Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Helen Fischer, Markus Huff, Nadia Said
Summary: Public polarization over climate change in the U.S. is most pronounced among the science literate. However, science literacy does not exacerbate motivated interpretation of climate change evidence.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2022)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Junko Mochizuki, Yoshihide Wada
Summary: Global lessons are being learned about the factors that enable effective knowledge co-production. Incorporating broad socio-political perspectives and feedback, along with greater reflexivity, could be the next frontier for integrated assessment communities.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Dorsey B. Kaufmann, Kunal Palawat, Shana Sandhaus, Sanlyn Buxner, Ellen Mcmahon, Monica D. Ramirez-Andreotta
Summary: Innovative approaches to environmental communication can influence people's emotions and memory, leading to behavior change and environmental action. Interactive environmental art and static booklets can effectively communicate complex scientific data and overcome barriers in traditional science communication.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: A team has detected a significant increase in lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially linked to climate change, but others are unable to confirm these findings at this time.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brian Owens
Summary: Hot and dry weather combined with human carelessness has caused a massive burned area, resulting in a suffocating haze that is impacting millions of people.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Yefeng Yang, Helmut Hillebrand, Malgorzata Lagisz, Ian Cleasby, Shinichi Nakagawa
Summary: Field studies are essential for quantifying ecological responses to global change, but may have limited statistical power and inflate effect size estimates. Meta-analyses can mitigate this issue, and surprisingly, manipulative experiments are not necessarily more powerful than non-manipulative observations, challenging previous assumptions. Future research calls for high-powered field studies and transparent reporting to ensure reproducibility and reliability in empirical work and evidence synthesis.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Geeta G. Persad, Bjorn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox
Summary: The article points out that estimates of regional change and climate extremes risks often overlook a significant player.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Summary: As monsoons in South Asia become more unpredictable, forecasting the weather is becoming increasingly challenging - with the added threat of global warming heightening the risks posed by intense rain storms.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Robyn James, Jonathan R. B. Fisher, Chelsea Carlos-Grotjahn, Marissa S. Boylan, Baigalmaa Dembereldash, Meaza Z. Demissie, Crystal Diaz De Villegas, Bridget Gibbs, Ruth Konia, Kristen Lyons, Hugh Possingham, Cathy J. Robinson, Tiantian Tang, Nathalie Butt
Summary: Globally, women are underrepresented in addressing the climate and biodiversity loss crises. A survey among conservation and science staff at The Nature Conservancy revealed that men have more influence in conservation and science decision making, women face gender bias and multiple barriers in their conservation careers, and experience harassment and discrimination. Men perceive the sector as more equitable for women than women themselves. Gender equality does not eliminate systemic inequity, which can be exacerbated by intersectional issues. Recommendations include workplace and cultural change, recruitment improvements, pay transparency, and career development policies.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Charles W. Davison, Carsten Rahbek, Naia Morueta-Holme
Summary: Research shows that land-use change is one of the greatest threats to nature, but there are challenges in forming a comprehensive synthesis due to influences such as location, research methods, and taxonomic focus. Biases in taxonomy and regional representation have been identified, calling for more studies in understudied regions to capture regional differences and enhance understanding of the impacts of land-use change on biodiversity.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maximilian Kotz, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann
Summary: Changes in climate conditions, influenced by anthropogenic global warming, will have profound impacts on natural and societal systems. Variability in daily surface temperature is found to change with distinct global patterns as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. The changes in daily temperature variability are attributed to enhanced greenhouse forcing and are expected to have uneven effects on societies, economies, and ecosystems in the future.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Benjamin Plackett
Summary: Najat Saliba is facilitating collaborations between researchers from around the world and local communities in Lebanon.
Article
Environmental Studies
Sergei A. A. Samoilenko, John Cook
Summary: Misinformation produced by interest groups contributes to public confusion about climate policy. Character assassination, particularly bias attacks, is the most common strategy used by climate contrarians. This study applies a typology of ad hominem attacks to analyze the misinformation campaigns against climate scientists and policymakers. The findings highlight the need to address ad hominem attacks and their implications for climate policy and future research.
Article
Political Science
Adam J. Berinsky, James N. Druckman, Teppei Yamamoto
Summary: The study reveals the existence of publication biases in scientific research, including file drawer bias and biases against replication studies. However, biases specifically targeting replication studies are relatively small, which is a positive sign for the replication movement.
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Faranak Tootoonchi, Andrijana Todorovic, Thomas Grabs, Claudia Teutschbein
Summary: Hydrological climate-change-impact studies depend on climate models, but the outputs of these models often have systematic biases compared to observations. Various bias-adjustment methods have been introduced, but their benefits for impact studies and accurate streamflow projections are still debated.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Ecology
J. Hollander, E. Snell-Rood, S. Foster
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Zhongqiang Li, Liang He, Huan Zhang, Pablo Urrutia-Cordero, Mattias K. Ekvall, Johan Hollander, Lars-Anders Hansson
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Johan Hollander, Paul E. Bourdeau
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2016)
Article
Ecology
J. Hollander, J. Galindo, R. K. Butlin
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2015)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Huan Zhang, Johan Hollander, Lars-Anders Hansson
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Diana Costa, Graciela Sotelo, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Joao Carvalho, Roger Butlin, Johan Hollander, Rui Faria
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Nan Hu, Christer Bronmark, Paul E. Bourdeau, Johan Hollander
Summary: Climate change and anthropogenic activities create new selection pressures on marine organisms. This study investigated the phenotypic responses of different trophic levels to abiotic and biotic variables using a mesocosm experiment and meta-analysis. The results showed that higher trophic level species were better able to maintain their phenotypes under ocean acidification, while lower trophic levels exhibited stronger plastic inducible defenses to predation. The findings provide insights into the potential effects of changing environmental conditions on biological interactions and ecological communities.
Article
Plant Sciences
Manuela Amone-Mabuto, Johan Hollander, Blandina Lugendo, Janine Barbara Adams, Salomao Bandeira
Summary: This study presents a field experiment from Mozambique on the disturbance-and-recovery effects of the highly impacted seagrass species Zostera capensis. The results show that once anthropogenic impacts are halted, the seagrass meadows can restore themselves within 12 months. In addition, a manual restoration method, the plug method, was found to greatly improve the survival rate of seagrass transplantation projects.
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Lisa Van Well, Anelya Isayeva, Pal Axel Olsson, Johan Hollander
Summary: Ecosystem-based protection is a viable option for addressing rising sea levels and coastal erosion, but attention is often focused on the environmental and biological services, rather than the social and cultural dimensions. This study analyzes the cultural ecosystem services provided by eelgrass restoration and beach nourishment in southern Sweden, finding that there is limited understanding of the role of eelgrass plantations in creating biodiversity and benefits for society. However, the majority of respondents recognized the importance of protecting the coastline for health and spiritual reasons.
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Johan Hollander, Meinhard Doelle, Pal Axel Olsson
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Oceanography
M. Amone-Mabuto, M. Mubai, S. Bandeira, M. S. Shalli, J. B. Adams, B. R. Lugendo, J. Hollander
Summary: Seagrass meadows provide important ecosystem services to coastal communities, but they are among the least conserved marine ecosystems globally. This study used social research methods to explore the association between seagrass ecosystem services and the perceptions of coastal communities, and found a high level of awareness by local communities concerning the values and socio-ecological function of seagrass meadows.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Sofia Hydbom, Maria Ernfors, Johanna Birgander, Johan Hollander, Erik Steen Jensen, Pal Axel Olsson
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Johan Hollander, Johan Ahlgren, Christer Bronmark
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2017)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Johan Hollander, Mauricio Montano-Rendon, Giuseppe Bianco, Xi Yang, Anja M. Westram, Ludovic Duvaux, David G. Reid, Roger K. Butlin