Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment最新文献

{"title":"","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148063846","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":"Movement decisions reflect compromised statewide connectivity for mountain lions in California","authors":"Kyle D Dougherty,&nbsp;Justin A Dellinger,&nbsp;Bogdan Cristescu,&nbsp;Daniel J Gammons,&nbsp;David K Garcelon,&nbsp;J Mark Higley,&nbsp;Phillip Johnston,&nbsp;Quinton E Martins,&nbsp;John F Randolph,&nbsp;Seth PD Riley,&nbsp;Jeff A Sikich,&nbsp;Trish Smith,&nbsp;Thomas R Stephenson,&nbsp;T Winston Vickers,&nbsp;Greta M Wengert,&nbsp;Christopher C Wilmers,&nbsp;Heiko U Wittmer,&nbsp;John F Benson","doi":"10.1002/fee.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human-induced habitat fragmentation threatens connectivity for populations of wide-ranging species by compromising long-distance dispersal. We evaluated movement-based resource selection of dispersing mountain lions (<i>Puma concolor</i>) to identify specific landscape conditions influencing movement decisions and connectivity between populations across the US state of California. Our results elucidate how anthropogenic features inhibit dispersal at the statewide scale, as mountain lions avoided development more strongly as both the area of and building density within developed patches increased. Furthermore, dispersing mountain lions strongly avoided crossing roadways but exhibited relaxed avoidance in areas where vegetative cover was present on both sides of the road. Importantly, mountain lions selected even relatively small patches of natural habitat, which may function as stepping-stones promoting movement through otherwise unsuitable habitat. We provide empirical evidence linking genetic structure suggestive of reduced connectivity to underlying behavioral mechanisms. Understanding behavior during dispersal is fundamental to conserving connectivity between and viability of populations persisting within fragmented landscapes—and to facilitate recolonization of historical ranges.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562738","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":"Embracing a dynamic view of nature for biodiversity conservation","authors":"Gavin M Jones,&nbsp;Juli G Pausas","doi":"10.1002/fee.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570327","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":"Who’s afraid of strict protection?","authors":"Edoardo Chiti,&nbsp;Gianluca Piovesan","doi":"10.1002/fee.70025","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570328","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":"","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148080806","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 AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint","authors":"Kari E Norman,&nbsp;Carl Boettiger,&nbsp;Timothée Poisot,&nbsp;Gavin M Jones","doi":"10.1002/fee.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70021","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Ecologists increasingly recognize that novel computational approaches are critical for effectively addressing the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises. Some of the century’s most substantive methodological developments are in artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI (GenAI) as well as classical AI and machine learning (ML) approaches, which collectively have spurred advances across all fields of science. In ecology, AI has already been leveraged for diverse applications, ranging from large-scale image recognition for monitoring to conservation decision-making in complex systems. Recently, multiple calls for its application to address the biodiversity crisis (e.g., Pollock &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;) outline past successes and avenues for its continued adoption.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Academic conversations about the potential power of AI for biodiversity science have happened concurrently with, but largely independent from, an increasing popular awareness of the skyrocketing carbon emissions of GenAI tools. Data centers underpinning corporate GenAI application are one of the fastest growing consumers of electricity, with use on track to double by 2030 and current rates already accounting for 1.5% of global electricity consumption (Chen &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). The environmental impacts of GenAI also extend beyond electricity consumption. For example, training for only one model—Microsoft’s GPT-3 (sensu ChatGPT)—necessitated consumption of approximately 5.4 million liters of freshwater in the US alone; moreover, training-related water consumption was regionally biased both domestically and internationally, raising serious social-justice concerns (Li &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). Generally, an increased emphasis on resource-heavy computational approaches may further exacerbate differences in resource accessibility between the Global North and South, leading to “AI colonialism”. Ecologists, who are committed to biodiversity protection, climate justice, and global equity, therefore feel a growing unease that the continued adoption of AI writ large could undermine the goals of their field. Although our primary focus here is on AI’s carbon footprint, we acknowledge many other ethical issues involved in AI use, including governance of algorithms, violations of privacy and intellectual property rights, and a lack of social responsibility surrounding AI outputs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the discussion of AI use in ecology, one of the central challenges is the ongoing conflation of GenAI with the entire field of AI. Colloquially, the term “AI” is increasingly perceived as exclusively synonymous with GenAI approaches that create text (e.g., ChatGPT), images (e.g., Stable Diffusion), or video (e.g., SORA). However, GenAI is only a single branch of AI that is arguably both the most energy-consumptive and the least relevant to ecology. The stigma attached to the ethical implications of adopting these large corporate models therefore runs the risk of painting with too br","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146155132","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":"Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research","authors":"Carlos Cano-Barbacil,&nbsp;James F Cahill,&nbsp;Helen M Regan,&nbsp;Talya D Hackett,&nbsp;Jacob N Barney,&nbsp;Isabel Donoso,&nbsp;Franz Essl,&nbsp;Emili García-Berthou,&nbsp;Tina Heger,&nbsp;Lotte Korell,&nbsp;Ingolf Kühn,&nbsp;Demetra Rakosy,&nbsp;Kristiina Visakorpi,&nbsp;Núria Roura-Pascual","doi":"10.1002/fee.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception of ecological research by ecologists typically involves a triad—linking goals, research, and impact. Yet the realities of scientific practice are substantially more complicated due to numerous constraints that limit the ability of researchers to conduct ecological research and to have a genuine impact. Many of these barriers can be mitigated, leading to more effective contributions to society and biodiversity conservation. Here, we outline frequently encountered constraints in ecological research institutions and, by drawing upon many practices used internationally, we identify feasible mitigations and highlight examples of negative consequences that can occur in the absence of effective mitigation strategies. Finally, we propose changes to aspects of the culture and reward systems that would allow ecological research as a discipline to more effectively achieve societal, environmental, and personal goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176501","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":"Toward a unified understanding of people’s aversion to nature: biophobia","authors":"Johan Kjellberg Jensen,&nbsp;Anna S Persson,&nbsp;Masashi Soga","doi":"10.1002/fee.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human–nature relationships are often framed positively, but research rarely addresses biophobia, the aversion to nature. However, negative relationships with nature are likely to become more widespread following societal and environmental changes, with serious implications for public health and conservation efforts. Here, we performed a systematic review of 196 studies on biophobia, revealing a fragmentation of knowledge across disciplines, including environmental sciences, psychology, and social sciences. To unify this research, we introduce a cohesive framework summarizing the drivers and consequences of, as well as treatments for, biophobia. Based on the current body of evidence, understanding changes in human–nature dynamics will require enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, greater attention to cultural and regional differences, and longitudinal studies. In addition, we call for studies of biophobia that extend beyond animal species typically linked to fear or disgust. Broadening the scope of such research will lead to greater appreciation of the full range of human–nature interactions—from affinity to aversion—and ultimately improve conservation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146154610","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}

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{"title":"Disentangling the potential of protected areas to promote sustainable development","authors":"Aline Gaglia Alves,&nbsp;Caroline Vital da Solidade,&nbsp;Helena Alves Prado,&nbsp;Aliny PF Pires","doi":"10.1002/fee.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Protected areas (PAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are crucial to sustainable development, yet their contributions to environmental, social, and economic dimensions remain unclear. We investigated the role of PAs and OECMs in advancing the sustainable development agenda by summarizing 400 effect-size values and measuring their impact on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our meta-analysis reveals that, while PAs generally have the potential to enhance sustainable development indicators, certain negative outcomes also emerge, highlighting the need for context-specific analysis and a keen understanding of inherent trade-offs. Although PAs typically support environmental goals, such as SDGs 14 and 15, they often struggle to balance social and economic objectives. We emphasize the importance of integrated assessments that incorporate diverse and better indicators, context-specific factors, and the perspectives of multiple stakeholders. This approach is vital for maximizing the contributions of PAs to sustainable development, particularly in terms of advancing various dimensions of human well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176373","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}