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{"title":"Monitoring animal movement diversity as a component of biodiversity","authors":"Nicholas J Russo,&nbsp;Kaija Gahm,&nbsp;Madeleine E Zuercher,&nbsp;Katherine Hernandez,&nbsp;Rachel V Blakey,&nbsp;Chase Niesner,&nbsp;Eric Abelson","doi":"10.1002/fee.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Animal movement is increasingly being quantified in novel ways, with high potential for integration into broad-scale efforts to monitor biological diversity. Here, we define movement diversity as a form of biodiversity, measuring variation in animal movement from the level of individual animals to communities. We present a framework to develop a common language for movement diversity metrics, which describes variation in movement patterns, as well as motion and navigation capacities, through both time and geographic space. Developing and using a common language for such metrics will lay the foundation for expanding the application of animal movement data in biodiversity monitoring to address not only the effects of global climate and land-use change on movement diversity but also how movement diversity influences ecosystem functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148075015","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":"Beyond conservation pessimism and optimism: a proactive, risk-based approach to protect mangrove systems","authors":"Valentina Platzgummer,&nbsp;Fabio Favoretto,&nbsp;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza","doi":"10.1002/fee.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conservation has long operated reactively, intervening only after ecosystems begin to degrade. At the same time, growing attention to “conservation optimism” highlights successful interventions that offer hope for reversing ecological decline. To translate optimism into action, we present the Mangrove Threat Index (MTI), a spatially explicit, risk-based framework designed to anticipate mangrove degradation before it occurs. Using proximity to anthropogenic pressures as a proxy for degradation risk, the MTI enables decision-makers to identify vulnerable mangrove patches and prioritize early intervention. Applied to 530 mangrove patches across 13 global regions, the MTI correctly predicted 78% of observed losses between 2010 and 2020. A case study from La Paz, Mexico, illustrates how the index informed the co-design of a passive conservation strategy with local stakeholders. Although developed for mangroves, the MTI framework can be adapted to other ecosystems facing land-use pressures, offering a transferable and science-based pathway toward proactive, place-based conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148080448","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":"If it ain’t broke…","authors":"Scott L Collins","doi":"10.1002/fee.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70043","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;…fix it until it is. I learned that operational philosophy shortly after I started a job with the US Government. From September 1992 through February 2003, I had the pleasure of working at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director in the Division of Environmental Biology. I worked primarily in the Ecology and Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs, until I was appointed as the first Program Director for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), at a time when the Directorate for Biological Sciences was struggling to secure Congressional funding for this new observatory concept. Essentially, I was a Program Director with a single portfolio and no budget, but a lot of paperwork. Shortly after I switched positions from NSF to the University of New Mexico, Congress started to appropriate funds for NEON. I often wonder whether the latter event was contingent upon the former. For anyone who is naturally cynical, working for the federal government is a great way to reinforce that personality trait.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My experience as a fed taught me that higher-level federal administrators often had a desire to fix things that “ain’t broke.” In early 2025, as the second Trump administration got underway, the Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) took a sledgehammer to the federal workforce, including NSF, forcing many employees to quit, retire, or be fired. As a consequence, the ~1800-strong NSF workforce lost nearly 500 of its employees, equivalent to a ~30% reduction. Similar degrees of downsizing were implemented across the federal scientific enterprise. According to the American Institute of Physics’ \u0000 &lt;i&gt;FYI: Science Policy News&lt;/i&gt;\u0000 , more than 15,000 employees at federal science agencies left their jobs in 2025.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Among its other impacts, DoGE largely gutted one of the NSF's former strengths: the use of temporary Program Directors known as “rotators.” By spending one to two years working alongside career (permanent) staff, rotators brought expert knowledge and experience from the scholarly community to the agency. To some extent, rotators provided a mechanism to help ensure that the agency's funding decisions aligned with the interests and needs of the broader research community. This was important because career Program Directors can develop perspectives that do not always reflect the needs of the research community that depends on NSF funds. DoGE pretty much eliminated the rotator positions throughout most of the Foundation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other federal science agencies and programs received similar DoGE (mis)treatment. On the brighter side, Congress continued to provide strong bipartisan support for science and basic research by essentially protecting the research budgets of NSF (and other agencies) from huge (57%) proposed funding cuts. However, with a reduced workforce, the NSF is now struggling with workload issues, including a backlog of submitted research proposals. The agency must r","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148067235","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":"Annual grass invasion is transforming the sagebrush biome's songbird communities","authors":"Brendan K Hobart,&nbsp;Wynne E Moss,&nbsp;Maxwell C Cook,&nbsp;R Chelsea Nagy,&nbsp;Valerie J McKenzie","doi":"10.1002/fee.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <b>Novel stressors like climate change and biological invasions alter ecological communities, resulting in changes to ecosystem services and biodiversity (that is, ecological transformation). Most ecological transformation research focuses on plants, but animals are likely affected by and plausibly mediate the extent, impact, and pace of transformations. In western North America, where invasive annual grasses are transforming sagebrush-steppe ecosystems, we quantified how transformation in vegetation drives songbird community change. We hypothesized that transformation of vegetation communities via invasion alters wildlife communities by favoring generalists over specialists, albeit with extinction debts that may temporarily obscure transformations’ consequences. Although local-scale songbird diversity increased with grass invasion, we found that this shift was accompanied by ongoing reorganization of songbird communities at larger scales (across the sagebrush biome), driven by heterogeneous impacts of invasion among species and guilds. Through our biome-wide analysis, we were also able to identify high-priority regions for conservation of sensitive songbird species. Our research provides evidence that wildlife communities are transforming alongside vegetation communities and offers insight into the approaches required to quantify nascent community turnover</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148074956","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}

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{"title":"A “demand and supply” approach to monitoring habitat and population changes of migratory birds","authors":"Tong Mu,&nbsp;Mo A Verhoeven,&nbsp;Micha V Jackson,&nbsp;Theunis Piersma,&nbsp;Richard A Fuller,&nbsp;David S Wilcove","doi":"10.1002/fee.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Habitat loss and degradation threaten thousands of migratory bird species worldwide. Yet, because the distributions of migratory birds change throughout the year, quantifying the impacts of threats and identifying key sites for conservation attention have proved challenging. We suggest that the wider application of two key metrics could substantially improve current knowledge: (1) the intensity of birds’ habitat use at a site, representing the demand from the birds’ perspectives; and (2) the carrying capacity of the site, as measured by the supply of food or other resources for the birds. At local scales, the demand-to-supply ratio provides insights into priorities for conservation attention, even in the absence of comparable information from other sites. When scaled-up to multiple sites across entire flyways, this approach provides a much more comprehensive understanding of the constraints on bird populations than is currently available, thereby facilitating coordinated, efficient habitat protection at a flyway scale</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683576","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":"Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI","authors":"Gavin M Jones","doi":"10.1002/fee.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70036","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has nearly completed its infiltration within the tech spaces in our lives. Nowadays, you can seldom find an app on your smartphone or a piece of software on your computer that is not “AI-enabled”, offering shortcuts and summaries to save us time. Save me time, you say? Sign me up! As modern scientists, we find our time burdened with many tasks we’d like to avoid, which perhaps AI could take off our plates. That overdue annual report? Check. That cover letter to the Editor? Sure. Throughout history, advances in technology have created efficiencies in science. Why should GenAI be any different? After all, I’d wager that no one still ventures on foot into the stacks of our respective university libraries to find hard copies of a journal to check out or photocopy. Just type keywords into your browser's search bar and (with the proper access) have a digital version of the desired article saved to your computer in seconds. Technology tends to make our lives easier and our work more efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GenAI is different because it mimics one of our most deeply human characteristics: our ability to think about complex ideas. Until recently, any journal article you read would represent the outcome of months or years of deep, challenging thought by the humans on the other side of the page, painstakingly transcribed into coherent prose for your consumption. No more. Now, any prospective author can enter a prompt in one of the many commercial large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, yielding a series of words and paragraphs that resemble what used to only be possible with substantial human intellectual labor. At this point some readers might push back, arguing “sure, but the models’ ideas and writing are not actually &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt;”. I agree, but I also expect these models will improve, while our ability to detect GenAI's digital fingerprints will diminish, over time. A day will come when there are no longer obvious “tells” that something has been written with GenAI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do we lose by outsourcing our writing to GenAI? Tragically, much. I found writing to be one of the most frustrating and difficult parts of my graduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I remember vividly the first round of written feedback I received from my graduate advisor—pages upon pages almost entirely marked in red tracked changes. And it was well-deserved: my writing was bad! But over many months and years, I kept writing, and I learned not only how to write better, but also how to think. I’ve realized that now, writing &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; how I think best: often, my thoughts only crystallize once I try to put words on the page and then revise those words repeatedly. My own struggles to write effectively provided the necessary friction to rewire the way I thought about ecological concepts, about how to present arguments logically, and about how to draw connections between disparate ideas or fields—all of which have enr","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683827","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":"Insights on global rangeland ecosystem services shaped by grazing and fertilization","authors":"Laura Yahdjian,&nbsp;Sofía Campana,&nbsp;Pedro M Tognetti,&nbsp;Juan Alberti,&nbsp;Pamela Graff,&nbsp;Cecilia Molina,&nbsp;Elizabeth T Borer,&nbsp;Eric W Seabloom,&nbsp;Suzanne M Prober,&nbsp;Andrew S MacDougall,&nbsp;Anita C Risch,&nbsp;Jodi N Price,&nbsp;Sally A Power,&nbsp;Isabel C Barrio,&nbsp;Erika Hersch-Green,&nbsp;Philip A Fay,&nbsp;Sumanta Bagchi,&nbsp;Jonathan D Bakker,&nbsp;Dana Blumenthal,&nbsp;Elizabeth H Boughton,&nbsp;Cynthia S Brown,&nbsp;Miguel N Bugalho,&nbsp;Marc Cadotte,&nbsp;Maria C Caldeira,&nbsp;Jane A Catford,&nbsp;Clinton Carbutt,&nbsp;Qingqing Chen,&nbsp;Scott L Collins,&nbsp;Thomas W Crowther,&nbsp;Carla D’Antonio,&nbsp;Christopher R Dickman,&nbsp;Mary E DuPre,&nbsp;Kenneth J Elgersma,&nbsp;Anu Eskelinen,&nbsp;Nicole Hagenah,&nbsp;Yann Hautier,&nbsp;Anke Jentsch,&nbsp;Johannes MH Knops,&nbsp;Jason P Martina,&nbsp;Rebecca L McCulley,&nbsp;Carly J Stevens,&nbsp;Lauri Laanisto,&nbsp;Lydia R O’Halloran,&nbsp;Pablo L Peri,&nbsp;Petr Macek,&nbsp;Nicholas G Smith,&nbsp;Grégory Sonnier,&nbsp;Ciska GF Veen,&nbsp;Risto Virtanen","doi":"10.1002/fee.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rangelands are crucial to human well-being, but their ability to provide ecosystem services is threatened. We (1) quantified key ecosystem services provided by rangelands, (2) assessed short- and long-term impacts of fertilization (nutrient addition) and the exclusion of large grazing herbivores with fences (herbivore exclusion) on services, and (3) identified synergies and trade-offs among services. We measured indicators of ecosystem services and plant diversity at 79 sites across six continents in the global Nutrient Network. Short-term herbivore exclusion increased forage quantity and soil fertility, but longer-term herbivore exclusion decreased both along with plant richness and pollination. Nutrient addition improved forage provisioning, soil stability, climate regulation, and control of soil erosion but lowered plant diversity and impeded delivery of related services, especially after prolonged application. We found synergies between plant diversity and pollination, as well as between soil fertility, soil stability, and climate regulation. Trade-offs between forage stability and quality persisted after nutrient addition but disappeared with herbivore exclusion. Our results suggest that alternative management actions may sustain livestock production while maintaining rangeland ecosystem services.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683763","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}