To explore the impacts of increasing human numbers on nature, many studies have
examined relationships between human population density (HPD) and biodiversity change …

Aim To review some of the applications in ecology and conservation biogeography of
datasets derived from atlas projects. We discuss data applications and data quality issues …

Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species
Occurrence, Second Edition, provides a synthesis of model-based approaches for analyzing …

Land use is expanding and intensifying in the unprotected lands surrounding many of the
world's protected areas. The influence of this land use change on ecological processes is …

Aims We present the first global map of vascular plant species richness by ecoregion and
compare these results with the published literature on global priorities for plant conservation …

Ecosystems services sustain humans all over the world. The unsustainable use of
ecosystem services around the world has led to widespread degradation which now …

Aim To test the mechanisms driving bird species richness at broad spatial scales using
eigenvector‐based spatial filtering. Location South America. Methods An eigenvector‐based …

Human presence is generally negatively related to species richness locally, but the
relationship is positive at coarse scales. An increase in the strength of the latter correlation …

High numbers of threatened species might be expected to occur where overall species
richness is also high; however, this explains only a proportion of the global variation in …

Patterns of association between humans and biodiversity typically show positive, negative,
or negative quadratic relationships and can be described by 3 hypotheses: biologically rich …