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{"title":"Professional sport organizations as potential champions of biodiversity conservation","authors":"Ugo Arbieu, Céline Bellard, Corey JA Bradshaw, Ricardo A Correia, Pierre Courtois, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Boris Leroy, Jessica R Murfree, Madeleine Orr, Samuel Roturier, Melanie Sartore-Baldwin, Diogo Veríssimo, Franck Courchamp","doi":"10.1002/fee.2862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biodiversity loss is a global crisis, human-driven species extinction rates are higher than ever before, and these rates are expected to worsen. This calls for new socioeconomic business models that could inspire societal transformations benefitting biodiversity conservation and restoration. The emblems of sport organizations are often articulated around the central figure of a wildlife species. Such species occupy an important part of the cultural space and can therefore serve as important flagship species for conservation through sport, particularly those most threatened with extinction (Courchamp <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>). At the intersection of two hitherto unrelated realms (ie sport and conservation), there are potentially important synergies that are unique to the sport sector among three groups of stakeholders: professional team-sport organizations, fan communities, and biodiversity conservationists (Figure 1).</p><p>Despite growing willingness to act in favor of the environment, sport stakeholders lack connections with and support from conservation experts to design evidence-based interventions. Hence, biodiversity conservation is not yet a priority on the sustainability agenda of professional sport organizations. There are win–win strategies for mobilizing sport stakeholders for biodiversity conservation: connecting fans’ enthusiasm for sport, the symbolic attachment to wildlife emblems, and the imperative of biodiversity conservation (Figure 1). These strategies combine three stakes: (i) conservationists need greater support and resources to protect wildlife, (ii) sport fans benefit from a solid connection with their team, and (iii) sport organizations rely on loyal fans and high brand value.</p><p>Our inability to halt the degradation of biodiversity echoes the low support from the general public, the increasing disconnection between people and nature, and the chronic underfunding and lack of ambition in conservation strategies (Barbier <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>). Animal imagery is a powerful cultural driver of wildlife perceptions, can strengthen connection with nature, and so plays an important role in conservation marketing aimed at raising biodiversity awareness and financial resources. Hence, ubiquitous animal imagery in the sport industry could promote flagship species whose traits (ecological, physiognomic, or cultural) resonate with sport communities, and whose conservation could attract support for broader conservation targets (Veríssimo <i>et al</i>. <span>2011</span>). For instance, the lion (<i>Panthera leo</i>) is the most frequently used animal emblem across team sports, is highly charismatic, and yet is threatened with extinction (Courchamp <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>), making it a potent flagship species for many ecosystems.</p><p>Animals selected to represent strength, courage, or independence were first used as good luck charms for sport fans, and became an integral part of team identities and lega","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751648","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":"Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events","authors":"Virginia H Dale, Steven P Norman, Rebecca A Efroymson","doi":"10.1002/fee.2855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2855","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Large disturbances to ecosystems can severely impact the stability of a region's natural resources, habitats, and outdoor recreation. Because extreme events can be large and relatively infrequent, they test institutional capacity to support recovery and restoration. When hurricanes and other large-scale disturbances like wildfires occur, much of the impacted landscape receives little to no active management. Ecosystems are often allowed to either recover or transition without much direct intervention, and successional dynamics are sometimes altered by novel invasive species, management history, or other environmental changes.</p><p>Recovery and restoration are especially challenging for landscapes with highly fragmented private ownership, such as the forests of the eastern US. Acting alone, non-industrial private forest landowners have little capacity to effectively respond to unexpected forest loss and to oversee forest recovery, as the scale of actions needed after extreme events may require cooperation across ownerships or jurisdictions.</p><p>In September 2024, Hurricane Helene exposed these underlying vulnerabilities of southern Appalachian forests. In western North Carolina alone, about 196,000 hectares of forest received major damage from Hurricane Helene, with most impacts occurring on private lands and in unusually large blowdown patches with no known regional precedent. Not since the widespread forest loss of the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to extensive logging and the American chestnut blight have so few trees covered the region's slopes.</p><p>This enormous damage to southern Appalachian forests raises concerns about loss of wildlife habitat, increased wildfire risks due to the abundance of fuel, reduced water quality from erosion and sedimentation, and spread of invasive species. Damaged forests are likely to reestablish as novel ecosystems composed of new species assemblages with a suite of interactions and processes that differ from prior conditions. On public and private lands, the duration of forest recovery will take decades or more and will be highly dependent on management choices and market incentives.</p><p>Since Hurricane Helene, disaster relief crews continue to work hard to remove fallen trees and debris near structures, roads, trails, and recreation areas as time and funds are available. However, removing downed and damaged wood is more costly and dangerous than typical forest harvesting. Piles of downed, unused wood may be burned, but combustion releases smoke and carbon into the atmosphere. Historically, debris burning and arson are the region's primary sources of wildfire ignitions, and it is hard to control burns when so many of the surrounding forests have high flammability.</p><p>A major dilemma is what to do with all this downed wood and debris from Hurricane Helene and how to pay for its removal. There is ongoing timber demand for large intact boles, at least where they can be accessed, but demand i","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751549","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":"Sustainability of large language models—user perspective","authors":"Pavel Pipek, Shane Canavan, Susan Canavan, César Capinha, Jérôme MW Gippet, Ana Novoa, Petr Pyšek, Allan T Souza, Shengyu Wang, Ivan Jarić","doi":"10.1002/fee.2856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2856","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Large language models (LLMs) are becoming an integral part of our daily work. In the field of ecology, LLMs are already being applied to a wide range of tasks, such as extracting georeferenced data or taxonomic entities from unstructured texts, information synthesis, coding, and teaching (<i>Methods Ecol Evol</i> 2024; <i>Npj Biodivers</i> 2024). Further development and increased use of LLMs in ecology, as in science in general, is likely to intensify and accelerate the process of research and increase publication output—thus pressuring scientists to keep up with the elevated pace, which in turn creates a feedback loop by promoting even greater LLM use.</p><p>However, this all comes at a cost. While not directly borne by end users, aside from occasional response delays, LLMs require considerable computational power and are energy-demanding during both their initial training phase and their subsequent operational use (<i>Nature</i> 2025). Furthermore, partly externalized energy costs are linked to intensive searching and processing of discovered sources as part of Deep Research. Currently, it remains challenging to estimate the total energy costs of LLMs, largely due to limited transparency from their companies of origin.</p><p>The ways to improve LLM sustainability, for example by algorithmic or hardware optimization and renewable energy use during development and operation, have been extensively examined. However, we contend that the role of end users, including researchers, has been largely overlooked. End users can and should be part of the solution, to their own benefit. By selecting less resource-intensive options, optimizing their prompts, or selecting platforms that use renewable energy sources, users would not only contribute to LLM sustainability but also improve their own workflows. Besides reducing energy consumption, a more parsimonious use of LLMs could also lessen other harms, such as cooling water use and extraction of rare earth metals. Consequently, companies should support users in making such informed choices.</p><p>For instance, most companies provide LLMs of different complexities or sizes, often measured by the number of parameters. Relying on the largest models can be excessive in many cases (eg answering emails, checking grammar, or conducting searches that could be done by traditional search engines). By selecting a smaller, less energy-intensive model, users can also benefit from quicker responses. In addition, some smaller models are trained to perform specific tasks, eg coding, and can thus match or outperform bigger ones.</p><p>Another potential way to reduce energy costs and save user time is to trim the expected length and complexity of the model's response. For example, for some questions, an elaborate answer is unnecessary, if not counterproductive (ie because it takes time to read through); in other cases, only code is needed, without any further explanations. And this can be directly specified in the prompt.<","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2856","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191146","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":"Moving beyond continents for global and inclusive science","authors":"Ivan Jarić, Christophe Diagne, Shawan Chowdhury","doi":"10.1002/fee.2851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2851","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global science suffers from persistent geographical disparities that skew research toward affluent countries and regions, primarily in Europe and North America (Maas <i>et al</i>. <span>2021</span>; Gomez <i>et al</i>. <span>2022</span>). Despite increased awareness, efforts to foster inclusivity within scientific communities often perpetuate existing biases. Studies claiming to have global representation among their authors are, in reality, mostly skewed to authors from particular countries, typically those that are more economically developed within a given continent. For instance, in research collaborations that include authors from South America, Africa, and Asia, those authors are primarily affiliated with only a few economically developed countries—such as Brazil, South Africa, and China—leaving many other nations on those continents underrepresented. In general, this could deceptively suggest that research is not being conducted in the underrepresented countries. Besides providing a misleading image of global inclusiveness, excluding voices from these regions leads to data gaps and diminished spatial coverage of studies, and overlooks opportunities to enhance scientific capacity in marginalized countries (Shaaban <i>et al</i>. <span>2024</span>).</p><p>This issue is partly driven by international research networks and consortia favoring established “traditional” institutions and experts, alongside the persistence of “parachute research” practices. Scientists from regionally misrepresented countries often face limited professional visibility (eg online profiles, personal websites), as well as restricted access to international conferences, funding, and collaboration networks—further entrenching their geographic exclusion. In addition, many scholars from underrepresented countries often publish research in non-English languages or local scientific journals, both of which are vastly unavailable in or excluded from major international scholarly bibliographic databases (eg Web of Science, Scopus; Chowdhury <i>et al</i>. <span>2022</span>). Consequently, relying on such databases to ascertain representation within so-called global projects, assessments, and analyses (hereafter, global studies) provides a highly incomplete picture of the actual research landscape.</p><p>An analysis of the involvement of authors from misrepresented countries in global studies within the wider field of ecology and conservation (for methods, see Appendix 1: Panel S1) revealed strong regional disparities (Figure 1). In the publications that originated from these global studies (3731 in all), collaborations and authorship tended to be regionally concentrated in only a few economically developed countries, while regionally low-income countries were rarely involved. For example, in purportedly global studies that included at least one author from Africa, authors from low-income countries were involved in only 27% of publications (56 out of 209), which were dominated ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2851","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900869","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":"Dam Beavers, for a more sustainable world","authors":"Brendan Fisher, Olivia Buchler, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal","doi":"10.1002/fee.2850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beavers are everywhere…but not literally though. In fact, they are nowhere nearly as ubiquitous compared to where they used to be. Estimates suggest that while as many as 400 million beavers (<i>Castor canadensis</i>) were present in North America prior to European colonialization, there are around 10 million now. In Europe, by the end of the 19th century, the total number of Eurasian beavers (<i>Castor fiber</i>) was estimated to be just 1200 individuals scattered across eight isolated populations. A recent estimate puts the Eurasian beaver population at 1.5 million individuals (<i>Mamm Rev</i> 2021).</p><p>The reintroduction of beaver populations represents a major conservation success. Although modern beaver populations remain a fraction of their historical numbers, due to centuries of trapping and habitat loss, their recovery can be attributed to a suite of factors including not only effective conservation and legal protections, habitat restoration, and conflict resolution strategies, but also increased public awareness. Their resurgence, juxtaposed with the near-extirpation of <i>C canadensis</i> and <i>C fiber</i> from North America and Europe, respectively, may contribute to the perception that beavers are now widespread. However, recognizing this recovery within the context of historical population baselines underscores the continuing need for conservation and habitat restoration efforts.</p><p>Human fascination with this cute, orange-toothed, semi-aquatic rodent is encapsulated in several successful popular press books including <i>Eager: The surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter</i> (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green) by Ben Goldfarb; <i>Beaverland: How one weird rodent made America</i> (New York, NY: Twelve) by Leila Philip; and <i>Bringing back the beaver: The story of one man's quest to rewild Britain's waterways</i> (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green) by Derek Gow. And there is now among the public a growing recognition of the ecological roles beavers play across the landscape. As ecosystem engineers, they actively shape their environments by regulating water flow, enhancing landscape resilience to wildfire, and creating critical habitat for a diverse array of species. A review out of the University of Helsinki of the ecosystem services that beavers provide would put a value of about $900 per hectare per year where beavers are active (<i>Mamm Rev</i> 2021).</p><p>Our lab began studying beavers after a 15-meter-long dam appeared seemingly overnight in one of the University of Vermont's Natural Areas. While students celebrated the new habitat, reactions were mixed, prompting us to reroute a trail and install signage highlighting the ecological benefits of these ecosystem engineers. This event sparked a series of research initiatives examining the ecological and social dimensions of beaver activity. We analyzed water quality upstream and downstream of beaver dams to assess their role in nutrient retentio","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2850","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900872","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":"Response to Caudill et al. (2025)","authors":"Kira A Cassidy, Douglas W Smith","doi":"10.1002/fee.2834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901101","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":"Integrating climate change, biological invasions, and infectious wildlife diseases","authors":"David W Thieltges,&nbsp;David Bruce Conn,&nbsp;Ross N Cuthbert,&nbsp;Alison M Dunn,&nbsp;E Rosa Jolma,&nbsp;M Camille Hopkins,&nbsp;Volodimir Sarabeev,&nbsp;Sander Smolders,&nbsp;Carol A Stepien,&nbsp;K Mathias Wegner,&nbsp;Patrick M Kočovský","doi":"10.1002/fee.2849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2849","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is likely to affect infectious diseases that are facilitated by biological invasions, with repercussions for wildlife conservation and zoonotic risks. Current invasion management and policy are underprepared for the future risks associated with such invasion-related wildlife diseases. By considering evidence from bioclimatology, invasion biology, and disease research, we illustrate how climate change is anticipated to affect disease agents (parasites and pathogens), hosts, and vectors across the different stages of invasions. We highlight the opportunity to integrate these disciplines to identify the effects of climate change on invasion-related wildlife diseases. In addition, shifting to a proactive stance in implementing management and policy, such as by incorporating climate-change effects either into preventative and mitigation measures for biosecurity or with rapid response protocols to limit disease spread and impacts, could help to combat future ecological, economic, and human health risks stemming from invasion-related wildlife diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2849","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751607","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":"“COP of the Forest” highlights global conservation contradictions","authors":"Lucas Colares,&nbsp;Bruno Eleres Soares","doi":"10.1002/fee.2845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2845","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference—COP, or the Conference of the Parties—is the main global forum to advance climate goals through international collaboration. Its most recent gatherings underscored the urgency of reducing carbon emissions, conserving forests and biodiversity, and creating better ways to sustainably manage water and produce food. However, the pathway to achieve such goals is often challenged by a global economy serving the high resource demands of wealthy countries and by socio-environmental conflicts in the Global South.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Critics often argue that COP benefits wealthy countries the most by setting a global stage for them to showcase their policies. Moreover, the inflow of resources into host cities is applied to event management and infrastructure, which poorly reflect long-term positive changes. Like many other international mega-events, COP might leave behind a legacy of degradation and disruption, for which the host city's most vulnerable residents will bear an outsized impact. And the next one—COP 30, November 10–21, 2025—will be held in the Amazon, with Belém, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, as its host city.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Central to global climate stability, the Amazon region is facing severe, unprecedented environmental crises, which highlight the contradictions of hosting such an event in this place. In 2024 alone, Pará recorded over 50,000 wildfires, almost half of all wildfires recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. That same year, on November 24, in Santarém, Pará's third largest city, air pollution spiked to levels more than 40 times those recommended by the World Health Organization, thereby prompting a climate emergency declaration. Six days later, on November 30, Belém citizens awoke under a blanket of smoke from fires on Mosqueiro Island, over 80 km away. Meanwhile, unlicensed infrastructure projects to meet COP 30 necessities, including a major highway expansion, threaten local biodiversity. Such projects betray the local governance priorities, placing international optics over meaningful action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The juxtaposition of Pará's role as host of the “COP of the Forest” and its pressing environmental issues highlights the contradictions that COP faces. These challenges go beyond deforestation and pollution, exposing deep socio-environmental inequities. For instance, 80% of Belém's population lacks access to basic sanitation (&lt;i&gt;Res Soc Dev&lt;/i&gt; 2020), underscoring the persistent gap between governance rhetoric and tangible action. Pará has been at the forefront of deforestation in the Amazon, leading the region in forest loss for about two decades. This ongoing deforestation threatens the state's rich biodiversity, including over 20,000 animal and plant species, while also impacting 134 traditional and Indigenous communities across over 25% of Pará's territory. These communities already face increasing pressures from illegal mining, highway and hydroelectric projects, and violent conflicts w","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741278","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":"Assessing Nature: perceptions, knowledge, and gaps","authors":"Gillian Bowser,&nbsp;Kofi Akamani,&nbsp;Meena M Balgopal,&nbsp;John D Coley,&nbsp;Elizabeth D Diaz-Clark,&nbsp;W Chris Funk,&nbsp;Brian Helmuth,&nbsp;Sérgio Henriques,&nbsp;Nikki Grant-Hoffman,&nbsp;Tashiana Osborne,&nbsp;Arathi Seshadri,&nbsp;Pamela H Templer,&nbsp;Mark C Urban,&nbsp;Kim Waddell","doi":"10.1002/fee.2846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2846","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In 2022, the US Global Change Research Program initiated the first National Nature Assessment (NNA) via presidential Executive Order, addressing the need to “take stock of US lands, waters, wildlife and the benefits they provide to our economy, health, climate, environmental justice, and national security” (Global Change Research Act of 1990). This order was rescinded in January 2025, effectively cancelling the NNA before the final assessment was published. However, many of its authors deemed this multi-year endeavor important enough to keep alive because the NNA was needed to provide the American public with a “comprehensive understanding of nature, an assessment enriched by braiding together the stories, scientific findings, Indigenous knowledge, and lived experiences of people from across the US” (Tallis &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Performing such an assessment requires moving beyond a mere snapshot of the status and trends of environmental features, ecosystems, and organisms, and weaving in diverse perspectives and knowledge systems representing the cultural complexity and heritage of American communities (Chan &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;). As experts convened by the NNA, we—the authors of this commentary—represent different scientific disciplines including ecology, genomics, entomology, science communication, psychology, natural resource management, Earth and environmental sciences, and human dimensions of natural resources. We explored the status, trends, and future projections of nature but recognized that our own perspectives and training represent only a slice of the many cultural perspectives and knowledge systems addressing the human–nature nexus. Regardless, we were tasked, as part of the NNA, with assessing the available scientific literature and associated knowledge sources (including information from museums, zoos, participatory databases, and government agencies). We were and are deeply committed to the view that humans are part of nature, and that human values and perceptions of nature shape what we measure, protect, manage, and love in the environments that surround and sustain us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original vision of the NNA is still critically important as it required us to interlink social perceptions with scientific information and knowledge gaps as ways to understand how the nature of today is uniquely shaped by American society, what the nature of the future will likely be, and how we can use that understanding to support nature that benefits all Americans. We argue that interlinkages among people's perceptions of nature and the data available to measure nature across different biological scales—including populations, communities, and ecosystems—shape a future nature in complex and potentially unpredictable ways.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here, we share our approach of using constructive dialogues and storytelling as exemplified by the Talanoa Dialogues introduced by Fiji to the UNFCCC in 2017. We frame the status and trends of nat","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741371","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":"Recommendations for built marine infrastructure that supports natural habitats","authors":"Avery B Paxton,&nbsp;Sarah E Lester,&nbsp;Carter S Smith,&nbsp;Siddharth Narayan,&nbsp;Christine Angelini,&nbsp;Brendan J Runde,&nbsp;Megan I Saunders,&nbsp;Rachel K Gittman,&nbsp;Jacob Allgeier,&nbsp;Maria L Vozzo,&nbsp;D'amy N Steward,&nbsp;Hayley R Lemoine,&nbsp;Stephanie R Valdez,&nbsp;Rebecca L Morris,&nbsp;Douglas P Nowacek,&nbsp;William Seaman,&nbsp;Patrick N Halpin,&nbsp;Brian R Silliman","doi":"10.1002/fee.2840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2840","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The extent of built marine infrastructure—from energy infrastructure and ports to artificial reefs and aquaculture—is increasing globally. The rise in built structure coverage is concurrent with losses and degradation of many natural habitats. Although historically associated with net negative impacts on natural systems, built infrastructure—with proper design and innovation—could offer a largely unrealized opportunity to reduce those impacts and support natural habitats. We present nine recommendations that could catalyze momentum toward using built structures to both serve their original function and benefit natural habitats (relative to the status quo, for example). These recommendations integrate functional, economic, and social considerations with marine spatial planning and holistic ecosystem management. As the footprint of the Anthropocene expands into ocean spaces, adopting these nine recommendations at global scales can help to ensure that ecological harm is minimized and that, where feasible, ecological benefits from marine built structures are accrued.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2840","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751461","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}