Endangered species recovery: A resource allocation problem
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Data from: Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition.
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Job Opportunity: Science Communications Coordinator
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is seeking a full-time, experienced science communications professional to lead communications activities. The primary focus of the Science Communications Coordinator is to enhance awareness and understanding of SESYNC research and opportunities within the community of socio-environmental scientists, scientific knowledge users, and policy makers.
New tool helps align investment with objectives in biodiversity conservation
One of the balancing acts faced by conservation agencies is how to conserve and protect as many species as possible from extinction with limited funding and finite resources. In the U.S., conservation agencies are supported and guided by the Endangered Species Act, the seminal wildlife conservation tool signed by President Nixon in 1973, but which is currently being reviewed by Congress.
Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites
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To explore spatial patterns of helminth parasite diversity, and to investigate three main macroecological patterns – (a) latitude–diversity relationships, (b) positive scaling between parasite and host diversity, and (c) species–area relationships – using a largely underutilized global database of helminth parasite occurrence records.
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Global.
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Modelling the critical transition from Chilean evergreen forest to savanna: Early warning signals and livestock management
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The neglected costs of water peace
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Pursuit: A forecast of the timing, locations, sequence and likeliest destinations of populations displaced by sea level rise and coastal extremes
A forecast of the timing, locations, sequence and likeliest destinations of populations displaced by sea level rise and coastal extremes
Over the coming centuries, the climate hazards with greatest potential to drive permanent human migration are the short- and long-term interaction of coastal extreme flooding and sea-level rise (SLR). Recognizing that large, sudden migrations can be destabilizing (e.g.
Pursuit: The economic value of climate stability from forests: The case of the Brazilian agricultural frontier
The economic value of climate stability from forests: The case of the Brazilian agricultural frontier
The conversion of vast swaths of Northern Brazil’s forests to agriculture has promoted economic growth, but massively altered the region’s climate and water cycling, disrupting the very climate on which the agriculture and other resource economies rely. If land conversion patterns continue, an extreme, but feasible consequence is widespread regional aridification and loss of the Amazon forest biome.
Pursuit: Microbial disease dynamics, ecosystem processes, and human eutrophication of the environment
Microbial disease dynamics, ecosystem processes, and human eutrophication of the environment
This Pursuit will synthesize the relationships among rates of ecosystem eutrophication arising from human activities, host-pathogen interactions in primary producers, ecosystem processes, and their feedbacks to human health and well-being.
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