Cities, biomes & biodiversity
Diamant, E.S., Oswald, K.N., Awoyemi, A.G., Gaston, K.J., MacGregor-Fors, I., Berger-Tal, O. & Roll, U. 2025. The importance of biome in shaping urban biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, in press.…
Read morePeople’s responses to biodiversity renewal
Phillips, B.B., Garrett, J.K., Elliott, L.R., Lovell, R., Kibowski, F., Lamont, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2025. The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): Protocol for a panel study. People and Nature 7, 815-827. 1.…
Read moreHabitat creation for nature recovery
Unnithan Kumar, S., Baker, D.J., Maclean, I.M.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2025. Spatial prioritisation for nature recovery with multiple options for habitat creation. Journal of Applied Ecology 62, 2688-2700. 1. The creation of…
Read morePersonalised ecologies & hearing loss
Unnithan Kumar, S. & Gaston, K.J. 2026. Auditory perception and the ecology of human-nature interactions: effects of hearing loss on listening to birdsong. People and Nature 7, 3282-3296. 1. The human sensory…
Read moreBeing an ecologist in challenging times
Pettorelli, N., Gaston, K.J., Barlow, J., Araújo, M.B., da Cunha Bustamante, M.M., Chown, S.L., Diele-Viegas, L.M., Laurance, W.F., Lees, A.C., Melo, F.P.L., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Pecl, G. & Sousa-Pinto, I. 2025.…
Read moreLoss of ecological experience
Soga, M. & Gaston, K.J. 2025. Extinction of experience among ecologists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40, 212-215. Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call…
Read morePlanning for renewing nature
Baker, D.J., Gaston, K.J., Metcalfe, K. & Maclean, I.M.D. 2025. Systematic conservation planning for nature recovery. BioScience 75, 472-489. Nature conservation is increasingly focused on recovering depleted populations and ecosystems. The…
Read moreRewilding functional diversity
Zhang, W., Gaston, K.J., Sheldon, B.C. & Grenyer, R., 2025. Intentional and unintentional changes to avian and mammalian diversities in the U.K. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 23, e2842. Rewilding is emerging…
Read moreValuing nature
Chan, K.M.A., Gould, R.K., Maller, C., Fish, R., Hails, R.S. & Gaston, K.J. 2025. The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value – in…
Read moreWhere drones have been & where they might go
Anderson, A., Gonzalez, F. & Gaston, K.J. 2025. Drones in ecology: ten years back and forth. BioScience 75, 664-680. A decade after our initial publication predicting that lightweight drones would revolutionize spatial…
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