Issue 3/2025
Content (20 Articles)
Transformative change in a nexus world: product and process in the eleventh plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-11)
- Editorial
Dirk S. Schmeller, Peter Bridgewater
Aquatic ecosystem indices, linking ecosystem health to human health risks
- Open Access
- Review Paper
Fanny G. De Carvalho, Adeline Loyau, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Dirk S. Schmeller
Current state of plant conservation translocations across Europe: motivations, challenges and outcomes
- Review Paper
Sandrine Godefroid, Sam Lacquaye, Andreas Ensslin, Sarah Dalrymple, Thomas Abeli, Hannah Branwood, Inmaculada Ferrando Pardo, P. Pablo Ferrer Gallego, Elke Zippel, Luísa Gouveia, Carlos Alberto Lobo, Francisco Fernandes, Marion Rasp, Laura Daco, Maxime Séleck, Philippe Frankard, Leonie K. Fischer, Katerina Koutsovoulou, Aline Finger, Orsolya Valkó, Giuseppe Garfi, Branka Španiček, Sarah Bürli, Regula Dickenmann, Johanna Jones, Julien Guyonneau, Guillaume Papuga, Marcello De Vitis, Giuseppe Fenu, Fabienne Van Rossum, Donatella Cogoni, Gail Foster, Margaux Julien, Julien Piqueray, Petr Vít, Véronique Bonnet, Angelino Carta, Patrice Descombes, Maja Lazarević, Norbert Müller, Simone Orsenigo, Sonia Ravera, Mari Sild, Sarah Smyth, Thomas C. Wagner, Tania Walisch, Dalibor Ballian, Vito Emanuele Cambria, Bruno Colas, Lara Dixon, David Draper, Viviane Froidevaux, Konrad Pagitz, Hana Pánková, Tim Pankhurst, Jamie Preston, Patrice Prunier, Sandra Saura-Mas, Karin Sartori, Stephanie A. Socher, Nils Stanik, Anna Wunderli, Tanja Nikowitz, Fiona Jane White
Conserving saproxylic flagship species by complementing 150 years of natural history with citizen science data—the case of the stag beetles (Lucanidae, Coleoptera) of Portugal
- Open Access
- Original Research
João Gonçalo Soutinho, João Carvalho, Milene Matos, José Manuel Grosso-Silva, Tatiana C. Moreira-Pinhal, Carla Rego, Sónia Ferreira, João Gonçalo Abreu, Ana Rita Gonçalves, Helena Ceia, Carlos Fonseca, Cristina Rufino, Jörg Müller, Kerri T. Vierling, Lee A. Vierling, João Gonçalves
Diel activity of insectivorous bats in response to land-use change in São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea
- Original Research
Ana Catarina Araújo-Fernandes, Ana Sofia Castro-Fernandes, Patrícia Guedes, José Cassari, Vanessa Alves Mata, Natalie Yoh, Ricardo Rocha, Ana Filipa Palmeirim
Exploration of an eDNA procedure for surveying Chinese giant salamanders: a comparison with conventional field methods
- Original Research
Qiang Zhou, Cheng Wang, Mingyao Zhang, Zhiyong Deng, Yixing Xie, Pan Mao, Jun Ma, Hongmei Xiang, Ying Wei, Wansheng Jiang
MaxEnt modeling for habitat suitability assessment of threatened Dipterocarpus species in the Indian East Himalayas
- Original Research
Animekh Hazarika, Jyotish Ranjan Deka, Koushik Majumdar, Gudeta Weldesemayat Sileshi, Arun Jyoti Nath, Ashesh Kumar Das
Using bird foraging height guilds and species to assess forest degradation by livestock production
- Original Research
Flavia R. Barzan, Laura M. Bellis, Noelia C. Calamari, Sonia B. Canavelli, Sebastián Dardanelli
Recovery and expansion of rhodoliths beds and Laminaria rodriguezii forests after bottom trawl ban
- Open Access
- Original Research
M. Teresa Farriols, Sergi Joher, Francesc Ordines, Beatriz Guijarro, César Peteiro, Enric Massutí
Patterns of extinction across Hawaiian Lepidoptera offer lessons from a diverse, neglected, and vulnerable endemic fauna
- Original Paper
Kyhl A. Austin, Daniel Rubinoff
Multifaceted indicators for evaluating participatory research on biodiversity
- Original Research
Rubén Ortega-Álvarez, Alejandro Casas, Martha Patricia Lozada Ronquillo, María Luciana Santos Martínez, Alexis Mendoza-Lozana
Historical human impact on the endangered, relict and iconic Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco (L.) L.) and its uncertain fate in the face of climate change
- Original Research
Manuel Cartereau, Frédéric Médail, Alex Baumel, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, Petr Maděra, Petr Vahalík, Agathe Leriche
Continuous forests and non-IBA forest patches provide a safe haven for the tropical bird community in highly fragmented urban landscapes
- Original Research
Sharifah Nur Atikah, Muhammad Syafiq Yahya, Kang Woei Ong, Ruzana Sanusi, Ahmad Razi Norhisham, Badrul Azhar
Biotic homogenization and functional restructuring of bee communities in northern France: implications for conservation priorities
- Original Research
Alessandro Fisogni, Yves Piquot, Denis Michez, Ahlam Sentil, Magalie Franchomme, Thomas J. Wood, Simone Flaminio, Bastien De Tandt, Shawn Lemaire, Nina Hautekèete
An estimate of the diversity and threat levels of avian chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera), with a call for “pre-emptive red listing”
- Original Research
Daniel R. Gustafsson, Oldrich Sychra, Alexandra A. Grossi
First large-scale assessment of snow leopard population in China using existing data from multiple organizations
- Original Research
Xueyang Li, Chunyue Wei, Xier Chen, Ding Jia, Peiyun Li, Shujie Liang, Awang Jikmed, Yufang Gao, Xiang Zhao, Moyan Chu, Koustubh Sharma, Justine Shanti Alexander, Zhi Lu, Lingyun Xiao
How to promote spider diversity of heathlands: impact of management intensity
- Open Access
- Original Research
Dragan Matevski, Vicky M. Temperton, David Walmsley, Werner Härdtle, Jelena Daniels, Esteve Boutaud
Non-native vegetation encroachment drives trophic turnover in island nematodes
- Open Access
- Original Research
Adam Sharp, Margarida Correia, Alan Gray, Rebecca Lawson, Martha Ledger, Noel Tawatao, Thomas Prior
Changes in bird occupancy and its association with functional traits under long-term context of urbanization and suburbanization in a metropolis
- Original Research
Xinghao Lu, Yuwei Guo, Yuhui Wang, Yuncai Wang
Local weather interacts with human disturbances to shape the behaviour of boreal caribou across a large climate gradient
- Commentary
Éloïse Lessard, Chris J. Johnson, Martin-Hugues St-Laurent