Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Connectivity underpins the persistence of life; it needs to inform biodiversity conservation
decisions. Yet, when prioritising conservation areas and developing actions, connectivity is …

Global freshwater biodiversity is declining dramatically, and meeting the challenges of this
crisis requires bold goals and the mobilisation of substantial resources. While the reasons …

Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

In the past decade, numerous studies have explored how urbanisation affects the mean
phenotypes of populations, but it remains unknown how urbanisation impacts phenotypic …

Research on the evolutionary ecology of urban areas reveals how human-induced
evolutionary changes affect biodiversity and essential ecosystem services. In a rapidly …

Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

Urban social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate
pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social …

Evolutionary thinking provides insights into many different areas in the research and practice
of medicine and public health. It takes specialties such as medical microbiology …

In our paper ''Coupled Human and Natural Systems''(Liu et al. 2007), we developed a timely,
theoretical, and practical foundation for research on Coupled Human And Natural Systems …