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{"title":"A court decision on endangered species holds lessons for us all","authors":"Adrian Treves","doi":"10.1002/fee.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the wake of a 2024 US Supreme Court decision called <i>Loper Bright</i> (603 US 369), many commentators predicted that the deregulatory mood of the current federal government would unravel numerous environmental protections. That decision struck down the Court's 1984 <i>Chevron</i> deference doctrine (467 US 837), which instructed judges to defer to federal agency interpretation and technical expertise when a statute is ambiguous or vague. Because statutes are often ambiguous or simply too general to address the specifics of complex environmental problems, the 1984 <i>Chevron</i> deference was invoked in 18,000 subsequent court decisions, according to one prominent estimate. The new <i>Loper Bright</i> standard replaced the <i>Chevron</i> deference with a non-deferential standard—encouraging judges to interpret statutes themselves (as they are trained to do), rather than adopt an agency's interpretation thereof.</p><p>After <i>Loper Bright</i>, legal scholars expressed concerns about a coming wave of unpredictable, chaotic, and inconsistent decisions across federal courts. With authority returned to the courts under a non-deferential standard, decisions would no longer be as predictable: some judges might persist in deferring to the agency, while other judges might strike out on their own—even if facing similar fact patterns. Likewise, chaos might ensue as judges without training in technical environmental issues hand down decisions guided too much by the influence of their individual preferences. While not immune to political or other pressures, US federal agencies are often constrained by having more individuals involved in decision-making and by legally binding duties to seek public input. To me, it's unclear whether judges are as constrained by either factor. Now that data are beginning to accumulate about the effect of <i>Loper Bright</i> on environmental policy, I offer one example of a federal court case for those of us conducting policy-relevant research.</p><p>On August 5, 2025, a federal district court judge—in the case <i>Center for Biological Diversity et al. v. US Fish & Wildlife Service et al</i>. (CV 24-86-M-DWM), Ninth circuit, District Court of Montana—invoked <i>Loper Bright</i> when explaining why he would disregard a 2014 policy promulgated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) interpreting a provision of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). At issue was FWS’ interpretation of the term “range” to solely refer to currently occupied range, and Judge Molloy looked to both Congressional intent and the plain language of the ESA, determining that “range” should include historical range. He thus ordered the FWS to reverse course and consider the historical range of gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains.</p><p>If the above case (hereafter <i>CBD</i>) withstands appeal, it could ripple to other endangered species whose current ranges differ substantially from their historical ranges. Beyond endangered species, <i>CBD</","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196712","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":"Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks","authors":"Rick A Relyea","doi":"10.1002/fee.2865","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927701","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":"Sparse genetic data limit biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally","authors":"Ivan Paz-Vinas,&nbsp;Amy G Vandergast,&nbsp;Chloé Schmidt,&nbsp;Deborah M Leigh,&nbsp;Simon Blanchet,&nbsp;René D Clark,&nbsp;Eric D Crandall,&nbsp;Hanne De Kort,&nbsp;Jeff Falgout,&nbsp;Colin J Garroway,&nbsp;Eleana Karachaliou,&nbsp;Francine Kershaw,&nbsp;David O’Brien,&nbsp;Malin L Pinsky,&nbsp;Gernot Segelbacher,&nbsp;Rachel H Toczydlowski,&nbsp;Margaret E Hunter","doi":"10.1002/fee.2867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2867","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global conservation targets include protecting genetic diversity within species. Yet few studies have assessed whether protected areas (PAs) include genetically diverse populations across species globally. A first step is understanding the availability of population genetic data that could be used in these assessments. We surveyed georeferenced population-level nuclear (as opposed to mitochondrial or plastid-based) genetic data across continents and marine biomes (36,354 populations, 2809 species) and found substantial geographic and taxonomic gaps. Most data were concentrated in Europe and North America, with major gaps in Africa and Asia. For most taxonomic groups, data were available for &lt;1% of described species. Globally, 52.08% of the total areal extent of PAs lacked genetically sampled populations. These gaps in data availability highlight the need for targeted genetic data collection, harmonization, and sharing to improve genetic diversity monitoring and conservation planning. Combined with proxy-based genetic indicators, such data are needed to inform PA assessments, bolster area-based conservation initiatives like 30 × 30, and support achievement of global genetic conservation targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2867","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196737","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":"From science to policy: evolving marine biodiversity targets","authors":"Jan-Claas Dajka,&nbsp;Anne K Eilrich,&nbsp;Andrea Franke,&nbsp;Benjamin S Halpern,&nbsp;Bernadette Snow,&nbsp;Amanda T Lombard,&nbsp;Ute Jacob,&nbsp;Silke Laakmann,&nbsp;Amelie Luhede,&nbsp;Helmut Hillebrand","doi":"10.1002/fee.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) substantially advances biodiversity protection. We systematically reviewed the scholarly literature published during the UN Decade on Biodiversity (2010–2020) to assess whether GBF targets align with scientific approaches and improve upon the Aichi Targets in recognizing the complexity of marine biodiversity. Our findings showed that the new targets have improved to address the full suite of essential biodiversity variable (EBV) classes, reducing the risk of changes in crucial aspects of biodiversity being overlooked. We observed a high degree of alignment between research and policy in EBVs and a relative increase in the reliance of the GBF on secondary variables such as ecosystem function. While this alignment mirrors that within other global frameworks, we caution against overemphasizing secondary variables at the expense of foundational variables such as community composition. Our analysis demonstrates that global policy targets align well with scientific understanding of marine biodiversity. Future efforts should focus on improving national-level implementation and refining indicators to foster transformative change in biodiversity conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196701","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":"The western North American forestland carbon sink: will our climate commitments go up in smoke?","authors":"Paul F Hessburg,&nbsp;Werner A Kurz,&nbsp;Susan J Prichard,&nbsp;Carolyn E Smyth,&nbsp;Lori D Daniels,&nbsp;Christian P Giardina,&nbsp;Carly A Phillips,&nbsp;Robert W Gray,&nbsp;Florencia Tiribelli,&nbsp;Jennifer N Baron,&nbsp;Jocelyne LaFlamme,&nbsp;Dominik Roeser","doi":"10.1002/fee.2869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Pathways to achieving net-zero and net-negative greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission targets rely on land-based contributions to carbon (C) sequestration. However, projections of future contributions neglect to consider ecosystems, climate change, legacy impacts of continental-scale fire exclusion, forest accretion and densification, and a century or more of management. These influences predispose western North American forests (wNAFs) to severe drought impacts, large and chronic outbreaks of insect pests, and increasingly large and severe wildfires. To realistically assess contributions of future terrestrial C sinks, we must quantify the amount and configuration of stored C in wNAFs, its vulnerability to severe disturbance and climatic changes, costs and net GHG impacts of feasible transitions to conditions that can tolerate active fire, and opportunities for redirecting thinning-derived biomass to uses that retain harvested C while reducing emissions from alternate products. Failing to adopt this broader mindset, future forest contributions to emission targets will go up in smoke</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2869","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196526","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":"Ecosystem services on restored marginal farmland","authors":"Andrew S MacDougall,&nbsp;Ellen H Esch,&nbsp;Aleksandra J Dolezal,&nbsp;Caroline Kamm,&nbsp;Oliver H Carroll,&nbsp;Micaela Tosi,&nbsp;Kevin MacColl,&nbsp;Mark Nessel,&nbsp;Annika Wilcox,&nbsp;Lake Ellsworth,&nbsp;Annalisa CM Mazzorato,&nbsp;Daniel Noble,&nbsp;Matthew Pavusa,&nbsp;Samantha Ramirez,&nbsp;Bernal J Arce,&nbsp;Marie Gutgesell,&nbsp;Kevin S McCann,&nbsp;Evan DG Fraser,&nbsp;John M Fryxell,&nbsp;Bryan Gilvesy,&nbsp;Katherine Balpataky,&nbsp;Jana Levison,&nbsp;Asim Biswas,&nbsp;Kari Dunfield,&nbsp;Neil Rooney,&nbsp;Hafiz Maherali,&nbsp;Amy Newman,&nbsp;Brian C Husband,&nbsp;Dirk Steinke,&nbsp;Jeremy DeWaard,&nbsp;Genevieve Ali,&nbsp;Ryan Prosser,&nbsp;Andrew Young,&nbsp;Hugh J Earl,&nbsp;John Sulik,&nbsp;Eric Harvey,&nbsp;Malcolm M Campbell","doi":"10.1002/fee.2866","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2866","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Industrialized agriculture often uses marginal-land restoration to reduce environmental impacts, seeking to generate ecosystem services while maintaining food production on better soils. Here, we describe benefit trajectories for biodiversity, nutrient retention, and soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation up to a decade after conversion of marginal farmlands to grasslands or wetlands. Even in small areas that were restored, biodiversity increased across most trophic levels, driven by colonization of non-agronomic taxa. Nutrient retention by grassland buffers was substantive but seasonal, with losses common outside of the growing season. Although initial SOC gains were modest, a 20-fold increase in recalcitrant root biomass to a depth of 60 cm suggests that SOC storage will accelerate. Overall, even if it were unable to unilaterally and immediately offset nutrient pollution or SOC loss, restoration created multiple benefits. Marginal-land restoration can serve as a necessary and critical component to improved sustainable intensification, especially if partnered with on-field crop management targeting nutrient retention and SOC accumulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927751","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":"Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation?","authors":"Jerrold L Belant,&nbsp;Kevin C Elliott,&nbsp;Jacob E Hill,&nbsp;Kenneth F Kellner","doi":"10.1002/fee.2864","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2864","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Considerable debate surrounds whether hunting, especially “trophy” hunting, benefits wildlife conservation (eg Hare &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Although hunting has adversely impacted some species historically and currently, we contend that hunting can also benefit wildlife conservation, defined here as the long-term, sustainable maintenance of wildlife species and their habitat. We suggest broadly that hunting supports wildlife conservation when the long-term benefits to wildlife exceed the long-term costs thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hunting benefits wildlife conservation in several ways, one of which is by reducing land-use change. When land is conserved primarily for hunting and is not substantially altered for other uses (eg crop or livestock agriculture, human development), hunting can facilitate the protection of land and the biodiversity and ecosystem processes therein. Another way is by reducing wildlife hyperabundance. The harvest of individuals from populations that exceed ecological carrying capacity can offset the impacts of overherbivory by some ungulate species and corresponding loss of plant biodiversity (Reed &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Hunting also has the potential to limit disease transmission or disease prevalence. For example, the prevalence of chronic wasting disease in mule deer (&lt;i&gt;Odocoileus hemionus&lt;/i&gt;) was reduced after increased harvests of male deer (Conner &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, by funding anti-poaching efforts, hunting can help to reduce illegal harvests of wildlife. In parts of Africa, anti-poaching efforts are often supported by—and in some countries like Zambia, required of—hunting outfitters (Lewis and Alpert &lt;span&gt;1997&lt;/span&gt;). A moratorium on legal hunting in Botswana reportedly resulted in an increase in poaching incidents (Mbaiwa &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). Perhaps counterintuitively, limited, selective harvest of certain threatened species can aid in their protection. For instance, revenues generated from highly regulated sustainable harvests of a few, typically older male, black rhinos (&lt;i&gt;Diceros bicornis&lt;/i&gt;) have benefitted, as opposed to compromised, species recovery and habitat conservation (‘t Sas-Rolfes &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). A moratorium on hunting rhinos is expected to adversely impact rhino conservation (‘t Sas-Rolfes &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Other forms of economic support for wildlife conservation may also originate from hunting. In the US, the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 generated almost $1.2 billion (all monetary values are expressed in US dollars) from taxation on firearms and hunting equipment during 2023 alone, of which about $962 million was allocated to wildlife management and conservation (USFWS &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;); likewise, fees associated with hunting licenses generated about $1.1 billion in 2024 (USFWS &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), which was used by state agencies largely for wildlife conservation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Local economies can al","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927496","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":"Cultivating curiosity","authors":"Paul J CaraDonna,&nbsp;Nicholas N Dorian,&nbsp;Dylan T Simpson,&nbsp;Mark EK Dorf","doi":"10.1002/fee.2863","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2863","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Dust settled as we stepped out of the car. A kinglet chattered in an alligator juniper. We (three ecologists and a conceptual media artist) had just arrived at our field sites in the Santa Catalina Mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona. Our bags were packed with vials and nets, forceps and paint pens, cameras and notebooks. We were there to investigate how a small metallic-green bee makes a living in a rapidly changing world. We had worked in this mid-elevation desert shrubland before and we knew of its natural history. Our starting point would be to look for flowering manzanita shrubs, which are the only plants in bloom this time of year and serve as the bees’ exclusive food source.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We surveyed the dry hills, examining hundreds of manzanita shrubs. But after nearly twenty hours of searching, we could not find a single flower, let alone a single bee. Field work does not always go according to plan, but this was extreme. As we came to the realization that all the flower buds had aborted this year because of drought, our confusion shifted to despair. We had received funding for a multi-year project contingent on finding these flowers and the bees that forage from them. If there were no flowers this year, then a population crash for the bees seemed plausible, and our entire project might very well be jeopardized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unsure of our next steps, we wandered and wondered. At first, our conversations attempted to reconcile what we were seeing with our prior understanding of the system. But as we slowed down, our confusion and despair morphed into inquiry and curiosity. What was actually going on here? Had the bees emerged and died? Or instead dispersed, flying epic distances in search of a manzanita oasis? Had they sensed portending drought and entered dormancy, skipping the dry year altogether? Maybe they had emerged and were hiding in plain sight? Digging into any of these hypotheses would teach us new things about how these organisms make—or do not make—a living in a rapidly changing world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many months and miles removed from The Catalinas, we continued to ruminate on the enduring and grounding value of cultivating curiosity in our practice. From one perspective, our expedition was a fruitless failure, but from another, it delivered in abundance. We asked questions that we had not planned on asking; we imagined experiments that we could not have otherwise imagined; and we were able to chart a path forward that was rooted firmly in our observations of time and place. We had found ourselves with an entirely different set of ideas, studies, and experiments that would help propel the project forward.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Confronting uncertainty head-on can be confusing, slow, and uncomfortable; and it can also be at odds with the very real incentive structures (jobs, promotions, grants) and value systems (publications, grants, citations) that shape our practice in the product-oriented culture of contemporary science. But engaging with this discomfort can ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927728","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":"Professional sport organizations as potential champions of biodiversity conservation","authors":"Ugo Arbieu,&nbsp;Céline Bellard,&nbsp;Corey JA Bradshaw,&nbsp;Ricardo A Correia,&nbsp;Pierre Courtois,&nbsp;Enrico Di Minin,&nbsp;Ivan Jarić,&nbsp;Boris Leroy,&nbsp;Jessica R Murfree,&nbsp;Madeleine Orr,&nbsp;Samuel Roturier,&nbsp;Melanie Sartore-Baldwin,&nbsp;Diogo Veríssimo,&nbsp;Franck Courchamp","doi":"10.1002/fee.2862","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2862","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). 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).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). 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 &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;). For instance, the lion (&lt;i&gt;Panthera leo&lt;/i&gt;) is the most frequently used animal emblem across team sports, is highly charismatic, and yet is threatened with extinction (Courchamp &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;), making it a potent flagship species for many ecosystems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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":"Drought and deluge—opportunities for climate-change adaptation in US national parks","authors":"Meagan F Oldfather,&nbsp;Amber N Runyon,&nbsp;Kyra Clark-Wolf,&nbsp;Wynne E Moss,&nbsp;Imtiaz Rangwala,&nbsp;Anthony Ciocco,&nbsp;Aparna Bamzai-Dodson,&nbsp;Helen R Sofaer,&nbsp;Brian W Miller","doi":"10.1002/fee.2858","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2858","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a changing climate, resource management depends on anticipating changes and considering uncertainties. To facilitate effective decision making on public lands, we regionally summarized the magnitude and uncertainty of projected change in management-relevant climate variables for 332 national park units across the contiguous US. Temperature, frequency of extreme precipitation events, and drought exposure are all projected to increase within seven regions delineated in the US National Climate Assessment. In particular, the anticipated collective impacts of droughts and flooding events will lead to unique management challenges, including combinations of management actions that may seem inconsistent. Furthermore, uncertainty in the magnitude of change varied by region and climate variable considered, pointing to specific opportunities for prioritization, transferability, and innovation of climate adaptation regionally and at the park-unit scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927773","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}