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{"title":"Representation in conservation publishing.","authors":"T Yoh, J Willis Key, I Trung, G Salazar, W Pusparini, R Oyanedel, R Nuijten, B Mustafa, V K Muposhi, C Lamb, T Kuiper, M Khanyari, M J M Holle, T Gupta, M Grace, C S Fukushima, F Carrasco-Rueda, S Brittain, V M Shirey, R Bashyal, R Rocha, P Cardoso, D Veríssimo","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a persistent underrepresentation of marginalized voices in academic literature, including that for ecology and conservation. Such exclusion hampers career progression, perpetuating disadvantages for historically marginalized groups in the field, with implications for the direction of conservation research. Diverse perspectives foster novel thinking, strengthen innovation, and ensure research reflects the full spectrum of challenges faced by communities. To assess this underrepresentation, we analyzed self-reported demographic data for authors of scientific articles to explore demographic trends and how they shifted between 2010 and 2020. The journals chosen were listed as conservation-related by three or more of the five major journal indices. We used the same dimensions of diversity to assess editor demographics in 2021. In total, 2152 authors and 241 editors completed the survey (response rate: 21.5% authors; 29.5% editors). We found that overall author diversity across multiple traits (Rao's Q) increased between 2010 and 2020. Most notably, the representation of women increased from 29.5% to 35.6% of authors. However, women from lower-middle- or low-income countries still represented <1% of authors, and most dimensions of diversity saw little change over a decade. In 2020-2021, 80% of authors and 76% of editors self-identified as White; over three-quarters of respondents across years lived in high-income countries; and nationals of three countries (the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia) represented 34% of authors and 49% of editors (5% of the global population). Our study findings highlight the importance of considering intersectionality, as respondents spanning multiple marginalized identities were disproportionately underrepresented. Overall, our work highlights how a lack of representation continues to characterize academic publishing in conservation and ecology but shows signs of positive change. There is evidence that gender-based initiatives are having a positive effect, yet more work is needed to enhance representation across other dimensions of diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70404"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing and quantifying variations in the functioning of marine food webs across scales.","authors":"Izaskun Preciado, Irene Rabanal, Juan José Ortiz, María Ángeles Torres, Encarnación García, Oscar García-Aguilar, José Miguel García Rebollo, Susana Garrido, Daniel Iglesias, François Le Loc'h, Hugo Mendes, Hannah Metaireau, Isabel Muñoz, Zaida Parra, Sandrine Serre, Miguel Vivas, Lucía López-López","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mismatch between the scale of ecological processes and management decisions represents a significant challenge in marine conservation. This misalignment can result in ineffective conservation measures and compromise the sustainability of marine ecosystems. The large spatial resolution commonly used to analyze food webs may obscure key ecological processes and their functioning, leading to inaccurate conclusions with important consequences for management and governance. To address this gap, we used a food web indicator, the survey-based mean trophic level (MTL), covering an entire bentho-demersal community across four subregions of the Northeast Atlantic. The indicator was developed at two spatial resolutions, subregional and local (0.2° × 0.2° cells), and we used a long-term dataset to assess food-web status. A set of 18 ecological scenarios, based on different trophic level (TL) thresholds and depth ranges, were established for each subregion, and linear models were applied to the historical series for each scenario. At the subregional scale, the results indicated potential recovery of top predators in the northern area; however, the stable patterns under various scenarios may have been attributable to ongoing fishing pressure rather than to true ecosystem stability or a genuinely balanced state. At the finer spatial resolution, local declining trends were revealed that had been masked in the broader-scale analysis. These contrasting patterns underscore the importance of spatial resolution when assessing the status of marine food webs and highlight the need to consider multiple ecological scenarios. We recommend aligning management strategies with the natural processes that govern marine ecosystems to enhance the resilience and long-term sustainability of ocean environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70403"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review of country ambition in targeting important areas for biodiversity under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.","authors":"Felicia A Collins, Maritza A McCudden, Candeze Mongaya, Phoebe Ndiema, Megan Eldred, Howard Nelson, Andrew J Plumptre","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Targets 1 and 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) require actions to focus on areas of importance for biodiversity-a prerequisite for reversing biodiversity loss and halting human-induced extinctions as set out in the Mission and Goals of the KMGBF. There is a need to review progress on how countries are aiming to identify and conserve such areas of importance. We reviewed 97 national biodiversity strategy and action plans (NBSAPs) and 89 country submissions to the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) Online Reporting Tool (ORT) to assess ambition across five targets of the KMGBF. We searched for evidence that countries were considering where to act for Targets 1, 2, 3, 14, 15, and 21. No country defined what constitutes an important area for biodiversity, and any stated focus of planning was limited largely to existing protected areas or ecosystems. Key Biodiversity Areas were identified in 40% of the NBSAPs, yet only 26% included specific targets, actions, or indicators for these globally significant sites. Ambition toward the 30% restoration (Target 2) and 30% protection (Target 3) targets was higher than previously reported but remained low overall. Only half of the countries planned to mandate or encourage business to measure its impacts on biodiversity (Target 15). Across six measures of ambition, an average of 29% of the countries submitting NBSAPs and 31% of the ORT target countries aimed to meet the KMGBF benchmarks, whereas 48% and 53%, respectively, showed no ambition to do so. European countries showed the lowest level of ambition of any region. Much greater levels of ambition and progress are needed to achieve the targets, goals, and vision for areas of importance for biodiversity in the KMGBF by 2030.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70401"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149219991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of climate change on marine biodiversity on the western Atlantic coast.","authors":"Ubirajara Oliveira, Fernanda Azevedo, Alan Dias, Ana Carolina Sousa de Almeida, André R Senna, Antonio C Marques, Dafinny Rezende, Eduardo Hajdu, Erick Alves Pereira Lopes-Filho, Fábio Bettini Pitombo, Gabriela Moura de Oliveira, João Gabriel Doria, João Luís Carraro, Joel Campos De-Paula, Juliana Bahia, Juliana Magalhães de Araujo, Karla Paresque, Leandro Manzoni Vieira, Luanny Martins Fernandes, Micaele Niobe Martins Cardoso, Luciano N Santos, Lucília Souza Miranda, Michelle Klautau, Paulo Roberto Pagliosa, Pedro Henrique Braga Clerier, Rafael B de Moura, Rafael da Rocha Fortes, Raquel A F Neves, Rosana Moreira da Rocha, Sérgio N Stampar, Sula Salani, Thaís Pires Miranda, Ulisses Pinheiro, Virág Venekey","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70399","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current climate crisis, driven by greenhouse gas emissions, threatens global biodiversity, including that in marine ecosystems. However, projections for the western Atlantic Ocean that jointly quantify species richness and endemism while accounting for spatially biased and incomplete occurrence data remain limited. We addressed this gap across the western Atlantic from 57°S to 40°N, within 1500 km of the coast and on the continental shelf in waters shallower than 150 m. Using broad taxonomic coverage across vertebrates, invertebrates, and algae, we modeled biodiversity metrics directly as species richness and the corrected weighted endemism index (WEIc), applied uniform sampling from sampling effort (USSE) to minimize the effects of spatially biased and incomplete occurrence records on predictions, and tested multiple algorithms to project these metrics under Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 for 2050 and 2100. The results indicated a significant reduction in species richness and endemism, with up to 69% of the study area projected to experience a reduction of more than 5% in species richness under the high-emissions scenarios. The most affected areas included the coast of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the northern region of South America, and southern Brazil. The decrease in endemism was equally concerning, with significant reductions predicted in areas of high diversity, threatening species adapted to specific ecological niches and increasing the risk of local extinctions. Vertebrates and invertebrates showed the greatest reductions in richness in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, northeastern Brazil, and northern Argentina. For algae, the most significant decreases were predicted for Florida and southern Brazil. This loss of biodiversity could compromise the resilience of marine ecosystems and the availability of fishery resources, highlighting the urgent need for coordinated global actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70399"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149179876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new place for stories in conservation.","authors":"Alex McInturff","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70398","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Michael Soule writes in his foundational article \"What is Conservation Biology?\" that \"in crisis disciplines, one must act before knowing all the facts; crisis disciplines are thus a mixture of science and art, and their pursuit requires intuition as well as information.\" Since this article was published three decades ago, conservation biology has largely focused its energies on formalizing and memorializing its scientific findings. There is no doubt this empirical turn has developed vital methods and tools, enabled links between science and policy, and fortified the discipline's credibility within the broader biological sciences. Nevertheless, Soule's intuition that conservation biology requires a kinship with art, and particularly with storytelling, remains essential to the discipline-particularly in an information environment saturated by generative artificial intelligence-in at least three important ways. First, as a crisis discipline, conservation biology remains firmly attached to questions of not only valuation but also value, which have always relied on stories and myth for expression and enrichment. Second, conservationists continue to find that stories are at least as effective as logic in communicating results and precipitating action. Fortunately, conservation science lends itself to narrative arcs by demonstrating evidence of change. Revelations of the degradation and restoration of biological diversity rhyme with myths of loss and redemption and create important roles for storytelling in conservation projects. Third, as the conservation tent continues to expand beyond understanding what humans have done to understanding why, there is an increasingly pressing need to listen to the stories that accompany human behavior. Conservation continues to thrive as an empirical discipline. Embracing the opportunities and obligations of storytelling will allow conservation to engage even more deeply with a complex world.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70398"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149179862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem service gradients at protected area borders reveal multiple patterns and prevalent management conflicts.","authors":"Alberto González-García, Margot Neyret, Adrián López-Tejedor, Marie Caroline Prima, Sara Si-Moussi, Julien Renaud, Maya Gueguen, Sandra Lavorel","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protected areas cannot halt biodiversity loss in isolation; integrating them with surrounding human-dominated landscapes is critical. However, this integration is challenged by substantial landscape heterogeneity at protected area borders, making it difficult to determine cross-border changes in ecosystem service provision. To address this knowledge gap, we developed a novel framework for characterizing these dynamics by analyzing ecosystem service gradients along protected area borders. For 16 protected areas in the French Alps, we used a mix of established biophysical models and novel connectivity-based models for mobile species to assess 12 ecosystem services. These services were aggregated into three stakeholder-driven domains reflecting rural, cultural, and urban management priorities. Automated polynomial regression analysis classified borders into five gradient types. The most common types were decreasing gradients, representing a decline in ecosystem services outside the protected area, and increasing gradients with the opposite pattern. Our analysis revealed that these patterns are driven by specific landscape configurations and uncovered frequent trade-offs between the three management priorities; for example, landscapes supporting rural priorities often degrade cultural and urban ones. We also identified key opportunities for synergies by identifying areas where ecosystem services for all three priority domains increased simultaneously outside the protected area. This spatially explicit typology provides a powerful diagnostic tool for designing targeted interventions, such as prioritizing habitat restoration where ecosystem services decline or managing agricultural landscapes to mitigate conflicts across management priorities, supporting a more effective integration of protected areas into the wider landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70402"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149179915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global transportation impacts on wildlife mortality and emerging pathways for mitigation.","authors":"David Luther, Sarah Farinelli, Miriam Goosem, Tremaine Gregory, Kathleen Hunt, Aline Souza De Menezes Medeiros, Jessica Roberts, Vanessa Pirotta, Bridget Donaldson, Jared Budanitsky, William F Laurance","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70394","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terrestrial, freshwater, and marine transportation are fundamental to modern human life, but vehicle collisions with wildlife inadvertently kill hundreds of millions of animals across 2000 vertebrate and invertebrate species annually; however, a comprehensive framework to assess and mitigate these mortalities is missing. We identified and compared the most up-to-date information regarding the impacts of transportation on wildlife mortality to determine cross-cutting solutions to this challenging problem. For example, numerous strategies, such as under- or overpasses traversing roads and railways that increase wildlife-habitat connectivity, policies that enforce reduced speed in areas with active wildlife, and passive sensors that detect wildlife to alert nearby ships and vehicles and enable mandatory speed reductions, can reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. We explored emerging technological advances that could help further reduce future wildlife-vehicle conflicts and provide a path forward for transportation systems. Specifically, we described how the combination of citizen science, artificial intelligence, targeted studies on wildlife demographic impacts, and cost-effective mitigation efforts will be powerful tools to inform needed future policies to decrease ship speed in areas with threatened whale species and reduce rates of wildlife mortality across ecosystems in a fast-moving world.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70394"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Presenting the scientific discourse of biodiversity loss through drivers, solutions, and responsibilities.","authors":"Willem van Doorninck, Jelle Behagel","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70385","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biodiversity loss is considered a major global issue, but at the same time, scientists interpret it differently, identifying varied drivers, solutions, and responsibilities in their published works. These interpretations shape the scientific narratives these scientists use to discuss biodiversity loss, which, in turn, affects policy through the biodiversity science-policy interface. However, a comprehensive overview of these different narratives within biodiversity loss literature is lacking. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a literature review of contemporary, global biodiversity literature and a discursive network analysis based on biodiversity loss drivers, solutions, and responsibilities. We identified seven narratives that represent an overview of the scientific discourse on biodiversity loss. We determined that the narratives identify different key drivers of biodiversity loss and often focus primarily on either drivers, solutions, or responsibilities, whereas some neglect societal dimensions. Moreover, our research showed that the commonly used Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) categorization of direct drivers of biodiversity loss is reflected in only one of the seven narratives, thereby indicating its limited prevalence across the literature. Thus, this study will help biodiversity scientists develop more holistic biodiversity loss narratives by recognizing the limitations of the narratives they currently use. Additionally, our findings can assist policymakers in identifying relevant but less common narratives in the biodiversity science-policy literature that may help them develop policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70385"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive and institutional barriers to effective natural resource management under global change.","authors":"Madeleine A Rubenstein, Richard E W Berl, Iadine Chadès, Rebecca S Epanchin-Niell, Toni Lyn Morelli, Michael C Runge","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70393","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many of the most challenging decisions facing natural resource managers today can be understood as time dependent. The concept of time-dependent decisions is useful when considering natural resource management decisions that are characterized by nonstationarity in the underlying ecological system, uncertainty surrounding key ecological relationships, efficacy of management interventions, and difficult trade-offs between the present and the future. In a time-dependent decision, the optimal action changes depending on when the decision is made. We surveyed literature from the fields of cognitive psychology, environmental decision-making, and natural resource management to identify a key set of cognitive and institutional barriers that prevent decision makers from recognizing their decisions as time dependent. This failure obscures the complexity of nonstationarity, uncertainty, and intertemporal choice in natural resource management and facilitates assumptions of stationarity and time independence. We used land acquisition in the context of climate change as an example to explore the barriers to effective time-dependent decision-making at both individual and institutional scales. Using a theoretical model of land acquisition, we quantified the value of accounting for time dependence by comparing the performance of time-dependent, nonstationary decision models with models that assume time independence and stationarity. We found that the conservation value of land acquisition decisions was significantly improved through the use of time-dependent optimization models and that this improvement increased as nonstationarity increased. Finally, explicitly recognizing the time dependence of many natural resource management decisions will help improve the utility of existing decision tools and frameworks.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70393"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward improved conservation risk assessments in the marine aquarium fish trade: Reply to Biondo and Calado (2026).","authors":"Bing Lin, Andrew L Rhyne, Michael Tlusty, Yiwen Zeng, Bryan To, Robert J Holmberg, David S Wilcove","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70381","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70381"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148863847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}