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Integrating natural baselines into ecosystem restoration: scaling herbivore targets for European landscapes

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Herbivore‐mediated ecosystem processes are fundamental to biodiversity, yet have been greatly diminished by megafauna extinctions and replacement of wild herbivores by managed livestock. With increasing restoration ambitions—including the United Nations' (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the European Union (EU) Nature ...
Camilla Fløjgaard, Robert Buitenwerf, Alessandro Chiarucci, Martin Konvička, Rasmus Mohr Mortensen, Norman Owen‐Smith, Deli Saavedra, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Rasmus Ejrnæs   +8 more
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BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING ON GEODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

The growing relevance of ecosystem services (ES) in scientific and environmental policy discussions reflects the need to integrate ecological, economic, and social dimensions for nature conservation and human well-being. This article conducts a bibliometric and qualitative analysis of scientific publications on the subject, with emphasis on the ...
PACHECO, Juliana Thaisa Rodrigues, SILVA, Julio Manoel França da   +1 more
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Exploring the Geodiversity—Biodiversity Relationships in Freshwaters for Environmental Conservation: A Global Systematic Literature Review

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Geodiversity refers to the heterogeneity of abiotic characteristics in nature, and in freshwater ecosystems, it mostly mirrors the diversity of hydro‐geomorphological features in inland waters. Although several scholars have highlighted that geodiversity contributes to habitat formation and influences biodiversity and ecological processes, it ...
Ioanna Xynogala, Eva Papastergiadou, Janne Alahuhta, Elias Dimitriou, Alexis Ramfos, Konstantinos Stefanidis   +5 more
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Geodiversity Index for identifying priority areas for geoheritage along the BR-174 route in Roraima, northern Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia
Geodiversity, as the abiotic variety of nature, provides the foundation for identifying geoheritage elements. Roraima, located within the Guiana Shield, exhibits high geodiversity but lacks regional-scale quantification studies.
Sérgio Mateus Sid Mendonça, Fábio Luiz Wankler, Márcia Teixeira Falcão   +2 more
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Linear Water Erosion in the State of Mato Grosso (Brazil): Spatial Analysis and Identification of Critical Areas

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 51, Issue 9, September 2026.
Mapping linear water erosion across Mato Grosso revealed spatially concentrated critical areas rather than a uniform distribution. Erosion foci were more frequent in environmentally fragile landscapes and areas of land‐use conflict, highlighting where monitoring and soil‐conservation actions should be prioritized.
Kássio Samay Ribeiro Tavares, Grace Bungenstab Alves, Selma Simões De Castro   +2 more
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Timing matters for farmland breeding waders: Aligning agri‐environment exclusion periods with species‐ and latitude‐specific nesting phenology

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 9, September 2026.
We propose an evidence‐based system that prescribes context‐specific exclusion dates based on three simple criteria: target species, latitude and agricultural activity. This framework would allow policy to account for complex phenological variation, significantly improving breeding outcomes, while remaining administratively manageable and scalable.
Leah Gray, David J. T. Douglas, Xavier Lambin, Dave M. B. Parish, Allan J. Perkins, Patrick J. C. White, Mark W. Wilson, Chris Batey, Daniel Brown, Lucy R. Mason, Jennifer Smart, Andrew N. Hoodless, Max A. Wright, Thomas W. Bodey   +13 more
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What do We Mean by Environmental Heterogeneity? Toward A Mechanistically Explicit and Scale‐Dependent Framework

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
We synthesized 360 studies on environmental heterogeneity (EH) across taxa, regions, and disciplines. Only 10% of studies explicitly defined EH, and definitions were predominantly descriptive. We identify four operational interpretations of EH and propose a Research Roadmap linking EH metrics to five mechanistic hypotheses with testable predictions ...
Iván Hérnandez‐Chávez, Giovani Hernández‐Canchola, Celia López‐González, Livia León‐Paniagua   +3 more
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Guapira leucophylla (Nyctaginaceae, Caryophyllales), a new species from the northern Espinhaço Range of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Guapira Aubl. (Nyctaginaceae, Pisonieae) comprises dioecious shrubs and trees widely distributed in the Neotropics and occupying diverse habitats. In the Brazilian Cerrado, the genus occurs in several phytophysiognomies, including Campos Rupestres, a montane rock ecosystem with high levels of endemism but still marked by significant gaps in botanical ...
Danilo Alvarenga Zavatin, Luísa Azevedo, Renato Ramos, Jefferson Prado, Elson Felipe Sandoli Rossetto   +4 more
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Effectiveness of Adjacent and Bivariate Maps in Communicating Global Sensitivity Analysis for Geodiversity Assessment

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
This study compares adjacent and bivariate maps in communicating variance-based global sensitivity analysis (GSA) results for a geodiversity assessment spatial multi-criteria model and examines the influence of prior exposure to geodiversity and map reading skills on interpretation.
Piotr Jankowski 0001, Seda Salap-Ayça, Alicja Najwer, Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, Zbigniew Zwolinski   +4 more
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Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot, Luis Berrocal‐Rangel, Manuel Fernández‐Götz   +2 more
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