Abstract Despite islands contributing only 6.7% of land surface area, they harbor~ 20% of
the Earth's biodiversity, but unfortunately also~ 50% of the threatened species and 75% of …

Forests play critical roles in global ecosystem processes and provide numerous services to
society. But forests are increasingly affected by a variety of human influences, especially …

Islands are global hotspots for biodiversity and extinction, representing~ 5% of Earth's land
area alongside 40% of globally threatened vertebrates and 61% of global extinctions since …

Abstract Islands make up 5.3% of Earth's land area yet maintain an estimated 19% of bird
species, 17% of rodents, 17% of flowering plants, and 27% of human languages. Species …

Managing the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is a great societal challenge. A wide
variety of terms have been used to describe the management of invasive alien species and …

Eradications of invasive species from over 1000 small islands around the world have
created conservation arks, but to truly address the threat of invasive species to islands …

The primary goal of invasive species management is to eliminate or reduce populations of
invasive species. Although management efforts are often motivated by broader goals such …

Context Many Australian mammal species are highly susceptible to predation by introduced
domestic cats (Felis catus) and European red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). These predators have …

Extinctions have altered island ecosystems throughout the late Quaternary. Here, we review
the main historic drivers of extinctions on islands, patterns in extinction chronologies …

Introduction and naturalization of non-native species is one of the most important threats to
global biodiversity. Birds have been widely introduced worldwide, but their impacts on …