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Professional sport organizations as potential champions of biodiversity conservation

Ugo Arbieu, Céline Bellard, Corey JA Bradshaw, Ricardo A Correia, Pierre Courtois, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Boris Leroy, Jessica R Murfree, Madeleine Orr, Samuel Roturier, Melanie Sartore-Baldwin, Diogo Veríssimo, Franck Courchamp, 
  •  18 June 2025
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Inducing biological resistance to invasive plants with adapted native species

G Scott Clark, Kerri M Crawford, 
  •  16 June 2025

Drought and deluge—opportunities for climate-change adaptation in US national parks

Meagan F Oldfather, Amber N Runyon, Kyra Clark-Wolf, Wynne E Moss, Imtiaz Rangwala, Anthony Ciocco, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, Helen R Sofaer, Brian W Miller, 
  •  16 June 2025
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A multi‐scale approach to integrating rewilding into agricultural landscapes

José M Rey Benayas, James M Bullock, Henrique M Pereira, 
  •  16 June 2025
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Resist!: Sustaining forest carbon sequestration and wood production after insect disturbance

Christopher M Gough, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Robert T Fahey, Catherine McGuigan, Brandon C Alveshere, Cameron Clay, Erin-Darby McClain, Charles E Flower, Kayla C Mathes, Ariel Johnson, Lisa T Haber, Kalyn Dorheim, Derek M Johnson, Lucas E Nave, Kerstin Niedermaier, 
  •  16 June 2025

Functionalizing ecological integrity: using functional ecology to monitor animal communities

Ana Miller-ter Kuile, Jamie S Sanderlin, Jessalyn Ayars, Helen E Chmura, Melissa Dressen, Jessie D Golding, Gavin M Jones, Rebecca Kirby, Kari EA Norman, Zachary L Steel, Valerie Stein Foster, 
  •  15 May 2025

How can China curb biological invasions to meet Kunming‐Montreal Target 6?

Rui-Ting Ju, Xiting Gui, John Measey, Qiang He, Xiaoqing Xian, Jianguo Liu, William J Sutherland, Bo Li, Jihua Wu, 
  •  15 May 2025
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A stepwise process for actionable environmental science research

Margaret A Palmer, James W Boyd, 
  •  15 May 2025
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Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta‐nurseries that connect rivers via the sea

Stuart H Munsch, Todd R Bennett, Jimmy Faukner, Madison J Halloran, Karrie M Hanson, Martin C Liermann, Michael L McHenry, John R McMillan, Raymond E Moses, Bob Pagliuco, George R Pess, Katherine R Stonecypher, Darren M Ward, 
  •  30 April 2025
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A path to reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial epistemologies

Joseph Gazing Wolf, Ellen Simmons, Paulette Blanchard, Lydia L Jennings, Danielle D Ignace, Dominique M David-Chavez, Deondre Smiles, Michelle Montgomery, Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, Melissa K Nelson, Diana Doan-Crider, Linda Black Elk, Luke Black Elk, Gwen Bridge, Ann Marie Chischilly, Kevin Deer, Kathy DeerinWater, Trudy Ecoffey, Judith Vergun, Daniel Wildcat, James Rattling Leaf, 
  •  23 April 2025
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A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

Elizabeth Mcleod, Gail L Chmura, Steven Bouillon, Rodney Salm, Mats Björk, Carlos M Duarte, Catherine E Lovelock, William H Schlesinger, Brian R Silliman, 

High-resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management

Bernhard Lehner, Catherine Reidy Liermann, Carmen Revenga, Charles Vörösmarty, Balazs Fekete, Philippe Crouzet, Petra Döll, Marcel Endejan, Karen Frenken, Jun Magome, Christer Nilsson, James C Robertson, Raimund Rödel, Nikolai Sindorf, Dominik Wisser, 

Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions

Masashi Soga, Kevin J Gaston, 

Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management

Myla FJ Aronson, Christopher A Lepczyk, Karl L Evans, Mark A Goddard, Susannah B Lerman, J Scott MacIvor, Charles H Nilon, Timothy Vargo, 
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Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

Jill F Johnstone, Craig D Allen, Jerry F Franklin, Lee E Frelich, Brian J Harvey, Philip E Higuera, Michelle C Mack, Ross K Meentemeyer, Margaret R Metz, George LW Perry, Tania Schoennagel, Monica G Turner, 

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

Joanne Clavel, Romain Julliard, Vincent Devictor, 
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Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

Erik Nelson, Guillermo Mendoza, James Regetz, Stephen Polasky, Heather Tallis, DRichard Cameron, Kai MA Chan, Gretchen C Daily, Joshua Goldstein, Peter M Kareiva, Eric Lonsdorf, Robin Naidoo, Taylor H Ricketts, MRebecca Shaw, 
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Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators

Adam J Vanbergen,  the Insect Pollinators Initiative, 

Assessing data quality in citizen science

Margaret Kosmala, Andrea Wiggins, Alexandra Swanson, Brooke Simmons, 
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Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

Erle C Ellis, Navin Ramankutty, 
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Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding

Tyler D Jessen, Natalie C Ban, Nicholas XEMŦOLTW Claxton, Chris T Darimont, 
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Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species

Rajeev Pillay, Michelle Venter, Jose Aragon-Osejo, Pamela González-del-Pliego, Andrew J Hansen, James EM Watson, Oscar Venter, 
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Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

Forest Isbell, Patricia Balvanera, Akira S Mori, Jin-Sheng He, James M Bullock, Ganga Ram Regmi, Eric W Seabloom, Simon Ferrier, Osvaldo E Sala, Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramírez, Julia Tavella, Daniel J Larkin, Bernhard Schmid, Charlotte L Outhwaite, Pairot Pramual, Elizabeth T Borer, Michel Loreau, Taiwo Crossby Omotoriogun, David O Obura, Maggie Anderson, Cristina Portales-Reyes, Kevin Kirkman, Pablo M Vergara, Adam Thomas Clark, Kimberly J Komatsu, Owen L Petchey, Sarah R Weiskopf, Laura J Williams, Scott L Collins, Nico Eisenhauer, Christopher H Trisos, Delphine Renard, Alexandra J Wright, Poonam Tripathi, Jane Cowles, Jarrett EK Byrnes, Peter B Reich, Andy Purvis, Zati Sharip, Mary I O’Connor, Clare E Kazanski, Nick M Haddad, Eulogio H Soto, Laura E Dee, Sandra Díaz, Chad R Zirbel, Meghan L Avolio, Shaopeng Wang, Zhiyuan Ma, Jingjing Liang, Hanan C Farah, Justin Andrew Johnson, Brian W Miller, Yann Hautier, Melinda D Smith, Johannes MH Knops, Bonnie JE Myers, Zuzana V Harmáčková, Jorge Cortés, Michael BJ Harfoot, Andrew Gonzalez, Tim Newbold, Jacqueline Oehri, Marina Mazón, Cynnamon Dobbs, Meredith S Palmer, 
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A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

Elizabeth Mcleod, Gail L Chmura, Steven Bouillon, Rodney Salm, Mats Björk, Carlos M Duarte, Catherine E Lovelock, William H Schlesinger, Brian R Silliman, 
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The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function

Nancy B Grimm, F Stuart Chapin, Britta Bierwagen, Patrick Gonzalez, Peter M Groffman, Yiqi Luo, Forrest Melton, Knute Nadelhoffer, Amber Pairis, Peter A Raymond, Josh Schimel, Craig E Williamson, 
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Ecological light pollution

Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, 
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Tree‐climbing goats disperse seeds during rumination

Miguel Delibes, Irene Castañeda, José M Fedriani, 
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Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes

Julia E Fa, James EM Watson, Ian Leiper, Peter Potapov, Tom D Evans, Neil D Burgess, Zsolt Molnár, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Tom Duncan, Stephanie Wang, Beau J Austin, Harry Jonas, Cathy J Robinson, Pernilla Malmer, Kerstin K Zander, Micha V Jackson, Erle Ellis, Eduardo S Brondizio, Stephen T Garnett, 
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Environmental impacts of increasing numbers of artificial space objects

Kevin J Gaston, Karen Anderson, Jamie D Shutler, Robert JW Brewin, Xiaoyu Yan, 
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When pets become pests: the role of the exotic pet trade in producing invasive vertebrate animals

Julie L Lockwood, Dustin J Welbourne, Christina M Romagosa, Phillip Cassey, Nicholas E Mandrak, Angela Strecker, Brian Leung, Oliver C Stringham, Bradley Udell, Diane J Episcopio-Sturgeon, Michael F Tlusty, James Sinclair, Michael R Springborn, Elizabeth F Pienaar, Andrew L Rhyne, Reuben Keller,