Exposure to contaminants, often pesticides, has been implicated as a major factor
contributing to decreases in bat populations. Bats provide essential ecosystem services and …

The earth is now subject to climate change and habitat deterioration on unprecedented
scales. Monitoring climate change and habitat loss alone is insufficient if we are to …

The terms related to rapid alternative routes for appraising species diversity (biodiversity
assessment shortcuts), through the use of biodiversity target groups, indicator groups and …

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious
threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation …

As tropical regions are converted to agriculture, conservation of biodiversity will depend not
only on the maintenance of protected forest areas, but also on the scope for conservation …

Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed
landscapes because of its geography, history of human intervention, and present …

Patterns of β‐diversity in a highly diverse tropical dry forest tree community are described;
the contribution of environmental heterogeneity and distance to β‐diversity was assessed …

Ecologists have long realized that stable species richness values can mask rapid turnover in
species composition. Because turnover occurs as a consequence of both local and regional …

Abstract Knowledge of the spatial distribution of plant species is essential to conservation
and forest managers in order to identify high priority areas such as vulnerable species and …

We analyze the impact of grazing on dung beetle diversity at the Barranca de Metztitlán
Biosphere Reserve, a xeric ecosystem in central Mexico with a long history of use by …