Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jun 18, 2025
This article attempts to show that current trends in bio-inspired robotics research are incompatible with the transformations needed to address the current ecological crisis. A large part of the scientific community takes refuge behind short-term cha...
Environmental management
Jun 17, 2025
Habitat reduction is significantly threatening biodiversity, making ecological connectivity which facilitates species movement across habitat patches, essential for human impacts mitigation, promoting genetic exchange, and enabling colonization of ne...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jun 12, 2025
Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health and biodiversity. Although acoustic biodiversity monitoring has made rapid progress over the past de...
Environmental science & technology
Jun 10, 2025
Forecasting systems for harmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming more common, as HAB monitoring is increasingly networked and aggregated at national and global scales. Ocean forecasting programs in other fields have had unintended consequences and ou...
Water research
May 6, 2025
This study examines the water environmental factors of the Cangshan stream and benthic animal communities by using random forest, gradient boosting decision tree, and support vector machine models to analyze the complex response mechanisms of benthic...
Scientific reports
Apr 27, 2025
The combination of autonomous recording units (ARUs) and machine learning enables scalable biodiversity monitoring. These data are often analysed using occupancy models, yet methods for integrating machine learning outputs with these models are rarel...
Marine environmental research
Apr 23, 2025
Rocky reef temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) are increasingly recognised for their spatial extent and high biodiversity. Platforms such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) allow large-scale collection of benthic imagery, facilitating descri...
Marine pollution bulletin
Apr 18, 2025
Marine eutrophication remains a pressing global environmental challenge, demanding urgent advances in science-based assessment frameworks to mitigate its ecological and socio-economic impacts. Current methodologies, however, face critical limitations...
Molecular ecology resources
Apr 17, 2025
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a widely used tool for surveying marine vertebrate biodiversity. To this end, many computational tools have been released and a plethora of bioinformatic approaches are used for eDNA-based community compositi...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Apr 17, 2025
Mangrove ecosystems are important in tropical and subtropical coastal zones, contributing to marine biodiversity and maintaining marine ecological balance. It is crucial to develop more efficient, intelligent, and accurate monitoring methods for mang...