Conservation Biology

08/02/2025

08/02/2025

08/02/2025

INVASIVE SPECIES ALERT ⚠️ Creeping bellflower is an extremely invasive species that thrives in disturbed soils and chokes out native plants. A single flowering plant can produce up to 15,000 seeds and small pieces of roots can form new plants.

REMOVAL 🔥 Hand pulling or smothering with a tarp, cardboard or newspaper are effective options. Pulled plants should be burned or allowed to decompose in a bag. Removal efforts may need to be repeated.

NATIVE ALTERNATIVE 🌱 American bellflower (Campanula americana), also known as tall bellflower, is a great native alternative across much of the eastern half of the country.

📷 Lorie Shaull/CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/2q4x7BL

08/01/2025

🐻🌿New Issue Alert!!🌿🐻 Volume 39 Number 4 is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14306

07/30/2025

Hurtado et al share that landscape connectivity significantly influences communities, highlighting the need for its inclusion in .🐾🌳 Learn more about their findings at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70096

07/29/2025

It's time for the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz! From July 25 to August 3, join us by spotting monarch eggs, caterpillars, adults or milkweed plants, and report your sightings to iNaturalist, Journey North, Monarch Larva Monitoring Project and Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper.

The information collected by North American community science observers helps researchers identify priority areas for monarch conservation actions. Thanks to our engaged community of observers, monarch researchers can analyze summer breeding population trends.

Last year's submitted observations included more than 16,000 monarch sightings and more than 68,000 milkweeds!

📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS

07/26/2025

🔴Let's talk about on the . 🟢 In this article, Lin et al share that red-list downlisting can signal success, but stakeholder understanding, engagement, and use of green status of species are key to sustaining recovery. 🌎Learn more from their findings at: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70103

07/25/2025

Montauban et al found that are underrepresented in African protected areas, particularly threatened and data deficient species with limited dispersal abilities.🦇 So how can we help improve efforts for these flying friends? Find out at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70108

07/24/2025

New research in Conservation Biology 🐸📉

An 11-year study of Pampas ponds in reveals that the invasive American bullfrog is causing steep declines in native amphibians.

Even with diverse , ponds lost up to 40% of species and 50% of individuals after bullfrog invasion. 🌱🌊
Habitat complexity helps- but it’s not enough. Urgent action is needed to protect breeding sites and control invasions. ⚠️🛑

🔗 Read more: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70107

Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates globally due to a range of stressors. In this study spanning 11 years and covering 61 Pampas ponds in Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay, we aimed to evalu...

07/23/2025

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🌟🎉 Back by : the !🎉🌟 We are starting out small with this week's term- . 🔍🌱

As always, let us know what words you want us to in upcoming weeks!

07/21/2025

St. John et al found that embedding principles of procedural into could reduce low-level noncompliance around protected areas.⚖️🌿 Interested in learning more? You can find their full article at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70094

07/20/2025

In this article, Young et al discuss applying the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology to classify, describe, and map ecosystems based on regional data and Indigenous knowledge.🌱 You can learn more at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70099