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{"title":"Spatial and temporal characteristics and driving mechanisms of recreational ecosystem services supply-demand mismatch in rapidly urbanizing areas: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta","authors":"Ruien Tang ,&nbsp;Guolin Hou ,&nbsp;Yueyi Chen ,&nbsp;Xiao Liu ,&nbsp;Shaoying Chu ,&nbsp;Li Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ecological changes triggered by rapid urbanization pose a significant threat to the balance of supply and demand for recreational ecosystem services. Understanding the spatial and temporal processes of Recreational Ecosystem Services (RES) supply–demand matching and their driving mechanisms is essential for the enhancement of human well-being and the sustainable management of socio-ecological systems in the region. Taking the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China as an example, this study first builds an updated supply indicator system based on the four dimensions and examines the supply, demand, and matching of RES in the region with the help of heterogeneous data from multiple sources. We also examine the spatio-temporal processes and spatial spillover effects of supply–demand matching, as well as the nonlinearity and spatial non-stationarity of the role of the driving factors. The results show that the supply level of RES is generally low, but is on an upward trend. There are significant spatial differences in the demand level, and the matching level is declining with significant polarisation. The matching types generally show a trend of decreasing L-L and M-L and a significantly increasing H-H. The changes in supply and demand risks at different levels are dominated by level-by-level migration, but the low-level units attract the higher level to leap downward across level transitions, thus indicating a significant spatial spillover effect. The regression model estimation showed a decrease in the contribution of ecological factors and an enhancement of socio-economic factors. Each factor exhibits different degrees of non-linear marginal effects. The regression coefficients were significantly heterogeneous in space. Finally, the influence processes of county-level and city-level drivers were discussed, and the establishment of a three-level transmission mechanism of “grid-county-city” was proposed to achieve the sustainable management of recreational resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113153"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143333975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Avian atlas: Unveiling the diversity divide in major global desert realms","authors":"Manasi Mukherjee,&nbsp;Mitali Mukerji","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the heightened vulnerability of deserts to climate change, this study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of avian species diversity across ten global deserts to identify distinct diversity gradients and relatedness. Identify the difference from global patterns in avian migratory proportions and the underlying drivers for assessing the vulnerability and resilience of these desert ecosystems. Crowd-sourced avian diversity data of 2374 species from GBIF.org was used as a key analytical tool to study the diversity gradient across the ten major deserts. The variance in correlation patterns between avian ecological and behavioral traits across deserts were analyzed employing data of 1930 common avian species from AVONET. The analysis included comparisons of bird diversity, migratory patterns and trophic niches between Tropic of Cancer (TCan) and Tropic of Capricorn (TCap) deserts. Significant variations in bird diversity among the deserts were found. Deserts near the TCan exhibited higher bird diversity than in TCap deserts. TCan deserts had a higher prevalence of migratory species, facilitated by a broader niche breadth among sedentary species, which reduces niche competition and allows the influx of migratory invertivores. Proportion of migratory birds is higher in TCan deserts due to wider trophic niche but is significantly lower than the global average for the same latitude range. The findings highlight the need for targeted conservation strategies to protect avian diversity in the TCan deserts and mitigate extinction risks in TCap deserts, ensuring the resilience of these critical ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113094"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143334106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolution of the “Production-Living-Ecological” space of urban trituration and its prediction of carbon mitigation potential–The case of Xi’an","authors":"Jinzhao Song,&nbsp;Jie Lei,&nbsp;Peijia Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under the perspective of spatial low-carbon optimization, revealing the changes in the production-living-ecological space pattern and its carbon emission pattern of the historical capital-type city is of great significance for deepening the theory of land use transformation and helping the country achieve its dual-carbon goal. Therefore, spatial transfer matrix and dynamic analysis are used to study the transformation characteristics of space in Xi’an from 2000 to 2020, and the spatial and temporal evolution pattern of carbon emissions in the region and the impact of spatial transformation on carbon emissions are identified and simulated by the carbon emission accounting method and the patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model. The results show that the spatial of Xi’an City during the study period is characterized by a pattern of high in the south and low in the north, and the trend of spatial transition is characterized by slow fluctuation in the early stage and dramatic development in the late stage. The net carbon emission of Xi’an City showed a fluctuating increase, and the net carbon emission increased by 3,683,800 tons in 20 years. The mutual transformation between rural production space, grassland ecological space and urban production space mainly leads to the increase or decrease of carbon emissions. The drivers of spatial expansion are mainly elevation, annual precipitation and GDP density. The relatively low net carbon emissions of the 2030 spatial utilization of Xi’an under the social priority development scenario can provide a reference for the future territorial planning of Xi’an.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113137"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143334153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Establishment of wetland conservation networks in response to climate change and anthropogenic activities: A case study from the Liaohe River Basin in Liaoning Province, China","authors":"Kexin Chen ,&nbsp;Shuxiu Liang ,&nbsp;Pifu Cong ,&nbsp;Zhaochen Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wetlands are undergoing rapid transformations due to climate change and human activities, necessitating proactive conservation efforts. This study combined the species conservation planning model and ecological network model to create a future-oriented wetland conservation network for the Liaohe River Basin in Liaoning Province, China. The approach incorporated multi-dimensional factors, including climate change and anthropogenic activities (multi-process) as well as structural and functional aspects of wetlands (multi-level), to anticipate future challenges. The findings revealed that at the national scale, the overall trend of suitable habitats for coastal vegetation are projected to decline significantly between 2030 and 2090 under the influence of climate change. Furthermore, based on the succession patterns observed between 2010 and 2020, the wetland area is predicted to diminish from 1,575.82 km² in 2030 to 1,015.63 km² in 2090, while the building land area is expected to expand from 8,324.14 km² in 2030 to 12,719.31 km² in 2090. Human activities were identified as having a more pronounced impact on wetland conservation areas compared to climate change alone. The wetland conservation network under the SSP5-RCP8.5 climate scenario was found to be more complex, with more conservation areas compared to the SSP1-RCP2.6 climate scenario. Overall, wetlands are anticipated to follow a trajectory of degradation. This underscores the urgency of implementing conservation measures to mitigate further wetland loss. The methodology proposed for constructing a future wetland conservation network and the identified key ecological sources and ecological corridors can provide opinions and suggestions for wetland resource conservation and rationalised utilization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113184"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soundscape analysis reveals fine ecological differences among coral reef habitats","authors":"Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano ,&nbsp;Miles J.G. Parsons ,&nbsp;Rohan Brooker ,&nbsp;Robert McCauley ,&nbsp;Daniel Pygas ,&nbsp;William Feeney ,&nbsp;Steve Simpson ,&nbsp;Sophie L. Nedelec ,&nbsp;Eve M. Croxford ,&nbsp;Mark Meekan ,&nbsp;Christine Erbe","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recording soundscapes in coral reef ecosystems provides an efficient, non-invasive method for ecosystem monitoring and conservation. This study assesses the ecological relevance of coral reef soundscapes, validating their utility for conservation decision-making. Using the Soundscape Code—a method that summarizes soundscape amplitude, impulsiveness, periodicity, and uniformity—we analyzed habitat differentiation across 25 simultaneous recordings from back, flat, and fore reef zones. Benthic composition analysis identified two distinct healthy habitat types: one dominated by branching corals and another without a dominant coral growth form. Acoustic analysis revealed these habitats also had unique nighttime soundscapes, driven by amplitude (loudness) and uniformity (sound diversity) differences linked to fish and invertebrate activity. This alignment between benthic structure and nocturnal soundscape patterns suggests that reef soundscapes reflect both benthic composition and the associated biological communities, including cryptic invertebrates and nocturnal fish. Our findings underscore the potential of nighttime soundscapes and the Soundscape Code as valuable tools for coral reef monitoring and management, with practical applications for ecosystem assessment and restoration planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113120"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143359476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From coverage to extension: Evaluating indices for biodiversity monitoring in cities to reflect global and EU biodiversity targets","authors":"Silvia Keinath,&nbsp;Nike Sommerwerk,&nbsp;Melina Fienitz,&nbsp;Jörg Freyhof","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urbanisation has a major environmental impact and leads to novel ecosystems composed of native and non-native biodiversity, often resulting in ecosystem functions and services that differ from those outside of cities. International policy goals, such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the EU Habitats Directive, the European Green Deal, and the EU Nature Restoration Law have urban targets, as does the Berlin Urban Nature Pact. In order to assess the achievement of targets, it is necessary to monitor changes in urban biodiversity in its different dimensions, which are described by Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs). Biodiversity indices provide the means to combine different elements of change and can therefore be used to monitor biodiversity change. Here we provide an overview of biodiversity indices that can be applied at the city scale: The Living Planet Index, the Diversity-weighted Living Planet Index, the Red List Index, the City Biodiversity Index and the IUCN Urban Nature Indexes, and present a concept for extending one of the indices to include additional EBVs. Our study sheds light on the indicator toolbox currently available to help cities to meet policy targets for biodiversity recovery, so that the effectiveness of monitoring progress towards biodiversity and ecosystem restoration in cities can be improved.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113223"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143419510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing sargassum pressure on coastal habitats using a spatial and temporal approach at the territorial scale","authors":"Mathilde Teyssier ,&nbsp;Catherine Desrosiers ,&nbsp;Claire Hellio ,&nbsp;Fanny Kerninon","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since 2011, coastal areas of the Caribbean Sea and the Tropical Atlantic Ocean have been exposed to massive influxes of pelagic sargassum algae. Coastal sargassum accumulations and brown water associated with their decomposition represent a new pressure threatening ecosystems, human health and the socio-economic sector. There is still a lack of well-calibrated monitoring methods to accurately characterise sargassum pressure at the scale of a territory. This study aimed to develop a methodology for quantifying, locating, and monitoring the dynamics of sargassum pressure on Martinique’s coastal environment (Lesser Antilles). Monthly aerial monitoring and daily records of <em>in situ</em> cameras were used to develop pressure indicators for sargassum accumulations and brown water. Thanks to these indicators, we identified the areas most exposed to sargassum pressure: the innermost parts of the bays characterised by low hydrodynamic conditions, particularly the mangroves, and very exposed to prevailing winds. In these areas, dense accumulations persist all over the year, even during lulls in sargassum influxes. Coastal marine habitats, such as seagrass meadows, are mainly exposed to brown water, particularly during heavy rainfall, which causes brown water to spread offshore. Our methodology has proved to be an effective tool for territorial diagnosis, enabling the identification of sites at stake and periods at risk. It provided a better understanding of spatial variations and drivers of exposure to three different decomposition states of sargassum (stranded, stagnant and brown water). These data are invaluable to managers, researchers, and entrepreneurs and can be helpful to other regions that are exposed to sargassum influxes as part of health, socio-economic, or environmental impact studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113211"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143402064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment and driving mechanisms for the supply–demand of ecosystem services in the central plains urban agglomeration, China: A water-soil-food-carbon nexus perspective","authors":"Yichen Fang ,&nbsp;Lianhai Cao ,&nbsp;Qirui Tang ,&nbsp;Lu Zhang ,&nbsp;Xinyu Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To achieve effective ecosystem management and conservation while promoting regional sustainable development, a quantitative assessment of ecosystem services (ESs) supply, demand, and driving mechanisms is essential. Taking the Central Plains urban agglomeration (CPUA) as the study area, we focused on the water-soil-food-carbon nexus (WSFC-Nexus) and quantified the supply and demand of four important ESs: water yield (WY), soil conservation (SC), food production (FP), and carbon sequestration (CS). Additionally, we analyzed the relationship characteristics and assessed the supply–demand matching situations of ESs. On this basis, we integrated various data discretization methods into geographic detectors to address subjective classification limitations, thereby enhancing the accuracy of exploring the ESs supply–demand balance (SDB) mechanisms. Our results indicated that WY and CS exhibited predominantly positive coupling in supply and demand, whereas SC and FP showed primarily negative coupling. Significant synergies were observed on the supply side in WY–FP, WY–CS, and SC–CS, while SC–FP showed a distinct trade-off. Conversely, WY–SC and FP–CS showed no significant correlation. On the demand side, strong synergistic relationships were evident in WY–FP, WY–CS, and FP–CS, while trade-offs were observed in WY–SC, SC–FP, and SC–CS. The supply–demand matching of ESs differed between locations. The northern areas predominantly concentrated deficits in WY, the western regions widely spread deficits in SC and FP, and urban areas primarily observed deficits in CS. The impact of interactions between factors on the SDB of ESs was more significant than that of individual factors. The interaction between precipitation and land-use dominated WY; vegetation and terrain interaction significantly affected SC; and the interaction between vegetation and population substantially impacted FP and CS. This study contributes to clarifying the underlying mechanisms that drive the SDB of ESs and provides a theoretical basis for urban resource management and allocation in CPUA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113218"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A remote sensing evidence on the marginality, stagementation and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of vegetation evolution characteristics in the Yinshan Mountains, China: Based on PKU GIMMS NDVI (1984–2022)","authors":"Menglin Yan ,&nbsp;Jingyang Lu ,&nbsp;Yingying Ma ,&nbsp;Chao Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study focuses on a typical Ecological Vulnerable Area (EVA)-Yinshan mountains (YSMs), using PKU GIMMS NDVI as a vegetation growth indicator, to explore the spatiotemporal heterogeneity and driving mechanisms of vegetation in in desertified steppe ecosystems (DSEs) of arid and semi-arid regions. The Theil-Sen (T-S) Median trend analysis &amp; Mann-Kendall (M-K) trend test, Hurst index, correlation analysis, partial correlation analysis, residual analysis and bivariate spatial autocorrelation (Bi-SA) analysis were used for quantitative analysis. Findings revealed: (1) Vegetation distribution had spatial heterogeneity, with a stepwise distribution from southeast to northwest; (2) Vegetation growth had temporal stagementation, with “stable-plunge-rise” pattern; (3) Climate trend displayed “warmer and wetter”, with growth rates of 0.045 °C/a and 0.558 mm/a, respectively; (4) Vegetation response to precipitation was sensitive with strong spatial correlation (<em>Moran’s I</em> = <em>0.88</em>, <em>P &lt; 0.01</em>); (5) Influence of human activities on the growth of vegetation was weak. The study emphasizes that the overall ecological quality of the YSMs has long been low. In recent decades, despite some improvements, the ecosystem remains extremely sensitive, fragile and volatile. Consequently, there is an urgent need to strengthen eco-environmental protection and management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113193"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Going, going, gone: Landscape drying reduces wetland function across the American West","authors":"J. Patrick Donnelly ,&nbsp;Johnnie N. Moore ,&nbsp;John S. Kimball ,&nbsp;Kelsey Jencso ,&nbsp;Mark Petrie ,&nbsp;David E. Naugle","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystems are rapidly transforming into non-historical configurations as a nearly inevitable consequence of climate and land use change. Water scarcity, in particular, is emerging as a new and powerful threat, forcing wetland ecosystems into altered functional states as the frequency and duration of their inundation diminish. Potential for large-scale functional loss raises concerns over environmental sustainability, as wetlands are key determinants of biodiversity in water-limited landscapes. To improve our understanding of rapid ecosystem change, we reconstructed monthly wetland surface water hydrology in the western U.S. from 1984 to 2023 using cloud computing and ∼ 150,000 satellite images to measure shifts in the timing and duration of inundations. Monitoring encompassed all freshwater palustrine and littoral systems, including anthropogenic wetlands sustained through human water use (e.g., irrigated agriculture and earthen livestock ponds). Wetland surface water was classified annually by hydroperiod (semi-permanent, seasonal, and temporary) based on monthly inundation rates and binned into functional groups based on ecological and anthropogenic associations to track patterns of change. Results were summarized at an ecoregional level to normalize heterogeneity in landscape drivers structuring trends. Findings showed that overall wetland abundance (i.e., inundated area) changed by only 0.2 % during the forty-year study period; however, shortened inundation periods reduced semi-permanent wetlands by 24 % and increased the combined abundance of seasonal and temporary wetlands by a nearly equal amount (23 %). Trends suggest that semi-permanent loss acts as an early indicator of large-scale functional decline, signaling wetland ecosystems’ transition along a continuum of persistent to more ephemeral states. Functional declines were heterogeneous, with losses and gains focused in a limited number of ecoregions. High rates of semi-permanent loss were associated with overall declines in wetland abundance at the ecoregional level that exceeded 20 % in some cases. Anthropogenic water use supported half the wetland resources measured. Proliferating agricultural-wetlands and earthen livestock ponds were drivers of wetland expansion and indicators of human adaptation to water scarcity that offset natural-wetlands losses in some ecoregions. Our analysis identifies a shortfall in large-scale governmental monitoring programs that remain focused on historical wetland threats associated with agricultural drainage and urban expansion. Outcomes from this work improve our understanding of environmental change, elevating the urgency of developing adaptive conservation strategies in light of the rapidly evolving trajectory of wetland ecosystems in the western U.S.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 113172"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143333443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}