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{"title":"Ecological and developmental history impacts the equitable distribution of services","authors":"Lindsay E Darling,&nbsp;Christine R Rollinson,&nbsp;Robert T Fahey,&nbsp;Anita T Morzillo,&nbsp;Lea R Johnson,&nbsp;Matthew Baker,&nbsp;Myla FJ Aronson,&nbsp;Brady S Hardiman","doi":"10.1002/fee.2841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2841","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ecological and developmental history of the Chicago, Illinois, region has affected the current distribution of forests therein. These same factors, along with systemic and long-lasting racial segregation, have shaped the distribution of the urban populations that benefit from the ecosystem services provided by urban forests. This study demonstrates that forest patch history is related to forest attributes like tree species composition, tree density, canopy height, and structural heterogeneity—all of which are important predictors of a forest's ability to provide ecosystem services. However, this effect of forest history was only seen in forest cores, as forest edges were similar regardless of patch history. We also found that forests in minoritized communities tended to be less able to support high levels of ecosystem services. This research indicates that, when improving green equity, it is important to consider the variable capacity of forests to provide ecosystem services.</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.2841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751462","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":"Restoration of giant panda habitat requires balancing single- and multi-species benefits","authors":"Biao Yang,&nbsp;Yu Xu,&nbsp;Qiang Dai,&nbsp;Han Pan,&nbsp;Zhisong Yang,&nbsp;Xuyu Yang,&nbsp;Xiaodong Gu,&nbsp;Jianghong Ran,&nbsp;Zejun Zhang","doi":"10.1002/fee.2844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2844","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Efforts to restore habitat for wildlife often target single species, with limited consideration of the potential benefits provided to sympatric species. On the basis of range-wide data from the Fourth National Giant Panda Survey and infrared camera trapping, we used species distribution models to project the outcomes of five habitat restoration scenarios—designed to benefit giant pandas (<i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i>)—for giant pandas as well as for sympatric birds and mammals. Scenario outcomes, particularly those involving the conversion of plantation forests and shrublands into suitable forests, demonstrated a significant enhancement in giant panda habitat suitability, but with contrasting effects for sympatric species. Moreover, while restoration of giant panda habitat may enhance species richness and functional diversity, especially when shrublands are converted into forests, such action could also reduce phylogenetic diversity. Our findings suggest that single-species habitat restoration may have negative outcomes for sympatric species, highlighting the need to consider trade-offs between focal and non-focal taxa.</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":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751464","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":"Intentional and unintentional changes to avian and mammalian diversities in the UK","authors":"Wenyuan Zhang,&nbsp;Kevin J Gaston,&nbsp;Ben C Sheldon,&nbsp;Richard Grenyer","doi":"10.1002/fee.2842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2842","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rewilding is emerging as a promising restoration strategy to tackle the challenges posed by global change and maintain natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. However, rewilding has also been criticized for the absence of a consistent definition and insufficient knowledge about its possible outcomes. Here, we explored the effects of rewilding on filling functional gaps created by the extirpation of native species. We contrasted rewilding with three other mechanisms for change in community composition—species extirpation, species introduction, and unassisted colonization—in terms of their impacts on changes in avian and mammalian diversity in the UK. We found that (i) while rewilding increases functional diversity most on average, introduced/naturalized birds contribute more functional uniqueness to native functional space than other groups of birds; and (ii) changes in functional diversity associated with “rewilded” organisms were species-dependent and idiosyncratic. Our results suggest that although rewilding can expand or infill native functional trait space to some extent, such effects require careful assessment.</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.2842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751465","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":"Thank you for choosing…","authors":"Scott L Collins","doi":"10.1002/fee.2838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2838","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;While I was enjoying a recent cross-country flight jammed between the fuselage and a generously proportioned passenger in the middle seat, the pilot came on the intercom and said, “we know you have a choice in airlines, thank you for choosing…”. I found that statement somewhat ironic because through deregulation and consolidation, we actually have fewer choices when we fly today than we did in the past. The same cannot be said for scientific publishing. In contrast to the number of carriers in the airline industry, the number of scientific journals in academic publishing continues to increase. Indeed, the &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt; “family” of journals currently includes something like 55 publications, which seems more like a commune than a family to me. Nevertheless, this does mean that authors have more choices when deciding where to submit a manuscript. Of course, not all of those options are appropriate, or even desirable in the case of predatory publishers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although it is possible to categorize journals in multiple ways (impact factors, open access options, etc.), one clear dichotomy when considering where to submit a manuscript is the choice between a society-run journal versus a journal produced by a strictly for-profit publisher. Both the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the British Ecological Society (BES), to name just two of many scientific societies, publish multiple journals through a commercial publisher, in this case John Wiley and Sons, or simply “Wiley”. Indeed, commercial publishers like Wiley currently dominate publishing in the ecological and broader natural sciences. To some degree, the relationship between scientific societies and commercial publishers is symbiotic in that both benefit from the interaction. Wiley makes a profit by marketing the journals and shares some of that revenue with the scientific society; at the same time, societies like ESA use those funds to advance their goals through a variety of activities as diverse as training workshops, awards and honors, or travel grants to attend the annual meeting. In contrast, with purely for-profit journals, like many published by Springer Nature, revenues go to shareholders. This does not mean that these publishers are necessarily bad choices, but in many such cases the motive is profit and the flow of revenue back to the scientific community is limited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My interest in this topic was recently piqued by an article from a group of early career researchers (Ecol Lett 2024) who argued that the publish-or-perish ethic in research universities has created an unethical publishing system. They based this argument on the perception that academics need to publish in high-impact journals to get (and keep) a job, and many such journals originate from for-profit publishers. The authors likened this to David versus Goliath. However, their own data contradict this perception as they report that “roughly half of recent Assistant Professor hires at North American Doctoral Unive","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2838","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530409","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":"Conservation of the Atlantic Forest trees through Indigenous sustainability","authors":"Francys Alves Paulino,&nbsp;Orivaldo Nunes Júnior,&nbsp;João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Júnior","doi":"10.1002/fee.2839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2839","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The Atlantic Forest harbors one of the most diverse and threatened tropical forest biotas worldwide. Recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot, the biome extends along Brazil's Atlantic coast and into eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, spanning a wide range of latitudinal, longitudinal, altitudinal, and climatic gradients. Its flora includes taxa from the Amazon Rainforest, Cerrado gallery forests, and the Andean region, encompassing approximately 25,000 species of vascular plants, 48% of which are endemic and 3400 of which are trees (Oliveira-Filho and Fontes &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The degradation of the Atlantic Forest reflects centuries of human expansion triggered by the arrival of European colonizers in the 16th century CE. Over time, economic cycles, such as those associated with brazilwood, sugarcane, gold, and coffee, as well as urbanization, ranching, and railway/road construction, have severely impacted the forest (Dean &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;). Today, much of the Atlantic Forest consists of patches of secondary forests at varying stages of recovery, monoculture plantations of non-native trees, and small forest fragments surrounded by open areas dominated by anthropogenic landscapes (Tabarelli &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;). An estimated ~120 million people (70% of Brazil's population) live along Brazil's Atlantic coast, exacerbating pressure on the remaining forest, which currently covers only 12% of its original extent (SOS Mata Atlântica &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). In this context, urban expansion, industrialization, intensive agriculture, and mining not only accelerate deforestation and biodiversity loss but also erode the ancestral knowledge and cultures of Indigenous peoples who have inhabited these lands for millennia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently, Brazil is home to 305 Indigenous peoples who speak 274 different languages. These groups inhabit territories composed of forests and other associated non-forest systems. The differences exhibited by these communities reflect their sociocultural variety, arising from distinct logics, conceptions, and practices specific to each people and shaped by various historical, social, and environmental contexts (Cunha &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Among the Indigenous peoples coexisting within the Atlantic Forest are the Guarani (Guarani Mbya), Kaingang, Pataxó, Tupinambá, and Tupiniquim. For these groups, nature and biodiversity not only are deeply connected with beliefs, knowledge, history, and culture but also depend on management techniques to better ensure their persistence over time. Embedded within multiple dimensions—social, cultural, political, economic, environmental, philosophical, and spiritual—traditional Indigenous knowledge fosters a sustainable way of relating to nature, land, and biodiversity, contributing to landscape and biodiversity conservation (Cunha &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indigenous cultural practices are expressed through a diversity of songs, dances, c","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530519","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":"Protecting threatened species and music traditions","authors":"Silke Lichtenberg,&nbsp;Udo Nehren,&nbsp;Dieter Anhuf,&nbsp;Iris Brémaud,&nbsp;Tiago de Oliveira Pinto,&nbsp;Viviane S Fonseca-Kruel,&nbsp;Volker Haag,&nbsp;Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,&nbsp;Stefan Jänicke,&nbsp;Gerald Koch,&nbsp;Jakob Kusnick,&nbsp;Haroldo C Lima,&nbsp;Eduardo Luiz Longui,&nbsp;Daniel Piotto,&nbsp;Juan Antonio Reyes-Agüero,&nbsp;Patrícia Rosa","doi":"10.1002/fee.2837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2837","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Musical instruments are indispensable to music traditions worldwide and often made from natural materials derived from species that are increasingly endangered. International trade threatens the survival of some of these species, as addressed by their inclusion in the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). However, CITES regulations can substantially impact music traditions and alone are insufficient to preserve trade-relevant species from extinction, such as the pau-brasil (<i>Paubrasilia echinata</i>), which is used for the bows of stringed instruments. Therefore, new CITES listings of species or species products used in the manufacture of musical instruments, or potential future shifts of CITES-listed species to the strictest category, will require anticipation, preparation, and precautionary actions. In international species trade negotiations, it is crucial to target the protection of species and music traditions beyond trade regulations. We propose novel social–ecological pathways to address these challenges and reconcile conflicting stakeholder interests between species conservation and cultural conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751491","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":"Re-envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us","authors":"Nicole J Jung,&nbsp;Harold N Eyster,&nbsp;Kai MA Chan","doi":"10.1002/fee.2836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2836","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Current conceptions of “urban biodiversity” address only particular taxa, ignoring the full richness of species within cities. Despite their exclusion from these conceptions, tree-dwelling lichens, mosses, and liverworts (collectively, “epiphytes”) are recognized as bioindicators of urbanization, but their inherent contributions to biodiversity are largely unrecognized. Here, we report on a survey of epiphytes in the city of Vancouver, Canada. Using Bayesian multilevel models, we asked the following questions: how diverse are epiphytes in this large temperate city, and what urban and host-tree factors determine their distribution? We found 39 macrolichen, 32 moss, and seven liverwort species on Vancouver street trees, establishing them as rich microenvironments influenced by a network of interacting factors previously unaccounted for. Our results challenge the idea that pollution and urban heat islands primarily regulate urban epiphyte diversity; instead, we identify host-tree genus as having strong effects on all epiphytes. Expanding urban biodiversity to include epiphyte diversity recharacterizes urban landscapes as rewilded spaces of interdependent coexistence.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2836","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751477","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":"Bird-mediated ecosystem services and disservices in cities and towns","authors":"Liba Pejchar,&nbsp;Christine C Rega-Brodsky,&nbsp;Luis-Bernardo Vázquez,&nbsp;Ian MacGregor-Fors","doi":"10.1002/fee.2835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2835","url":null,"abstract":"<p>All cities are home to birds, which, through their activities, can either enhance or detract from human well-being. To identify such interactions, we synthesize current understanding of bird-mediated ecosystem services and disservices in cities. We find widespread evidence that birds provide cultural services, but the link between urban bird diversity and these benefits is surprisingly tenuous. Birds also have potential to provide regulating services; however, rather than being measured, these services are usually assumed from non-urban research, and may be overestimated (eg pollination, seed dispersal) or undervalued (decomposition, nutrient cycling). People's perceptions of birds are not uniform, and services are not always delivered equitably among residents. We call for moving beyond using species richness and traits as proxies, and instead explicitly measuring services and disservices across the heterogeneous urban landscape. Such information is critical to designing cities that sustain biodiversity and result in net positive, and equitable, benefits to people.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A field station's recipe for impactful science","authors":"Aaron S David,&nbsp;Sahas Barve,&nbsp;Elizabeth H Boughton,&nbsp;Joshua H Daskin,&nbsp;Hilary M Swain","doi":"10.1002/fee.2833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2833","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;As society navigates unprecedented global change, we need science-backed solutions to confront compounding ecological crises. While we ecologists often intend to do impactful science that addresses these crises, too often we are guilty of “hoping”, rather than “planning”, for impact. Within ecologically minded institutions, having planned impacts increases the likelihood of success and starts with a well-defined &lt;i&gt;mission&lt;/i&gt;, which states the organization's purpose and guides its activities. Mission-oriented science can influence agency policy, shape sustainable land-use planning, guide management best practices, train future scientists, and more. However, the challenge is to build from mission-oriented science to maximize impact. Here, we identify three key ingredients of a recipe for achieving impact: (1) &lt;i&gt;synergistic science&lt;/i&gt;, (2) &lt;i&gt;knowledge of place&lt;/i&gt;, and (3) &lt;i&gt;bridging to partners&lt;/i&gt;. Although grounded in our experiences at Archbold Biological Station, a nonprofit field station in south-central Florida, and in our collective knowledge of similar stations, we believe these ingredients are broadly applicable across scientific institutions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Synergistic science&lt;/i&gt; refers to teams of researchers working together toward an institution's mission. Simply put, complex environmental challenges require diverse teams to address them holistically. For example, Archbold's fire management plan is based on decades of our own science across taxa, providing a comprehensive framework for balancing the fire needs of multiple organisms, and, to date, resulting in &gt;350 prescribed burns of an endangered scrub ecosystem. Synergistic science may be interdisciplinary or emerge from participation in formal research networks (eg USDA's Long-Term Agroecosystem Research [LTAR] network). For instance, testing strategies for sustainable agroecosystems required synthesizing data collected by 18 researchers from 53 long-term co-located studies of biodiversity, water quality, soils, and greenhouse gases at Archbold’s Buck Island Ranch (Nat Commun 2023).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Knowledge of place&lt;/i&gt; refers to a deep understanding of local or regional ecosystems, biota, and processes, and to being a trusted information source among key stakeholders in governmental, academic, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors (Univ. of Chicago Press 2010). Solutions to large-scale environmental challenges arise from local actions based on knowledge of place. Developing knowledge of place is often not straightforward and may require lengthy engagement to build relevant expertise, resources, datasets, and partnerships. Ultimately, knowledge of place allows organizations a seat at the table in decision making; in our case, such knowledge allows staff to engage closely with county planners on policies supporting prescribed fire, establishing conservation areas, and avoiding development sprawl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bridging to partners&lt;/i&gt; refers to how the organization works with other, mission-","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2833","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111292","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":"Global artificial light masks biologically important light cycles of animals","authors":"Brett M Seymoure,&nbsp;Rachel Buxton,&nbsp;Jeremy M White,&nbsp;Carlos R Linares,&nbsp;Kurt Fristrup,&nbsp;Kevin Crooks,&nbsp;George Wittemyer,&nbsp;Lisa Angeloni","doi":"10.1002/fee.2832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2832","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We document the importance of low-light conditions in 136 animal species and then translate the new world atlas of skyglow, which reports artificial night sky brightness, into estimates of anthropogenic illuminance (that is, artificial light reaching Earth's surface). Quantifying habitat illuminance from skyglow facilitates understanding of the disruption of natural light cycles, such as new moon conditions, which are critical to animal ecology. We corroborated this transformation of sky brightness by comparing concurrent field measurements of skyglow and illuminance. We then quantified global artificial illuminance caused by skyglow, finding that skyglow artificially doubled illuminance of new moon conditions—a critical phase for biological processes, such as foraging, courtship, and mating—for 22.9% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, 51.0% of Key Biodiversity Areas, 77.1% of Global Protected Areas, and ~20% of highly diverse areas for mammals, birds, and amphibians. We provide summaries of artificial illuminance at 750-m pixel resolution for each protected area to aid land managers and guide policy in reducing skyglow in areas that may yield the greatest benefits for conserving animal biodiversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2832","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900933","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}