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Key controls on nutrient retention efficiency in vegetated buffer strips: A global meta-analysis (Page 1)

Key controls on nutrient retention efficiency in vegetated buffer strips: A global meta-analysis

Pan Y, Zhang Z, Cheng Z, Pan Z, Zhou J, Hu M, Zhang Q, and Chen D ·
2025

Vegetated buffer strips (VBS) are widely used to mitigate agricultural non-point source pollution yet reported retention efficiencies vary considerably across different landscapes. We synthesized 409 observations extracted from 91 peer-reviewed publications to evaluate critical determinants of VBS retention efficiency for agricultural runoff, focusing specifically on total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and total suspended solids (TSS).

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Closing the parachute and opening the umbrella: Strategies for inclusivity and representation in producing impactful coastal ecosystem research (Page 1)

Closing the parachute and opening the umbrella: Strategies for inclusivity and representation in producing impactful coastal ecosystem research

Laumann KM, Hoad NM, Alvaro L, Badri SL, Burke N, Carew A, Corte GN, Croquer A, Shah Esmaeili Y, Farrell M, Kouchi N, Lee J, Nakaoka M, Nordlund LM, Sellares-Blasco RI, Sheldon E, Villalpando MF, and Lefcheck JS ·
2025

Parachute science is the problematic and extractive practice of non-local researchers taking data, knowledge and information from communities of which they are not members, failing to engage the local community and local scientists, marginalizing them in most aspects of the research, and using the results to their own benefit.

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Taking advantage of open data in coastal science and conservation (Page 1)

Taking advantage of open data in coastal science and conservation

Hoad NM, Lefcheck JS, Alexandridis N, Jones BLH, Eklöf JS, and Nordlund LM ·
2025

Human society relies on, and interacts with, a diverse assortment of organisms and ecological systems, from the local to the global level. Research and management of these coupled social-ecological systems requires data that speaks to the variety of processes, statuses, and situations defined by them. Effective stewardship is enhanced by interdisciplinary thinking and, critically, access to interoperable data describing human society and governance and ecological and environmental conditions.

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OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries (Page 1)

OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries

Minaudo C, Abonyi A, Alcaraz C, Diamond J, Howden NJK, Rode M,Romero E, Thieu V, Worrall F, Zhang Q, and Benito X ·
2025

Many waterbodies undergo nutrient decline, called oligotrophication, globally, but a comprehensive dataset to understand ecosystem responses is lacking. The OLIGOTREND database comprises multi-decadal chlorophyll a and nutrient time series from rivers, lakes, and estuaries with 4.3 million observations from 1894 unique measurement locations. The database provides empirical evidence for oligotrophication responses with a spatial and temporal coverage that exceeds previous efforts.

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Biotic Mechanisms Strengthen Functional and Phylogenetic Convergence of Reef Fish Assemblages at Higher Latitudes (Page 1)

Biotic Mechanisms Strengthen Functional and Phylogenetic Convergence of Reef Fish Assemblages at Higher Latitudes

Bosch NE, Stuart-Smith RD, Laumann KM, Edgar GJ, Waldock C, Duffy JE, and Lefcheck JS ·
2025

How communities of organisms come together has long fascinated scientists, with renewed interest in using functional and evolutionary patterns to infer mechanisms of community assembly. Ecological theory predicts that biotic interactions could lead to either divergence in the event of niche partitioning or convergence through the exclusion of competitively inferior species, but most macroecological studies attribute the latter to environmental influences.

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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series (Page 1)

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Dornelas M, Antão LH, Bates AE, Brambilla V, Chase JM, Chow CFY, Fontrodona-Eslava A, Magurran AE, Martins IS, Moyes F, Sagouis A, Adu-Acheampong S, Acquah-Lamptey D, Adam D, Ajani PA, Albaina A, Almaraz P, An J, Anderson RS, Anderson MJR, Antunes AZ, Arismendi I, Armbrecht L, Aros-Mardones P, Ashtamoorthy SK, Ayyappan N, Badihi G, Bailey JJ, Baird AH, Baird ME, Balakrishnan SV, Barão-Nóbrega JAL, Barash A, Barbosa M, Barlow J, Bässler C, Beaumont M, Beenaerts N, Begot TO, Beiroz W, Beldade R, Bell DM, Bellgrove A, Belmaker J, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Benkwitt CE, Berkum PM-v, Bestelmeyer BT, Betts MG, Billah MK, Bjorkman AD, Błażewicz M, Bloch CP, Blowes SA, Bode A, Bogoni JA, Bolger T, Bonebrake TC, Bonsdorff E, Bottarin R, Brokensha LN, Brooker RW, Brooks AJ, Bruelheide H, Bueno TA, Laguionie C, Campagnoli ML, Cant J, Caramaschi EP, Caron A, Carroll T, Caruso T, Carvajal-Quintero J, Castaldelli G, Castañeda-Moya E, Castilho PV, Cechin SZ, Chaikin S, Chandrashekara UM, Chase TJ, Chen CA, Cherem JJ, Choi S-W, Christensen EM, Christianini AV, Chu JWF, Coad P, Van Colen C, Comte L, Cooper EJ, Cornelissen JHC, Cosson E, Cotano U, Crevecoeur L, Crow SK, Cumming GS, Daga VS, Damasceno G, Daskalova GN, Davies CH, Davis RA, Day FP, De-La-Zerda S, Deacon AE, de Castro-Arrazola I, Degraer S, Deonarinesingh K, Diaz-Ricaurte JC, Dickman CR, Dirilgen T, Dolan CJ, Duffy JE, Dunn TE, Durigan G, Dwyer C, Earl S, Edelist D, Edgar GJ, Edmondson S, Elgin AK, Ellingsen KE, Elmendorf SC, Eriksen RS, Ernest SKM, Escribano R, Eterovick PC, Evans BS, Everett JD, Evtimova V, Exton DA, Fairbairn AJ, Fantacini FM, Farah FT, Farneda FZ, Favila ME, Fernandez-Fournier P, Fernández-Zapata B, Ferreira DF, Ferronato C, du Feu CR, Fidelis A, Fifield DA, Filho VP, Filho WM, Fitt RNL, Flechtmann CAH, Fraser WR, Fraser DL, Freixas L, Fryxell J, Fundakowski GJ, Gabara SS, Gallois E, Criado MG, García-Berthou E, Garrabou J, Gates AR, Gatti RC, Gavioli A, Gavriel T, Gendreau-Berthiaume B, Giam X, Gjerdrum C, Glemnitz M, Godbold JA, Gómez-Gras D, Gonçalves RB, Goold A, Gordon RR, Goren M, Goulart FVB, Gould WA, Grabowski MM, Graham NAJ, Graipel ME, Grange LJ, Greenville AC, Grossman GD, Guinder VA, Haase P, Haskins GN, Havstad K, Hermanutz L, Hickford MJH, Hidalgo P, Higuchi P, Hoey AS, Van Hoey G, Hofgaard A, Holeck KT, Hollister RD, Holmes RT, Hoogenboom MO, Hortal J, Horton T, Hsieh C-h, Huffard CL, Huikkonen I-M, Hurlbert AH, Hynes J, Irz P, Macedo Ivanauskas N, Iwayama A, James DK, Jandt U, Jażdżewska AM, Jocque M, Johnston ST, Jones SEI, Jones FAM, Jones JA, Jucevica E, Kagainis U, Kagami M, Kang J, Ke X, Keeley EC, Kinnear R, Klanderud K, Klinck U, van Klink R, Klotz S, Knockaert C, Knutsen H, Koivula M, Kortz A, Kriegel P, Kuo C-Y, Kushner DJ, Kyerematen R, Lagarde R, Lancaster LT, Landau OF, Van Landuyt W, Larson ER, Lazarus M, Lee CM, Lefcheck JS, Lembrechts JJ, Ferreira de Lima RA, Lima RG, Lima NGS, Linares C, Lindstrom SC, Lloret F, Lloyd JD, Lobato CMC, Lodge DM, Long PR, López-Abbate C, López-Baucells A, Louzada J, Louzao M, Lugliè A, Luiz MR, Macdonald SE, Madin JS, Magalhães ALB, Mahabir R, Maphisa D, Martin TE, Martins M, Martone PT, Matesanz S, Matsuzaki S-iS, Matthews TJ, Matthews IM, Maxwell CJ, McFarland KP, McGill BJ, McKnight DM, McWilliam MJ, Meador J, Meesenburg H, Meier K, Melecis V, Meserve PL, Meyer CFJ, Michelsen A, Miiller NOR, Milardi M, Milchakova N, Miller RJ, Millett J, Moens T, Montag LFA, Moore J, Müller J, Murali A, Murray SA, Myers-Smith IH, Myster RW, Nakamura M, Nayar S, Neat F, Nelson JA, Nelson MP, Nikolov BP, Nouioua R, Nsor CA, O'Connor M, Obodai EA, Offland AM, Ogaya R, Ogura H, Okey TA, Olden JD, Oliveira-Santos LGR, Oliver JC, Olsen EM, Onipchenko VG, Oro D, Ozolins D, Pabis K, Padedda BM, Palacio FX, Paquette A, Pardede ST, Paterson DM, Pausina S, Pélissier R, Pennings SC, Penuelas J, Pereira FW, Peroni N, Picó S, Pilotto F, Pinheiro HT, Pizarro O, Pizzolotto R, Pomati F, Pompeu PS, Ponton D, Post E, Poulet N, Pöyry J, Presley SJ, Prins HHT, Provoost P, Prudic KL, Punjayil V, Pyšek P, Querner P, Quimbayo JP, Ramnarine IW, Reed DC, Reich PB, Remillard SM, Richards C, Richardson AJ, van Rijn I, Rivera-Monroy VH, Rixen C, Robinson KP, Rocha R, Rodrigues RR, Rodrigues C, de Roos B, de Rossa-Feres DdC, Rosselli L, Rothlisberg PC, Rubio A, Rudstam LG, Ruz CS, Rybicki NB, Van Ryckegem G, Rypel AL, Sadler JP, Saito VS, Sal S, Salomão RP, Sanders NJ, Santos FAM, dos Santos TG, Sarker SK, Scanga SE, Schaub M, Schmidt J, Schmidt IK, Schooley RL, Schultz A, Scotti A, Serpell-Stevens A, Serrano FC, Shadwick EH, Shaft M, Sherry TW, Shimabukuro EM, Siciński J, Sievers C, da Silva FR, da Silva AC, Silveira JM, Siqueira T, Sivadasan AK, Sivan PTP, Skuja A, Slaughter AL, Slingsby JA, Smith JR, Soares BE, Solan M, Souza FM, Souza GBG, Sprague JL, Stachow U, Stadt JJ, Stallings CD, Stanchev RH, Stanley EH, Starzomski BM, Sterza JM, Stevens M, Stiles FG, Stoll S, Stuart-Smith RD, Súarez YR, Super L, Supp SR, Sutela T, Suthers IM, Suuronen A, Swadling KM, Szydlowski DK, Taki H, Taylor SJS, Tedesco PA, Teichert N, Terui A, Thiede GP, Thimonier A, Thomas O, Thompson PA, Thorn S, Tiemann JS, Toledo LF, Tolvanen A, Toniato MTZ, Torre I, Tortato MA, Totsu K, Trant A, Twilley RR, Urabe H, Valade P, Valdivia N, Vallejo MI, Valone TJ, Vanaverbeke J, Vasconcelos TS, Vehanen T, Venturoli F, Verheye HM, Vermeulen HJW, Verstraeten A, Vianna M, Vieira R, Vieira-Alencar JPS, Vilella M, Vitule JRS, Van Vu L, Waide RB, Warren PS, Wayman JP, Webb SL, Weigel B, Welti EAR, West F, Westermann F, Whalen MA, White EP, Widdicombe CE, Williams R, Williamson M, Willig MR, Wipf S, Woehler EJ, Woldering A, Woods KD, Xu W-B, Yahel R, Yang Z, Zawada KJA, Zornosa-Torres C, and Zvuloni A ·
2025

Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimatesfor species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database bydoubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well asthe metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R package (BioTIMEr) to facilitate use of the database.

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Understanding Linkages Between Coastal Environment and Community Health (Page 1)

Understanding Linkages Between Coastal Environment and Community Health

Vargas-Nguyen V, Kelsey H, Badri L, Adebayo A, Breton T, Byun J, Fife A, Kalama I, Matthew L, Novara A, Sequeira R ·
24 January 2025

Coastal environments face unique challenges that profoundly affect human well-being. Stressors such as pollution, rising temperatures, flooding, harmful algal blooms (HABs), and emerging contaminants threaten ecosystems and disproportionately impact vulnerable communities. This report presents the findings from the Fall 2024 Coastal Environment and Community Health course, by graduate students in the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Science program at the University System of Maryland.

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Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation (Page 1)

Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation

He Q, Li Z, Daleo P, Lefcheck JS, Thomsen MS, Adams JB, and Bouma TJ ·
2025

Coastal wetlands, including tidal marshes, mangrove forests and tidal flats, support the livelihoods of millions of people. Understanding the resilience of coastal wetlands to the increasing number and intensity of anthropogenic threats (such as habitat conversion, pollution, fishing and climate change) can inform what conservation actions will be effective. In this Review, we synthesize anthropogenic threats to coastal wetlands and their resilience through the lens of scale.

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