The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

As interest in natural capital grows and society increasingly recognizes the value of
biodiversity, we must discuss how ecosystem observations to detect changes in biodiversity …

With climate, biodiversity and inequity crises squarely upon us, never has there been a more
pressing time to rethink how we conceptualize, understand and manage our relationship …

Contemporary economic thinking does not acknowledge that the human economy is
embedded in Nature; it instead treats humanity as a customer that draws on Nature. In this …

By agreeing to strive for 'a significant reduction in the current rate of loss of biological
diversity'by the year 2010, political leaders at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable …

Biodiversity relates to sustainable development through a series of direct and indirect uses.
These include direct harvest, nature tourism, wild genes improving domestic crops, wild …

Many metrics can be used to capture trends in biodiversity and, in turn, these metrics inform
biodiversity indicators. Sampling biases, genuine differences between metrics, or both, can …

The losses that are being incurred of the Earth's biological diversity, at all levels, are now
staggering. The trend lines for future loss are steeply upward as new adverse drivers of …

Growing concern about biodiversity loss underscores the need to quantify and understand
temporal change. Here, we review the opportunities presented by biodiversity time series …