There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Positive effects of habitat patch size on biodiversity are often extrapolated to infer negative
effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity at landscape scales. However, such cross …

One of the basic purposes of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation
interventions is to achieve conservation impact, the sum of avoided biodiversity loss and …

Decades of research have illuminated the underlying ingredients that determine the scope
of evolutionary responses to climate change. The field of evolutionary biology therefore …

The legacy of the 'SL> SS principle', that a single or a few large habitat patches (SL)
conserve more species than several small patches (SS), is evident in decisions to protect …

Global conservation targets to reverse biodiversity declines and halt species extinctions are
not being met despite decades of conservation action. However, a lack of measurable …

Reconciling biodiversity conservation with increasing demand for agricultural production is a
major challenge. A long-running discourse that addresses this challenge is the land-sparing …

1. Analysis of geographic patterns of extinction must be accompanied by knowledge of
biodiversity patterns. Such analysis is not yet available in insects given three shortfalls. First …

The “trophic downgrading of planet Earth” refers to the systematic decline of the world's
largest vertebrates. However, our understanding of why megafauna extinction risk varies …