Policy and practice around protected areas are poorly aligned with the basic purpose of
protection, which is to make a difference. The difference made by protected areas is their …

The efforts to protect biological diversity must be prioritized because resources for nature
conservation are limited. Conservation prioritization can be based on numerous criteria …

Conservation planning decisions are constrained by three important factors: budgets are
limited, important areas for biodiversity compete for space with other uses, and climate‐and …

This paper highlights a disjunction between the basic motivation of conservation planners,
policy-makers, and managers, which is to make a positive difference for biodiversity, and …

Southeast Asian biodiversity is a global priority for conservation, due to the high levels of
diversity and endemism, combined with some of the greatest levels of threat. Conservation …

Habitat loss and fragmentation impede the movement of animals across landscapes causing
biodiversity change. One strategy to counter these effects is to protect and restore habitat …

Measures of geodiversity may provide a potentially useful surrogate for biodiversity patterns
in insufficiently surveyed areas. However, their reliability in modelling the spatial variation in …

Intraspecific diversity informs the demographic and evolutionary histories of populations,
and should be a main conservation target. Although approaches exist for identifying relevant …

The combined effects of climate change and habitat loss represent a major threat to species
and ecosystems around the world. Here, we analyse the vulnerability of ecosystems to …

Preserving the evolutionary history and ecological functions that different species embody,
in addition to species themselves, is a growing concern for conservation. Recent studies …