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21st‐Century Mangrove Expansion Along the Southeastern United States [PDF]

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
Global warming is driving poleward range shifts worldwide, including the northward expansion of tropical mangroves along the Atlantic coast of North America. In this region, warming winters are enabling mangroves to encroach into salt marsh–dominated temperate latitudes, potentially transforming wetland ecosystem function and services. To assess future
Lucia I. A. Enes Gramoso, Dustin Carroll, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Remi Bardou, Michael J. Osland, Tom Van der Stocken   +5 more
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Unlocking landscape transient dynamics: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge for enhanced analysis of land‐use changes and forest expansion in a Mediterranean ecosystem

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 283-300, February 2026.
Abstract The Industrial Revolution triggered rural abandonment in Europe and had a profound impact on land configuration and ecosystem dynamics, mainly the growth of forests at the expense of open agricultural habitats. However, rural abandonment has been asynchronous in space and time, depending on regional socio‐economic dynamics.
Joan Bauzà, Miquel Grimalt, Daniel Oro
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Comparison of drone and ground surveys for the detection of a rare plant in a fragile ecosystem

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–March 2026.
We compared the accuracy, time, and financial costs of drone and ground surveys for the detection of wood lilies (Lilium philadelphicum) in an endangered alvar ecosystem. We found that the drone surveys detected 73%–78% of the plants found in the ground surveys, but that this type of survey was more expensive and time consuming than the ground survey ...
Ana Hernández Martínez de la Riva, Koreen Millard, Murray Richardson, Joseph Bennett   +3 more
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Trees Outside Forests (TOFs): A Global Review of Methodological Advances, Limitations, and Framework Innovations

International Journal of Forestry Research, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Trees outside forests (TOFs) represent an important natural and anthropogenic resource that contributes significantly to biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and the protection of forest genetic resources (FGRs). Despite their ecological and socioeconomic importance, TOFs are increasingly declining due to land‐use changes, urbanization ...
Aman Dabral, Pawan Kumar Thakur, Maneesh S. Bhandari, Vishal Johar, Vinita Bisht, Shailesh Pandey, Rama Kant, Rajendra K. Meena, Himanshu Saini, Poulami Jha   +9 more
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The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 11, Page 3156-3168, November 2025.
Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spatial planning and management of tree plantations is therefore essential in order to promote more sustainable fire regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems ...
Irene Repeto‐Deudero, Fernando Ojeda, Susana Gómez‐González, Alejandro Miranda, Verónica Cruz‐Alonso, Juli G. Pausas   +5 more
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Restore little to improve much: the value of woody linear elements for ecological connectivity across agricultural landscapes

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, November 2025.
Mediterranean Europe is facing significant pressures from agricultural intensification. The European Union (EU) Natura2000 network (N2K) seeks to mitigate habitat loss and fragmentation, but its effectiveness needs to be enhanced through Green Infrastructure (GI) to improve coherence between N2K patches.
Simone Valeri, Daniele Bellucci, Giulia Capotorti   +2 more
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Alpine greening deciphered by forest stand and structure dynamics in advancing treelines of the southwestern European Alps

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 375-393, August 2025.
Multidecadal satellite observations, like those from Landsat, enable the study of vegetation greenness trends at extensive spatial and temporal scales. Alpine ecosystems show significant increases in vegetation greenness, but the ecological processes driving this greening are less understood.
Arthur Bayle, Baptiste Nicoud, Jérôme Mansons, Loïc Francon, Christophe Corona, Philippe Choler   +5 more
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Long‐term dynamics of coastal dune landscapes and habitat diversity: Insights from a quarter century of resurveys in Castelporziano Presidential Estate

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2025.
Fifty‐eight historical vegetation plots surveyed in 1998 in the coastal dune ecosystems of the Castelporziano Presidential Estate were resurveyed in 2023 and combined with land cover maps derived from satellite/aerial imagery and photointerpretation. Changes in land cover between 1998 and 2023 were assessed using chord diagrams. Landscape metrics (e.g.,
Elena Cini, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Marco Malavasi, Simona Sarmati, Silvia Del Vecchio, Daniela Ciccarelli, Flavio Marzialetti   +6 more
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Comparing Cloud Mask Products for Seagrass Mapping Over Sentinel‐2 Imagery: Toward a First National Seagrass Map for Venezuela

Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract Despite providing many valuable ecosystem services, seagrasses are a threatened habitat and their global distribution is not fully known. For example, Venezuela lacks a national seagrass map. An established regional mapping approach for seagrass exists for the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, but requires a long time window to obtain ...
Chengfa Benjamin Lee, Ana Carolina Peralta Brichtova, Mar Roca, Tylar Murray, Oswaldo David Bolivar Rodriguez, Daniele Cerra, Frank E. Muller‐Karger   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of pixel-oriented k-NN machine learning algorithm performance for the interannual remote sensing monitoring of eelgrass beds at the mouth of the Romaine. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess, 2023
Lemieux P, Lalumière C, Fugaru N, Gilbert JP, Tremblay A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source