[HTML][HTML] Innovations in science, technology, engineering, and policy (iSTEP) for addressing environmental issues towards sustainable development

L Luo, J Zhang, H Wang, M Chen, Q Jiang… - The Innovation …, 2024 - the-innovation.org
Sustainable development depends on the integration of the economy, society, and
environment. Yet, escalating environmental challenges pose threats to both society and the …

Describing functional diversity of communities from environmental DNA

I Cantera, S Giachello, T Münkemüller… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Comprehensive assessments of functional diversity are needed to understand ecosystem
alterations under global changes. The 'Fun-eDNA'approach characterises functional …

How human activities affect and reduce ecological sensitivity under climate change: Case study of the yangtze river economic belt, china

Y Wei, M An, J Huang, X Fang, M Song, B Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecological sensitivity (ES) shows the adaptability of ecosystem. As anthropogenic activities
and climatic change intensify, they affect ES individually and interactively. Thus, clarifying …

Species invasiveness and community invasibility of North American freshwater fish fauna revealed via trait-based analysis

G Su, A Mertel, S Brosse, JM Calabrese - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
While biological invasions are recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity,
determining non-native species' abilities to establish in new areas (species invasiveness) …

Environmental DNA reveals a mismatch between diversity facets of Amazonian fishes in response to contrasting geographical, environmental and anthropogenic …

O Coutant, C Jézéquel, K Mokany… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems are among the most endangered ecosystem in the world.
Understanding how human activities affect these ecosystems requires disentangling and …

Benchmarking eleven biodiversity indicators based on environmental DNA surveys: More diverse functional traits and evolutionary lineages inside marine reserves

A Dalongeville, E Boulanger, V Marques… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To mitigate the ongoing threats to coastal ecosystems, and the biodiversity erosion they are
causing, marine‐protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as powerful and widespread …

The socioeconomic and environmental niche of protected areas reveals global conservation gaps and opportunities

D Mouillot, L Velez, C Albouy, N Casajus… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The global network of protected areas has rapidly expanded in the past decade and is
expected to cover at least 30% of land and sea by 2030 to halt biodiversity erosion. Yet, the …

Long-term wetland biomonitoring highlights the differential impact of land use on macroinvertebrate diversity in Dongting Lake in China

Y Zhang, D Huang, X **, L Li, C Wang… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Freshwater wetlands have experienced disproportionate biodiversity loss due to
environmental change. The lack of long-term biological data limits our understanding of …

Deforestation strengthens environmental filtering and competitive exclusion in Neotropical streams and rivers

I Cantera, C Jézéquel, T Dejean… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding how anthropization impacts the assembly of species onto communities is
pivotal to go beyond the observation of biodiversity changes and reveal how disturbances …

Effects of trade and poaching pressure on extinction risk for cacti in the Atacama Desert

A Villalobo‐Lopez, CM Peña… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this era of a global biodiversity crisis, vascular plants are facing unprecedented extinction
rates. We conducted an assessment of the extinction risk of 32 species and 7 subspecies of …