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Mitigation of urbanisation effects on aquatic ecosystems by synchronous ecological restoration
<p>Ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss have been caused by economic booms in developing countries over recent decades. In response, ecosystem restoration projects have been advanced in some countries but the effectiveness of different approaches and indicators at large spatio-temporal scales (i.e., whole catchments) remains poorly understood. Our datasets with a diverse array of 440 aquatic restoration projects including wastewater treatment, constructed wetlands, plant/algae salvage, and dredging of contaminated sediments implemented and maintained from 2007 to 2017 across more than 2000km2 of the northwest Taihu basin (Yixing, China). Synchronized investigations of water quality and invertebrate communities were conducted before and after restoration. Our datasets showed that even though there was rapid urbanization at this time, nutrient concentrations (NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N, TN, TP) and biological indices of benthic invertebrates (taxonomic richness, Shannon diversity, sensitive taxon density) improved significantly across most of the study area. Improvements were associated with the type of restoration project, with projects targeting pollution sources leading to the clearest ecosystem responses compared with those remediating pollution sinks. However, in some locations, the recovery of biotic communities appears to lag behind nutrients (e.g. nitrogen and phosphorus), likely reflecting long-distance re-colonization routes for invertebrates given the level of pre-restoration degradation of the catchment.</p>
Mitigation of urbanisation effects on aquatic ecosystems by synchronous ecological restoration
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Reassessing the climate mitigation potential of Chinese ecological restoration: the undiscovered potential of urban areas
<p>The dataset includes urban climate mitigation benefit data for all 371 cities and 1,721 clusters in China, as well as aggregate data of different ecological restoration projects and climate backgrounds. Combining multi-source high-resolution remote sensing data sets and the reanalysis dataset, the absolute value standard deviation method of multiple linear regression is used to extract the largest dominant factor (pixel-by-pixel calculation) of daytime surface temperature in each city except NDVI (as a greening indicator). Then, the time trends of surface temperature, NDVI, and dominant factors were calculated based on the Theil-Sen Median slope estimation method. Finally, based on the linear statistical relationship of the three indicators, the surface temperature trend under the no-greening scenario was constructed, and the difference between the simulated and observed surface temperature trends was used to characterize the urban climate mitigation benefits of the ecological restoration project. The data details are as follows: </p> <p>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Mr. Dong Xu via <a href="mailto:zhangh573@mail2.sysu.edu.cn">xu.dong@u.nus.edu.</a></p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><strong>Data name</strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong>Spatial resolution</strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong>Time resolution</strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong>Source</strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong>Unit</strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong>Note</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>MOD13A2</p> </td> <td> <p>1000 m</p> </td> <td> <p>16-Day</p> </td> <td> <p>USGS.a</p> </td> <td> <p>/</p> </td> <td> <p>UG index</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>MOD11A1</p> </td> <td> <p>1000 m</p> </td> <td> <p>Daily</p> </td> <td> <p>USGS.a</p> </td> <td> <p>Kelvin</p> </td> <td> <p>UST index</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>MOD09A1</p> </td> <td> <p>500 m</p> </td> <td> <p>8-Day</p> </td> <td> <p>USGS.a</p> </td> <td> <p>/</p> </td> <td> <p>Calculate IBI index</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>ERA5-Land reanalysis dataset</p> </td> <td> <p>10000 m</p> </td> <td> <p>Day</p> </td> <td> <p>ECMWF.b</p> </td> <td> <p>/</p> </td> <td> <p>Sensitivity analysis</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Population density datasets</p> </td> <td> <p>1000 m</p> </td> <td> <p>Annual</p> </td> <td> <p>WorldPop.c</p> </td> <td> <p>/</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p>Sensitivity analysis</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Global Urban Boundaries</p> </td> <td> <p>30 m</p> </td> <td> <p>Annual</p> </td> <td> <p>Li et al.</p> </td> <td> <p>/</p> </td> <td> <p>Delineate LUBs</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em>Note:</em> a, United States Geological Survey (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/). b, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (https://www.ecmwf.int/). c, WordPop (https://www.worldpop.org/). </p> <p><span>1. </span>Li X, Gong P, Zhou Y, et al. Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data[J]. Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15(9): 094044.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Data from: Phenological mismatches mitigate the ecological impact of a biological invader on amphibian communities
<p>Data and code for the manuscript entitled "Phenological mismatches mitigate the ecological impact of a biological invader on amphibian communities" for Ecological Applications (2024). <br><br><br><br>The raw sequencing data was submitted to NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under BioProject number PRJNA1023717 (https://dataview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/object/PRJNA1023717?reviewer=rciv7kme2qq5vpcnqqog4vjioo). </p>
Evidence shortfalls in the recommendations and guidance underpinning ecological mitigation for infrastructure developments
<p>1. In the UK and European Union, legal protection of species from the impacts of infrastructure development depends upon a number of ecological mitigation and compensation (EMC) measures to moderate the conflict between development and conservation. However, the scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness has not yet been comprehensively assessed.</p> <p>2. This study compiled the measures used in practice, identified and explored the guidance that informed them and, using the Conservation Evidence database, evaluated the empirical evidence for their effectiveness.</p> <p>3. In a sample of 50 UK housing applications, we identified the recommendation of 446 measures in total, comprising 65 different mitigation measures relating to eight taxa. Although most (56%) measures were justified by citing published guidance, exploration of the literature underpinning this guidance revealed that empirical evaluations of EMC measure effectiveness accounted for less than 10% of referenced texts. Citation network analysis also identified circular referencing across bat, amphibian and reptile EMC guidance. Comparison with Conservation Evidence synopses showed that over half of measures recommended in ecological reports had not been empirically evaluated, with only 13 measures assessed as beneficial.</p> <p>4. As such, most EMC measures recommended in practice are not evidence-based. The limited reference to empirical evidence in published guidance, as well as the circular referencing, suggests potential 'evidence complacency', in which evidence is not sought to inform recommendations. In addition, limited evidence availability indicates a thematic gap between conservation research and mitigation practice. More broadly, absence of evidence on the effectiveness of EMC measures calls into question the ability of current practice to compensate for the impact of development on protected species, thus highlighting the need to strengthen requirements for impact avoidance. Given the recent political drive to invest in infrastructure expansion, high-quality, context-specific evidence is urgently needed to inform decision-making in infrastructure development.</p>
Data from: Rapid evolution mitigates the ecological consequences of an invasive species (Bythotrephes longimanus) in lakes in Wisconsin
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Evidence shortfalls in the recommendations and guidance underpinning ecological mitigation for infrastructure developments
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Riparian forests can mitigate warming and ecological degradation of agricultural headwater streams
<p>1. Riparian forests are commonly advocated as a key management option to mitigate the effects of agriculture on headwater stream biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the benefits of riparian forests might be reduced by uninterrupted catchment-scale pollution.</p> <p>2.We studied the effects of riparian land use on multiple ecological endpoints in headwater streams in an agricultural landscape. We studied stream habitat characteristics, water temperature and algal accrual, and macrophyte, benthic macroinvertebrate and fish communities in 11 paired forested and open agricultural headwater stream reaches that differed in their extent of riparian forest cover but had similar water quality.</p> <p>3. Hydromorphological habitat quality was higher in forested reaches than in open reaches. Riparian forest had a strong effect on the summer water temperature regime, with maximum and mean water temperatures and temperature variation in forested reaches substantially lower than in open reaches.</p> <p>4. Macrophyte communities differed between forested and open reaches. The mean abundance of bryophytes was higher in forested reaches but the difference to open reaches was only marginally significant, whereas graminoids were significantly more abundant in open reaches. Within-stream dissimilarity of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure was significantly related to the difference in riparian land use between reach pairs. The relative DNA sequence abundance of pollution-sensitive EPT (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera) species tended to be higher in forested reaches than in open reaches. Finally, fish densities were not significantly different between forested and open reaches, although densities were higher in forested reaches.</p> <p>5. This unequivocal evidence for the ecological benefits of forested riparian reaches in agricultural headwater streams suggests that riparian forest can partly mitigate the adverse impacts of agricultural diffuse pollution on biota. The strong effect of forests on stream water temperature suggest that riparian forest could also mitigate harmful effects on headwater stream biodiversity and ecosystem functions of the predicted more frequent high summer temperatures. </p>
Supplementary material 3 from: Paquet J-Y, Swinnen K, Derouaux A, Devos K, Verbelen D (2022) Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines. In: Santos S, Grilo C, Shilling F, Bhardwaj M, Papp CR (Eds) Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions. Nature Conservation 47: 215-233. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.47.73710
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Supplementary material 2 from: Paquet J-Y, Swinnen K, Derouaux A, Devos K, Verbelen D (2022) Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines. In: Santos S, Grilo C, Shilling F, Bhardwaj M, Papp CR (Eds) Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions. Nature Conservation 47: 215-233. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.47.73710
Table S2, S3
Supplementary material 1 from: Paquet J-Y, Swinnen K, Derouaux A, Devos K, Verbelen D (2022) Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines. In: Santos S, Grilo C, Shilling F, Bhardwaj M, Papp CR (Eds) Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions. Nature Conservation 47: 215-233. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.47.73710
Table S1
Supplementary material 4 from: Paquet J-Y, Swinnen K, Derouaux A, Devos K, Verbelen D (2022) Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines. In: Santos S, Grilo C, Shilling F, Bhardwaj M, Papp CR (Eds) Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions. Nature Conservation 47: 215-233. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.47.73710
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Dataset article "Ecological status and type of alteration determine the C-balance and climate change mitigation capacity of Mediterranean inland brackish and saline shallow lakes"
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Riparian forests can mitigate warming and ecological degradation of agricultural headwater streams
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