The Nature Conservancy

Seabirds and native vegetation drive ecosystem processes that support atoll island resilience

Ecosystem restoration is expected to enhance ecosystem resilience to climate change, but few empirical and mechanistic demonstrations of such assertions exist. Here, we explore this topic for tropical atoll systems, combining science on nutrient subsidies and geo-ecological funct...

Directional centroid trajectories reveal shifting fire activity across Brazilian biomes

Abstract Understanding how fire activity reorganizes across space is key to interpreting long-term interactions among climate variability, land-use change, and integrated fire management in Brazil. Yet this reorganization is difficult to read directly: annual maps of millions of...

Enabling climate action: A nexus approach for delivering co-benefits across biodiversity, water, food, and health

Climate response options rarely affect biodiversity, water, food, and health in uniform ways. This comparative analysis examines why technically viable response options generate uneven cross-nexus outcomes, and how governance and justice conditions shape whether these outcomes be...

Right on time: evaluating accuracy and timing of burn-severity assessments to support post-fire management

Abstract Effective wildfire impact assessment and post-fire management rely on burn-severity maps that accurately characterize fire effects on vegetation and soils. These maps inform time-sensitive activities such as post-fire flood and debris-flow modeling, risk mitigation for h...

Acoustic shadows and array performance at offshore wind monopile foundations: quantifying trade-offs for telemetry array design

Abstract Background Offshore wind energy development introduces large-scale structures into marine environments. Acoustic telemetry is increasingly employed to monitor fish responses to offshore wind infrastructure, including via regulatory monitoring programs, yet practical guid...

Perceptions of nativeness shift quite rapidly over time

Abstract The spread of non‐native species has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for conservation and ecosystem management. Yet attitudes towards species change, making it possible for non‐native species to be perceived as native after some time. However, no previous...

The climate responsibility of cultural influencers

In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that visibility and influence should raise, not lower, the bar for climate responsibilit...

Guaranteed Income and the Financial Well-Being of Black Women: Evidence from the In Her Hands Pilot

Abstract This study examines the impact of guaranteed income (GI) on financial well-being through a U.S. pilot program targeting low-income Black women. Using longitudinal survey data from the In Her Hands (IHH) pilot in Georgia, we examine how GI influences recipients’ credit he...

Identifying Research Priorities for the Development of High-Integrity Forest Carbon Credits

Abstract In the United States, voluntary carbon markets have gained significant traction in recent years. However, many offset standards, protocols, and credit ratings have come under scrutiny from the public and investors for failing to produce real or sustainable carbon offsets...

Chapter Zero: The Universe as Agreement

*Chapter Zero: The Universe as Agreement* is the plain-language doorway into the Fundamental Dynamic Structures (FDS) programme. It presents the theory as one continuous conceptual story beginning with a finite premetric network of occupation and cyclic phase, from which physical...

Lifted Logarithmic Wasserstein Dynamics I: Exact Counting Mobilities and Microscopic Origins of the FDS Two-Flow Structure

We identify conditional microscopic routes to the reduced dissipative sector postulated in Fundamental Dynamic Structures (FDS). The first result is a role-separation theorem. A bilinear complex-field bond fixes the conservative amplitude factor \(\sqrt{\rho_i\rho_j}\), whereas a...

Reimagining land system science in seascapes

Abstract Context Terrestrial concepts often guide the science and management of marine systems, as exhibited by the influence of landscape ecology on seascape ecology. However, the theoretical assumptions that inform these concepts have not been sufficiently interrogated within t...