Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén, TB Atwood, ES Bakker… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Global forest fragmentation change from 2000 to 2020

J Ma, J Li, W Wu, J Liu - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
A comprehensive quantification of global forest fragmentation is urgently required to guide
forest protection, restoration and reforestation policies. Previous efforts focused on the static …

Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition

J Feng, D Yu, RL Sinsabaugh, DL Moorhead… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biochar amendment is one of the most promising agricultural approaches to tackle climate
change by enhancing soil carbon (C) sequestration. Microbial‐mediated decomposition …

Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models

M Ludwig, A Moreno‐Martinez, N Hölzel… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Global‐scale maps of the environment are an important source of information for
researchers and decision makers. Often, these maps are created by training machine …

Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework

R Halvorsen, O Skarpaas, A Bryn… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Although a standard taxonomy of organisms has existed for nearly 300 years,
no consensus has yet been reached on principles for systematization of ecological diversity …

Map** African wetlands for 2020 using multiple spectral, geo-ecological features and Google Earth Engine

A Li, K Song, S Chen, Y Mu, Z Xu, Q Zeng - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services essential for biodiversity conservation,
climate change mitigation, and human well-being. Nevertheless, there are still no complete …

Modeling the potential global distribution of the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis under climate change

SM ElShahed, ZK Mostafa, MH Radwan, EM Hosni - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis is a highly invasive insect pest
that causes extensive damage to many of the primary food crops. Considering the recent …

A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals

C Allen, M Smith, M Rabiee, H Dahmm - Sustainability Science, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suffer from a lack of national data
needed for effective monitoring and implementation. Almost half of the SDG indicators are …

[HTML][HTML] An evaluation of the effectiveness of protected areas in Thailand

M Singh, C Griaud, CM Collins - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Thailand is a biodiversity hotspot and home to over 1000 bird species, 15,000 plant species,
and five of the World Wildlife Fund's Global 200 Ecoregions of ecological significance. To …

Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals

JA Britnell, Y Zhu, GIH Kerley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human land-use results in widespread range change across taxa. Anthropogenic pressures
can result in species' realized niches expanding, shifting, or contracting. Marginalization …