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{"title":"Overcoming gaps and barriers to effectively integrate social science in European conservation","authors":"Claudia Gruenewald,&nbsp;Thomas E. Fish,&nbsp;Eick von Ruschkowski","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70117","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The importance of social science to address the human dimensions of natural resource management is increasingly recognized in the conservation field, yet the application of associated concepts, theories, methods, and data remains underrepresented in parts of Europe. Common barriers and gaps, persistent over decades, including institutional constraints, work environment, different cultures and languages between natural and social science disciplines, lack of qualified personnel, and an accessible professional community, are often cited as underlying and driving factors. To better understand, contextualize, and inform solutions for wider use of social science, we analyzed interactions with conservation researchers and practitioners across a series of organized events from 2018 to 2023 (e.g., in-depth interviews, facilitated discussions, expert workshops, international conferences, knowledge exchange forums). Frequently mentioned challenges to integrating social science were limited opportunities to engage across disciplines in the workplace, to interact with like-minded colleagues, and for 2-way communication and knowledge exchange between scientists and practitioners, especially given the diversity of subject matter expertise and disciplinary training of conservation professionals. The needs identified included capacity building to strengthen individual and institutional competencies, such as creating and maintaining multidisciplinary teams and professional networks, working across different organizations at multiple scales, and advancing institutional support for acceptance and validation of social science as a routine element of conservation practice, including representation of social scientists in the workforce. Steps to address such challenges can be taken along 2 pathways that conservation researchers and practitioners consistently mentioned: first, increasing conservation social science literacy through awareness building, targeted professional development training, and institutional support, and, second, fostering knowledge exchange, enhancing professional networks, and bolstering a robust community of practice across Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145029121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land tenure contributions to protected area growth under alternative conservation targets in the Australian monsoon tropics.","authors":"Emmeline Norris, Ben Scheele, Marcel Cardillo","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the global protected area (PA) network expands to meet international targets, it is important to assess whether traditional reliance on public land will suffice for projected PA growth or whether other tenures, such as Indigenous or pastoral lands, may increasingly contribute. Another consideration is whether the relative importance of different tenures varies depending on the specific goals of the PA network. We used the mammal fauna of the Australian monsoon tropics (AMT), one of the world's largest intact tropical savannas, as a case study to address these questions. We applied systematic conservation planning to identify optimal PA configurations under 2 objectives (adding to the existing PA network from any tenure vs. expanding the Indigenous protected area [IPA] network through voluntary declaration of Indigenous lands by traditional owners) and 2 species protection criteria (prioritizing currently threatened species vs. species predicted to become threatened). We calculated planning unit selection frequencies for the resulting 4 scenarios to identify high-priority areas for mammal conservation and assessed their dependence on different tenure categories. All scenarios relied heavily on Indigenous lands to achieve species representation targets, with varying contributions from pastoral land depending on the criteria prioritized. Protecting potentially threatened species required more pastoral land and Indigenous land coexisting with primary industries, whereas targets for currently threatened species were more cost-effectively met through voluntary declarations of Indigenous freehold land as IPAs. Our results highlight the potential for Indigenous lands to play a major role in achieving biodiversity conservation targets and demonstrate that land tenure requirements vary depending on conservation priorities. These findings emphasize the need to explicitly consider tenure in conservation planning to guide collaborative strategies and ensure PA growth aligns with specific biodiversity goals across diverse land management contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70143"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145022985","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":"Prospects and perils in the geospatial turn of conservation.","authors":"Jocelyne Shimin Sze, Laura Aileen Sauls","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conservation has embraced advances in big data and related digital technologies as key to preventing biodiversity loss, especially in the identification of areas of conservation priority based on spatial data, which we call the big geospatial data turn. This turn has led to the proliferation of useful methods and tools, including global geospatial maps. But these methods may also undermine moves toward rights-based and inclusive conservation approaches that consider plural values and perspectives. We built on the burgeoning literature to call for greater attention to be paid to the datasets, methodological choices, and the assumptions global mapping for biodiversity conservation is based on. In increasingly prioritizing the use of big geospatial data, conservation professionals risk forgetting that maps show only partial information and limit the diversity of ways of seeing and representing the world. Big geospatial data collected through remotely sensed technologies must still be situated in time and place and provided with appropriate political-economic and sociocultural contexts. Further, global mapping efforts remain primarily the purview of Global North researchers, even given the push to make data open access. Instead of uncritically calling for more data, we urge conservationists to contextualize and situate big geospatial data carefully so as to build a field that achieves socially just and ecologically effective conservation outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70145"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145022965","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":"Threats to conservation from artificial-intelligence-generated wildlife images and videos.","authors":"José Guerrero-Casado, Tamara Murillo-Jiménez, Antonio J Carpio, Francisco S Tortosa, Rocío Serrano-Rodríguez","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70138"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945756","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":"Book reviewers (June 2024 to June 2025)","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70142","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70142","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We thank the following colleagues for providing <i>Conservation Biology</i> with book reviews:</p><p>M. Ferrante</p><p>C. Perl</p><p>T. Price</p><p>M. Scott</p><p>S. Scott</p><p>Zs. Végvári</p><p><b><i>Reviewers for “Noted with Interest”</i></b></p><p>D. A. Andow*</p><p>R. Aszalos</p><p>S. Bonicalza</p><p>J. Bölöni</p><p>E. Frater</p><p>M. Guerra</p><p>N. Holst</p><p>K. Krenhardt*</p><p>G. L. Lovei*</p><p>Y. Lubin</p><p>Zs. Molnár*</p><p>T. Price</p><p>M. Scott*</p><p>F. Toth</p><p>V. Ulicsni</p><p>*Author wrote more than one review.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Noted with interest","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70128","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70128","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pine marten: The secret life of &lt;i&gt;Martes martes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Bagur, D. 2025. Pelagic Publishing, London, UK. xviii+214 pp. £28.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-78427-427-6.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was tempting to fill this review with eloquent, insightful, and enlightening quotes from one of the most engaging science books this reviewer has read in a long time. The author bought a derelict house on the west coast of Ireland, inspired largely by finding a pine marten scat in the garden (the book focusses mainly on &lt;i&gt;Martes martes&lt;/i&gt;, but also compares close relatives). Since then, martens dominated Bagur's life, to judge from the many insights he brings from his own observations plus 209 of his fascinating photos. His writing is accurate, yet inspirational. After centuries of persecution, he describes how martens “clung on the edge, hanging from the precipice [of extermination] by a single claw… they stared back at humanity and they survived.” In a key quote, he argues that “[the] common misconception that Pine Martens are killers… cannot be held by those [who] understand ecology… [They] do of course kill, but they also create the conditions required for an explosive abundance of life.” Although the chapter on predators and threats focusses on Britain and Ireland, the other chapters, covering the marten's life and behavior, are relevant throughout the species’ range. Some observations are revelatory, like Bagur's discovery that their main retreats are in “marten maze” tunnel systems built in dense vegetation—and many hours of watching martens defecate must have informed his explanation of what he calls their “scat wiggle.” The book will appeal to anyone interested in a species described as being “full of personality, courage and inquisitive charm.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Natural science and Indigenous knowledge. The Americas experience&lt;/b&gt;. Johnson, E. A., and S. M. Arlidge, editors. 2024. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. xvi+272 pp. £49.99 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-00-941667-2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can scientists and Indigenous people learn from each other, and how can science and Indigenous knowledge be combined without losing the totality of both? These are challenging and worthy questions. This book is a collection of diverse case studies, edited by 2 extraordinary people. One of them is an ecosystem ecologist who uses biogeoscience to study natural disturbances, such as fire. The other is a science outreach teacher, a park naturalist, and a trained snowshoeing guide. They are leading world experts, so I opened the book with high expectations and was not disappointed. What they have written is deep, reliable, and respectful. Among the contributors is a book-writing Indigenous Tlingit leader, the chairman of the Pahrump Paiute Tribe, several researchers who have long-term experience in collaborating with Indigenous tribes, and a professor who is an adopted member of the Tlingit Kaagwaantaan clan. All chapters explore how scientific and traditional knowledge systems can be conn","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of landscape fragmentation on floodplain fishes as revealed by species-habitat networks.","authors":"Chen Zhang, Jorge García-Girón, Ziyu Yang, Ziyu Liu, Shuxin Li, Wenhui You, Yihao Ge, Xin Gao, Yunzhi Yan","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How species interact with habitat patches is influenced primarily by habitat configuration (e.g., connectivity) and species' functional traits. As levels of fragmentation increase, identifying the intricate connections between these components is crucial for biodiversity conservation. We used the species-habitat network (SHN) approach to identify the links between fish species and lakes in a highly fragmented floodplain; to determine lakes and fish species that are key to maintaining landscape SHN organization; and to examine the impact of habitat configuration and species functional traits on fish responses to loss of lateral hydrological connectivity (LHC). Low metacommunity functional connectivity, lack of robustness, and high modularity (i.e., strong within group interactions) and nestedness indicated low resistance of fish communities to long-lasting landscape fragmentation, highlighting the importance of large lakes connected by rivers and fishes that migrate between rivers and lakes to maintaining the SHN organization in floodplain ecosystems. The strong association between maximum body length and fish contribution to this network organization indicated that large fish species are potentially more likely to establish interactions at the landscape scale. Trophic level was the main factor controlling the roles of migrating fishes in SHN organization. Based on species' interactions with habitat patches, we identified and mapped the sites and species responsible for the main features of the SHN structure. Our approach offers new directions for conserving and restoring fragmented floodplains by integrating LHC and fish functional traits to inform targeted conservation priorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70123"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945772","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":"Correction to \"Capacity and capability of remote sensing to inform invasive plant species management in the Pacific Islands region\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70124"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945735","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":"Detecting mass mortality events in wildlife populations.","authors":"Jesse L Brunner, Justin M Calabrese","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reports in the literature of mass mortality events (MMEs) involving diverse animal taxa are increasing. Yet, many likely go unobserved due to imperfect detection and infrequent sampling. MMEs involving small, cryptic species, for instance, can be difficult to detect even during the event, and degradation and scavenging of carcasses can make the window for detection very short. Such detection biases make it difficult to understand trends in MMEs across time, regions, or taxa. Thus, we developed a simple modeling framework to clarify key aspects (e.g., sampling frequency, dynamics of detectability) of the problem and spur future work. Our framework describes the probability of detecting an MME as a function of the observation frequency relative to the rate at which MMEs become undetectable. Although simple, this framework is useful for developing an intuition about how the probability of detecting a randomly occurring MME increases with peak detectability, with slower rates of decay in detectability, and with more frequent observations. It can also facilitate the design of surveillance programs. To illustrate its utility, we applied it to Ranavirus-related MMEs in 35 populations of an endangered salamander subspecies. We found that the probability of detecting an MME was <50% and that the frequency of MMEs in this system was likely much greater than the one MME observed in the 35 ponds. The limitations of this framework (e.g., assumption that surveys occur regularly and with equal effort) may help set an agenda for future research in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70136"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945753","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":"Evolutionary and environmental determinants of heat tolerance and acclimation capacity in herpetofauna.","authors":"Zijian Sun, Baojun Sun, Jianping Jiang, Xiwen Peng, Bo Xiong, Weizhi Yao, Jianguang Qin, Shengqi Su, Tian Zhao","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exploring heat tolerance and acclimation capacity can provide an effective approach to evaluating species' sensitivity to extremely high temperatures due to climate warming. Despite some work on amphibian and reptile thermophysiological adaptation, related questions remain. We reviewed the literature to provide a synthesis of worldwide data on heat tolerance and to determine the relative importance of common evolutionary and environmental thermal variation in amphibians and reptiles in shaping species' heat tolerance and acclimation capacity. The phylogenetic conservatism in amphibian and reptile heat tolerance arose from distinct phylogenetic properties and thermal habitat variables, potentially attributable to their different environmental sensitivities and contrasting life-history characteristics. The heat tolerances of amphibians and reptiles showed significant correlations with thermal habitat variations, which is consistent with the climate variability hypothesis that species inhabiting thermally fluctuating environments develop broader environmental tolerance ranges. No significant association was detected between species' thermal habitat variation and acclimation capacity in these 2 taxa. This finding confirmed that the interaction between maintenance cost (i.e., overall external environments) and production cost (i.e., specific environmental variables) underlaid the evolution of thermal acclimation capacity. Our results showed the importance of adaptive evolution and phylogenetic conservation in molding thermophysiological traits in amphibians and reptiles. Future studies should focus on intraspecific associations between thermophysiological traits and phylogenetic factors in species across various environmental gradients.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70127"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945769","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}