Integrative and proactive conservation approaches are critical to the long-term persistence
of biodiversity. Molecular data can provide important information on evolutionary processes …

Spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) is a planning framework used to identify new
conservation areas on the basis of the spatial distribution of species, ecosystems, and their …

Over a million species face extinction, highlighting the urgent need for conservation policies
that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people's …

Habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity decline worldwide, but the effects of
fragmentation (the spatial arrangement of remaining habitat) are debated. We tested the …

In the face of the biodiversity crisis, it is argued that we should prioritize species in order to
capture high functional diversity (FD). Because species traits often reflect shared …

Abstract Knowledge of global patterns of biodiversity, ranging from intraspecific genetic
diversity (GD) to taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity, is essential for identifying and …

The conservation of biodiversity from the genetic to the community levels is fundamental for
the continual provision of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to …

Preventing further loss of biodiversity is the most important challenge for conservation
biology. The loss of species and the functions and services they provide has negative …

High numbers of threatened species might be expected to occur where overall species
richness is also high; however, this explains only a proportion of the global variation in …

Forest biodiversity world‐wide is affected by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation,
and today 20% of the forest area is located within 100 m of a forest edge. Still, forest edges …