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A systematic review of 83 studies outlines how allele-frequency and pooled-sequencing approaches could extract population-level genetic information without capturing individuals.
Across nearly 130,000 restoration polygons in sub-Saharan Africa, natural regeneration and active restoration often reduced surrounding tree loss, but country and treatment effects included clear cases of negative leakage.
A field-evidence review finds long-term manure benefits are coupled to phosphorus, nitrate, greenhouse-gas, metal and antibiotic-resistance risks that short studies can miss.
A German remote-sensing workflow mapped individual trees outside forests with genus labels, but detection was substantially stronger than taxonomic classification.
A 13C incubation found low-C:N litter produced positive priming while high-C:N litter produced negative priming, with soil fertility changing the magnitude more than temperature did.
China’s RSEI model reached weighted R² of 0.9712, but variance decomposition showed 97.39% of the signal was between pixels and only 2.61% was within-pixel interannual variability.
ICT-based monitoring across 305 talukas in Maharashtra found strongly uneven Fusarium-wilt patterns and a broad decline after the 2018–2020 epidemic years.
Across three sites from 2012–2022, visitor numbers and reported restoration investment or activity were strongly correlated, with more than 353,000 visits recorded overall.
National monitoring from 19 lakes produced type-specific Secchi-depth boundaries linked to phytoplankton and macrophyte status.
Cotton-strip decomposition was slower in beaver ponds than upstream reaches, while most measured chemical variables did not change significantly.
Injection-based microbially induced carbonate precipitation increased carbonate and reduced permeability, but repeated treatment also lowered diversity and shifted native microbial communities.
InSAR and multi-decadal well records show uplift up to 12 mm per year organized into fault-bounded domains, with groundwater recovery faster on upstream sides of major faults.
Genetic mapping, transgenic validation and field trials linked a wild-rice receptor-like kinase to recruitment of Acinetobacter that improved nitrogen-use efficiency and yield-related traits.
A two-year trial with 10 commercial fishers found a Looming Eye Buoy reduced guillemot and razorbill bycatch risk by 59% and a predator-shaped kite by 71%.
In situ observations and optical modelling indicate that Antarctica’s unusual phytoplankton size structure can reproduce persistent regional biases in satellite chlorophyll relationships.
A global mechanistic model found that periods of low wave forcing strongly separated mangrove from non-mangrove open coasts, making establishment opportunity a moving part of restoration suitability.
In Washington mountain streams, amphibians bred at 24% of BDA sites versus none of paired controls, while bat activity rose 3.9-fold; natural beaver sites still delivered more complete habitat for amphibians.
Across 12 Italian urban forests, local stand structure was more associated with richness and functional diversity, while bird abundance tracked larger-scale landscape configuration more strongly.
A new preprint perspective proposes estimating how evolution changes extinction-time distributions rather than asking only whether a population ultimately persists.
A Science analysis found average documented impact severity 34% higher in the Global South despite more than twice as many impact reports in the Global North, exposing a research-effort bias in count-based comparisons.
A conceptual analysis of baselining argues that detecting meaningful change requires making reference states and their assumptions explicit rather than treating a baseline as a neutral observation.
A Tools of the Trade note surveys how remote-sensing products can track surface soil-moisture dynamics beyond the footprint of field sensors.
A Nature Reviews Earth & Environment comment argues that climate, biodiversity and pollution frameworks need adaptive, process-based governance with predictive monitoring and cross-scale coordination.
Across fire-affected soils and nearby waters, a few sites crossed screening thresholds under EPA-based assumptions, while the study explicitly could not attribute contamination uniquely to firefighting foam.