Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Accurately evaluating ecosystem status is vital for effective conservation. The Red List of
Ecosystems (RLE) from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the …

Efforts to tackle the current biodiversity crisis need to be as efficient and effective as possible
given chronic underfunding. To inform decision‐makers of the most effective conservation …

Abstract The Northeast Atlantic, a highly productive maritime area, has been exposed to a
wide range of direct human pressures, such as fishing, shipping, coastal development …

Impact assessment is a key step in mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions (NBS). Yet,
it remains unclear if and how assessment frameworks influence urban planning, design and …

Evidence-based conservation relies on reliable and relevant evidence. Practitioners often
prefer locally relevant studies whose results are more likely to be transferable to the context …

Conservation of biodiversity is critical for the coexistence of humans and the sustenance of
other living organisms within the ecosystem. Identification and prioritization of specific …

The term 'biodiversity,'while casually used in practice, is a complicated subject to measure,
interpret, contextualize, and compare. Yet the possible advent of deep-sea mining in the mid …

The status and potential degradation of an ecosystem is often difficult to identify, quantify,
and characterize. Multiple, concurrent drivers of degradation may interact and have …

Managing conservation projects requires implementing interventions that are influenced by
people's knowledge and their ways of comprehending a situation. This complexity often …