Effects of coastal development on sawfish movements and the need for marine animal crossing solutions
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 5:e14263. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14263. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough human-made barriers to animal movement are ubiquitous across many types of ecosystems, the science behind these barriers and how to ameliorate their effects lags far behind in marine environments compared with terrestrial and freshwater realms. Using juvenile sawfish in an Australian nursery habitat as a model system, we aimed to assess the effects of a major anthropogenic development on the movement behavior of coastal species. We compared catch rates and movement behavior (via acoustic telemetry) of juvenile green sawfish (Pr...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 5, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Karissa O Lear Brendan C Ebner Travis Fazeldean Rebecca L Bateman David L Morgan Source Type: research
Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 4:e14261. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14261. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmid a global infrastructure boom, there is increasing recognition of the ecological impacts of the extraction and consumption of construction minerals, mainly processed as concrete, including significant and expanding threats to global biodiversity. We investigated how high-level national and international biodiversity conservation policies address mining threats, with a special focus on construction minerals. We conducted a review and quantified the degree to which threats from mining these minerals are addressed in biodiversity goals...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Aurora Torres Sophus O S E Zu Ermgassen Laetitia M Navarro Francisco Ferri-Yanez Fernanda Z Teixeira Constanze Wittkopp Isabel M D Rosa Jianguo Liu Source Type: research
Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community-based conservation behaviors
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 4:e14259. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14259. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTApproximately one quarter of the earth's population directly harvests natural resources to meet their daily needs. These individuals are disproportionately required to alter their behaviors in response to increasing climatic variability and global biodiversity loss. Much of the ever-ambitious global conservation agenda relies on the voluntary uptake of conservation behaviors in such populations. Thus, it is critical to understand how such individuals perceive environmental change and use conservation practices as a tool to protect their...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Matt Clark Haji Masoud Hamad Jeffrey Andrews Vicken Hillis Monique Borgerhoff Mulder Source Type: research
Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 4:e14261. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14261. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmid a global infrastructure boom, there is increasing recognition of the ecological impacts of the extraction and consumption of construction minerals, mainly processed as concrete, including significant and expanding threats to global biodiversity. We investigated how high-level national and international biodiversity conservation policies address mining threats, with a special focus on construction minerals. We conducted a review and quantified the degree to which threats from mining these minerals are addressed in biodiversity goals...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Aurora Torres Sophus O S E Zu Ermgassen Laetitia M Navarro Francisco Ferri-Yanez Fernanda Z Teixeira Constanze Wittkopp Isabel M D Rosa Jianguo Liu Source Type: research
Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community-based conservation behaviors
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 4:e14259. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14259. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTApproximately one quarter of the earth's population directly harvests natural resources to meet their daily needs. These individuals are disproportionately required to alter their behaviors in response to increasing climatic variability and global biodiversity loss. Much of the ever-ambitious global conservation agenda relies on the voluntary uptake of conservation behaviors in such populations. Thus, it is critical to understand how such individuals perceive environmental change and use conservation practices as a tool to protect their...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Matt Clark Haji Masoud Hamad Jeffrey Andrews Vicken Hillis Monique Borgerhoff Mulder Source Type: research
The potential influence of genome-wide adaptive divergence on conservation translocation outcome in an isolated greater sage-grouse population
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 2:e14254. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14254. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConservation translocations are an important conservation tool commonly employed to augment declining or reestablish extirpated populations. One goal of augmentation is to increase genetic diversity and reduce the risk of inbreeding depression (i.e., genetic rescue). However, introducing individuals from significantly diverged populations risks disrupting coadapted traits and reducing local fitness (i.e., outbreeding depression). Genetic data are increasingly more accessible for wildlife species and can provide unique insight regarding ...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Shawna J Zimmerman Cameron L Aldridge Michael A Schroeder Jennifer A Fike Robert Scott Cornman Sara J Oyler-McCance Source Type: research
Effects of plant taxonomic position on soil nematode communities in Antarctica
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 2:e14264. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14264. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAntarctica terrestrial ecosystems are facing the most threats from global climate change, which is altering plant composition greatly. These transformations may cause major reshuffling of soil community composition, including functional traits and diversity, and therefore affect ecosystem processes in Antarctica. We used high-throughput sequencing analysis to investigate soil nematodes under 3 dominant plant functional groups (lichens, mosses, and vascular plants) and bare ground in the Antarctic region. We calculated functional diversi...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Anning Zhang Hongxian Song Ziyang Liu Hanwen Cui Haitao Ding Shuyan Chen Sa Xiao Lizhe An Pedro Cardoso Source Type: research
The potential influence of genome-wide adaptive divergence on conservation translocation outcome in an isolated greater sage-grouse population
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 2:e14254. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14254. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConservation translocations are an important conservation tool commonly employed to augment declining or reestablish extirpated populations. One goal of augmentation is to increase genetic diversity and reduce the risk of inbreeding depression (i.e., genetic rescue). However, introducing individuals from significantly diverged populations risks disrupting coadapted traits and reducing local fitness (i.e., outbreeding depression). Genetic data are increasingly more accessible for wildlife species and can provide unique insight regarding ...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Shawna J Zimmerman Cameron L Aldridge Michael A Schroeder Jennifer A Fike Robert Scott Cornman Sara J Oyler-McCance Source Type: research
Effects of plant taxonomic position on soil nematode communities in Antarctica
Conserv Biol. 2024 Apr 2:e14264. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14264. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAntarctica terrestrial ecosystems are facing the most threats from global climate change, which is altering plant composition greatly. These transformations may cause major reshuffling of soil community composition, including functional traits and diversity, and therefore affect ecosystem processes in Antarctica. We used high-throughput sequencing analysis to investigate soil nematodes under 3 dominant plant functional groups (lichens, mosses, and vascular plants) and bare ground in the Antarctic region. We calculated functional diversi...
Source: Conservation Biology - April 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Anning Zhang Hongxian Song Ziyang Liu Hanwen Cui Haitao Ding Shuyan Chen Sa Xiao Lizhe An Pedro Cardoso Source Type: research
A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook
We present how to structure keywords, search for species photographs, and georeference localities for such records. We further highlight some challenges users might face when extracting species distribution data from Facebook and suggest solutions. Following our proposed framework, we present a case study on Bangladesh's biodiversity-a tropical megadiverse South Asian country. We scraped nearly 45,000 unique georeferenced records across 967 species and found a median of 27 records per species. About 12% of the distribution data were for threatened species, representing 27% of all species. We also obtained data for 56 DataD...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Shawan Chowdhury Sultan Ahmed Shofiul Alam Corey T Callaghan Priyanka Das Moreno Di Marco Enrico Di Minin Ivan Jari ć Mahzabin Muzahid Labi Md Rokonuzzaman Uri Roll Valerio Sbragaglia Asma Siddika Aletta Bonn Source Type: research
Testing for concordance between predicted species richness, past prioritization, and marine protected area designations in the western Indian Ocean
Conserv Biol. 2024 Mar 28:e14256. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14256. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTScientific advances in environmental data coverage and machine learning algorithms have improved the ability to make large-scale predictions where data are missing. These advances allowed us to develop a spatially resolved proxy for predicting numbers of tropical nearshore marine taxa. A diverse marine environmental spatial database was used to model numbers of taxa from ∼1000 field sites, and the predictions were applied to all 7039 6.25-km2 reef cells in 9 ecoregions and 11 nations of the western Indian Ocean. Our proxy for total n...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Tim R McClanahan Alan M Friedlander Julien Wickel Nicholas A J Graham J Henrich Bruggemann Mireille M M Guillaume P Chabanet Sean Porter Michael H Schleyer M Kodia Azali N A Muthiga Source Type: research
A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook
We present how to structure keywords, search for species photographs, and georeference localities for such records. We further highlight some challenges users might face when extracting species distribution data from Facebook and suggest solutions. Following our proposed framework, we present a case study on Bangladesh's biodiversity-a tropical megadiverse South Asian country. We scraped nearly 45,000 unique georeferenced records across 967 species and found a median of 27 records per species. About 12% of the distribution data were for threatened species, representing 27% of all species. We also obtained data for 56 DataD...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Shawan Chowdhury Sultan Ahmed Shofiul Alam Corey T Callaghan Priyanka Das Moreno Di Marco Enrico Di Minin Ivan Jari ć Mahzabin Muzahid Labi Md Rokonuzzaman Uri Roll Valerio Sbragaglia Asma Siddika Aletta Bonn Source Type: research
Testing for concordance between predicted species richness, past prioritization, and marine protected area designations in the western Indian Ocean
Conserv Biol. 2024 Mar 28:e14256. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14256. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTScientific advances in environmental data coverage and machine learning algorithms have improved the ability to make large-scale predictions where data are missing. These advances allowed us to develop a spatially resolved proxy for predicting numbers of tropical nearshore marine taxa. A diverse marine environmental spatial database was used to model numbers of taxa from ∼1000 field sites, and the predictions were applied to all 7039 6.25-km2 reef cells in 9 ecoregions and 11 nations of the western Indian Ocean. Our proxy for total n...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Tim R McClanahan Alan M Friedlander Julien Wickel Nicholas A J Graham J Henrich Bruggemann Mireille M M Guillaume P Chabanet Sean Porter Michael H Schleyer M Kodia Azali N A Muthiga Source Type: research
A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook
We present how to structure keywords, search for species photographs, and georeference localities for such records. We further highlight some challenges users might face when extracting species distribution data from Facebook and suggest solutions. Following our proposed framework, we present a case study on Bangladesh's biodiversity-a tropical megadiverse South Asian country. We scraped nearly 45,000 unique georeferenced records across 967 species and found a median of 27 records per species. About 12% of the distribution data were for threatened species, representing 27% of all species. We also obtained data for 56 DataD...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Shawan Chowdhury Sultan Ahmed Shofiul Alam Corey T Callaghan Priyanka Das Moreno Di Marco Enrico Di Minin Ivan Jari ć Mahzabin Muzahid Labi Md Rokonuzzaman Uri Roll Valerio Sbragaglia Asma Siddika Aletta Bonn Source Type: research
Testing for concordance between predicted species richness, past prioritization, and marine protected area designations in the western Indian Ocean
Conserv Biol. 2024 Mar 28:e14256. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14256. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTScientific advances in environmental data coverage and machine learning algorithms have improved the ability to make large-scale predictions where data are missing. These advances allowed us to develop a spatially resolved proxy for predicting numbers of tropical nearshore marine taxa. A diverse marine environmental spatial database was used to model numbers of taxa from ∼1000 field sites, and the predictions were applied to all 7039 6.25-km2 reef cells in 9 ecoregions and 11 nations of the western Indian Ocean. Our proxy for total n...
Source: Conservation Biology - March 28, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Tim R McClanahan Alan M Friedlander Julien Wickel Nicholas A J Graham J Henrich Bruggemann Mireille M M Guillaume P Chabanet Sean Porter Michael H Schleyer M Kodia Azali N A Muthiga Source Type: research
