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{"title":"Evaluating and elevating the role of wildlife road crossings in climate adaptation","authors":"Caitlin E Littlefield,&nbsp;Justin P Suraci,&nbsp;Julia Kintsch,&nbsp;Renee Callahan,&nbsp;Patricia Cramer,&nbsp;Molly S Cross,&nbsp;Brett G Dickson,&nbsp;Leslie Ann Duncan,&nbsp;Jonathan RB Fisher,&nbsp;Patrick T Freeman,&nbsp;Renee Seidler,&nbsp;Anna Wearn,&nbsp;Kimberly M Andrews,&nbsp;Marta Brocki,&nbsp;Norris Dodd,&nbsp;Jeff Gagnon,&nbsp;Aran Johnson,&nbsp;Meade Krosby,&nbsp;Matt Skroch,&nbsp;Ron Sutherland","doi":"10.1002/fee.2816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2816","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beyond the well-established benefits of wildlife road crossings and associated infrastructure—improving driver safety, reducing animal mortality, reconnecting habitats—there is another important but often underappreciated benefit: supporting wildlife and ecosystems in adapting to climate change. We explore this potential by (1) synthesizing the literature surrounding climate adaptation and wildlife crossings, (2) presenting a case study on how crossings support shifting animal migrations, and (3) describing key considerations for incorporating climate information into crossing prioritizations. Among other climate-adaptive benefits, research suggests crossings can support species range shifts and protect access to resources even as drought and human development compromise that access. Our case study outlines an approach for prioritizing crossing locations most likely to support animal migration both today and into the future. By accounting for such dynamics, wildlife crossings can be a cost-effective tool that protects wildlife as well as motorists and enhances the resilience of infrastructure and ecosystems in a changing world.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2816","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117183","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":"When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America","authors":"John P Dumbacher,&nbsp;Alan B Franklin","doi":"10.1002/fee.2817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2817","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Forest avifauna in eastern North America have expanded their range across the Great Plains to the West, likely due to anthropogenic changes. The barred owl (<i>Strix varia</i>) is a focal example of the negative effects that these intracontinental range expansions can have, with this invasive species becoming a major threat to the northern spotted owl (<i>Strix occidentalis caurina</i>) and potentially larger biological communities. If barred owl populations are not managed immediately, northern spotted owl populations will likely be extirpated from large parts of their range and, ultimately, may become extinct. Of available management options, lethal control of barred owls has the greatest potential to rapidly benefit spotted owls and other impacted species. We argue that immediate action is necessary to buy time while other management options are explored and developed and that lethal control is an ethical management option. The barred owl conundrum exemplifies the challenges of managing native invasive species.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741134","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":"The role of contaminant risk landscapes in the Anthropocene","authors":"Jacqueline R Gerson","doi":"10.1002/fee.2818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2818","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Across the planet, human mobilization of chemical pollution and widespread land-cover changes are key markers of the Anthropocene. However, because they occur at different spatial scales, contaminant mobilization and land-cover changes are generally studied as separate issues. Landscapes differ in how contaminants are processed and risk manifests. The way that landscapes are altered plays a critical role in the likelihood that any particular place will capture, sequester, and transform contaminants, ultimately impacting bioavailability to people and wildlife. This article introduces a conceptual framework—the “contaminant risk landscape”, which merges perspectives from geochemistry, landscape ecology, and ecotoxicology—to improve understanding of the transport, fate, and impact of toxic contaminants in the natural world. Successful management and mitigation of contaminant toxicity requires a merging of these diverse perspectives and traditions to achieve environmentally just solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741135","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,&nbsp;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":"&lt;p&gt;\u0000 &lt;i&gt;“When you can't breathe, nothing else matters.”—slogan of The American Lung Association&lt;/i&gt;\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world's waters are losing oxygen, and we should be very concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;NE), whose mission is to promote awareness, stimulate research, and provide advice to policy makers on all aspects of ocean deoxygenation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently, efforts are underway to produce an open-access and community-driven Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas (GO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &gt;5%, and hypolimnions &gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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":"Citizen science as a valuable tool for environmental review","authors":"Corey T Callaghan,&nbsp;Carly Winnebald,&nbsp;Blaze Smith,&nbsp;Brittany M Mason,&nbsp;Laura López-Hoffman","doi":"10.1002/fee.2808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2808","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human development and population growth are placing immense pressure on natural ecosystems, necessitating the establishment of a balance between development and biodiversity preservation. Citizen science may serve as a valuable resource for monitoring biodiversity and informing decision-making processes, but its use has not been investigated within the realm of environmental review. We sought to quantify the extent to which citizen science data are currently being used, mentioned, or suggested in environmental impact statements (EISs) by analyzing more than 1300 EISs produced under the US National Environmental Policy Act. Among the sampled EISs, we found increasing incorporation of citizen science within the environmental review process, with 40% of EISs in 2022 using, mentioning, or suggesting use of such information, as compared with just 3% in 2012. Citizen science offers substantial potential to enhance biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts within environmental review, but numerous considerations must be broadly discussed before citizen science data can be widely adopted.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 1","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.2808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114194","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":"Global mapping of social–ecological systems science in conservation conflict research","authors":"Daniela Alba-Patiño,&nbsp;Miguel Delibes-Mateos,&nbsp;Antonio J Castro","doi":"10.1002/fee.2806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2806","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conservation conflicts are arguably one of the most complex challenges facing global biodiversity conservation. Social–ecological systems (SES) science is uniquely positioned to address this challenge. However, there is scarce scientific evidence to demonstrate that global empirical research on conservation conflicts has been conducted through an SES lens. We systematically mapped the scientific literature on a global scale to understand the landscape of conservation conflict research addressed from an SES perspective. Our mapping and subsequent analysis of 865 studies over the past three decades revealed that most research has been conducted in the US and Mexico, with conflicts arising from decisions over land use and ocean management as the most frequently studied. Of the analyzed studies, the most influential SES frameworks used were ascribed to three key publications. Our findings highlight the relative scarcity of research on conflicts in biodiversity hotspots of the Middle East, the Caribbean, and North and Central Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 2","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.2806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530301","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":"A meta-analysis of the impact of drones on birds","authors":"Émile Brisson-Curadeau,&nbsp;Rose Lacombe,&nbsp;Marianne Gousy-Leblanc,&nbsp;Vanessa Poirier,&nbsp;Lauren Jackson,&nbsp;Christina Petalas,&nbsp;Eliane Miranda,&nbsp;Alyssa Eby,&nbsp;Julia Baak,&nbsp;Don-Jean Léandri-Breton,&nbsp;Emily Choy,&nbsp;Jade Legros,&nbsp;Elena Tranze-Drabinia,&nbsp;Kyle H Elliott","doi":"10.1002/fee.2809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2809","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drones are increasingly being used to monitor, film, and survey birds. Many studies also report that, as compared to traditional methods such as ground counts or helicopter surveys, drones can reduce bird disturbance. Yet, best practices on how drones should be flown to reduce adverse behavior are usually species-specific and context-dependent, and are therefore often difficult to apply to new management scenarios. Here, we reviewed 149 avian studies, all of which involved drone use and were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and conducted a phylogenetically informed meta-analysis to better understand which factors can help to reduce flushing response in birds. The distance between the drone and the bird, drone speed, bird breeding status, and species size all strongly influenced the chances of a flushing response. Finally, we provide drone operational guidelines that are specific to and applicable across both drone type and taxa of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 2","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.2809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530302","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}