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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thomas F Turner, Henry L Bart, Frank McCormick, Alexi C Besser, Rachel E Bowes, Krista A Capps, Emily S DeArmon, Casey B Dillman, Katelyn P Driscoll, Aubrey Dugger, Gregor L Hamilton, Phillip M Harris, Dean A Hendrickson, Joel Hoffman, Jason H Knouft, Ryan F Lepak, Hernán López-Fernández, Carmen G Montaña, Seth D Newsome, Allison A Pease, W Leo Smith, Christopher A Taylor, Rachel L Welicky
Biodiversity collections are experiencing a renaissance fueled by the intersection of informatics, emerging technologies, and the extended use and interpretation of specimens and archived databases. In this article, we explore the potential for transformative research in ecology integrating biodiversity collections, stable isotope analysis (SIA), and environmental informatics. Like genomic DNA, SIA provides a common currency interpreted in the context of biogeochemical principles. Integration of SIA data across collections allows for evaluation of long-term ecological change at local to continental scales...
July 29, 2023: Bioscience
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Susana Carvalho, Hailey Shchepanik, Eva Aylagas, Michael L Berumen, Filipe O Costa, Mark John Costello, Sofia Duarte, Jasmine Ferrario, Oliver Floerl, Moritz Heinle, Stelios Katsanevakis, Agnese Marchini, Sergej Olenin, John K Pearman, Raquel S Peixoto, Lotfi J Rabaoui, Greg Ruiz, Greta Srėbalienė, Thomas W Therriault, Pedro E Vieira, Anastasija Zaiko
Managing marine nonindigenous species (mNIS) is challenging, because marine environments are highly connected, allowing the dispersal of species across large spatial scales, including geopolitical borders. Cross-border inconsistencies in biosecurity management can promote the spread of mNIS across geopolitical borders, and incursions often go unnoticed or unreported. Collaborative surveillance programs can enhance the early detection of mNIS, when response may still be possible, and can foster capacity building around a common threat...
July 2023: Bioscience
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John T Van Stan, Scott T Allen, Douglas P Aubrey, Z Carter Berry, Matthew Biddick, Miriam A M J Coenders-Gerrits, Paolo Giordani, Sybil G Gotsch, Ethan D Gutmann, Yakov Kuzyakov, Donát Magyar, Valentina S A Mella, Kevin E Mueller, Alexandra G Ponette-González, Philipp Porada, Carla E Rosenfeld, Jack Simmons, Kandikere R Sridhar, Aron Stubbins, Travis Swanson
Stormwater is a vital resource and dynamic driver of terrestrial ecosystem processes. However, processes controlling interactions during and shortly after storms are often poorly seen and poorly sensed when direct observations are substituted with technological ones. We discuss how human observations complement technological ones and the benefits of scientists spending more time in the storm. Human observation can reveal ephemeral storm-related phenomena such as biogeochemical hot moments, organismal responses, and sedimentary processes that can then be explored in greater resolution using sensors and virtual experiments...
June 2023: Bioscience
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac099.].
June 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shawan Chowdhury, Upama Aich, Md Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam, Priyanka Das, Asma Siddika, Sultan Ahmed, Mahzabin Muzahid Labi, Moreno Di Marco, Richard A Fuller, Corey T Callaghan
Citizen science programs are becoming increasingly popular among naturalists but remain heavily biased taxonomically and geographically. However, with the explosive popularity of social media and the near-ubiquitous availability of smartphones, many post wildlife photographs on social media. Here, we illustrate the potential of harvesting these data to enhance our biodiversity understanding using Bangladesh, a tropical biodiverse country, as a case study. We compared biodiversity records extracted from Facebook with those from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), collating geospatial records for 1013 unique species, including 970 species from Facebook and 712 species from GBIF...
June 2023: Bioscience
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac100.].
May 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kevin J Gaston, Alexandra S Gardner, Daniel T C Cox
How the relative impacts of anthropogenic pressures on the natural environment vary between different taxonomic groups, habitats, and geographic regions is increasingly well established. By contrast, the times of day at which those pressures are most forcefully exerted or have greatest influence are not well understood. The impact on the nighttime environment bears particular scrutiny, given that for practical reasons (e.g., researchers themselves belong to a diurnal species), most studies on the impacts of anthropogenic pressures are conducted during the daytime on organisms that are predominantly day active or in ways that do not differentiate between daytime and nighttime...
April 2023: Bioscience
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REVIEW
Brenda B Lin, Erik Andersson
New urban models increasingly seek to create more sustainable, livable, and healthier cities by reinvigorating green space. In this article, we highlight and briefly review several main but disconnected areas of study in which the factors that frame human-environment interactions and therefore also influence the potential well-being outcomes of those interactions are studied. We then use the intersection of affordance theory and socio-institutional programming to provide a conceptual framework that ties together these spheres of research, and we discuss some critical keys for enabling different positive green space experiences...
March 2023: Bioscience
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Richard W Hill
The people of three primeval cultures lived naked or nearly naked in regions where they experienced air temperatures of ± 5 degrees Celsius during cold seasons. These were the Australian Aboriginal peoples, the Bushmen of southern Africa, and the Yamana and the Alakaluf of Tierra del Fuego. Recent meta-analyses of data on human metabolic rate and metabolic endurance enable a quantitative demonstration of feasibility: Thermoregulation at winter air temperatures while naked was feasible in the three cultures for significantly longer than 50-180 days per year (sufficient for the duration of winter)...
March 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sterling B Tebbett, Samantha K Crisp, Richard D Evans, Christopher J Fulton, Albert Pessarrodona, Thomas Wernberg, Shaun K Wilson, David R Bellwood
The concept of dominance is frequently used to describe changes in rapidly reconfiguring ecosystems, but the definition of dominance can vary widely among studies. Using coral reefs as a model, we use extensive benthic composition data to explore how variability in applying dominance concepts can shape perceptions. We reveal that coral dominance is sensitive to the exclusion of key algal groups and the categorization of other benthic groups, with ramifications for detecting an ecosystem phase shift. For example, ignoring algal turf inflates the dominance of hard and soft corals in the benthic habitats underpinning reef ecosystems...
March 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hannah Greving, Till Bruckermann, Anke Schumann, Milena Stillfried, Konstantin Börner, Robert Hagen, Sophia E Kimmig, Miriam Brandt, Joachim Kimmerle
Citizen science projects are crucial for engaging citizens in conservation efforts. Although attitudes toward engagement in citizen science were mostly considered an outcome of citizen science participation, citizens may also have a certain attitude toward engagement in citizen science when starting with a citizen science project. Moreover, there is a lack of citizen science studies that consider changes over longer periods of time. Therefore, in this research, we present two-wave data from four field studies of a citizen science project about urban wildlife ecology using cross-lagged panel analyses...
March 2023: Bioscience
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Sofie Meeus, Iolanda Silva-Rocha, Tim Adriaens, Peter M J Brown, Niki Chartosia, Bernat Claramunt-López, Angeliki F Martinou, Michael J O Pocock, Cristina Preda, Helen E Roy, Elena Tricarico, Quentin J Groom
Bioblitzes are a popular approach to engage people and collect biodiversity data. Despite this, few studies have actually evaluated the multiple outcomes of bioblitz activities. We used a systematic review, an analysis of data from more than 1000 bioblitzes, and a detailed analysis of one specific bioblitz to inform our inquiry. We evaluated five possible bioblitz outcomes, which were creating a species inventory, engaging people in biological recording, enhancing learning about nature, discovering a species new to an area, and promoting an organization...
March 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Löfqvist, Fritz Kleinschroth, Adia Bey, Ariane de Bremond, Ruth DeFries, Jinwei Dong, Forrest Fleischman, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic A Martin, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Marion Pfeifer, Sarobidy O Rakotonarivo, Navin Ramankutty, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, Jeanine M Rhemtulla, Casey M Ryan, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Geoff J Wells, Rachael D Garrett
Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes...
February 2023: Bioscience
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Federica Villa, Ying-Li Wu, Andrea Zerboni, Francesca Cappitelli
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac091.].
January 2023: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gabriel I Gadsden, Nigel Golden, Nyeema C Harris
Historical perspectives (e.g., moments of social, political, and economic significance) are increasingly relevant for developing insights into landscape change and ecosystem degradation. However, the question of how to incorporate historical events into ecological inquiry is still under development, owing to the evolving paradigm of transdisciplinary thinking between natural science and the humanities. In the present article, we call for the inclusion of negative human histories (e.g., evictions of communities and environmental injustices) as important factors that drive landscape change and shape research questions relevant to environmental conservation...
January 2023: Bioscience
#36
REVIEW
Tyler J Grant, Kelsey E Fisher, Niranjana Krishnan, Alexander N Mullins, Richard L Hellmich, Thomas W Sappington, James S Adelman, Joel R Coats, Robert G Hartzler, John M Pleasants, Steven P Bradbury
The North American monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Multiple factors are associated with the decline in the eastern population, including the loss of breeding and foraging habitat and pesticide use. Establishing habitat in agricultural landscapes of the North Central region of the United States is critical to increasing reproduction during the summer. We integrated spatially explicit modeling with empirical movement ecology and pesticide toxicology studies to simulate population outcomes for different habitat establishment scenarios...
December 2022: Bioscience
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REVIEW
Federica Villa, Ying-Li Wu, Andrea Zerboni, Francesca Cappitelli
Pigment-based color is one of the most important phenotypic traits of biofilms at the mineral-air interface (subaerial biofilms, SABs), because it reflects the physiology of the microbial community. Because color is the hallmark of all SABs, we argue that pigment-based color could convey the mechanisms that drive microbial adaptation and coexistence across different terrestrial environments and link phenotypic traits to community fitness and ecological dynamics. Within this framework, we present the most relevant microbial pigments at the mineral-air interface and discuss some of the evolutionary landscapes that necessitate pigments as adaptive strategies for resource allocation and survivability...
December 2022: Bioscience
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REVIEW
Sarah R Weiskopf, Bonnie J E Myers, Maria Isabel Arce-Plata, Julia L Blanchard, Simon Ferrier, Elizabeth A Fulton, Mike Harfoot, Forest Isbell, Justin A Johnson, Akira S Mori, Ensheng Weng, Zuzana V HarmáCˇková, María Cecilia Londoño-Murcia, Brian W Miller, Laura M Pereira, Isabel M D Rosa
Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently. Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they do not always account for the role of biodiversity in maintaining ecological functions. We review models used in recent global model intercomparison projects and develop a novel model integration framework to more fully account for the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function, a key gap for linking biodiversity changes to ecosystem services. We propose two integration pathways...
November 2022: Bioscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Sievers, Christopher J Brown, Christina A Buelow, Robin Hale, Andria Ostrowski, Megan I Saunders, Brian R Silliman, Stephen E Swearer, Mischa P Turschwell, Stephanie R Valdez, Rod M Connolly
As efforts to restore coastal habitats accelerate, it is critical that investments are targeted to most effectively mitigate and reverse habitat loss and its impacts on biodiversity. One likely but largely overlooked impediment to effective restoration of habitat-forming organisms is failing to explicitly consider non-habitat-forming animals in restoration planning, implementation, and monitoring. These animals can greatly enhance or degrade ecosystem function, persistence, and resilience. Bivalves, for instance, can reduce sulfide stress in seagrass habitats and increase drought tolerance of saltmarsh vegetation, whereas megaherbivores can detrimentally overgraze seagrass or improve seagrass seed germination, depending on the context...
November 2022: Bioscience
#40
REVIEW
Matthew J Struebig, Sabhrina G Aninta, Maria Beger, Alessia Bani, Henry Barus, Selina Brace, Zoe G Davies, Maarten De Brauwer, Karen Diele, Cilun Djakiman, Rignolda Djamaluddin, Rosie Drinkwater, Alex Dumbrell, Darren Evans, Marco Fusi, Leonel Herrera-Alsina, Djoko T Iskandar, Jamaluddin Jompa, Berry Juliandi, Lesley T Lancaster, Gino Limmon, Lindawati, Michaela G Y Lo, Pungki Lupiyaningdyah, Molly McCannon, Erik Meijaard, Simon L Mitchell, Sonny Mumbunan, Darren O'Connell, Owen G Osborne, Alex S T Papadopulos, Joeni S Rahajoe, Rosaria, Stephen J Rossiter, Rugayah, Himmah Rustiami, Ulrich Salzmann, Sheherazade, I Made Sudiana, Endang Sukara, Johny S Tasirin, Aiyen Tjoa, Justin M J Travis, Liam Trethowan, Agus Trianto, Tim Utteridge, Maria Voigt, Nurul Winarni, Zulianto Zakaria, David P Edwards, Laurent Frantz, Jatna Supriatna
Wallacea-the meeting point between the Asian and Australian fauna-is one of the world's largest centers of endemism. Twenty-three million years of complex geological history have given rise to a living laboratory for the study of evolution and biodiversity, highly vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures. In the present article, we review the historic and contemporary processes shaping Wallacea's biodiversity and explore ways to conserve its unique ecosystems. Although remoteness has spared many Wallacean islands from the severe overexploitation that characterizes many tropical regions, industrial-scale expansion of agriculture, mining, aquaculture and fisheries is damaging terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, denuding endemics from communities, and threatening a long-term legacy of impoverished human populations...
November 2022: Bioscience
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