BioSciencePub Date : 2024-10-18eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae088
Cleo Bertelsmeier, Aymeric Bonnamour, Eckehard G Brockerhoff, Petr Pyšek, Jiří Skuhrovec, David M Richardson, Andrew M Liebhold
{"title":"Global proliferation of nonnative plants is a major driver of insect invasions.","authors":"Cleo Bertelsmeier, Aymeric Bonnamour, Eckehard G Brockerhoff, Petr Pyšek, Jiří Skuhrovec, David M Richardson, Andrew M Liebhold","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae088","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biae088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Invasions by nonnative insect species can massively disrupt ecological processes, often leading to serious economic impacts. Previous work has identified propagule pressure as important driver of the trend of increasing numbers of insect invasions worldwide. In the present article, we propose an alternative hypothesis-that insect invasions are being driven by the proliferation of nonnative plants, which create niches for insect specialists and facilitate their establishment outside their native ranges where their hosts are planted or are invasive. We synthesize mechanisms by which plant invasions facilitate insect invasions, macroecological patterns supporting the tight link between plant and insect invasions, and case studies of plant invasions having facilitated subsequent insect establishment. This body of evidence indicates that plant invasions are a major driver of insect invasions. Consequently, the benefits of limiting the spread of nonnative plants include averting the proliferation of nonnative insects and their spillover onto native plant species.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 11","pages":"770-781"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11566100/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142646980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-10-10eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae091
Jerrold L Belant, Kai-Uwe Denker, Kenneth F Kellner
{"title":"Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting.","authors":"Jerrold L Belant, Kai-Uwe Denker, Kenneth F Kellner","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae091","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biae091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 11","pages":"737-739"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11566035/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-10-08eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae077
Minh-Xuan A Truong, René Van der Wal
{"title":"Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal.","authors":"Minh-Xuan A Truong, René Van der Wal","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two decades ago, Gaston and O'Neill (2004) deliberated on why automated species identification had not become widely employed. We no longer have to wonder: This AI-based technology is here, embedded in numerous web and mobile apps used by large audiences interested in nature. Now that automated species identification tools are available, popular, and efficient, it is time to look at how the apps are developed, what they promise, and how users appraise them. Delving into the automated species identification apps landscape, we found that free and paid apps differ fundamentally in presentation, experience, and the use of biodiversity and personal data. However, these two business models are deeply intertwined. Going forward, although big tech companies will eventually take over the landscape, citizen science programs will likely continue to have their own identification tools because of their specific purpose and their ability to create a strong sense of belonging among naturalist communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 9","pages":"601-613"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11480699/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142457324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-09-25eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae078
Ryan E Emanuel
{"title":"The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research.","authors":"Ryan E Emanuel","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indigenous peoples living in what is now coastal North Carolina gave the name pocosin to a unique type of nonriparian wetland endemic to the region. Their Algonquian dialects are poorly documented in colonial records and have been dormant for centuries; not even contemporary Indigenous peoples in the region speak these particular languages. But for decades, environmental researchers and practitioners have asserted in publications, classrooms, and public-facing materials that pocosin literally translates to \"swamp on a hill.\" Despite widespread assertions, no evidence exists to support the claim. This article debunks the widely circulated translation and explains, more generally, how even well-intentioned efforts to acknowledge Indigenous peoples and their knowledge systems within Western scientific frameworks may cause harm by undermining those Indigenous peoples' stewardship of traditional ecological knowledge or by reinforcing other aspects of colonialism. The lessons apply broadly to researchers, practitioners, and institutions that engage with Indigenous peoples and their knowledge systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 11","pages":"797-801"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11565856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142646981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae090
Ellen Wohl, Kirstie Fryirs, Robert C Grabowski, Ryan R Morrison, David Sear
{"title":"Enhancing the natural absorbing capacity of rivers to restore their resilience","authors":"Ellen Wohl, Kirstie Fryirs, Robert C Grabowski, Ryan R Morrison, David Sear","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae090","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience, which can also be described as absorbing capacity, describes the amount of change that a system can undergo in response to disturbance and maintain a characteristic, self-sustaining regime of functions, processes, or sets of feedback loops. Rivers exhibit varying levels of resilience, but the net effect of industrialized anthropogenic alteration has been to suppress river resilience. As changing climate alters the inputs to rivers and human modification alters the morphology and connectivity of rivers, restoration increasingly considers how to enhance resilience. Characteristics that underpin river absorbing capacity include natural regimes, connectivity, physical and ecological integrity, and heterogeneity. River management emphasizing channel stabilization and homogenization has reduced river absorbing capacity. We propose that the paths to restoring rivers include defining relevant measures of absorbing capacity and understanding the scales of restoration and the sociopolitical elements of river restoration. We provide a conceptual framing for choosing measures that could be used to assess river absorbing capacity.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142249985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae073
Walter K Dodds
{"title":"Scientific collaborative within-group conduct, data-sharing, and publication agreements","authors":"Walter K Dodds","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae073","url":null,"abstract":"As science becomes ever more collaborative, the mechanisms for working in large and more diverse groups become more necessary. In the present article, I explore the utility of within-group collaboration agreements on participant conduct toward other project participants, within-group data sharing, and authorship of published manuscripts for research groups. Such agreements can solidify the expectations of the interactions among collaborators, potential rewards, and a feeling of security for those involved in the projects. They could also lead to more productive and satisfying research, as well as improving the training of future scientists.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142249986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae071
Simon Eckerström Liedholm, Luke Hecht, Vittoria Elliott
{"title":"Improving wild animal welfare through contraception","authors":"Simon Eckerström Liedholm, Luke Hecht, Vittoria Elliott","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae071","url":null,"abstract":"To date, research on the welfare impacts of wildlife contraceptives has mostly been focused on the potential harms of contraceptives. However, there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect direct and indirect welfare benefits of wildlife contraceptives. These positive welfare effects would be experienced by more than just the treated individuals, because per capita resource availability will increase with decreasing numbers of individuals sharing a resource. In the present article, we discuss the potential for wildlife contraceptives to alleviate resource competition and their associated negative welfare effects at different scales. These effects are expected to vary across contexts and would presumably be stronger when wildlife contraceptives are used with the explicit purpose of improving wild animal welfare. The potential for considerable welfare gains for wildlife through the targeted use of contraceptives highlights the importance of both species-specific studies on the welfare benefits of wildlife contraceptives and further research on the links between population dynamics and wild animal welfare.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae083
Katherine B Lininger, Rebecca Lave
{"title":"River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits","authors":"Katherine B Lininger, Rebecca Lave","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae083","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing organic carbon storage in river corridors (channels and floodplains) is a potential cobenefit of some river restoration approaches, raising the possibility of using restoration to produce carbon credits and, therefore, increase restoration funding. However, the uncertainty already associated with existing carbon credits is compounded in river corridors, which are dynamic on daily, seasonal, annual, and longer timescales. We currently do not know how much river restoration approaches could increase carbon storage or how significant increased organic carbon storage from restoration would be compared with other forms of climate mitigation. We also do not know whether river corridor carbon credits could meet market needs for quickly established, stable, and simple credits. Therefore, we argue that biophysical and political economic uncertainties make river corridor restoration carbon credits currently unfeasible but that research on river restoration projects would demonstrate whether restoration carbon credits could be feasible in the future.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae081
Henry H Hansen, Claudio Comoglio, Jelger Elings, Philip Ericsson, Peter Goethals, Marie-Pierre Gosselin, Franz Hölker, Christos Katopodis, Paul Kemp, Lovisa Lind, Rachel Mawer, Gloria Mozzi, John M Nestler, John Piccolo, Johannes Radinger, Matthias Schneider, Velizara Stoilova, Bernhard Wegscheider, Eva Bergman
{"title":"Fish habitat models for a future of novel riverscapes","authors":"Henry H Hansen, Claudio Comoglio, Jelger Elings, Philip Ericsson, Peter Goethals, Marie-Pierre Gosselin, Franz Hölker, Christos Katopodis, Paul Kemp, Lovisa Lind, Rachel Mawer, Gloria Mozzi, John M Nestler, John Piccolo, Johannes Radinger, Matthias Schneider, Velizara Stoilova, Bernhard Wegscheider, Eva Bergman","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae081","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple anthropogenic forces have pushed river ecosystems into undesirable states with no clear understanding of how they should be best managed. The advancement of riverine fish habitat models intended to provide management insights has slowed. Investigations into theoretical and empirical gaps to define habitat more comprehensively across different scales and ecological organizations are crucial in managing the freshwater biodiversity crisis. We introduce the concept of novel riverscapes to reconcile anthropogenic forcing, fish habitat, limitations of current fish habitat models, and opportunities for new models. We outline three priority data-driven opportunities that incorporate the novel riverscape concept: fish movement, river behavior, and drivers of novelty that all are integrated into a scale-based framework to guide the development of new models. Last, we present a case study showing how researchers, model developers, and practitioners can work collaboratively to implement the novel riverscape concept.","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BioSciencePub Date : 2024-08-26eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae062
M Jake Vander Zanden, Adrianna Gorsky, Gretchen J A Hansen, Pieter T J Johnson, Alexander W Latzka, Alison Mikulyuk, Robin R Rohwer, Michael J Spear, Jake R Walsh
{"title":"Nine Lessons about Aquatic Invasive Species from the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research (NTL-LTER) Program.","authors":"M Jake Vander Zanden, Adrianna Gorsky, Gretchen J A Hansen, Pieter T J Johnson, Alexander W Latzka, Alison Mikulyuk, Robin R Rohwer, Michael J Spear, Jake R Walsh","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae062","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biae062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Freshwater ecosystems can serve as model systems that reveal insights into biological invasions. In this article, we summarize nine lessons about aquatic invasive species from the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program and affiliated projects. The lessons about aquatic invasive species are as follows: Invasive species are more widespread than has been documented; they are usually at low abundance; they can irrupt from low-density populations in response to environmental triggers; they can occasionally have enormous and far-reaching impacts; they can affect microbial communities; reservoirs act as invasive species hotspots; ecosystem vulnerability to invasion can be estimated; invasive species removal can produce long-term benefits; and the impacts of invasive species control may be greater than the impacts of the invasive species. This synthesis highlights how long-term research on a freshwater landscape can advance our understanding of invasions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 8","pages":"509-523"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11367673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142124745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}