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{"title":"The biodiversity we ignore: A global meta-analysis on taxonomic bias.","authors":"Stefano Mammola, Diego Fontaneto, Adrià Bellvert, Matteo Chialva, Martino Adamo","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02479-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02479-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As biodiversity decline continues, there is a critical need to document, monitor, and protect species equitably across the tree of life. However, both scientific research and societal perceptions of biodiversity are often biased toward large, colorful, charismatic, familiar, or otherwise \"useful\" species. We conducted a global meta-analysis encompassing 905 effect sizes from 78 studies across three decades of research assessing drivers of taxonomic bias. Positive biases were widespread across study designs, regions, and taxonomic scopes, with plants and invertebrates typically receiving disproportionately less attention than vertebrates. However, the magnitude of bias was generally small (Pearson's r < 0.5), suggesting mild impacts on research agendas. Concerningly, conservation priority emerged as the only dimension not consistently associated with positive bias, suggesting a misalignment between research attention, funding, public interest, and conservation needs. We conclude that while biases are pervasive across taxonomic groups, they are subtle-but their conservation consequences warrant urgent correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 Beaver Futures Framework: Stakeholder value perspectives on future human-beaver coexistence.","authors":"Britt van Zelst, Koen Arts, Inge Dekker, Dianneke van Wijk, Wolf M Mooij, Sven Teurlincx","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02476-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02476-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human-wildlife coexistence increasingly requires approaches that make diverse value perspectives explicit. We introduce the Beaver Futures Framework (BFF), which integrates intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values, as well as instrumental damages of beavers, to support more inclusive discussions on beaver management in the Netherlands. We applied the BFF in a workshop with beaver professionals to examine how participants valued beavers and how these values related to their self-placement within the framework. The BFF proved effective for systematically exploring and collecting beaver values, stimulating mutual understanding among participants, and revealing both shared and divergent perspectives within the group. These findings demonstrate the framework's potential to support inclusive stakeholder engagement and to map value plurality in ways that inform coexistence strategies. Because of its generic structure, the BFF can be adapted to other species or ecosystems, offering a promising tool for navigating complex human-wildlife interactions in increasingly anthropogenic landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Highlighting the structural complexity of Europe's leading seafood processing hub: Building a social-ecological network with actor-network theory.","authors":"Etienne Quillet, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia, Laureline Poisson, Frida Ben Rais Lasram","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02485-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02485-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The seafood sector faces multiple challenges that threaten its contribution to food security. For developing effective governance strategies in response to those transformations, this study proposes a theoretical framework grounded in Actor-Network Theory (ANT), applied to the construction of a Social-Ecological Network (SEN), to better understand the structural complexity of the seafood sector SES in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Europe's leading seafood processing hub. Through semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and participatory workshops, we identified 227 nodes and 595 links across environmental, economic, productive, and social categories framing the seafood sector. The descriptive analysis of the network reveals that operational production entities constitute the network's core, shaping how environmental resources, economic support, and social regulations are organized. By making visible the diversity of components, their multi-layer interactions, and interdependencies within this system, our approach provides decision-makers with evidence-based insights for developing strategies that align with the seafood sector's systemic reality and sustainability challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Socioeconomic potential of seaweed aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam: An integrative review.","authors":"Huu-Tri Nguyen, Phuong-Loan Phan, Thuy-Hang Nguyen-Thi, Huu-Thanh Nguyen, Phu-Tho Nguyen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02489-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02489-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seaweed aquaculture is increasingly promoted within blue economy strategies, but evidence for the Mekong River Delta (MRD), Vietnam, remains fragmented. This PRISMA-informed narrative integrative review screened 460 records after duplicate removal and retained 85 evidence sources. The synthesis compared species suitability, farming systems, value chains, economic evidence, and governance constraints. Gracilaria tenuistipitata had the strongest support for brackish shrimp-pond integration; MRD studies reported standing biomass of 2.13-11.78 t fresh weight ha^-1 and associations with higher shrimp yield and profit. Kappaphycus, Eucheuma, Ulva, and Caulerpa required site- or market-specific validation. Shrimp-seaweed IMTA was better aligned with variable salinity than near-shore carrageenophyte systems, whereas IMTA-RAS remained pilot-scale and capital-intensive. Reported NPV and IRR values were too heterogeneous for valid pooling, and no standardized MRD-specific estimates were available. Thus, evidence supports selected pathways, particularly Gracilaria integration, but not a mature or quantitatively documented MRD-wide sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"What health are we talking about? Biodiversity as the missing link between One Health and Planetary Health","authors":"Jonas Geschke,&nbsp;Simone Sommer,&nbsp;Michael Schloter","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02487-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-026-02487-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Health has become a central term in global sustainability policy, yet it is often used without sufficient conceptual precision. Public health, global health, One Health, EcoHealth, GeoHealth, and Planetary Health each emphasize different dimensions of the relationship between humans, animals, and the environment. In policy contexts, however, these distinctions are frequently blurred. We argue that biodiversity is often treated as an environmental co-benefit rather than as a foundational determinant of health. This weakens the implementation of One Health approaches because biodiversity underpins disease regulation, immune system development, food and water security, ecosystem functioning, resilience, and climate adaptation. At the same time, biodiversity provides a critical link between One Health and broader Planetary Health challenges, including global environmental change and the transgression of planetary boundaries. Future health and sustainability policies should move beyond generic references to health and explicitly recognize biodiversity as part of preventive health systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"55 11","pages":"2811 - 2814"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-026-02487-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Nitrous oxide under the international ozone regime: A new governance pathway for a growing threat.","authors":"David R Kanter, Tad Ferris, Thomas Nickson, Tapio Reinikainen","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02477-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02477-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 1.5 °C world and healthy stratospheric ozone layer is impossible to achieve without ambitious action to reduce nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions. While N₂O is currently controlled under the international climate regime, only a handful of countries have committed to reduction targets. We argue that the international community should consider controlling N₂O under the Montreal Protocol, the international ozone agreement. The Montreal Protocol is widely considered the most successful international environmental agreement ever. The Protocol's focus on production and consumption is well suited to nitrogen pollution, and it has a successful track record in the agricultural sector-N₂O's dominant source. A special report from the Protocol's assessment panels could provide the scientific foundation for action, and an initial focus on industrial N₂O could be a springboard to address additional sectors. In short, the international ozone agreement creates a unique opportunity for action on a multifaceted threat that we can no longer ignore.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148896232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Humans: Intertwined with life and the basic elements in the Anthropocene biosphere","authors":"Carl Folke,&nbsp;Andrew Hattle,&nbsp;Peter Søgaard Jørgensen,&nbsp;Henrik Österblom,&nbsp;Tone Bjordam,&nbsp;Gregory Bratman,&nbsp;Connor Lashus,&nbsp;Staffan Normark,&nbsp;Lan Wang-Erlandsson,&nbsp;Gretchen Daily,&nbsp;Jonathan Donges,&nbsp;Eric Galbraith,&nbsp;Esteban Jobbágy,&nbsp;Ariane König,&nbsp;Tomás Milani,&nbsp;Magnus Nyström,&nbsp;Belinda Reyers,&nbsp;Juan Rocha,&nbsp;Johan Rockström,&nbsp;Caroline Schill","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02474-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13280-026-02474-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The notion of people and nature as intertwined and embedded in the biosphere is gaining traction in contemporary scientific discourses. But what does it mean for a human being to be intertwined? Here, we explore this question through two lenses: looking at the human body as an open living system in continuous exchange with the chemical elements on Earth; and looking across the biosphere, at the intricate functioning of the web of life in mediating these exchanges. The first lens focuses on relationships between chemical elements and life processes within us humans, relationships that are critical for our bodies to operate and function. We then expand the perspective to show how microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals in ecosystems shape and mediate the elemental flows through the air, water, and food that our bodies require for survival. The two lenses highlight that humans have evolved as part of, and remain integrated with, these complex and dynamic life–element interdependencies, spanning all scales and domains across the biosphere. In the Anthropocene, humans remain as bodily dependent on life-mediated elemental cycles as ever, irrespective of culture, economic development, or technological advances. This inseparability reflects the core reality of existing in the biosphere, with implications for how to approach and understand human–environment relations and confront the challenges of the Anthropocene. It further implies that biosphere stewardship is not only a cognitive or ethical orientation, but also an embodied practice: one that involves learning about, caring for, and enhancing the living relations that mobilise, regenerate, and circulate life-sustaining elements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":"55 10","pages":"2295 - 2320"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-026-02474-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148890479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Uniting citizen science and plural valuation: Potential for leveraging transformative change.","authors":"Helen Verploegen, Alison J Dyke, Wessel Ganzevoort, Jean Hugé, Sander Jacobs, Stijn Neuteleers, Montserrat Prats López, Bas Verschuuren, Uta Wehn","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02458-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02458-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current ecological crisis asks for system-wide transformation toward more sustainable views, structures and practices. Recognition and integration of the plural ways people value nature, including intrinsic, instrumental and relational values, is one of the key aspects of this transformative change. To achieve this, diverse societal actors should participate in decision-making processes of environmental policies. We highlight a form of participation that thus far has not been explicitly linked to plural valuation: citizen science. In this perspective, we demonstrate that citizen science-diverse initiatives where citizens participate in knowledge generation processes-is a space where plural values of nature are articulated, practiced and fostered. Based on four values-centered leverage points, we show potential benefits and areas of advance that integrating citizen science in plural valuation offers for required system-wide transformative change. Finally, we provide recommendations toward fully leveraging the potential of citizen science for plural valuation of nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Amplifying social benefits from multiple nature-based initiatives by crowdsourcing nature connectedness and wellbeing data: A proof of concept.","authors":"Michael L Lengieza, Elizabeth Richardson, Miles Richardson","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02472-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02472-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, nature-based interventions (NBIs) designed to address mental wellbeing and ecological concerns have increased markedly. Yet, evaluating the efficacy of these initiatives-both as a sector and individually-often remains a challenge. In particular, despite often sharing common aims of promoting wellbeing and nature connectedness, individual initiatives are often small, fragmented, and lack the expertise that would allow for effective programme evaluation at both the sector and programme level. Fortunately, these three challenges can be easily addressed through the implementation of an evaluation tool (i.e. standardised survey and dashboard) relying upon crowdsourced data from these otherwise-fragmented initiatives. Here, we use nature connectedness data from an evaluation tool developed by Natural England as a proof-of-concept for this approach. Our illustrative findings show that by pooling data from several initiatives with common aims, the tool is able to produce useful sector-wide insights which would have been otherwise undetectable by any NBI's individual evaluation efforts due to sample size and fragmentation. In our discussion, we (a) demonstrate how the insights from our analyses are consistent with the literature (and, therefore, indicative of success as a proof-of-concept) and (b) discuss how the tool can be enhanced and best implemented for practical benefit to individual programmes and the sector. We also provide an improved version of the standardised survey used for the present illustration in supplemental material.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Climate-mediated upward shift of coffee agroforestry and associated reforestation in Arabica coffee's native range.","authors":"Firew Bekele Abebe, Kristoffer Hylander, Sileshi Nemomissa, Tamrat Bekele, Beyene Zewdie, Ayco J M Tack","doi":"10.1007/s13280-026-02470-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02470-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is expected to cause latitudinal and elevational shifts in where crops can grow, with major consequences for land use, rural livelihoods and biodiversity. Shifts in agroforestry systems can be especially transformative, as this alters tree cover. We used semi-structured interviews and vegetation surveys to investigate the patterns, drivers, consequences and future trajectories of an upward shift of Arabica coffee agroforestry within its native range in the Afromontane mountains. We observed a climate-, income- and crop raiding-driven upward shift of coffee production into a novel elevational range, with positive feedback mechanisms enhancing the future adoption of agroforestry. Forest and open-land-derived agroforests showed similar woody plant species richness and large overlaps in community composition. Open-land-derived coffee agroforestry is, and is expected to increasingly be, the dominant coffee agroforestry type in the novel range, with positive implications for tree cover, biodiversity and ecosystem services in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.</p>","PeriodicalId":461,"journal":{"name":"Ambio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}