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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.003
Norma I. Díaz , Paulo Corti
Written historical sources are crucial for understanding wildlife species’ environmental requirements, spatial and temporal dynamics, and guiding conservation strategies. Such records include accounts from a diverse array of sources, including explorers, settlers, missionaries, naturalists, hunters, and military parties, along with manuscripts and gazettes. However, such data is affected by inherent gaps, biases, and limitations. Here we examine the weaknesses of such data that can lead to distorted interpretations of long-term changes in species distributions and their ecological requirements. Despite this awareness, efforts to document these weaknesses are limited. To prevent incorrect conclusions and misunderstandings, it is essential to critically assess and quantify the quality of the data before utilizing it. To bridge this gap and maximize utility, we present a seven-step process for data evaluation and use.
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{"title":"","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56034,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation","volume":"23 1","pages":"Pages 12-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147296662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2024.11.004
Jean Paul Metzger , Carlos Joly , Gerd Sparovek , Renata Pardini , Patricia Ruggiero , Gabriela di Giulio , Cristina Azevedo , Danilo Boscolo , Pedro H.S. Brancalion , Helena Carrascosa , Raquel Carvalho , Luciana Schwandner Ferreira , Alexandre Gerard , Camila Hohlenwerger , Alexandre Igari , Pedro Medrado Krainovic , Eduardo Freitas Moreira , Nathalia Nascimento , Juliana Ortega , Marco Aurelio Nalon , Rafael B. Chaves
Interdisciplinary synthesis research has been promoting significant advances in expanding academic knowledge. However, its application to address social-ecological problems poses challenges, typical of transdisciplinary research and co-production initiatives. Based on the experience of seven working groups from a Brazilian synthesis nucleus dedicated to co-producing social-ecological public policies, we present eight learnings to strengthen transdisciplinary syntheses. Those syntheses require flexibility in the working group dynamics to facilitate collaborative work, with frequent and short meetings held in easily accessible locations (1). They also require flexibility to shape different trajectories, depending on demand urgency, data and knowledge availability (2). Flexibility is also required to adjust to political circumstances, acknowledging that there are trade-offs between responding to urgent political needs and creating novel ideas, knowledge and outputs (3). In addition, the creation of formal institutions, particularly, formal engagement at the science-policy interface (4) and creating formal platforms for disseminating non-academic outputs (5) are key to stimulate the involvement of policy-makers and scientists in collaborative transdisciplinary syntheses. Symmetrical, horizontal interactions within a two-way science-policy linkage (6), alongside collective reflexivity on bridging diverse knowledge, skills, and authorities (7) are crucial for aligning academic knowledge with policy practices. Active involvement of individuals skilled in both scientific research and policy-making, who act as knowledge brokers, further strengthens this alignment. Finally, attention to create positive interactions and transparently communicating help to build trust among participants (8). These adjustments can enhance the potential of transdisciplinary syntheses to generate actionable knowledge at the science-policy interface.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2024.11.005
Romina Cardozo , Ricardo B. Machado
Species lead to a complex and dynamic environment affected by external processes. Better understanding the importance of these factors is particularly urgent for the world’s tropical dry forest, which is understudied, highly threatened and rapidly disappearing. Building on a unique, field-based bird community dataset, we used multivariate analysis and generalized linear models to test the effects of climate and vegetation structure on bird composition and richness in forest corridors. Our analyses revealed the importance of forest corridors that not only connect the landscape but may facilitate the movement of species, having a high potential for management and connectivity planning. We found significant differences in bird communities to environmental changes when focusing on all birds or when analyzing dry-forest birds only. For all birds, composition revealed preferences of habitat. Birds of open habitats were positively associated with canopy openness, temperature, and relative humidity, while birds to avoid open habitats were positively associated with higher canopy density. The most important variables explaining variations of dry-forest birds were understory and canopy density. Richness increases with temperature for the entire community, yet higher temperatures during the day decrease bird activity. Overall, we showed that bird composition differences were associated with canopy changes, yet richness increased with understory cover. Likewise, our study highlights the importance of maintaining a microenvironment based on local requirements for composition or richness. Moreover, the conservation strategies should be consistent to those requirements to promote the viability of corridors uses that potentially connect the landscape.
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