific food web
Long-term Tatoosh Island observations link falling pH, dissolved silicon and chlorophyll.
Belize mangrove priorities look different when the community draws the map
Placencia residents identified 83 hectares for restoration and 174 for protection; prospective benefits are modeled, not achieved.
A caribou's loyalty to home can become a liability after disturbance
Tracking 331 boreal caribou links site fidelity with survival—but the direction depends on forest disturbance.
A restored floodplain can regrow trees without regaining its original small-scale terrain
Sacramento River LiDAR observations show that vegetation heterogeneity and floodplain microtopography recover on different clocks.
Rome's river was a corridor for some dispersers and a barrier for others
Urban connectivity models suggest that no single green-link map represents all wildlife movement.
A reservoir paper's correction changed the size—not the direction—of its main signal
An October 21 correction moved the reported temporal share of water-quality variation from 28.3% to 33.4% and removed some modeled relationships.
A burned watershed did not necessarily lose aquatic taxa in its first year
After the 2020 megafires, eDNA and conventional sampling reported weak or inconsistent species-richness responses across streams.
Sediment DNA can outlast the animal a survey hopes to find
A burrowing-decápod tank experiment detected persistent sedimentary DNA weeks after removal.
Korean fish larvae mapped a more varied summer than winter
A standardized national coastal survey found sharply different larval assemblages across seasons and marine regions.
Scottish aquaculture sites faced very different heatwave trajectories
A satellite and farm-data analysis finds that increases in marine heatwave duration and severity were spatially uneven.
A Tanzanian conservation assessment tested who gets to choose success measures
A protocol for selecting indicators combines ecological goals, project strategy and stakeholder judgments.
Planting trees in old savanna changed which birds remained, not always how many
Across a Maharashtra rainfall gradient, plantations shifted specialist communities even when total richness did not change overall.
Dongting Lake's habitat model did not neatly predict waterbird richness
Landscape change and InVEST habitat scores moved, but some direct waterbird-richness associations remained weak.
Tiny field-edge strips changed where pollinator models placed habitat
Dutch bee and hoverfly models improved when linear habitat elements were mapped instead of being averaged into cropland.
Charcoal-feeding fungi were not necessarily the most heat-tolerant
Seven cultured fungal isolates from a fire-adapted system complicate the idea that all postfire traits travel together.
Dead logs hosted the richest slime-mold assemblages in one Araucaria forest
A fine-scale Brazilian substrate survey argues for looking below the canopy when assessing forest biodiversity.
Rewetting streams stored more soil carbon—and released more methane in one treatment
A northern New Mexico comparison found different carbon and methane responses from plug-and-ponds and beaver dam analogs.
Monthly lake measurements can track a season and still miss the rate of change
Three years of hourly sensors versus monthly water profiles show why observation frequency needs to match the oxygen question.
Sumatra's narrow forest remnants held mammals plantations largely missed
A 723,637-hectare peatland landscape analysis finds meaningful habitat in linear forest remnants, while plantations support fewer detected mammal species.
Belize's reef disease shifted forms as the coral community thinned
Longitudinal Carrie Bow Cay surveys reveal multiple disease phases rather than a single outbreak-and-recovery curve.
The Elwha's insects returned in number before their river community recovered
Nine years of monitoring after two large dam removals show that the rebound in insect abundance and the recovery of community composition are not the same milestone.