AIM: Indicators are an important tool by which conservationists monitor biodiversity because
resources and expertise needed to survey biodiversity in a more direct way are often …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the
female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural …

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …

Biosystematics and conservation biology are critical scientific disciplines that underpin the
management of biological diversity. This is because biosystematics provides two basic …

We examined the utility of using genera and families as surrogates of species-level
assemblage patterns. We assessed cross-taxonomic level congruence, as well as …

Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the
atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and …

Summary 1 Studies of landscape change are seldom conducted at scales commensurate
with the processes they purport to investigate. Landscape change is a landscape‐level …

Urban and suburban areas are among the fastest-growing land-use types globally, reducing
and fragmenting natural habitats for many animal species and making human-wildlife …

Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) Government has national and international commitments
to tackle the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Biodiversity indicators are used to measure …