Biodiversité

La Liste Rouge des espèces menacées requiert des données suffisamment précises sur les espèces à évaluer afin d’obtenir un résultat robuste. C’est dans cette optique que le Pôle-relais zones humides tropicales s’est associé à Sentinelle Lab, spécialiste des espèces d’eau douce de Guadeloupe, afin de poursuivre les efforts d’acquisition de connaissances sur les poissons et crustacés du territoire.

Au même titre que les espèces, les habitats naturels sont au coeur des politiques publiques en faveur de la biodiversité. En France, leur connaissance et leur inventaire font l’objet d’une mobilisation croissante de la part des acteurs de la recherche et de la gestion des espaces naturels.

Maps of the human footprint allow ecologists to identify the wildest lands on the planet, track their decline, and prioritize wildland conservation efforts. Other research efforts have mapped biological intactness and identified conservation priorities to protect biodiversity. However, little research has involved the use of historical references to evaluate intactness of species composition globally. We used a dataset estimating historical and current distributions of mammals to address whether the wildest places on Earth support the most intact mammal communities. Contrary to our expectations, we found that the global human footprint was not strongly correlated with mammal community intactness and uncovered surprising situations where both the human footprint and mammal species intactness were high, and other examples where both were low.

Des passionnées d'herpétologie veulent entrainer une intelligence artificielle à identifier des photos de reptiles et d'amphibiens. Ils en appellent à la contribution des internautes afin de constituer une base de données pour entraîner cette IA.

We present EU-Forest, a dataset that integrates and extends by almost one order of magnitude the publicly available information on European tree species distribution.

Freshwater fish have been widely introduced worldwide, and freshwater ecosystems are among the most affected by biological invasions. Consequently, freshwater fish invasions are one of the most documented invasions among animal taxa, with much information available about invasive species, their characteristics, invaded regions, invasion pathways, impacts, and management. While existing reviews address specific aspects of freshwater fish invasions, there is still a gaping lack of comprehensive assessments of freshwater fish invasions that simultaneously address pivotal and connected elements of the invasion process. Here, we provide a holistic review, together with quantitative assessments, divided into four major parts: (1) introduction pathways; (2) characteristics of non-native species and invaded ecosystems to explain successful invasion processes; (3) invasion impacts and their mechanisms; and (4) management.