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  1. Urgent solutions are needed in cities to mitigate twin crises of global climate change and biodiversity loss. Urban nature-based solutions (actions that protect, sustainably manage, and restore ecosystems whil...

    Authors: Kayleigh Hutt-Taylor, Corinne G. Bassett, Riikka P. Kinnunen, Barbara Frei and Carly D. Ziter
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:23
  2. Grasslands are essential for providing vital resources in the livestock sector and delivering invaluable ecosystem services such as biodiversity and soil carbon (C) sequestration. Despite their critical import...

    Authors: Camille Rousset, Carmen Segura, Anina Gilgen, Marta Alfaro, Luís André Mendes, Mike Dodd, Batnyambuu Dashpurev, Mike Bastidas, Julian Rivera, Lutz Merbold and Eduardo Vázquez
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:22
  3. Achieving a more circular and efficient use of nutrients found in human excreta and domestic (municipal) wastewater is an integral part of mitigating aquatic nutrient pollution and nutrient insecurity. A synth...

    Authors: Biljana Macura, Geneviève S. Metson, Jennifer R. McConville and Robin Harder
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:21
  4. The intensification of the agricultural practices in Europe over the last decades has drastically transformed the agroecosystems. The simplification of the landscape, the loss of semi-natural habitats and the ...

    Authors: Coralie Triquet, Marie Perennes, Robin Séchaud, Markus van der Meer, Yvonne Fabian and Philippe Jeanneret
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:20
  5. Forestry and land-use change are leading causes of habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation worldwide. The boreal forest biome is no exception, and only a small proportion of this forest type remains intac...

    Authors: Malin Undin, Anita Atrena, Fredrik Carlsson, Mattias Edman, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson and Jennie Sandström
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:19
  6. Traditionally managed semi-natural pastures are recognised for their high biodiversity. One drawback is that these pastures are often low in fodder production and hence rather unprofitable, which may lead to a...

    Authors: Simon Jakobsson, Ida Envall, Jan Bengtsson, Maj Rundlöf, Matilda Svensson, Charlotte Åberg and Regina Lindborg
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:18
  7. The tropical rainforest biome plays a significant role in providing habitats for terrestrial biodiversity and delivering ecosystem service values, contributing to agricultural production. However, the increasi...

    Authors: Via Apriyani, Mukhlish JM Holle and Sonny Mumbunan
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:17
  8. Forest disturbances are projected to increase in intensity and frequency in the upcoming decades. The projected change in disturbance regimes is expected to alter the provision of ecosystem services and affect...

    Authors: Moritz Baumeister and Markus A. Meyer
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:16
  9. The interface between science and policy is a complex space, in theory and practice, that sees the interaction of various actors and perspectives coming together to enable policy-relevant evidence to support d...

    Authors: Carla-Leanne Washbourne, Ranjini Murali, Nada Saidi, Sophie Peter, Paola Fontanella Pisa, Thuan Sarzynski, Hyeonju Ryu, Anna Filyushkina, Carole Sylvie Campagne, Andrew N. Kadykalo, Giovanni Ávila-Flores and Taha Amiar
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:15
  10. Instances of attacks from large carnivores that lead to human injury or death are increasingly reported worldwide. Ensuring human safety when people and carnivores co-occur is central to minimizing human suffe...

    Authors: Ann Eklund, Jens Frank and José Vicente López Bao
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:13
  11. Shallow, tropical coral reefs face compounding threats from climate change, habitat degradation due to coastal development and pollution, impacts from storms and sea-level rise, and pulse disturbances like bla...

    Authors: Avery B. Paxton, Iris R. Foxfoot, Christina Cutshaw, D’amy N. Steward, Leanne Poussard, Trevor N. Riley, Todd M. Swannack, Candice D. Piercy, Safra Altman, Brandon J. Puckett, Curt D. Storlazzi and T. Shay Viehman
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:12
  12. Global biodiversity is rapidly declining, yet we still do not fully understand the relationships between biodiversity and human health and well-being. As debated, the loss of biodiversity or reduced contact wi...

    Authors: Honghong Li, Raf E. V. Jansen, Charis Sijuwade, Biljana Macura, Matteo Giusti and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:11

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2024 13:14

  13. The global food system is inflicting substantial environmental harm, necessitating a shift towards more environmentally sustainable food consumption practices. Policy interventions, for example, information ca...

    Authors: Ylva Ran, Pierre Van Rysselberge, Biljana Macura, U. Martin Persson, Assem Abu Hatab, Malin Jonell, Therese Lindahl and Elin Röös
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:10
  14. The development of cities and transport infrastructure produces a large volume of mineral waste (e.g. excavated earth material). At the same time, cities are increasingly trying to develop green infrastructure...

    Authors: Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo, Alix Lafitte, Romain Sordello, Florie Pozzi, Irina Mikajlo, José Hilario Rocha Araujo, Yorick Reyjol and Thomas Z Lerch
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:9
  15. Climate is an important driver of ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migratory behaviors. Climate conditions can directly impact ungulates via changes in the costs of thermoregulation and locomo...

    Authors: Katherine C. Malpeli, Sarah C. Endyke, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura M. Thompson, Ciara G. Johnson, Katherine A. Kurth and Maxfield A. Carlin
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:8
  16. Northern ecosystems are strongly influenced by herbivores that differ in their impacts on the ecosystem. Yet the role of herbivore diversity in shaping the structure and functioning of tundra ecosystems has be...

    Authors: Laura Barbero-Palacios, Isabel C. Barrio, Mariana García Criado, Ilona Kater, Matteo Petit Bon, Tiina H. M. Kolari, Ragnhild Bjørkås, Jonas Trepel, Erick Lundgren, Katrín Björnsdóttir, Bernice C. Hwang, Laura Bartra-Cabré, Mathilde Defourneaux, Jennifer Ramsay, Thomas K. Lameris, A. Joshua Leffler…
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:6
  17. Brazil has one of the planet's greatest biodiversity, with over 20% of the world’s total species. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) spans 17 Brazilian states, making it the third-largest biome in Brazil. The...

    Authors: Fábio Casallanovo, Gustavo Souza Santos and Ana Paola Cione
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:5
  18. Linear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, powerlines and waterways) are recognized as important contributors to the fragmentation of species habitats. On the other hand, ve...

    Authors: Hugo Mell, Vinciane Fack, Louise Percevault, Sylvie Vanpeene, Yves Bertheau, Aurélie Coulon, Frédérique Flamerie de Lachapelle, Eric Guinard, Arzhvaël Jeusset, Eric Le Mitouard, Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo, Marianne Vargac, Romain Sordello, Yorick Reyjol, Julien Touroult, Sébastien Filoche…
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:4
  19. Biochar is a relatively new development in sustainable agricultural management that can be applied to ameliorate degraded and less fertile soils, especially sandy-textured ones, to improve their productivity w...

    Authors: Madina Bekchanova, Luca Campion, Stephan Bruns, Tom Kuppens, Johannes Lehmann, Marijke Jozefczak, Ann Cuypers and Robert Malina
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:3
  20. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the DNA that can be extracted from an environmental sample, enabling the monitoring of whole biological communities across a large number of samples, at a potentially lower cost, wh...

    Authors: R. Cruz-Cano, M. Kolb, R. A. Saldaña-Vázquez, L. Bretón-Deval, N. Cruz-Cano and A. Aldama-Cervantes
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:2
  21. To inform environmental policy and practice, researchers estimate effects of interventions/exposures by conducting primary research (e.g., impact evaluations) or secondary research (e.g., evidence reviews). If...

    Authors: Ko Konno, James Gibbons, Ruth Lewis and Andrew S Pullin
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2024 13:1
  22. Globally, the structure and functioning of foreshore and riparian ecosystems are being dramatically impacted by non-native invasive plant species. Invasive species can outcompete and replace native species, mo...

    Authors: Fabio Mologni, Chandra E. Moffat and Jason Pither
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:31
  23. UNESCO biosphere reserves (BRs) have historically aimed to play a crucial role in contributing to sustainable development by bringing about win–win outcomes for both biodiversity and socio-economic development...

    Authors: Nguyen Phuong Thao, Jacqualyn Eales, Duong Minh Lam, Vu Thuc Hien and Ruth Garside
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:30
  24. Global warming and climate change are threats to the world. Warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns alter water availability and increase the occurrence of extreme weather events. South Ameri...

    Authors: Santiago Núñez Mejía, Carina Villegas-Lituma, Patricio Crespo, Mario Córdova, Ronald Gualán, Johanna Ochoa, Pablo Guzmán, Daniela Ballari, Alexis Chávez, Santiago Mendoza Paz, Patrick Willems and Ana Ochoa-Sánchez
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:29
  25. Climate change is having adverse effects on the livelihoods of small-scale populations, particularly in relation to their subsistence practices. Scientific literature widely acknowledges that smallholders must...

    Authors: Lia Taruiap Troncarelli, Maíra Teixeira de Ataide and Carla Morsello
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:28
  26. The scale of land degradation worldwide has led to nearly one billion hectares committed to restoration globally. However, achieving such restoration targets will necessitate complex trade-offs against limited...

    Authors: Eleanor Durrant, Pete Howson, Bekah Puttick, Samantha Potts, Yara Shennan-Farpón, Novieta Sari, Nicholas Allen, Jo Yeongeun, Matthew Grainger, Yit Arn Teh and Marion Pfeifer
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:27
  27. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis (Bti) is commercially produced in various formulations for use as a larvicide worldwide, targeting especially the aquatic larval stage of mosquitoes. Howev...

    Authors: Magnus Land, Mirco Bundschuh, Richard J. Hopkins, Brigitte Poulin and Brendan G. McKie
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:26

    The Systematic Review Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2019 8:32

  28. To phase out fossil fuels and reach a carbon–neutral future, solar energy and notably photovoltaic (PV) installations are being rapidly scaled up. Unlike other types of renewable energies such as wind and hydr...

    Authors: Alix Lafitte, Romain Sordello, Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo, Chloé Thierry, Geoffroy Marx, Jérémy Froidevaux, Bertrand Schatz, Christian Kerbiriou, Philippe Gourdain and Yorick Reyjol
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:25

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2022 11:36

  29. As natural disasters increase in both frequency and magnitude because of climate change, assets, such as buildings and infrastructure, are exposed to physical climate risk. In addition, as our societies transi...

    Authors: Fedra Vanhuyse, Tommaso Piseddu and Åsa Moberg
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:24
  30. “Carbon footprint” (CF) is a direct measure of greenhouse gas emissions caused by a defined activity and can demonstrate global warming effects. The emissions of Greenhouse gases (GHGs) in water projects start...

    Authors: Samaneh Abolli, Esfandiar Ghordouei Milan, Parnia Bashardoust and Mahmood Alimohammadi
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:23
  31. An important conservation challenge is to mitigate negative impacts that wild birds and mammals can have on human practices and livelihoods, and not least on agricultural crops. Technical interventions to limi...

    Authors: Ann Eklund, Johan Månsson and Jens Frank
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:22
  32. Nature-based interventions (NbIs) for climate change mitigation include a diverse set of interventions aimed at conserving, restoring, and/or managing natural and modified ecosystems to improve their ability t...

    Authors: Samantha H. Cheng, Sebastien Costedoat, Amanda Sigouin, Gabriel F. Calistro, Catherine J. Chamberlain, Peter Lichtenthal, Morena Mills, A. Justin Nowakowski, Eleanor J. Sterling, Jen Tinsman, Meredith Wiggins, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Steven W. J. Canty, Allison Fritts-Penniman, Arundhati Jagadish, Kelly Jones…
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:21

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2022 11:15

  33. Forest conservation is a major global policy goal, due to the role forests play in climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. It is well recognized that the introduction of policies, whether aime...

    Authors: Jorge Claudio Llopis, Neal Robert Haddaway, Nurzhan Omirbek, Blake Alexander Simmons, Rachael Garrett and Julia Patricia Gordon Jones
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:20
  34. Shallow, tropical coral reefs face compounding threats from habitat degradation due to coastal development and pollution, impacts from storms and sea-level rise, and pulse disturbances like blast fishing, mini...

    Authors: Avery B. Paxton, Todd M. Swannack, Candice D. Piercy, Safra Altman, Leanne Poussard, Brandon J. Puckett, Curt D. Storlazzi and T. Shay Viehman
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:19
  35. Protected areas (PAs) have become one of the most important instruments to preserve nature and, when effective, can significantly reduce human pressure and derived threats to biodiversity. However, evidence su...

    Authors: Katherine Pulido-Chadid, Elina Virtanen and Jonas Geldmann
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:18
  36. Cultivated peatlands are widespread in temperate and boreal climate zones. For example, in Europe about 15% of the pristine peatland area have been lost through drainage for agricultural use. When drained, the...

    Authors: Alena Holzknecht, Örjan Berglund, Magnus Land, Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompré, Lars Elsgaard and Kristiina Lång
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:17
  37. Statistical synthesis of data sets (meta-analysis, MA) has become a popular approach for providing scientific evidence to inform environmental and agricultural policy. As the number of published MAs is increas...

    Authors: David Makowski, Rui Catarino, Mathilde Chen, Simona Bosco, Ana Montero-Castaño, Marta Pérez-Soba, Andrea Schievano and Giovanni Tamburini
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:16
  38. Forest landscape restoration (FLR), often through tree planting, is one of the priorities in many global and national initiatives for carbon offsetting as part of climate change mitigation and biodiversity con...

    Authors: Jelaine Lim Gan, Matthew James Grainger, Mark David Foster Shirley and Marion Pfeifer
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:15
  39. Communication is a central tool used to manage the balance between outdoor recreation and environmental protection in natural areas. Several studies have evaluated different communication measures in case stud...

    Authors: Sofie Kjendlie Selvaag, Rose Keller, Øystein Aas, Vegard Gundersen and Frode Thomassen Singsaas
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:14

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2022 11:7

  40. The current biodiversity crisis underscores the urgent need for sustainable management of the human uses of nature. In the context of sustainability management, adopting the ecosystem service (ES) concept, i.e...

    Authors: Carole Sylvie Campagne, Laurie-Anne Roy, Joseph Langridge, Joachim Claudet, Rémi Mongruel, Damien Beillouin and Éric Thiébaut
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:13

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2021 10:36

  41. This systematic map principally sought to understand the different forms of effectiveness that existing studies evaluate in relation to Natural Flood Management (NFM) in the UK with a supplementary question of...

    Authors: Angela Connelly, Andrew Snow, Jeremy Carter, Jana Wendler, Rachel Lauwerijssen, Joseph Glentworth, Adam Barker, John Handley, Graham Haughton and James Rothwell
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:12

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2020 9:11

  42. Anthropogenic pressures and climate change threaten the capacity of ecosystems to deliver a variety of services, including protecting coastal communities from hazards like flooding and erosion. Human intervent...

    Authors: Avery B. Paxton, Trevor N. Riley, Camille L. Steenrod, Carter S. Smith, Y. Stacy Zhang, Rachel K. Gittman, Brian R. Silliman, Christine A. Buckel, T. Shay Viehman, Brandon J. Puckett and Jenny Davis
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:11
  43. In civil society we expect that policy and management decisions will be made using the best available evidence. Yet, it is widely known that there are many barriers that limit the extent to which that occurs. ...

    Authors: Steven J. Cooke, Carly N. Cook, Vivian M. Nguyen, Jessica C. Walsh, Nathan Young, Christopher Cvitanovic, Matthew J. Grainger, Nicola P. Randall, Matt Muir, Andrew N. Kadykalo, Kathryn A. Monk and Andrew S. Pullin
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:10
  44. Exposure to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF), particularly from telecommunications sources, is one of the most common and fastest growing anthropogenic factors on the environment. In many count...

    Authors: Ken Karipidis, Chris Brzozek, Rohan Mate, Chhavi Raj Bhatt, Sarah Loughran and Andrew W Wood
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:9

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2021 10:39

  45. Meta-analysis is a quantitative way of synthesizing results from multiple studies to obtain reliable evidence of an intervention or phenomenon. Indeed, an increasing number of meta-analyses are conducted in en...

    Authors: Shinichi Nakagawa, Yefeng Yang, Erin L. Macartney, Rebecca Spake and Malgorzata Lagisz
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:8
  46. Among the most widely predicted climate change-related impacts to biodiversity are geographic range shifts, whereby species shift their spatial distribution to track their climate niches. A series of commonly ...

    Authors: Madeleine A. Rubenstein, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Romain Bertrand, Shawn L. Carter, Lise Comte, Mitchell J. Eaton, Ciara G. Johnson, Jonathan Lenoir, Abigail J. Lynch, Brian W. Miller, Toni Lyn Morelli, Mari Angel Rodriguez, Adam Terando and Laura M. Thompson
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:7

    The Systematic Review Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2020 9:10

  47. In Sweden there are nearly one million soil-based on-site wastewater treatment systems (OWTSs). OWTSs may contribute to eutrophication of surface waters, due to the discharge of phosphorus (P). Hence, in certa...

    Authors: Ida Envall, Fritjof Fagerlund, Lena Johansson Westholm, Arvid Bring, Magnus Land, Charlotte Åberg, Neal R. Haddaway and Jon Petter Gustafsson
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:6

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2020 9:22

  48. Mammals, globally, are facing population declines. Protecting and breeding threatened populations inside predator-free havens and translocating them back to the wild is commonly viewed as a solution. These app...

    Authors: Natasha D. Harrison, Rochelle Steven, Ben L. Phillips, Jan M. Hemmi, Adrian F. Wayne and Nicola J. Mitchell
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:5

    The Systematic Review Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2021 10:38

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