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{"title":"Bridging genetic knowledge gaps in a biodiversity hotspot through conservation training.","authors":"Alba Enguídanos García, Víctor Cuesta-Porta, Jeancarlos Abrego L, Milton Almanza, Kensy Zuleny Alvelo Villegas, Joan Antaneda H, Leighanne Bonner, Odelkys J Carpintero, Gustavo Nelson Collado, Darío Córdoba González, Maira Díaz Vergara, Zedna I Guerra-Lima, Juan de Dios Noriega, Daniela Sofía de León Herrera, Alana I Domingo, Ovidio Durán, Anette Garrido-Trujillo, Yorlenis González, Sara Ceciel Justo Riverol, Analía Guerrero Romero, Noemí León Correoso, Laura E P Molina, Edilma Montalvo, Claudia M Pérez-González, Marleny Rivera, Javier Leonardo Vásquez Acosta, Mario Vásquez, Ana Vega-Atencio, Wendy Zhuo, Carles Galià-Camps","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag035","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot is extraordinarily rich, yet most invertebrate genetic diversity remains invisible, hampering effective conservation planning amid accelerating biodiversity loss. How can this hidden diversity be revealed while simultaneously building local scientific capacity? <i>Panama BioResearch</i>, a hands-on molecular course, addressed this issue by embedding DNA barcoding within training and conservation contexts. Participants collected terrestrial and marine invertebrates across three protected areas and generated 158 DNA barcode sequences, two-thirds of which represented first genetic records for their species. Comparisons with public databases revealed striking under-representation of Mesoamerican taxa, especially non-iconic groups with key ecosystem roles. Barcoding also enabled the rapid detection of two invasive species, prompting immediate management responses. Beyond documenting biodiversity, this experience demonstrates that small, low-cost educational initiatives can produce actionable data, foster local expertise, and inform conservation priorities. Embedding molecular tools in education provides a scalable model for linking research, training, and management in species-rich but data-deficient regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 6","pages":"563-568"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13289609/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148315701","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}

{"title":"Crediting and citing Indigenous Knowledges within research.","authors":"Christine Barry, Bob Muir, Vincent Backhaus, Cynthia Coyne, Emma Donnelly, Elizabeth Evans-Illidge, Luciana C Ferreira, David Flagg, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Adrian C Gleiss, Matthew Harris, Jenna L Hounslow, Danielle Kampers, Linda Keevers-Lock, Charmaine Koroi, Jayshree Mamtora, Melissa Marshall, Mark G Meekan, Anne Poelina, Yanti Ropeyarn Angkamuthi Yadhaykenu Woppaburra Meriam, Lynette Russell, Michele Thums, Raymond Tobler, Sean Ulm, Corey J A Bradshaw","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag009","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag009","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knowledge exchanges between Indigenous and scientific communities occur regularly, with researchers frequently seeking and benefiting from Indigenous Knowledge holders. These exchanges inherently demonstrate the value and authority of Indigenous Knowledges within academia; however, the traditional academic system lacks formal processes for crediting and citing such Knowledges. Given the complexity, diversity, and uniqueness of Indigenous cultures around the world, different approaches to assigning appropriate credit are required for different cultural groups-there is no \"one size fits all\" approach. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) communities have knowledge traditions reaching back millennia, with high diversity in knowledge reproduction, partitioning, access, and governance among nations. We demonstrate the complexity of crediting and citing Indigenous Knowledges across Australia, so that other regions of the world can adapt to their own contexts; the structural complexity of First Nations groups requires careful, considered, and context-specific approaches. In this &lt;i&gt;Perspective&lt;/i&gt;, we highlight important components that should be considered and implemented when citing Indigenous Knowledges, with the aim of supporting discussion within relevant communities. Prior to citing Indigenous Knowledges, certain prerequisites must be established and met: (&lt;i&gt;i&lt;/i&gt;) clear definitions of \"Knowledges\" and free, prior, and informed consent that is neither constrained nor coerced, (&lt;i&gt;ii&lt;/i&gt;) an established relationship between the relevant First Nations group and the researchers (the latter being either non-Indigenous or Indigenous), (&lt;i&gt;iii&lt;/i&gt;) a clear understanding of the two-way benefits of the Knowledge transfer, (&lt;i&gt;iv&lt;/i&gt;) an acknowledgement that citation does not replace co-authorship and the legal rights the latter confers, (&lt;i&gt;v&lt;/i&gt;) acknowledgement that Indigenous Knowledges are dynamic, including the ways that Knowledge holders want to exercise sovereignty over their data and resources, and (&lt;i&gt;vi&lt;/i&gt;) institutional infrastructure to support the citation process. Crediting approaches must also be available to account for heterogeneity within and across First Nations groups, such as different authorities of Knowledges, \"Country\" itself as an authority, as well as gendered, initiated, sensitive, or sacred Knowledges. Maintaining autonomy is essential-First Nations groups must retain the ability to retract shared information if they so desire. As such, the accompanying digital object identifier (DOI) or data repository holding the cited information must be managed within the relevant country (here, Australia) or by an organization that can meet these requirements. A homogeneous citation solution within Australia, or elsewhere, seems unlikely and potentially undermines the celebrated diversity among First Nations. We therefore suggest the development of a dynamic citation protocol, where a decision tree ca","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 6","pages":"501-512"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13289611/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148315683","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}

{"title":"Collaborative pathways to confront the coral reef crisis.","authors":"P J Edmunds, M Adjeroud, L Bramanti, S C Burgess, P Harnay, C Moritz, M M Nugues, H M Putnam, K Rochette-Yu Tsuen, N J Silbiger, K E Speare, J Wencélius","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag036","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 7","pages":"587-590"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13377645/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148577038","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}

{"title":"Participatory species naming as a tool for public engagement and conservation.","authors":"Cene Fišer, Maja Zagmajster","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 8","pages":"681-682"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13485991/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148788020","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}

{"title":"Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing landscape.","authors":"Miriam Beck, Pavanee Annasawmy, Deborah Birre, Michela Busana, Nicolas Casajus, Camille Coux, Clara Marino, Nicolas Mouquet, Lisa Nicvert, Brunno F Oliveira, Cathleen Petit-Cailleux, Axelle Tortosa, Mithila Unkule, Chloé Vagnon, Devi Veytia","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag028","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 7","pages":"582-586"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13377635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148576994","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}

{"title":"From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community.","authors":"Elizabeth R Ellwood, Gil Nelson, Breda Zimkus, John Bates, Joseph A Cook, Jyotsna Pandey, Emily Sessa, Matthew Borths, Jillian Goodwin, David Jennings, Pamela S Soltis","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag018","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Following decades of increasing collaboration and organization, the United States natural science collections community is uniting around the creation of a national center supporting biological collections. Community consultations identified eight major themes that a center could encompass to manage, unify, and strategically expand the vast specimen/sample infrastructure and associated data stored in biological collections, address challenges facing physical biodiversity collections, and, importantly, coordinate across diverse research and education sectors. The center would foster workforce development, ethical collaboration with Indigenous communities, expand a digital infrastructure to provide broad access to collections data, and innovation in fields like artificial intelligence for data capture, management, and analysis. Ultimately, a center would provide sustainable, long-term government and private support for biodiversity science that integrates the use of biological collections to foster innovations and networks that address critical societal challenges and benefit public health, environmental conservation, and the bioeconomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 6","pages":"525-535"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13289605/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148315703","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}

{"title":"Beyond scents: calling on the fragrance industry to champion plant diversity.","authors":"Luiza F A de Paula, Rhian J Smith, Vanessa Handley, Tiago P Gomes, Raphael Ocelli Pinheiro, Alexandre Antonelli, Peggy L Fiedler","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag014","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (1992), international frameworks have emphasized benefit-sharing and private-sector engagement in conservation, a call reinforced by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022). Yet biodiversity continues to decline, highlighting the need for funding models that effectively link commerce with conservation. Here, we examine how the fragrance industry-a sector deeply dependent on plant diversity and cultural value chains-can contribute more meaningfully to global plant conservation. Drawing on international policy frameworks, published literature, and illustrative conservation-industry partnerships, we assess mechanisms through which fragrance-related initiatives support biodiversity protection, accountability, and culturally grounded conservation narratives. We then examine The Red List Project as a conservation-first model that integrates biodiversity objectives directly into fragranced product development, using scent inspiration rather than wild harvesting. We argue that scaling such approaches could reposition the fragrance industry as an active partner in safeguarding plant diversity, biocultural heritage, and equitable benefit-sharing.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 6","pages":"513-524"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13289612/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148315712","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}

{"title":"Correction to: Conservation of coral genetic diversity through a global biorepository network.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf117.].</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 7","pages":"661"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13377634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148577008","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}

{"title":"Biology Needs Philosophy, But What Philosophy?","authors":"James DiFrisco, Steven Hecht Orzack","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag016","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Philosophy of biology has the potential to contribute to biology by improving scientific reasoning. However, this potential is largely unrealized because of the lack of awareness by most biologists of what philosophy can offer, because of deficits of biological expertise among most philosophers, and because of adherence to disciplinary norms in philosophy that render much work in philosophy of biology irrelevant to biologists. We believe that philosophy of biology will contribute little to biology without a change of practice. We provide guidelines (\"comments\" <i>sensu</i> Slobodkin 1975, \"commandments\" <i>sensu</i> Kornberg 2000, 2003, Francis et al. 2007) for how biologists can better engage with philosophy and for how philosophers can better engage with biology so as to create a \"philosophical biology\" that improves our biological understanding.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 5","pages":"417-428"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13154029/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147866868","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}

{"title":"Ecological Constraints on Tropical Forest Recovery Challenge the \"Long-Term\" Vision of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.","authors":"Erik Petter Axelsson, Ulrik Ilstedt","doi":"10.1093/biosci/biag007","DOIUrl":"10.1093/biosci/biag007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) outlines targets for protecting and restoring biodiversity by 2030, with the vision of \"living in harmony with nature\" by 2050. Although the 20-year vision clearly is aspirational, we emphasize that many forest attributes crucial for biodiversity-such as the abundance of large trees and the availability of dead wood-recover over much longer timescales. In a restored tropical forest, we estimate that it may require about 57 years to reach densities of large trees comparable to pristine forests (>75 cm DBH) and up to 144 years for the largest trees to attain similar sizes. Twenty years is also insufficient to restore dead-wood stocks, but as trees mature and die, they can replenish the pool of large dead wood essential for biodiversity. Achieving GBF goals will require policies and management strategies that recognize ecological timescales and commit to long-term restoration and protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":9003,"journal":{"name":"BioScience","volume":"76 5","pages":"463-470"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13154026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147866888","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}