The British legacy in the province of Huelva emerged from intensive mining operations carried out between the 19th and early twentieth centuries, producing a profound and lasting transformation of the territory. The establishment of foreign companies such as The Tharsis Sulphur & Copper Co. Ltd. (1866) and The Rio Tinto Company Limited (1873) marked the beginning of an unprecedented process of industrialization. These enterpri...

Motivation The database initiated by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is one of the few globally implemented standardized vegetation surveys in mountains. The focus is on collecting plant species occurrences at 5‐year intervals along and adjacent to mountain roads spanning elevational gradients, with the goal of providing critical information about the ongoing spread of non‐native plants and the potential impacts...

Monitoring vegetation edges in dynamic coastal zones is essential for understanding long-term shoreline change and supporting effective coastal management, particularly as climate change accelerates erosion, sea-level rise, and ecosystem shifts. This study provides the first validation of VedgeSat, an automated Vegetation Edge (VE) detection toolkit, in contrasting tropical coastal environments, with relevance for coastal moni...

Aim Biogeographic boundaries and genetic structuring have important effects on the inferences and interpretation of effective population size ( N e ) temporal variations, a key genetics parameter. We reconstructed the historical demography and divergence history of a vulnerable coastal high‐trophic shark using population genomics and assessed our ability to detect recent bottleneck events. Location Western and Central Indo‐Pac...

The behaviour of the tompot blenny Parablennius gattorugine was studied by underwater observation and photography on the south‐west coast of the UK over an 11 year period, with >50 individuals identified at two locations by their distinctive skin markings. Observations showed males engaging in rapid swimming behaviour when approached by a female, and younger males using alternative ‘sneaker’ tactics before becoming ‘bourgeois’...

Susan Lynn Williams (1951–2018) was an exceptional marine ecologist whose research focused broadly on the ecology of benthic nearshore environments dominated by seagrasses, seaweeds, and coral reefs. She took an empirical approach founded in techniques of physiological ecology. Susan was committed to applying her research results to ocean management through outreach to decision-makers and resource managers. Susan’s career incl...

An integrative approach by the congruence of genetics, morphology and ecological niche modelling (ENM) was used to delimit a new species of Hypanus (Rafinesque, 1818), a recently resurrected genus of marine stingrays comprising eight species, five of which occur in the western Atlantic. The species with the widest distribution, Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand and Schroeder, 1928), from the northeastern coast of the United State...

Aim We investigated patterns of species richness and community dissimilarity along elevation gradients using globally replicated, standardized surveys of vascular plants. We asked how these patterns of diversity are influenced by anthropogenic pressures (road construction and non‐native species). Location Global. Time period 2008–2015. Major taxa studied Vascular plants. Methods Native and non‐native vascular plant species wer...

The behaviour of the tompot blenny Parablennius gattorugine was studied from a long‐term underwater photographic record from two sites on the south‐west coast of the U.K. Repeated observations of individually identifiable P. gattorugine during 112 dives revealed that male P. gattorugine may guard eggs in a particular crevice over subsequent breeding seasons, reside in the same location for up to 4 years and recover from injuri...

Aim We evaluated whether the performance of individuals and populations of the invasive plant Verbascum thapsus differs between its native and non‐native ranges, across climate gradients, and in response to its position in a global‐scaled niche model. Location India (Kashmir) and Switzerland (native range) and Australia and USA (Hawaii, Montana and Oregon) (non‐native range). Methods We measured population characteristics (den...

Conservationists often advocate for landscape approaches to wildlife management while others argue for physical separation between protected species and human communities, but direct empirical comparisons of these alternatives are scarce. We relate African lion population densities and population trends to contrasting management practices across 42 sites in 11 countries. Lion populations in fenced reserves are significantly cl...