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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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Integrating climate change, biological invasions, and infectious wildlife diseases

David W Thieltges, David Bruce Conn, Ross N Cuthbert, Alison M Dunn, E Rosa Jolma, M Camille Hopkins, Volodimir Sarabeev, Sander Smolders, Carol A Stepien, K Mathias Wegner, Patrick M Kočovský, 
  •  23 April 2025
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Recommendations for built marine infrastructure that supports natural habitats

Avery B Paxton, Sarah E Lester, Carter S Smith, Siddharth Narayan, Christine Angelini, Brendan J Runde, Megan I Saunders, Rachel K Gittman, Jacob Allgeier, Maria L Vozzo, D'amy N Steward, Hayley R Lemoine, Stephanie R Valdez, Rebecca L Morris, Douglas P Nowacek, William Seaman, Patrick N Halpin, Brian R Silliman, 
  •  11 March 2025
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Ecological and developmental history impacts the equitable distribution of services

Lindsay E Darling, Christine R Rollinson, Robert T Fahey, Anita T Morzillo, Lea R Johnson, Matthew Baker, Myla FJ Aronson, Brady S Hardiman, 
  •  11 March 2025
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Intentional and unintentional changes to avian and mammalian diversities in the UK

Wenyuan Zhang, Kevin J Gaston, Ben C Sheldon, Richard Grenyer, 
  •  11 March 2025
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Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning

Kristin M Brunk, Joshua F Goldberg, Charles Maxwell, M Zachariah Peery, Gavin M Jones, Lief R Gallagher, H Anu Kramer, Anthony LeRoy Westerling, John J Keane, Stefan Kahl, Connor M Wood, 
  •  11 March 2025
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Restoration of giant panda habitat requires balancing single‐ and multi‐species benefits

Biao Yang, Yu Xu, Qiang Dai, Han Pan, Zhisong Yang, Xuyu Yang, Xiaodong Gu, Jianghong Ran, Zejun Zhang, 
  •  11 March 2025
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions

Silke Lichtenberg, Udo Nehren, Dieter Anhuf, Iris Brémaud, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Viviane S Fonseca-Kruel, Volker Haag, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Stefan Jänicke, Gerald Koch, Jakob Kusnick, Haroldo C Lima, Eduardo Luiz Longui, Daniel Piotto, Juan Antonio Reyes-Agüero, Patrícia Rosa, 
  •  24 February 2025
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Bird‐mediated ecosystem services and disservices in cities and towns

Liba Pejchar, Christine C Rega-Brodsky, Luis-Bernardo Vázquez, Ian MacGregor-Fors, 
  •  10 February 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, 
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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, 
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Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions

Masashi Soga, Kevin J Gaston, 
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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, 
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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, 
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Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

Erle C Ellis, Navin Ramankutty, 
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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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Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems

Robert Howarth, Francis Chan, Daniel J Conley, Josette Garnier, Scott C Doney, Roxanne Marino, Gilles Billen, 
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Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance

J Christina Mitchell, Daniel M Kashian, Xiongwen Chen, Stella Cousins, David Flaspohler, Daniel S Gruner, Jeremy S Johnson, Thilina D Surasinghe, Jenny Zambrano, Brian Buma, 
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Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions

Nyeema C Harris, Christine E Wilkinson, Gabriela Fleury, Zoliswa N Nhleko, 
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Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

Brandon T Bestelmeyer, Gregory S Okin, Michael C Duniway, Steven R Archer, Nathan F Sayre, Jebediah C Williamson, Jeffrey E Herrick, 
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The nature, extent, and ecological implications of marine light pollution

Thomas W Davies, James P Duffy, Jon Bennie, Kevin J Gaston, 
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Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

Diana Stralberg, Dominique Arseneault, Jennifer L Baltzer, Quinn E Barber, Erin M Bayne, Yan Boulanger, Carissa D Brown, Hilary A Cooke, Kevin Devito, Jason Edwards, César A Estevo, Nadele Flynn, Lee E Frelich, Edward H Hogg, Mark Johnston, Travis Logan, Steven M Matsuoka, Paul Moore, Toni Lyn Morelli, Julienne L Morissette, Elizabeth A Nelson, Hedvig Nenzén, Scott E Nielsen, Marc-André Parisien, John H Pedlar, David T Price, Fiona KA Schmiegelow, Stuart M Slattery, Oliver Sonnentag, Daniel K Thompson, Ellen Whitman, 
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A silent spring, or a new cacophony? Invasive plants as maestros of modern soundscapes

Jacob N Barney, Grace O'Malley, Gabrielle N Ripa, Joseph Drake, David Franusich, Meryl C Mims, 
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Fulfilling the promise of digital tools to build rangeland resilience

Brandon T Bestelmeyer, Sarah E McCord, Dawn M Browning, Laura M Burkett, Emile Elias, Rick E Estell, Jeffrey E Herrick, Darren James, Sheri Spiegal, Santiago A Utsumi, Nicholas P Webb, Jeb Williamson,