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In South Africa’s Breede River, flow barriers, turbidity and abundant sharptooth catfish appear to damp black-bass predation enough for an endangered whitefish to persist at extremely low frequency.
Field-informed mapping estimates peatlands beneath roughly 6% of Belize’s land area and about 165 million tonnes of stored carbon, with mangrove and non-mangrove systems contributing differently than earlier accounting implied.
Across six Brooks Range watersheds, acid-rock-drainage chemistry showed abrupt onset around 2019 and metal enrichment persisted far downstream even where mainstem pH was buffered.
Across six East Asian–Australasian Flyway species, models that added tidal-flat amount, patch density and surrounding land-cover diversity generally outperformed pixel- or distance-only habitat models.
At Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, moist-soil vegetation jumped 310% after dewatering and modeled waterfowl energy more than doubled, but the energetic gain returned near baseline the next year.
A Dutch perspective scores 14 common nature-based solutions against biodiversity functions and argues that climate-adaptation design routinely leaves ecological value on the table.
Quarterly Saildrone deployments will circumnavigate Antarctica to measure ocean and atmospheric carbon conditions through seasons and regions that ships rarely cover.
Across 256 species and nine countries, neither legal huntability nor a broad harvest-interest measure showed a significant association with decline probability.
A two-year North Dakota comparison found more milkweed under modified rest-rotation grazing, while drought created a strong year-by-regime response in flowers.
Four years of Camas Prairie monitoring found the invasive grass’s per-unit negative effect on camas survival strengthening in wetter portions of the meadow in some years.
Video surveys around the Isles of Scilly found heterogeneous sediment habitats with fragile structure-forming fauna that current EUNIS categories do not represent well.
IUCN, EDF and IWMI launched a joint resilience statement ahead of the UN Water Conference, emphasizing monitoring, governance and investment.
Across 50 fires, treatment effects were strong in the drier eastern study landscape but not statistically distinct in the more productive western Klamath landscape.
In a grazed New Zealand experiment, seasonal and animal-mediated phosphorus pathways diverged while most labile soil-P measures stayed relatively insensitive to management.
A global synthesis estimates saline croplands use more nitrogen, harvest less of it and lose substantially more reactive nitrogen.
A new carbon baseline for roughly 300 hectares of urban-influenced mangroves estimates 92% of total carbon in belowground tree and soil pools.
A landscape-scale retrospective found low-dose repeated applications often ineffective, especially in channels, while some slower-water habitats retained stronger control.
Across 12 forest fragments, Eucalyptus cover was the strongest landscape predictor of bat functional structure.
A continental planning analysis identifies a 35% freshwater network that combines representation, resilience, connectivity and biodiversity—but only 6% is both protected and resilient.
Six months of weekly surveys across six forest-cover types found wet–dry transitions explaining more community variation than habitat type, with lagged rainfall the strongest abundance predictor.
A global analysis of 58,319 outbreak records finds shared landscape signals for several vector-borne diseases, while directly transmitted zoonoses show far less consistent environmental patterning.
A national model projects sharply higher livestock losses under baseline pathways, while scenarios that constrain overstocking through stronger export pathways substantially reduce modeled mortality.
Four years of monitoring around a 4.5-hectare beaver enclosure found much stronger water-table gains and drought buffering than comparison meres managed with conventional structures.
A city program in South Park and Georgetown reports more than 225 trees and 10,000 plants installed since 2023, with rain gardens, cisterns and planter boxes added as nearly two acres of pavement are targeted for removal by the end of 2026.