Animal board invited review: OneARK: Strengthening the links between animal production science and animal ecology

Wild and farmed animals are key elements of natural managed ecosystems that deliver functions such as pollination, pest control nutrient cycling within the broader roles they play in contributing to biodiversity every category ecosystem services. They subjected global changes with a profound impact on range viability animal species, emergence spatial distribution pathogens, land use, services farming sustainability. We urgently need improve our understanding how populations can respond adaptively therefore sustainably these new selective pressures. In this context, we explored common points between production science ecology identify promising avenues synergy communities through transfer concepts and/or methodologies, focusing seven link both disciplines. Animal adaptability, diversity (both species), selection, management, monitoring, agroecology risks were identified should serve cross-fertilization fields resilience The for breaking down interdisciplinary barriers is illustrated by two representative examples: i) circulation reassortment pathogens wild domestic ii) role cycles, i.e. recycling nitrogen, phosphorus carbon through, example, contribution soil fertility sequestration. Our synthesis identifies knowledge integration techniques supported programmes policy tools reverse fragmentation research toward unification into single Research Kinship, OneARK, which sets objectives future policy. At interface science, article promotes an effective application concept use functional increase systems. It also novel monitoring technologies quantify welfare factors affecting fitness. These measures needed evaluate risk, predict potentially adaptability management systems, thereby responding increasing demand society development sustainable