Editorial Material
Ecology
Cristina Banks-Leite, Cecilia Larrosa, Luis R. Carrasco, Leandro R. Tambosi, E. J. Milner-Gulland
Summary: A recent review suggests that forest cover needs to be restored or maintained on at least 40% of land area, but the lack of empirical evidence makes this suggestion unhelpful and potentially dangerous. It is advocated to establish regionally defined thresholds to guide conservation and restoration efforts.
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Paula Ribeiro Prist, Cecilia Siliansky de Andreazzi, Mariana Morais Vidal, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Peter Daszak, Raquel L. Carvalho, Leandro Reverberi Tambosi
Summary: Zoonotic diseases, which account for 75% of emerging infectious diseases worldwide, are mainly caused by human-driven changes in landscapes. While there is a growing understanding of the impact of land use change on disease risk, very few studies have explored the effects of native vegetation restoration on zoonotic disease outbreaks. Our review highlights the need for more research in tropical regions and emphasizes the importance of considering landscape context and spatial arrangement in restoration planning.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Izaya Numata, Andrew J. Elmore, Mark A. Cochrane, Cangjiao Wang, Jing Zhao, Xin Zhang
Summary: The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has caused large-scale deforestation and carbon emissions. Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of plantation expansion and the age structure of plantations is crucial for reducing deforestation and improving management strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Kyle C. Rodman, Joseph E. Crouse, Jonathon J. Donager, David W. Huffman, Andrew J. Sanchez Meador
Summary: Climate change is causing shifts in the distribution of woody plants, and trailing-edge forests are particularly vulnerable. This study used satellite imagery and field data to analyze forest change in two regions of central Arizona. The results show that forest extent declined from 1985 to 2020, with an increase in pinyon-juniper cover until 2000 followed by a decline, and an increase in pineoak cover. Wildfire and drought were identified as key drivers of forest transitions and ecosystem transformations.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Remote Sensing
Lei Song, Anna Bond Estes, Lyndon Despard Estes
Summary: Accurate and timely land cover products are crucial for landscape planning, biodiversity conservation, and food security in the African savanna. Existing land cover maps in this region suffer from poor quality and low resolution due to complex land use and limited ground-truth data. To overcome these challenges, a three-stage ensemble method was developed to generate improved land cover maps using existing maps and machine learning techniques.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Reda Fekry, Wei Yao, Lin Cao, Xin Shen
Summary: A holistic strategy is established for automated UAV-LiDAR strip adjustment for plantation forests, based on hierarchical density-based clustering analysis of canopy cover. The method involves three key stages: keypoint extraction, feature similarity and correspondence, and rigid transformation estimation. Experimental results show that the method performs well for redwood and poplar tree species, achieving higher matching percentages and lower mean distance residuals.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Sebastian Alvarado-Montero, Andrea Larissa Boesing, Jean Paul Metzger, Rodolfo Jaffe
Summary: The study found that landscapes with more forest cover and less contrasting matrices can maintain a higher provision of carrion removal service by sustaining communities composed of scavenger insects with higher carrion removal capacity, mostly forest-associated species. By focusing on conservation and reforestation of native forest patches and reducing matrix contrast, landscape management can facilitate species spillover and ensure the provision of carrion removal service.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jamie Alison, Marc Botham, Lindsay C. Maskell, Angus Garbutt, Fiona M. Seaton, James Skates, Simon M. Smart, Amy R. C. Thomas, George Tordoff, Bronwen L. Williams, Claire M. Wood, Bridget A. Emmett
Summary: Pollinating insects provide economic value by improving crop yield and are functionally and culturally important across ecosystems. Studies have found that flower cover, woodland, hedgerows, and cropland are critical drivers of pollinator abundance in Wales.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Wenbo Luan, Xueliang Zhang, Pengfeng Xiao, Huadong Wang, Siyong Chen
Summary: The proposed m-day dynamic training strategy effectively addresses the representativeness issue of training samples in large-scale and long-term tasks, improving the accuracy of snow cover mapping.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bianka Trencanova, Vania Proenca, Alexandre Bernardino
Summary: This study proposes a method for segmenting shrub cover in high-resolution UAV images by exploring the best practices to train a convolutional neural network. Data augmentation, patch cropping, and rescaling were identified as the most effective practices. Despite being trained on a relatively small dataset, the developed classification model achieved a high average F1 score on separate test datasets.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Georg K. S. Andersson, Niklas Boke-Olen, Fabian Roger, Johan Ekroos, Henrik G. Smith, Yann Clough
Summary: This study assesses the contributions of agricultural and forest habitats to biodiversity in boreonemoral Sweden. The results show that semi-natural pastures and cereal crops are important contributors to landscape-scale diversity, while clear-cuts provide habitats for open-land species. Maintaining farmland is critical for maintaining species richness in forestry-dominated areas.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Ricardo G. Cesar, Vanessa de S. Moreno, Gabriel D. Coletta, Daniella Schweizer, Robin L. Chazdon, Jos Barlow, Silvio F. B. Ferraz, Renato Crouzeilles, Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Summary: The study examined the impact factors of natural regeneration in the southeastern Atlantic Forest, Brazil, finding that factors such as Eucalyptus basal area and proximity to sugarcane plantations had a negative effect on forest biomass. Forest age, surrounding forest cover, and other drivers showed variable effects on forest attributes such as species richness and phylogenetic diversity.
Article
Archaeology
Julia Jong Haines
Summary: This study traces the historical political ecology of Bras d'Eau in Mauritius, from a colonial sugar estate to a forest plantation and now a National Park. Through archaeological studies, documentary records, and ethnographic interviews, it shows how environmental ideologies, power structures, and community values have shaped the current built environment. Despite deforestation and degradation caused by colonial and postcolonial ecological strategies, newly established forest reserves have become crucial for island and community resilience.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kanchan Thapa, Marcella J. Kelly, Narendra Man Babu Pradhan
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Erin E. Poor, Virta I. M. Jati, Muhammad Ali Imron, Marcella J. Kelly
Article
Ecology
Christopher B. Satter, N. C. Augustine, Bart J. Harmsen, Rebecca J. Foster, Marcella J. Kelly
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Cameron Parsons, Jeff Niedermeyer, Nicholas Gould, Phillip Brown, Jennifer Strules, Arielle W. Parsons, J. Bernardo Mesa-Cruz, Marcella J. Kelly, Michael J. Hooker, Michael J. Chamberlain, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Christopher DePerno, Sophia Kathariou
MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Zach J. Farris, Brian D. Gerber, Sarah Karpanty, Asia Murphy, Erin Wampole, Felix Ratelolahy, Marcella J. Kelly
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2020)
Article
Zoology
J. Bernardo Mesa-Cruz, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Michael R. Vaughan, Jaime L. Sajecki, Marcella J. Kelly
JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Cody J. Schank, Michael Cove, Eugenio Y. Arima, Laroy S. E. Brandt, Esteban Brenes-Mora, Andrew Carver, Angelica Diaz-Pulido, Nereyda Estrada, Rebecca J. Foster, Oscar Godinez-Gomez, Bart J. Harmsen, Christopher A. Jordan, Timothy H. Keitt, Marcella J. Kelly, Joel Saenz Mendez, Eduardo Mendoza, Ninon Meyer, Gilberto Pozo Montuy, Eduardo J. Naranjo, Clayton K. Nielsen, Georgina O'Farrill, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Marina Rivero, Jose Pablo Carvajal Sanchez, Maggie Singleton, J. Antonio de la Torre, Margot A. Wood, Kenneth R. Young, Jennifer A. Miller
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Robert B. Nipko, Brogan E. Holcombe, Marcella J. Kelly
WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Victoria D. Monette, Marcella J. Kelly, Richard Buchholz
Article
Forestry
David C. McNitt, Robert S. Alonso, Michael J. Cherry, Michael L. Fies, Marcella J. Kelly
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
David C. McNitt, Robert S. Alonso, Michael J. Cherry, Michael L. Fies, Marcella J. Kelly
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Christian Osorio, Ana Munoz, Nicolas Guarda, Cristian Bonacic, Marcella Kelly
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Kanchan Thapa, Sabita Malla, Samundra Ambuhang Subba, Gokarna Jung Thapa, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Naresh Subedi, Maheshwar Dhakal, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Madhuri Karki Thapa, Pramod Neupane, Shashank Poudel, Shiv Raj Bhatta, Shant Raj Jnawali, Marcella J. Kelly
Summary: This study used multi-season occupancy models to analyze the distribution of leopards in the Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal, and found negative impacts on leopard detection and occupancy rates from factors such as deforestation, roads, and co-occurrence with tigers. The study also pointed out that leopards and tigers are regulated by habitat availability and prey index when coexisting, and suggested that conservation measures should focus on preventing loss of critical habitat and promoting human-leopard coexistence.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Esperanza Beltrami, Nicolas Galvez, Christian Osorio, Marcella J. Kelly, David Morales-Moraga, Cristian Bonacic
Summary: The Chilean Mediterranean ecosystem is under threat due to human activities, including intensive agriculture and urban sprawl, and abandoned dogs and cats pose challenges for the conservation of native wildcat species. Research suggests that free-ranging dogs negatively affect the detection of wildcats and there are distinct differences in the temporal activity patterns between wildcats and free-ranging cats.
STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Juan I. Zanon Martinez, Javier Seoane, Marcella J. Kelly, Jose Hernan Sarasola, Alejandro Travaini
Summary: The study found that puma habitat use increases with abundance of large prey and proximity to protected areas, while Geoffroy's cats and skunks spatially avoid pumas. There is potential for mesopredator release at large scales, and it is suggested that promoting the creation of new protected areas may lead to increased predator and prey abundances.
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2022)