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A controlled experiment found that bacterial inoculation altered coral DNA methylation under heat stress, with a probiotic mitigating some pathogen-associated epigenetic changes and correlating with higher survival.
Three years after a low-intensity wildfire in Hungarian dry grasslands, burned vegetation showed mostly temporary change while mechanically disk-harrowed firebreaks remained compositionally altered.
Illinois preserve-network data show that combining at-risk species with broader plant-community metrics can identify groups of wetlands whose collective biodiversity value is missed by rarity-only ranking.
Metabolomic profiles in Orbicella faveolata fragments were associated with survival and acclimation outcomes, offering a possible screening layer for restoration if the relationships prove transferable.
The two governments agreed that the next bilateral Sundarbans biodiversity and Bengal tiger meetings will be held in Bangladesh, with elephant talks to follow in India.
A survey of 94 farmers found severe crop-foraging conflict around the Endangered Barbary macaque, including farm abandonment—an example of threatened-species conservation failing if coexistence costs stay local.
Four decades of data show strong downstream turnover after the Brecksville Dam removal, while reaches still isolated by another major barrier changed far less.
Countrywide monitoring from 2005–2024 found thermophilisation in 57% of communities, with ecological filters slowing compositional change relative to local warming.
Models for 22 rare–widespread congeneric pairs project greater average losses for rare plants, but also expansion for 41% of rare taxa and contraction for 36% of widespread taxa.
A structured assessment of 29 alpine animals combines literature and expert knowledge to expose species-specific constraints in movement, life history, genetics and distribution.
Specimens collected through long-running bottom-trawl surveys yielded nine species new to science, including a new genus and a lineage previously known only from tropical waters.
The 2026 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program surveyed American Samoa and remote Pacific monuments; the important result today is the monitoring architecture, not a reef-status verdict that has not yet been analyzed.
Across 1,864 native plants in Kanagawa, 44.8% lost recorded survey districts and 53 nominally non-threatened species declined at rates comparable to threatened taxa.
A cross-border remote-sensing workflow validated against 590 peatlands found that disturbed sites were disproportionately hard to detect, turning classification error itself into a restoration signal.
Models fitted to records from more than one million North American trees found warming and drought can increase insect and disease incidence in historically cold, wet forests while reducing it in already warm, dry regions.
GPS-tracked dispersers linked Zambia’s major wild-dog landscapes on paper, yet snares, failed immigration and conflict meant nearly 10,000 km of movement produced little demographic connectivity.
On Washoe Tribal lands, seedlings beside grasses and forbs or under shrubs survived far better than seedlings placed in open interspaces—and shade benefits depended on topographic position.
More than 116,000 citizen-science records from Nanjing suggest compact green-space concentration and distributed green share can favor different bird groups depending on season and total green cover.
Real offshore-wind recordings increased phytoplankton growth and net oxygen balance in short incubations, a result too small and short-term to classify as benefit or harm but difficult to ignore.
A long-term Italian experiment found permanent grassland strongest on several soil-health indicators, rotations strongest on some productivity measures, and reduced inputs less decisive than the system they were applied to.
Small-plot surveys at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka provide a fresh regional baseline for an overlooked group of ecosystem engineers.
Interviews and workshops in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary trace delays to industrial-era regulatory structures, overlapping mandates and difficulty accommodating adaptive projects.
A Tennessee telemetry study estimates annual survival at 0.73 and finds landscape configuration—not simply the presence of ‘young forest’—changes the relationship between cover and survival.
A new forestry synthesis lays out four ways genomic and epigenetic tools could identify vulnerable tree populations and better seed sources under warming.