Until recently in Earth history, very large herbivores (mammoths, ground sloths, diprotodons,
and many others) occurred in most of the World's terrestrial ecosystems, but the majority …

Mitigation of anthropogenic climate change involves deployments of renewable energy
worldwide, including wind farms, which can pose a significant collision risk to volant …

Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available
for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to compare species with very …

Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

There is mounting evidence of species redistribution as climate warms. Yet, our knowledge
of the coupling between species range shifts and isotherm shifts remains limited. Here, we …

Data needed for macroecological analyses are difficult to compile and often hidden away in
supplementary material under non-standardized formats. Phylogenies, range data, and trait …

As a result of their extensive home ranges and slow population growth rates, predators have
often been perceived to suffer higher risks of extinction than other trophic groups. Our study …

Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

Aim Trait data are increasingly being used in studies investigating the impacts of global
changes on the structure and functioning of ecological communities. Despite a growing …

Camera trap surveys exclusively targeting features of the landscape that increase the
probability of photographing one or several focal species are commonly used to draw …