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- Reports from western U.S. firefighters that nighttime fire activity has been increasing during the spans of many of their careers have recently been confirmed by satellite measurements over the 2003–20 period. The hypothesis that increasing nighttime fire activity has been caused by increased nighttime vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is consistent with recent documentation of positive, 40-yr trends in nighttime VPD over the western United States. However, other meteorological conditions such as near-surface wind speed and planetary boundary layer depth also impact fire behavior and exhibit...AuthorsAndrew M. Chiodi, Brian Potter, Sim Larkin, D. E. HarrisonKeywordsSourceJournal of Climate. 38(10): 2305-2315.Year2025
- Innovative floodplain reconnection actions are being implemented in various river systems, with the goal of restoring natural processes that support dynamic floodplains, rivers, and aquatic ecosystems. But how effective are these restoration actions? Aquatic macroinvertebrates respond quickly to flow, substrate, and temperature changes. Therefore, we examined the response of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages to an intensive river and floodplain restoration project in the South Fork McKenzie River of western Oregon (U.S.A.) for 3 years (spring and fall each year) following implementation...AuthorsShannon Claeson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Kate MeyerKeywordsSourceRestoration Ecology. 33(5): e70079.Year2025
- Congeneric fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and eastern gray squirrels (S. carolinensis) compete for resources within North American temperate forests. Both species exhibit regional variation in morphology and behavior—potentially due to differences in geography, community composition, or ecological pressures between forested regions. While many have studied these species in other forested regions of the United States, recent assessments of partitioning between these species in Central Hardwood forests remain scarce. We investigated spatial and temporal partitioning between squirrel species...AuthorsJustin Remmers, Damon B. Lesmeister, Clayton K. NielsenKeywordsSourceJournal of Mammalogy. 106(2): 323-338.Year2025
- Aim: The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this gap, we created the Worldwide Soundscapes project, a collaborative network and growing database comprising metadata from 416 datasets across all realms (terrestrial,...AuthorsKevin F. A. Darras, Rodney A. Rountree, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Anna F. Cord, Frederik Pitz, Youfang Chen, Lijun Dong, Agnès Rocquencourt, Camille Desjonquères, Patrick Mauritz Diaz, Tzu‐Hao Lin, Théophile Turco, Louise Emmerson, Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence, Amandine Gasc, Sarah Marley, Marcus Salton, Laura Schillé, Paul J. Wensveen, Shih‐Hung Wu, Adriana C. Acero‐Murcia, Orlando Acevedo‐Charry, Matyáš Adam, Jacopo Aguzzi, Irmak Akoglu, M. Clara P. Amorim, Mina Anders, Michel André, Alexandre Antonelli, Leandro Aparecido Do Nascimento, Giulliana Appel, Stephanie Archer, Christos Astaras, Andrey Atemasov, Jamieson Atkinson, Joël Attia, Emanuel Baltag, Luc Barbaro, Fritjof Basan, Carly Batist, Julio Ernesto Baumgarten, Just T. Bayle Sempere, Kristen Bellisario, Asaf Ben David, Oded Berger‐Tal, Frédéric Bertucci, Matthew G. Betts, Iqbal S. Bhalla, Thiago Bicudo, Marta Bolgan, Sara Bombaci, Gerard Bota, Martin Boullhesen, Robert A. Briers, Susannah Buchan, Michal Budka, Katie Burchard, Giuseppa Buscaino, Alice Calvente, Marconi Campos‐Cerqueira, Maria Isabel Carvalho Gonçalves, Maria Ceraulo, Maite Cerezo‐Araujo, Gunnar Cerwén, Adams A. Chaskda, Maria Chistopolova, Christopher W. Clark, Kieran D. Cox, Benjamin Cretois, Chapin Czarnecki, Luis P. da Silva, Wigna da Silva, Laurence H. De Clippele, David de la Haye, Ana Silvia de Oliveira Tissiani, Devin de Zwaan, M. Eugenia Degano, Jessica Deichmann, Joaquin del Rio, Christian Devenish, Ricardo Díaz‐Delgado, Pedro Diniz, Dorgival Diógenes Oliveira‐Júnior, Thiago Dorigo, Saskia Dröge, Marina Duarte, Adam Duarte, Kerry Dunleavy, Robert Dziak, Simon Elise, Hiroto Enari, Haruka S. Enari, Florence Erbs, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Pınar Ertör‐Akyazi, Nina C. Ferrari, Luane Ferreira, Abram B. Fleishman, Paulo J. Fonseca, Bárbara Freitas, Nicholas R. Friedman, Jérémy S. P. Froidevaux, Svetlana Gogoleva, Carolina Gonzaga, José Miguel González Correa, Eben Goodale, Benjamin Gottesman, Ingo Grass, Jack Greenhalgh, Jocelyn Gregoire, Samuel Haché, Jonas Hagge, William Halliday, Antonia Hammer, Tara Hanf‐Dressler, Sylvain Haupert, Samara Haver, Becky Heath, Daniel Hending, Jose Hernandez‐Blanco, Dennis Higgs, Thomas Hiller, Joe Chun‐Chia Huang, Katie Lois Hutchinson, Carole HyacintheKeywordsSourceGlobal Ecology and Biogeography. 34(5): e70021.Year2025
- From August 29 to September 25, 2023, I took part in an organized group trip through Indonesia, where I talked to locals about their cultural views on owls. This is a summary of my findings. My trip covered parts of southern Borneo (Tanjung Harapan National Park, Sekonyer Village and Kumai), West and Central Java (Jakarta and Yogyakarta areas), Bali (Ubud, Lake Batur, Butuan Village, Candidasa, Sanur, Serangan Village and Kuta), northwestern Flores (Labuan Bajo, Cecer Village), Komodo, Rinca and the Bidadari Islands. Of the total of 19 owl species in Indonesia, 11 inhabit the aforementioned...AuthorsBruce G. MarcotSourceKauzbrief. 33(37): 45-47.Year2025
- The so-called "ghost moth", also known as the puriri moth, occurs only in native forests of North Island of New Zealand. The species has a most unique life history. The eggs hatch in forest floor litter, transform to caterpillars that then select native understory hardwood trees to crawl up the trunks and burrow into the cambium, creating large cavities they seal up with a membrane. They inhabit the tree cavity for several years, transforming into pupal stages, and eventually emerging as a winged adult. The free-flying adults live for only a few days, to mate and for the females to...AuthorsBruce G. MarcotKeywordsSourceWings, Spring 2025. 48 (1): 11-15.Year2025
- Climate change is substantially impacting earth’s biodiversity, with a massive number of affected species that are difficult to study comprehensively. An “indicator species” approach that generalizes species-specific climate change impacts to broader groups (e.g., ecological groups) could theoretically help overcome this challenge and streamline climate-smart conservation planning. We assessed this approach’s viability using four specialist amphibians (Ascaphus montanus, Dicamptodon copei, Plethodon idahoensis, and Plethodon vandykei), for which we expected convergent forecasted trajectorie...AuthorsSky T. Button, Donald J. Brown, Jonah Piovia-ScottKeywordsSourceEcological Indicators. 174: 113488.Year2025
- Conservation easements have become a prevalent method for conserving forestland in the United States in the face of housing and other development. In this study, we used data from the National Woodland Owner Survey conducted by the USDA Forest Service in 2017–2018 to examine patterns and determinants of conservation easement adoption on individual forestland parcels. A total of 9349 landowners are included in the analysis, covering all 50 states. We used a spatial binary probit model to consider potential spatial dependence in conservation decisions among adjacent landowners. Our results...AuthorsChangyou Sun, Jeffrey D. Kline, Xiaofei LiKeywordsSourceLand Use Policy. 154(1): 107579.Year2025
- Douglas-fir is the primary timber species in the Pacific Northwest. Successful reforestation after wildfire or harvest requires planting Douglas-fir seedlings that will thrive in that location. Different populations of the same species have slightly different growth habits. Selecting the right seed source for a site is critical to success. The Pacific Northwest’s unprecedented heat dome in 2021 created June temperatures that were 35 to 45 °F higher than average. Connie Harrington and Rich Cronn, scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research...AuthorsAndrea Watts, Connie Harrington, Richard CronnKeywordsSourceScience Findings 272. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6 p.Year2025
- Evidence appears to be building that direct exposure to natural landscapes characterized by significant green cover, such as forests, can help to reduce chronic health conditions such as obesity, stress, hypertension, chronic cardiovascular conditions, depression, anxiety, cancer, and diabetes. One way to encourage greater exposure to nature may be through the use of nature prescriptions, whereby clinicians formally recommend (or prescribe) time in nature to their patients. Based on self-reported data, we describe the implementation and lessons learned from a pilot field experiment...AuthorsRandall Bluffstone, Ma Chan, Cort Cox, Melinda M. Davis, Caitlin Dickinson, Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, Jeffrey D. Kline, Citlactli Carrera Lopez, Himani Ojha, Sterling Stokes, Saurabh S. Thosar, Srilakshmi VedantamKeywordsSourceForests. 16(5): 752.Year2025