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Twenty-three 600-kilogram artificial reef modules were deployed at 900–1,100 metres off Ireland and France to test whether cold-water coral recovery can be accelerated.
Successful nests actually contained more anthropogenic items, a result that complicates a simple presence-equals-harm story without showing that plastic or other human-made material benefits birds.
A survey-modernization roadmap argues that eDNA, imagery, autonomous vehicles and acoustics should be calibrated against legacy methods before they replace any long-running baseline.
HT-qPCR functional-gene profiles from subtropical Chinese forests link limestone, dolostone and clastic substrates to different potential for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur cycling.
Five monthly cruises found falling particulate production, a larger dissolved release fraction and sustained bacterial respiration as stratification intensified.
Integrative taxonomy places Adenomera varcena in western Amazon várzea, adding a distinctive floodplain ecology to a mostly forest-floor genus.
An ILRI retrospective traces how sustained research partnerships contributed to national strategies for anthrax, brucellosis and Rift Valley fever.
A distributed experiment across 30 U.S. Atlantic saltmarsh restorations found sediment addition more consistently improved target vegetation, while hydrologic modifications produced mixed responses.
Satellite and gravity observations from 2003–2024 show improving vegetation condition alongside declining groundwater storage, with the relationship varying sharply across the basin.
A long-running grazing platform suggests neither complete exclusion nor heavy grazing maximized plant community diversity, while soil and microbial responses shifted on their own trajectories.
Morphology plus mitochondrial and nuclear markers document a Dendronephthya population from the Arabian Sea while preserving taxonomic uncertainty in a difficult coral group.
Mitochondrial evidence places South African Tarebia granifera within the same major invasive lineage found elsewhere, consistent with rapid expansion from limited introductions.
A Jerusalem camera-trap study used prototype-based deep learning to make sex classification more interpretable, with the model focusing on body, leg, head and horn features.
Long records from Central Himalayan gauges show precipitation and snowmelt increasingly taking longer paths into storage and vegetation while downstream discharge declines.
A 169-year isotope record from Rangitāhua and nearby mammal-free Meyer Islands suggests ecosystem function can lag predator eradication by decades.
In six central-Norway lakes, abundance and richness differences were uncertain, while functional traits exposed consistent filtering under 4–6 metres of water-level regulation.
Across 64 long-monitored aspen stands, the national carbon model reproduced most aboveground biomass variation but performed much less reliably for forest-floor and mineral-soil pools.
New York City’s redesigned P.S. 69 schoolyard combines recreation with subsurface stormwater storage intended to reduce street flooding and combined-sewer pressure in park-poor Jackson Heights.
National surveillance had recorded 583 confirmed wildlife H5 events by September 18, while detections in several mammal species are widening the ecological questions even without evidence of sustained mammal-to-mammal transmission.
A Nepal-focused analysis argues that licenses, power contracts and project finance can lock hydropower projects back into hazard-prone sites even after destructive events reveal the vulnerability.
Two years of participatory research in a Marajó fishing community mapped 65 places and 73 species tied to material and cultural benefits, showing how wetlands, forests, waterways and knowledge function as one territorial system.
Field plots and structural-equation models found biomass tracking nitrogen, rainfall and plant richness, while some degradation pathways also raised measured biomass—another warning against treating biomass as condition.
Machine-learning models linked two decades of monitoring to water-hyacinth expansion, highlighting nitrogen, phosphorus, chlorophyll-a and pH while leaving the causal management story unresolved.
Eight years of Sentinel-1 tracking across three colonies show that winter colony position can shift even when fast ice looks stable, filling a seasonal blind spot left by optical imagery.