Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(5), С. 351 - 368

Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2024

Язык: Английский

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The undetectability of global biodiversity trends using local species richness

Ecography, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 2023(3)

Опубликована: Фев. 9, 2023

Although species are being lost at alarming rates, previous research has provided conflicting results on the extent and even direction of global biodiversity change local scale. Here, we assessed ability to detect trends using richness how it is affected by number monitoring sites, sampling interval (i.e. time between original survey re‐survey site), measurement error (error richness), spatial grain (a proxy for taxa mobility) biases site‐selection biases). We use PREDICTS model‐based estimates as a real‐world distribution randomly selected sites calculate trends. found that while network with hundreds could in within 30‐year period, detecting doubled decade, increased 10‐fold three years yearly were undetectable. Measurement errors had non‐linear effect statistical power, 1% reducing power slight margin 5% drastically reliably any trend. The was also related grain, making harder sampled smaller plot sizes. Spatial not only reduced negative but sometimes yielded positive conclude accurate may simply be unfeasible current approaches. suggest representative implemented national level, combined models accounting biases, can help improve our understanding change.

Язык: Английский

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Soil microbial diversity plays an important role in resisting and restoring degraded ecosystems

Plant and Soil, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 500(1-2), С. 325 - 349

Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Biodiversity credits: a new currency to support nature conservation?

Oryx, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 6

Опубликована: Март 4, 2025

Abstract Biodiversity credits are increasingly being promoted as an innovative tool for closing the biodiversity finance gap. A growing number of providers offering credits, either linked to carbon or a new asset class in their own right. However, there also warnings that they could become double-edged sword conservation and distract governments from financial responsibilities agreed Global Framework. differ other environmental policy instruments offer non-offsetting way financing restoration activities. Well-designed credit schemes can therefore make significant contribution real net gains. But realize full potential, need be based on common methodology, broaden focus include marine areas, respect rights local Indigenous communities. Benefit sharing embedding regulatory approaches will critical success.

Язык: Английский

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Aggregated time‐series features boost species‐specific differentiation of true and false positives in passive acoustic monitoring of bird assemblages

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(4), С. 517 - 530

Опубликована: Фев. 25, 2024

Abstract Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has gained increasing popularity to study behaviour, habitat preferences, distribution and community assembly of birds other animals. Automated species classification algorithms like ‘BirdNET’ are capable detecting classifying avian vocalizations within extensive audio data, covering entire assemblages. PAM reveals substantial potential for biodiversity that informs evidence‐based conservation. Nevertheless, fully realizing this remains challenging, especially due the issue false‐positive detections. Here, we introduce an optimized thresholding framework, which incorporates contextual information extracted from time‐series automated detections (i.e. covariates on quality quantity species' measured at varying time intervals) improve differentiation true false positives. We verified a sample BirdNET per modelled species‐specific thresholds using conditional inference trees. These were designed minimize while maximizing preservation positives in dataset. tested framework large dataset (5760 h 60 sites) recorded over breeding season. Our results revealed considerable interspecific variability precision (percentage positives) raw data. approach achieved high (≥0.9) 70% 61 detected species, solely relying confidence scores only 31% species. Conservative universal (not species‐specific) reached 48% outperformed previous approaches enhanced comparability bird analyses. By incorporating detections, was substantially improved. may enhance straightforward application research, landscape planning

Язык: Английский

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Genetic rescue often leads to higher fitness as a result of increased heterozygosity across animal taxa

Molecular Ecology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 33(19)

Опубликована: Сен. 16, 2024

Abstract Biodiversity loss has reached critical levels partly due to anthropogenic habitat and degradation. These landscape changes are damaging as they can fragment species distributions into small, isolated populations, resulting in limited gene flow, population declines reduced adaptive potential. Genetic rescue, the translocation of individuals increase genetic diversity ultimately fitness, produced promising results for fragmented populations but remains underutilized a lack long‐term data monitoring. To promote better understanding rescue its potential risks benefits over short‐term, we reviewed analysed published attempts identify whether increases following translocation, if this change is associated with increased fitness. Our review identified 19 studies that provided fitness from before after translocation; majority these were on mammals, included experimental, natural conservation‐motivated translocations. Using Bayesian meta‐analytical approach, found average, post translocations, although there some exceptions trend. Overall, was positive predictor cases relationship extended three generations post‐rescue. suggest single have lasting benefits, support another tool facilitate conservation success. Given number data, echo need monitoring post‐translocation understand also limit long‐term.

Язык: Английский

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Nature’s Comeback: Case Studies of South Asian Countries Regarding Biodiversity Restoration and Conservation

Climate change management, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 67 - 82

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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An ensemble machine learning bioavailable strontium isoscape for Eastern Canada

FACETS, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 10, С. 1 - 17

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Bioavailable strontium isotope ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) distribution across the landscape mainly follow underlying lithology, making Sr baseline maps (isoscapes) powerful tools for provenance studies. has already been used in Eastern Canada (EC) to track food and human remains origins, or reconstruct animal mobility. While bioavailable isoscapes EC can be extrapolated from global datasets using random forest modelling (RF), no regionally calibrated isoscape exists. Here, we produce a by analysing plants collected at 136 sites EC, incorporating updated geological variables applying novel ensemble machine learning (EML) framework. We generated compared traditional RF EML approaches. Adding local dataset significantly improved model prediction with drastic increase of predicted increased spatial uncertainty northern Canadian craton. produced similar predictions but tighter distribution. Regionally outperformed isoscape, confirming requirement collecting data data-poor regions. This provides monitor manage movements agricultural products, natural resources, endangered/harmful migratory species, archaeological artifacts.

Язык: Английский

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Best practices for long-term monitoring of island arthropods: insights from the Azores Islands

Deleted Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 2(1)

Опубликована: Март 17, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Automated near real-time monitoring in ecology: Status quo and ways forward

Ecological Informatics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 89, С. 103157 - 103157

Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2025

Язык: Английский

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