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{"title":"Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?","authors":"Heather Fair, Osmary A Medina-Báez, Barbara J Spiecker, Qingyu Gan, Yan Yin “Jenny” Cheung, Elvira D'Bastiani, Gregory R Goldsmith","doi":"10.1002/fee.2821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2821","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This was expressed by a speaker at the 2024 Ecological Society of America's (ESA's) Annual Meeting, where we conducted an experimental special session (<i>SS 31 - Towards Equity in the Communication of Science: Harnessing the Power of AI for an Inclusive Tomorrow</i>) to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) interpretation of scientific talks by native speakers of Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish into real-time running English captions.</p><p>One fundamental value of the ESA is to “[provide] the community of ecologists of diverse backgrounds, heritage, and career paths with a supportive home that advances their aspirations”. Currently, the lingua franca at international science meetings is English, which certainly discourages or prevents many talented scientists from sharing their science, networking with colleagues, and otherwise fully participating in international conferences. Indeed, many avoid attending annual conferences altogether due to language barriers. Emerging AI technologies may soon make it possible to attract a diversity of new voices into science. ESA members are from all over the world: representing 88 countries as of 2023. By giving individuals the option to deliver presentations in the language they are most comfortable with through real-time AI interpretation, we might honor our collective ancestral voices and diversify the messages of science.</p><p>To assess the quality of AI interpretation through real-time subtitles for spoken content, we used a common presentation software and a paid AI interpretation service, in which we paired an Asian language with a Latin language of similar interpretation difficulty. After the talks, we conducted a survey and held an audience discussion assessing our experiences with the AI interpretation. Attendees of the session spoke several languages, and most were early-career individuals, both of which may not be reflective of ESA membership as a whole.</p><p>There was much to be excited about. Of the attendees who completed the survey, 84% (27/32) indicated they were likely to attend future sessions with interpretation subtitles, 84% (27/32) rated the continued exploration of AI interpretation as important, and 97% (29/30) agreed that “AI interpretation technologies make scientific conferences more inclusive for non-native English speakers”. These results demonstrate support for AI interpretation as a means to enhance inclusion at scientific conferences, but there is more work to do to ensure that adequate consideration is given to how diverse individuals obtain and communicate information.</p><p>From our collective experience and discussion, we learned that AI interpretation is advancing rapidly, but is still not ready for widespread implementation: (1) The audience experienced cognitive overload with the lines of scrolling subtitles, which moved too quickly even with rehearsed pauses by the speakers; (2) As AI switched the grammatical structure from Asian languages to ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762472","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":"Bone gnawing in a Japanese squirrel","authors":"Kenji Suetsugu, Koichi Gomi","doi":"10.1002/fee.2813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579627","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":"Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you","authors":"Karin E Limburg","doi":"10.1002/fee.2812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2812","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <i>“When you can't breathe, nothing else matters.”—slogan of The American Lung Association</i>\u0000 </p><p>The world's waters are losing oxygen, and we should be very concerned.</p><p>In 2017, Denise Breitburg, Lisa Levin, and I wrote a guest editorial for this column about ocean deoxygenation—the loss of dissolved oxygen in our oceans, estuaries, and coastal zones. At the time, deoxygenation was little known among many scientists, let alone the general public or policy makers, except as related to eutrophication. We pointed out that although many low oxygen events are tied to sewage pollution and agricultural runoff, deoxygenation is increasingly recognized as a climate-driven problem, affecting even waters without excess nutrients.</p><p>2017 was the year when we learned that the oceans had lost ~2% of their oxygen inventory since 1960. Then in 2018, scientists led by Denise and Lisa published a groundbreaking synthesis of what we then knew about coastal “dead zones” and oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), those vast regions of the open ocean where oxygen depletion occurs naturally, which are expanding due to the physics of warming on ocean circulation and ventilation. And in 2019, the IUCN published a summary volume on ocean deoxygenation, which was featured at that year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP25). These works were supported by a UNESCO–Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission working group, the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO<sub>2</sub>NE), whose mission is to promote awareness, stimulate research, and provide advice to policy makers on all aspects of ocean deoxygenation.</p><p>Currently, efforts are underway to produce an open-access and community-driven Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas (GO<sub>2</sub>DAT), to make the growing volume of coastal and open ocean data accessible for displays and analyses. This will be part of the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade, a program within the UN Ocean Decade, and should help us with a better understanding of where problem areas are happening.</p><p>But deoxygenation is not limited to oceans: inland water bodies are also losing oxygen, due to a combination of warming, elevated organic matter loading from increased precipitation, longer seasonal stratification, and the attendant impacts of human population growth. In a survey of nearly 400 temperate lakes and reservoirs between 1980 and 2017, Stephen Jane and colleagues reported that surface waters lost >5%, and hypolimnions >18%, of their oxygen. Even rivers are deoxygenating, despite their flowing nature; Penn State's Wei Zhi and colleagues discovered that 70% of 580 rivers surveyed lost oxygen.</p><p>Colleagues of mine working in the Adirondack Mountains of New York are concerned about oxygen-related threats to coldwater fishes. Thermal refugia in Adirondack lakes are shrinking as hypoxic/anoxic periods extend longer into the fall. And in New York's Hudson River estuary, 28 years of high-resolution, continuous monito","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2812","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579667","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":"Co-benefits of and trade-offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"Gaël Mariani,&nbsp;Fabien Moullec,&nbsp;Trisha B Atwood,&nbsp;Beverley Clarkson,&nbsp;Richard T Conant,&nbsp;Leanne Cullen-Unsworth,&nbsp;Bronson Griscom,&nbsp;Julian Gutt,&nbsp;Jennifer Howard,&nbsp;Dorte Krause-Jensen,&nbsp;Sara M Leavitt,&nbsp;Shing Yip Lee,&nbsp;Stephen J Livesley,&nbsp;Peter I Macreadie,&nbsp;Michael St-John,&nbsp;Chris Zganjar,&nbsp;William WL Cheung,&nbsp;Carlos M Duarte,&nbsp;Yunne-Jai Shin,&nbsp;Gerald G Singh,&nbsp;Nicolas Loiseau,&nbsp;Marc Troussellier,&nbsp;David Mouillot","doi":"10.1002/fee.2807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2807","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Combating climate change and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are two important challenges facing humanity. Natural climate solutions (NCSs) can contribute to the achievement of these two commitments but can also generate conflicting trade-offs. Here, we reviewed the literature and drew on expert knowledge to assess the co-benefits of and trade-offs between 150 SDG targets and NCSs within 12 selected ecosystems. We demonstrate that terrestrial, coastal, and marine NCSs enable the attainment of different sets of SDG targets, with low redundancy. Implementing NCSs in various ecosystems would therefore maximize achievement of SDG targets but would also induce trade-offs, particularly if best practices are not followed. Reliance on NCSs at large scales will require that these trade-offs be taken into consideration to ensure the simultaneous realization of positive climate outcomes and multiple SDG targets for diverse stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762161","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":"Clean thy neighbor: the mutualistic interaction between the cattle tyrant and the capybara","authors":"Guilherme Sementili Cardoso,&nbsp;Reginaldo José Donatelli","doi":"10.1002/fee.2805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cleaning symbiosis is an ecological phenomenon characterized by a mutually beneficial relationship between two species, where one individual (known as the cleaner) removes external parasites, debris, or other unwanted material from the body of the host (referred to as the client). One remarkable example of cleaning symbiosis involves the interaction between birds and capybaras, as shown by the photograph. Capybaras (<i>Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris</i>) are large rodents that inhabit wetlands, such as the Brazilian Pantanal, where they are exposed to numerous ectoparasites, including ticks and lice. In these settings, certain bird species, such as the cattle tyrant (<i>Machetornis rixosa</i>), take on the role of cleaners by landing on the capybara's body, picking the parasites, and consuming them. Interestingly, this cleaning symbiosis is not merely a one-way interaction. Capybaras also play an active role by lying on the ground and exposing their heads, backs, and bellies, thereby allowing the birds easy access to body parts that would not be reached otherwise (<i>Biota Neotrop</i> 2010; https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032010000100028).</p><p></p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429147","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":"Time to close the knowledge–practice gap in field teaching","authors":"Roxanne S Beltran,&nbsp;Nikolas J Kaplanis,&nbsp;Lina M Arcila-Hernández,&nbsp;Erika S Zavaleta,&nbsp;Robin C Dunkin,&nbsp;Abraham L Borker","doi":"10.1002/fee.2804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2804","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The stakes are high in nature's classrooms. When field-based teaching is successfully implemented, students benefit from knowledge gains and hands-on experiences while deepening a sense of connection to the outdoors. Our education research has shown that field-based undergraduate courses are also a powerful tool for recruiting and retaining diverse students in science. But not all field courses are equally effective. Barriers to participation and a lack of perceived value can discourage students from engaging in field courses. Poor course design or implementation can also cause detrimental student experiences and outcomes in the field. Although education research provides loose guidelines for how to best design field courses to attain desired enrollment and outcomes, formal training on how to teach field-based ecology courses remains rare. It is time to close the gap between what we know about effective field teaching and how it is practiced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The burden on field course instructors in attaining desired outcomes and navigating teaching challenges is enormous. Field course instructors must go above and beyond typical class content curation to develop inclusive outreach materials and safety plans, drive large vans (often for extensive periods and over long distances in remote locations), build community and cultural norms, administer first aid, attend to mental health, supervise overnight camps and shared meals, navigate drug and alcohol policies, teach students with vastly different levels of preparation, and make impromptu adjustments in response to unexpected events. Instead of being formally trained in how to address these challenges, field course instructors often learn about logistical preparation and implementation through trial-by-fire, repeating mistakes made by previous instructors because of limited knowledge transfer. Likewise, graduate students who are awarded teaching assistantships often glean how to field-teach informally by mirroring instructors, similar to an apprenticeship. A lack of training in field teaching can limit student learning outcomes and experiences, even from the most well-intentioned instructors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proliferation of teaching and learning centers at universities has led to transformative training programs for faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and postdocs in traditional classroom settings. These centers have partnered with faculty to develop teaching resources, facilitate departmental pedagogy workshops, fund course redesign efforts, and connect with institutional partners such as safety and accessibility offices. Applying such initiatives specifically to field-based courses is critical. We need field teaching training that attends to community standards, physical and psychosocial safety, equity, and stewardship of nature. This training should be offered to entire field teaching teams, including instructors, teaching assistants, peer mentors, and other staff. A toolkit of resources including field ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2804","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429146","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 fire-prone forests in a time of decreasing carbon carrying capacity","authors":"Matthew D Hurteau,&nbsp;Marissa J Goodwin,&nbsp;Christopher Marsh,&nbsp;Harold SJ Zald,&nbsp;Brandon Collins,&nbsp;Marc Meyer,&nbsp;Malcolm P North","doi":"10.1002/fee.2801","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2801","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Changing climatic conditions are increasing overstory tree mortality in forests globally. This restructuring of the distribution of biomass is making already flammable forests more combustible, posing a major challenge for managing the transition to a lower biomass state. In western US dry conifer forests, tree density resulting from over a century of fire-exclusion practices has increased the risk of high-severity wildfire and susceptibility to climate-driven mortality. Reducing dead fuel loads will require new approaches to mitigate risk to the remaining live trees by preparing forests to withstand future wildfire. Here, we used data from the Teakettle Experimental Forest in California to evaluate different prescribed fire burn frequencies and their impact on accumulated dead fuels after a 4-year drought. Increasing burn frequency could reduce surface fuel build-up but comes with additional challenges that will require creativity and experimentation to overcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185883","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":"US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color","authors":"Jessica Díaz Vázquez, Ian M McCullough, Maggie Haite, Patricia A Soranno, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil","doi":"10.1002/fee.2803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2803","url":null,"abstract":"Local‐scale environmental justice studies of freshwaters have found that marginalized populations are more likely than others to be burdened with poor‐quality waters. However, studies have yet to examine whether monitoring data are sufficient to determine the generality of such results at the national scale. We analyzed racial and ethnic community composition surrounding lakes and the presence of one‐time and long‐term (≥15 years) water‐quality data across the conterminous US. Relative to lakes in White and non‐Hispanic communities, lakes in communities of color and Hispanic communities were three times less likely to be monitored at least once. Moreover, as compared to lakes in White communities, lakes in communities of color were seven times less likely to have long‐term monitoring data; similarly, as compared to lakes in non‐Hispanic communities, lakes in Hispanic communities were nineteen times less likely to have long‐term monitoring data. Given this evidence, assessing the current water quality of and temporal changes in lakes in communities of color and Hispanic communities is extremely difficult. To achieve equitable management outcomes for people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, freshwater monitoring programs must expand their sampling and revise their designs.","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224440","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":"Upscaling ecological restoration by integrating with agriculture","authors":"Pedro HS Brancalion, Karen D Holl","doi":"10.1002/fee.2802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2802","url":null,"abstract":"Transformative change is needed to align common small‐scale ecological restoration approaches with expectations to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands globally. Currently, most restoration projects target small areas using costly manual methods that cannot be scaled up to meet global commitments. We propose that a judicious integration of agricultural practices into ecological restoration offers an opportunity to address this issue. This transformative process relies on three sequential and interconnected steps: (1) ensure that sufficient land is truly available for restoration; (2) compensate for the loss of agricultural production, income, or land value to encourage landholders to opt for restoration; and (3) develop scalable, affordable, and effective methods for restoring native ecosystems across the pledged hundreds of millions of hectares to deliver benefits to both nature and people. Large‐scale terrestrial restoration will require incorporating agronomic practices into the restoration toolbox to go beyond vague, ambitious promises and wishful thinking.","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185884","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":"Toco toucan documented as prey for the black-and-chestnut eagle in Argentina","authors":"Alejandro A Schaaf,&nbsp;Juan I Reppucci","doi":"10.1002/fee.2798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130340","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}