The 2025 Current Perspectives on Biosphere Initiative is the second of an annual new science synthesis initiative supported by Future Earth aimed at highlighting key advances in biosphere research of high relevance to policy and decision making. The purpose is to support the common understanding of ecosystem research and anthropogenic impacts in the context of climate change, biodiversity loss and other stressors to ecosystems worldwide to accelerate transformations of society.

The first edition was developed in 2024, and is currently under review. A preprint can be viewed on the EGUsphere platform. We are also planning communications around its release upon publication with a dedicated website in multiple languages. Ahead of the acceptance of this manuscript by the scientific journal, we are already initiating the 2025 edition with this survey for topics below.

We welcome topics from all disciplines of social- or natural sciences, on issues related to ecosystems and anthropogenic impacts and interactions with them. Please tell us what you think are the most important discoveries or advances in this field of research since 1 January 2023, and the key peer-reviewed articles and reports that highlight these findings.

The initiative consists of a core team, an editorial board covering various fields of research and regions of the world. The author list will be complemented by topical groups of expert authors selected from around the world based on the topics submitted through the survey and from our initial literature scan of the topics. In the survey, you are welcome to express interest to join as an author of this peer-reviewed synthesis manuscript and accompanying policy report.

This survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Deadline: 5 March

The initiative is supported by:

• Future Earth
• Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• Technical University of Munich (TUM)
• Leipzig University
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
• Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
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