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Looking back, looking ahead: Local perspectives on landscape changes and native‐tree restoration in Madagascar

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Across sub‐Saharan Africa, tree‐based restoration efforts are dominated by exotic tree species due to their rapid biomass accumulation and short‐term economic returns. However, their limited contribution to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has renewed interest in native‐tree restoration as a more sustainable strategy.
Herimino Manoa Rajaonarivelo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peri‐urban agroforestry for climate mitigation in West Africa: Structural diversity and functional traits as key drivers of carbon storage

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Peri‐urban areas in West Africa are expanding rapidly, often with limited planning and growing exposure to climate risks. Our study shows that agroforestry systems in these landscapes, especially diverse home gardens, can store substantial amounts of carbon when they include structurally complex stands and species with traits that favor biomass ...
Sèdoami Flora Dogbo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Herbaria as repositories of past soil properties and historical soil DNA

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Soil health is fundamental to agriculture, food security, and the sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems under ongoing climate and land‐use changes. Soil microorganisms play a key role in these processes, yet how soils and their microbial communities have changed over time in response to global environmental change remains poorly understood ...
Gianluca Grasso   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Domestic composters as winter reservoirs for the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii in temperate climates

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
Domestic composters enable year‐round emergence of Drosophila suzukii, buffering winter temperatures and supporting larval development, potentially enhancing overwintering survival and early‐season crop reinfestation. Abstract BACKGROUND Drosophila suzukii is an invasive pest established worldwide, including in temperate regions with harsh winters.
Romain Georges   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Emerging Role of UAV for Heathland Monitoring and Conservation: State of the Art and Perspectives

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Heathland ecosystems are currently in a degraded state due to agricultural transformations and the effects of climate change. They are semi‐natural ecosystems hosting a variety of species (fauna and flora), and they also carry landscape and cultural importance, hence the need to pay careful attention to their conservation.
J. Boissonnat, F. Binet, T. Houet
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to the City: Evaluating BirdNET Reliability and Bias in Urban Bird Community Assessments

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
BirdNET substantially overestimates urban bird species richness, but seasonal filtering and local calibration meaningfully improve classification precision. ABSTRACT BirdNET is increasingly used for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), yet its reliability in urban environments that have high levels of anthropogenic noise remains poorly understood.
Valeria Ferrario   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large parameter uncertainty persists in soil food web models integrating stoichiometry, respiration and assimilation

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Soil food web models are essential for linking animal diversity to carbon and nutrient cycling. However, it is unclear how soil animals regulate excess carbon when nutrient availability limits their growth and how to best represent animal respiration in these models. To
Robert W. Buchkowski   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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