Biodiversité

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - L’application de sciences participatives DRYRivERS montre déjà des premiers résultats ! Déployée à l’échelle internationale en 2022, elle enregistre en 1 an plus de 4000 contributions. Un ensemble de données en open-source, accessibles à tous via un simple site web. Un démarrage encourageant pour la préservation et la gestion de nos rivières, à l’échelle du globe.

The ongoing recovery of terrestrial large carnivores in North America and Europe is accompanied by intense controversy. On the one hand, reestablishment of large carnivores entails a recovery of their most important ecological role, predation. On the other hand, societies are struggling to relearn how to live with apex predators that kill livestock, compete for game species, and occasionally injure or kill people. Those responsible for managing these species and mitigating conflict often lack fundamental information due to a long-standing challenge in ecology: How do we draw robust population-level inferences for elusive animals spread over immense areas? Here we showcase the application of an effective tool for spatially explicit tracking and forecasting of wildlife population dynamics at scales that are relevant to management and conservation.

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.

Une plateforme interactive pour le partage de données sur la conservation de la biodiversité en Méditerranée

Grâce au soutien de la Fondation MAVA, le Centre de Coopération pour la Méditerranée de l’UICN (UICN-Med) a lancé une plateforme collaborative pour partager les connaissances et les données du système d’information géographique (SIG) qui permet de raconter des histoires en utilisant des documents consensuels, pour présenter des données interactives sur la conservation et la biodiversité. La nouvelle plateforme « MED CONSERVATION MAPS » vise à accumuler les connaissances générées par les réseaux scientifiques de conservation, toujours sur la base d’une histoire.