Published in Folia Forestalia Polonica
Forests provide many different ecosystem services (ESs) to society. We divide these services into three main groups: provisioning, regulating and cultural. The services themselves are usually interrelated, so changes in the level of one of these services can affect the others. Depending on the nature of the mutual relationship, a distinction is mad...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Mitigating climate change (CC) and reversing biodiversity decline are urgent and interconnected global priorities. Strategies to address both crises must consider the relationships, synergies and trade-offs between key response measures, including sustainable production and consumption patterns, protected areas (PAs) and climate mitigation policy (...
The ethical standards for the responsible conduct of human research have come a long way; however, concerns surrounding equity remain in human genetics and genomics research. Addressing these concerns will help society realize the full potential of human genomics research. One outstanding concern is the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from r...
Butterfly Species identification accounts nowadays for a challenge to evaluate the biodiversity state. Using special compact Hyperspectral Cameras for this task is more attractive. Whereas usual techniques use a sequence of images to compute a datacube, we focus here on a single image resulting in a partial butterfly datacube. With a pre identifica...
Published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Coral reefs are biodiverse marine ecosystems that are undergoing rapid changes, making monitoring vital as we seek to manage and mitigate stressors. Healthy reef soundscapes are rich with sounds, enabling passive acoustic recording and soundscape analyses to emerge as cost-effective, long-term methods for monitoring reef communities. Yet most biolo...
Anthropologists are seldom present in international fora where some of the main themes of the discipline are discussed. Can there be an anthropology without anthropologists and at what cost? The concept of biodiversity is used as an example in order to help identify why the situation arises and the contribution anthropology could bring to current d...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Introduction Categorizing species according to their frequencies across urbanization levels and identifying some species traits that explain this variation could be a valuable tool for focusing conservation efforts, particularly in biodiversity hotspots with high endemism rates. This study proposes a semi-quantitative and multi-scale protocol to ca...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Plant communities are complex systems shaped by a combination of deterministic and stochastic ecological processes. Bryophytes are an essential component of plant diversity in natural ecosystems, yet our understanding of their community ecology needs to catch up to that of other organisms. The unique geological history, alpine climatic conditions, ...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Despite (or perhaps because of) the staggering scale and pace of global change, the concept of the Anthropocene eludes discrete classification. There is widespread consensus that conditions associated with the Anthropocene, including rapid biodiversity loss and climate change, must be addressed if we are to enjoy ongoing and rich experiences. At th...
