This article reviews the present state of insects, describing their taxonomic position, cost,
and value as well as the threats to their well-being. Insects are an important source of both …

Landscape structure and fragmentation have important effects on ecosystem services, with a
common assumption being that fragmentation reduces service provision. This is based on …

Ecosystem services can provide a wide range of benefits for human well-being, including
provisioning, regulating and cultural services and benefitting both private and public …

Habitat loss and fragmentation due to human activities is the leading cause of the loss of
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Protected areas are the primary response to this …

Background Research on ecosystem services has grown exponentially during the last
decade. Most of the studies have focused on assessing and mapping terrestrial ecosystem …

Vast expanses of tropical forests worldwide are being impacted by selective logging. We
evaluate the environmental impacts of such logging and conclude that natural timber …

The ability to view Earth's vegetation from space is a hallmark of the Space Age. Yet
decades of satellite measurements have provided relatively little insight into the immense …

Over the last 25 years, research on biodiversity has expanded dramatically, fuelled by
increasing threats to the natural world. However, the number of published studies is heavily …

The main drivers of global environmental change (CO2 enrichment, nitrogen deposition,
climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter species distributions, and …

Recent work has shown that antagonist (eg predator–prey food web) and mutualist (eg
pollinator–plant) network structure can be altered by global environmental change drivers …