BioSciencePub Date : 2024-10-22eCollection Date: 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae097
Mary E Blair, Elkin A Noguera-Urbano, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Andrea Paz, Cristina Lopez-Gallego, María Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Juan Zuloaga, Pilar Rodríguez, Leonardo Lemus-Mejia, Peter Ersts, Daniel F López-Lozano, Matthew E Aiello-Lammens, Hector M Arango, Leonardo Buitrago, Samuel Chang Triguero, Cristian A Cruz-Rodríguez, Juan F Díaz-Nieto, Dairo Escobar, Valentina Grisales-Betancur, Bethany A Johnson, Jamie M Kass, María C Londoño-Murcia, Cory Merow, Carlos J Muñoz-Rodríguez, María Helena Olaya-Rodríguez, Juan L Parra, Gonzalo E Pinilla-Buitrago, Nicolette S Roach, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Néstor Roncancio-Duque, Erika Suárez-Valencia, J Nicolás Urbina-Cardona, Jorge Velásquez-Tibatá, Camilo A Zapata-Martinez, Robert P Anderson
{"title":"Software codesign between end users and developers to enhance utility for biodiversity conservation.","authors":"Mary E Blair, Elkin A Noguera-Urbano, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Andrea Paz, Cristina Lopez-Gallego, María Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Juan Zuloaga, Pilar Rodríguez, Leonardo Lemus-Mejia, Peter Ersts, Daniel F López-Lozano, Matthew E Aiello-Lammens, Hector M Arango, Leonardo Buitrago, Samuel Chang Triguero, Cristian A Cruz-Rodríguez, Juan F Díaz-Nieto, Dairo Escobar, Valentina Grisales-Betancur, Bethany A Johnson, Jamie M Kass, María C Londoño-Murcia, Cory Merow, Carlos J Muñoz-Rodríguez, María Helena Olaya-Rodríguez, Juan L Parra, Gonzalo E Pinilla-Buitrago, Nicolette S Roach, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Néstor Roncancio-Duque, Erika Suárez-Valencia, J Nicolás Urbina-Cardona, Jorge Velásquez-Tibatá, Camilo A Zapata-Martinez, Robert P Anderson","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae097","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biae097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Creating software tools that address the needs of a wide range of decision-makers requires the inclusion of differing perspectives throughout the development process. Software tools for biodiversity conservation often fall short in this regard, partly because broad decision-maker needs may exceed the toolkits of single research groups or even institutions. We show that participatory, collaborative codesign enhances the utility of software tools for better decision-making in biodiversity conservation planning, as demonstrated by our experiences developing a set of integrated tools in Colombia. Specifically, we undertook an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration of ecological modelers, software engineers, and a diverse profile of potential end users, including decision-makers, conservation practitioners, and biodiversity experts. We leveraged and modified common paradigms of software production, including codesign and agile development, to facilitate collaboration through all stages (including conceptualization, development, testing, and feedback) to ensure the accessibility and applicability of the new tools to inform decision-making for biodiversity conservation planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 12","pages":"867-873"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660944/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142876143","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 : 2024-10-18eCollection 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 : 2024-10-14eCollection Date: 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae084
Simone Guareschi, Kate L Mathers, Josie South, Laetitia M Navarro, Trevor Renals, Alice Hiley, Marco Antonsich, Rossano Bolpagni, Alejandro Bortolus, Piero Genovesi, Arthertone Jere, Takudzwa C Madzivanzira, Fortunate M Phaka, Ana Novoa, Julian D Olden, Mattia Saccó, Ross T Shackleton, Montserrat Vilà, Paul J Wood
{"title":"Framing challenges and polarized issues in invasion science: toward an interdisciplinary agenda.","authors":"Simone Guareschi, Kate L Mathers, Josie South, Laetitia M Navarro, Trevor Renals, Alice Hiley, Marco Antonsich, Rossano Bolpagni, Alejandro Bortolus, Piero Genovesi, Arthertone Jere, Takudzwa C Madzivanzira, Fortunate M Phaka, Ana Novoa, Julian D Olden, Mattia Saccó, Ross T Shackleton, Montserrat Vilà, Paul J Wood","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biae084","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biae084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a hyperconnected world, framing and managing biological invasions poses complex and contentious challenges, affecting socioeconomic and environmental sectors. This complexity distinguishes the field and fuels polarized debates. In the present article, we synthesize four contentious issues in invasion science that are rarely addressed together: vocabulary usage, the potential benefits of nonnative species, perceptions shifting because of global change, and rewilding practices and biological invasions. Researchers have predominantly focused on single issues; few have addressed multiple components of the debate within or across disciplinary boundaries. Ignoring the interconnected nature of these issues risks overlooking crucial cross-links. We advocate for interdisciplinary approaches that better integrate social and natural sciences. Although they are challenging, interdisciplinary collaborations offer hope to overcome polarization issues in invasion science. These may bridge disagreements, facilitate knowledge exchange, and reshape invasion science narratives. Finally, we present a contemporary agenda to advance future research, management, and constructive dialogue.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"74 12","pages":"825-839"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142876141","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}