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Aim: Animals couple habitats by three types of movement: dispersal, migration, and foraging, which dynamically link populations, communities, and ecosystems. Across these types, movement distances tend to correlate with each other, potentially reflecting allometric scaling with body mass, but ecological and evolutionary species' traits may constrain movement distances and weaken these correlations. Here, we investigate multivariate "movement profiles" to better understand patterns in movement across movement types, with the aim of improving predictions in ecology from populations to ecosystems. Location: Global. Time period: 1945–2019. Major taxa studied: Vertebrates. Methods: We synthesized distances of all three movement types (dispersal, migration, and foraging) across 300+ vertebrate species and investigated how the relationships between movement types and body mass were modified by evolutionary history and trophic guild. Results: We found that the strength of relationships between movement types and body mass varied among taxa and trophic guilds, for example, strongly positive for mammals but weak for birds, or positive across trophic guilds for foraging and dispersal but not migration. Notably, movement profiles interacted with the effects of shared evolutionary history and trophic guild to diminish covariance between movement types. Main conclusions: Overall, we find that movement types with distinct ecological consequences (foraging, migration) are often correlated, although some species seem able to overcome biomechanical, evolutionary, and metabolic constraints by reducing correlations among movement types. This integrative assessment of movement can improve ecological prediction by allowing estimation of unobserved movement distances for parameterization of models based on estimation of other movement types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During March 2023, 23 people worked to rehabilitate 6 wetlands in North Alabama containing a variety of rare plants. Each site contains species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. These species are Green Pitcher Plants, Sarracenia oreophila, Giant Whorled Sunflowers, Helianthus verticillatus, and White Fringeless Orchids, Platanthera integrilabia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present preliminary findings from a unique collaborative research project involving six Deaf Maori rangatahi (youth) in Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. This study utilized kaupapa whanau (research family) protocols, established in consultation with two cultural advisory groups within New Zealand and the young people themselves, combined with elements of photovoice methodology, to explore the identities of these youth. Emerging findings highlight the complex nature of these youth's cultural identity as well as specific issues related to access to and participation within te ao Maori (the Maori world). Specific and critical reflections on the research process are also included.

Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation., Author(s): Forest Isbell (corresponding author) [1]; Andrew Gonzalez [2]; Michel Loreau [3]; Jane Cowles [1]; Sandra Díaz [4]; Andy Hector [5]; Georgina M. Mace [6]; David A. Wardle [7, 8]; [...]