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Presence-only models separated the habitat associations of Acropora globiceps and Isopora crateriformis and were tested against independent 2025 observations to support monitoring and recovery planning.
Interviews with 22 long-serving community conservation officers point to values, identity, autonomy, agency and relationships—not incentives alone—as engines of sustained engagement.
Across four Nova Scotia watersheds, a new hotspot metric tracked canopy-height heterogeneity before and after Hurricane Fiona and highlighted structurally persistent clusters for follow-up.
Bloom-prone lakes held less iron-bound organic carbon; field and incubation work linked bloom-driven redox swings and algal inputs to losses of mineral-protected carbon.
Across six Oklahoma prairie pastures, remote-sensing models tracked eddy-covariance GPP well overall but overpredicted annual production by 15–30% under intensive grazing and haying.
DNA metabarcoding around planted Hopea odorata in five parks found 21 ectomycorrhizal OTUs; community composition differed among parks even though alpha diversity did not.
A Fiji workshop brought Pacific governments and regional partners across health, animal, environment and climate sectors together around governance, surveillance and joint action as El Niño risks rise.
Among 313 translocation case studies, only 6% of mitigation projects reached standardized success stage 3 and none reached stage 4; conservation projects performed better but still rarely reached the highest stages.
Nearly 50 years of Yukon data show snowshoe hares lost body mass while two subnivean rodents showed different or opposite trends—natural history changed the climate response.
Three freshwater systems differed sharply in cyanobacteria, microcystins and associated bacterial communities, with catchment nutrients and seasonal context shaping the pattern.
OptGERM links seed origin, temperature, dormancy, germination and early seedling traits for 43 populations of six European tree species.
A global 2006–2023 dataset found low-lying algae weakened the coral-cover relationship below about 45% coral cover, while macroalgal effects persisted to about 65%.
Across 17 Ecuadorian stream sites, active agricultural reaches were the clearest low point; regenerating sites sometimes matched or exceeded old forest in richness, but those differences were not statistically decisive.
Five elevation bands in the Sierra Madre del Sur showed strong changes in both hummingbird and nectar-plant composition; local flower resources helped explain hummingbird diversity.
Across a tropical mountain gradient, beetle abundance, richness, functional diversity and dung removal all declined with elevation, linking community change to an ecosystem process.
A 39-study meta-analysis found 75.6% of tracked birds were adult males and major parts of eastern Europe, Central/West Asia and North Africa remain poorly represented.
Two years of leaf physiology in Mendocino County found redwood leaves could run up to 10°C warmer than air, with photosynthesis declining above about 30°C and more steeply above 35°C.
Global LAI data show the affected area of extreme negative vegetation events increased significantly from 2001–2024, while the frequency trend was weaker and not statistically significant.
Two Caribbean coral species under in-situ shades retained or regained color during the 2024 heat event, while symbiont:host ratios did not respond to shading and colonies were already dominated by heat-tolerant Durusdinium.
Nationwide inventory data for 100 species show forest density and sulfur-deposition change had stronger associations with recruitment, growth and mortality than the climate variables tested; recruitment was the most sensitive process.
Across a 3,000-km aridity gradient, microbial carbon-use efficiency increased as soil organic carbon declined; mineral association, clay, calcium-bound carbon and microbial residues tracked the carbon pattern more strongly.
Over three years in Botswana’s Kalahari, certified trackers logged 22,793 tracks across 6,222 km; cattleposts were negatively associated with most of 13 monitored species, while burned areas produced mixed responses.
A field playback experiment in Wyoming found recovery time depended on recreation type, exposure rate and species; high-rate motorized noise suppressed detections of most species beyond a 15-week season.
Across 98 municipal biodiversity plans in 26 countries, 72% documented participation, but only 18% gave participants authority over content and 2% shared control over resources.