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{"title":"Response to Caudill et al. (2025)","authors":"Kira A Cassidy, Douglas W Smith","doi":"10.1002/fee.2834","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating climate change, biological invasions, and infectious wildlife diseases","authors":"David W Thieltges,&nbsp;David Bruce Conn,&nbsp;Ross N Cuthbert,&nbsp;Alison M Dunn,&nbsp;E Rosa Jolma,&nbsp;M Camille Hopkins,&nbsp;Volodimir Sarabeev,&nbsp;Sander Smolders,&nbsp;Carol A Stepien,&nbsp;K Mathias Wegner,&nbsp;Patrick M Kočovský","doi":"10.1002/fee.2849","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2849","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is likely to affect infectious diseases that are facilitated by biological invasions, with repercussions for wildlife conservation and zoonotic risks. Current invasion management and policy are underprepared for the future risks associated with such invasion-related wildlife diseases. By considering evidence from bioclimatology, invasion biology, and disease research, we illustrate how climate change is anticipated to affect disease agents (parasites and pathogens), hosts, and vectors across the different stages of invasions. We highlight the opportunity to integrate these disciplines to identify the effects of climate change on invasion-related wildlife diseases. In addition, shifting to a proactive stance in implementing management and policy, such as by incorporating climate-change effects either into preventative and mitigation measures for biosecurity or with rapid response protocols to limit disease spread and impacts, could help to combat future ecological, economic, and human health risks stemming from invasion-related wildlife diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2849","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“COP of the Forest” highlights global conservation contradictions","authors":"Lucas Colares,&nbsp;Bruno Eleres Soares","doi":"10.1002/fee.2845","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2845","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference—COP, or the Conference of the Parties—is the main global forum to advance climate goals through international collaboration. Its most recent gatherings underscored the urgency of reducing carbon emissions, conserving forests and biodiversity, and creating better ways to sustainably manage water and produce food. However, the pathway to achieve such goals is often challenged by a global economy serving the high resource demands of wealthy countries and by socio-environmental conflicts in the Global South.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Critics often argue that COP benefits wealthy countries the most by setting a global stage for them to showcase their policies. Moreover, the inflow of resources into host cities is applied to event management and infrastructure, which poorly reflect long-term positive changes. Like many other international mega-events, COP might leave behind a legacy of degradation and disruption, for which the host city's most vulnerable residents will bear an outsized impact. And the next one—COP 30, November 10–21, 2025—will be held in the Amazon, with Belém, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, as its host city.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Central to global climate stability, the Amazon region is facing severe, unprecedented environmental crises, which highlight the contradictions of hosting such an event in this place. In 2024 alone, Pará recorded over 50,000 wildfires, almost half of all wildfires recorded in the Brazilian Amazon. That same year, on November 24, in Santarém, Pará's third largest city, air pollution spiked to levels more than 40 times those recommended by the World Health Organization, thereby prompting a climate emergency declaration. Six days later, on November 30, Belém citizens awoke under a blanket of smoke from fires on Mosqueiro Island, over 80 km away. Meanwhile, unlicensed infrastructure projects to meet COP 30 necessities, including a major highway expansion, threaten local biodiversity. Such projects betray the local governance priorities, placing international optics over meaningful action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The juxtaposition of Pará's role as host of the “COP of the Forest” and its pressing environmental issues highlights the contradictions that COP faces. These challenges go beyond deforestation and pollution, exposing deep socio-environmental inequities. For instance, 80% of Belém's population lacks access to basic sanitation (&lt;i&gt;Res Soc Dev&lt;/i&gt; 2020), underscoring the persistent gap between governance rhetoric and tangible action. Pará has been at the forefront of deforestation in the Amazon, leading the region in forest loss for about two decades. This ongoing deforestation threatens the state's rich biodiversity, including over 20,000 animal and plant species, while also impacting 134 traditional and Indigenous communities across over 25% of Pará's territory. These communities already face increasing pressures from illegal mining, highway and hydroelectric projects, and violent conflicts w","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Nature: perceptions, knowledge, and gaps","authors":"Gillian Bowser,&nbsp;Kofi Akamani,&nbsp;Meena M Balgopal,&nbsp;John D Coley,&nbsp;Elizabeth D Diaz-Clark,&nbsp;W Chris Funk,&nbsp;Brian Helmuth,&nbsp;Sérgio Henriques,&nbsp;Nikki Grant-Hoffman,&nbsp;Tashiana Osborne,&nbsp;Arathi Seshadri,&nbsp;Pamela H Templer,&nbsp;Mark C Urban,&nbsp;Kim Waddell","doi":"10.1002/fee.2846","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2846","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In 2022, the US Global Change Research Program initiated the first National Nature Assessment (NNA) via presidential Executive Order, addressing the need to “take stock of US lands, waters, wildlife and the benefits they provide to our economy, health, climate, environmental justice, and national security” (Global Change Research Act of 1990). This order was rescinded in January 2025, effectively cancelling the NNA before the final assessment was published. However, many of its authors deemed this multi-year endeavor important enough to keep alive because the NNA was needed to provide the American public with a “comprehensive understanding of nature, an assessment enriched by braiding together the stories, scientific findings, Indigenous knowledge, and lived experiences of people from across the US” (Tallis &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Performing such an assessment requires moving beyond a mere snapshot of the status and trends of environmental features, ecosystems, and organisms, and weaving in diverse perspectives and knowledge systems representing the cultural complexity and heritage of American communities (Chan &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;). As experts convened by the NNA, we—the authors of this commentary—represent different scientific disciplines including ecology, genomics, entomology, science communication, psychology, natural resource management, Earth and environmental sciences, and human dimensions of natural resources. We explored the status, trends, and future projections of nature but recognized that our own perspectives and training represent only a slice of the many cultural perspectives and knowledge systems addressing the human–nature nexus. Regardless, we were tasked, as part of the NNA, with assessing the available scientific literature and associated knowledge sources (including information from museums, zoos, participatory databases, and government agencies). We were and are deeply committed to the view that humans are part of nature, and that human values and perceptions of nature shape what we measure, protect, manage, and love in the environments that surround and sustain us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original vision of the NNA is still critically important as it required us to interlink social perceptions with scientific information and knowledge gaps as ways to understand how the nature of today is uniquely shaped by American society, what the nature of the future will likely be, and how we can use that understanding to support nature that benefits all Americans. We argue that interlinkages among people's perceptions of nature and the data available to measure nature across different biological scales—including populations, communities, and ecosystems—shape a future nature in complex and potentially unpredictable ways.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here, we share our approach of using constructive dialogues and storytelling as exemplified by the Talanoa Dialogues introduced by Fiji to the UNFCCC in 2017. We frame the status and trends of nat","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bioregional-scale acoustic monitoring can support fire-prone forest restoration planning","authors":"Kristin M Brunk,&nbsp;Joshua F Goldberg,&nbsp;Charles Maxwell,&nbsp;M Zachariah Peery,&nbsp;Gavin M Jones,&nbsp;Lief R Gallagher,&nbsp;H Anu Kramer,&nbsp;Anthony LeRoy Westerling,&nbsp;John J Keane,&nbsp;Stefan Kahl,&nbsp;Connor M Wood","doi":"10.1002/fee.2843","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2843","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In many forests globally, resilience-focused restoration is necessary to prevent fire-driven regime shifts. However, restoration planning is challenged by limited resources for monitoring biodiversity responses to management intervention and to natural disturbances. Bioregional-scale passive acoustic monitoring, when combined with automated species identification tools and management-relevant habitat data, can be a tractable method to simultaneously monitor suites of complementary indicator species and rapidly generate species-specific information for resource managers. We demonstrate these methods by mapping the occurrence of ten avian indicator species while examining the impact of fire history on patterns of occurrence across 25,000 km² of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Monitoring complementary indicator species with rapidly developing bioacoustics technology and relating their occurrence to policy-ready habitat metrics have the potential to transform restoration planning by providing managers with high-resolution, ecosystem-scale information that facilitates adaptive management in an era of rapid environmental change.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927803","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":"Recommendations for built marine infrastructure that supports natural habitats","authors":"Avery B Paxton,&nbsp;Sarah E Lester,&nbsp;Carter S Smith,&nbsp;Siddharth Narayan,&nbsp;Christine Angelini,&nbsp;Brendan J Runde,&nbsp;Megan I Saunders,&nbsp;Rachel K Gittman,&nbsp;Jacob Allgeier,&nbsp;Maria L Vozzo,&nbsp;D'amy N Steward,&nbsp;Hayley R Lemoine,&nbsp;Stephanie R Valdez,&nbsp;Rebecca L Morris,&nbsp;Douglas P Nowacek,&nbsp;William Seaman,&nbsp;Patrick N Halpin,&nbsp;Brian R Silliman","doi":"10.1002/fee.2840","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.2840","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The extent of built marine infrastructure—from energy infrastructure and ports to artificial reefs and aquaculture—is increasing globally. The rise in built structure coverage is concurrent with losses and degradation of many natural habitats. Although historically associated with net negative impacts on natural systems, built infrastructure—with proper design and innovation—could offer a largely unrealized opportunity to reduce those impacts and support natural habitats. We present nine recommendations that could catalyze momentum toward using built structures to both serve their original function and benefit natural habitats (relative to the status quo, for example). These recommendations integrate functional, economic, and social considerations with marine spatial planning and holistic ecosystem management. As the footprint of the Anthropocene expands into ocean spaces, adopting these nine recommendations at global scales can help to ensure that ecological harm is minimized and that, where feasible, ecological benefits from marine built structures are accrued.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2840","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"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":"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":"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":"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":"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":7.6,"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}