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Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age (2025)
Journal Article
Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Langdale, S. J., Fisher, J. C., Abad, S.-A., Ancrenaz, M., Angeoletto, F., Auat Cheein, F., Austen, G. E., Bailey, J. J., Baldock, K. C. R., Banin, L. F., Banks-Leite, C., Barau, A. S., Bashyal, R., Bates, A. J., Bicknell, J. E., …Davies, Z. G. (2025). Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(6), 1031-1042. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9

With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrest... Read More about Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age.

Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain (2025)
Journal Article
Gentil-Fernandez, M., Barrera-Altemir, M., & Caro-Dominguez, J. (in press). Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain. Built Heritage,

Accomplished in 2018, the refurbishment of an 18th-century house, which is located in the historic centre of Seville (Spain), constitutes a statement of heritage reactivation as a solid platform for keeping historic centres alive. Rehabilitated by Ba... Read More about Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain.

Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems (2025)
Journal Article
Beierkuhnlein, C., Pugh, B., Justice, S., Schrodt, F., El Serafy, G., Karnieli, A., Manakos, I., Nietsch, L., Peñas de Giles, J., Peterek, A., Poursanidis, D., Zwoliński, Z., White, T., Wozniak, E., Field, R., & Provenzale, A. (2025). Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth-Science Reviews, 264, Article 105075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105075

Challenges related to global change require an integrated approach to managing highly complex natural systems on various scales. Biodiversity and geodiversity are key aspects of nature's diversity, which both interact with each other and affect the d... Read More about Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems.

One Health tropical wetlands: a transdisciplinary framework for assessing the risks of emerging zoonotic diseases in the Brazilian Pantanal (2025)
Journal Article
de Oliveira Roque, F., Herrera, H. M., de Andrade, G. B., Johnson, M., Nunes, A. V., de Oliveira, A. G., de Castro Ferreira, E., Fernandes, G. W., Araujo, G. A., Santos, L. G. R., Chiaravalloti, R. M., de Lucena, R. F. P., Libonati, R., Wantzen, K. M., Tasker, A., Bowsher, G., Sullivan, R., & Yon, L. (2025). One Health tropical wetlands: a transdisciplinary framework for assessing the risks of emerging zoonotic diseases in the Brazilian Pantanal. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 33(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-025-10031-w

The Pantanal wetland ecosystem of Brazil is experiencing unprecedented local challenges from anthropogenic pressures, as well as from global climate change. These pressures escalate the zoonotic risks from wildlife populations, whose own susceptibili... Read More about One Health tropical wetlands: a transdisciplinary framework for assessing the risks of emerging zoonotic diseases in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia (2024)
Journal Article
Loveluck, C. P., Tielidze, L. G., Elashvili, M., Kurbatov, A. V., Gadrani, L., Erb-Satullo, N., von Suchodoletz, H., Dan, A., Laermanns, H., Brückner, H., Schlotzhauer, U., Sulava, N., & Chagelishvili, R. (2024). Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia. Sustainability, 16(16), Article 7116. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16167116

In the midlatitudes of the planet, we are facing the imminent disappearance of one of our best high-resolution (pre)historic climate and anthropogenic pollution archives, namely the loss of glacial ice, through accelerated global warming. To capture... Read More about Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia.

Synapse House: A sustainable housing prototype (2023)
Physical Artefact
Gentil Fernández, M., Barrera Altemir, M., & Caro Domínguez, J. (2024). Synapse House: A sustainable housing prototype. [Building]

Synapse House is an experimental housing project that advocates for open domestic interactions. Its star-shaped floor plan organizes domestic uses around two interconnected halls, illuminated from skylights.
Like in neuronal network, several branche... Read More about Synapse House: A sustainable housing prototype.

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally (2023)
Journal Article
Engel, T., Bruelheide, H., Hoss, D., Sabatini, F. M., Altman, J., Arfin-Khan, M. A., Bergmeier, E., Černý, T., Chytrý, M., Dainese, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Fischer, F. M., Huygens, D., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jentsch, A., Karger, D. N., Kattge, J., …Pillar, V. (2023). Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 695-706. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13644

Aim: Theoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non-exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (... Read More about Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally.

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity (2022)
Journal Article
Sabatini, F. M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Jandt, U., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Kessler, M., Lenoir, J., Schrodt, F., Wiser, S. K., Arfin Khan, M. A., Attorre, F., Cayuela, L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Haider, S., Hatim, M. Z., Indreica, A., Jansen, F., Pauchard, A., Peet, R. K., …Bruelheide, H. (2022). Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 4683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblag... Read More about Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity.

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure (2022)
Journal Article
Guo, W.-Y., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Anand, M., Belluau, M., Bruun, H. H., Byun, C., Catford, J. A., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Ciccarelli, D., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dang-Le, A. T., de Frutos, A., Dias, A. S., Giroldo, A. B., …Svenning, J.-C. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(25), Article e2026733119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119

Safeguarding Earth’s tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as carbon sequestration. Here, we improve the foundation for effective conservation of global tre... Read More about High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure.