The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and
evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Biases, gaps and uncertainties in …

Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some
highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net …

Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of
73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the …

Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet
quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive …

Effective conservation of species and ecosystems requires the understanding of important
ecological traits, such as dietary habits, food webs, and trophic niches. In diet studies, the …

Gaps in digital accessible information (DAI) on species distributions hamper prospects of
safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services, and addressing central ecological and …

Aim The knowledge of biodiversity facets such as species composition, distribution and
ecological niche is fundamental for the construction of biogeographic hypotheses and …

The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in
unsustainable exploitation of Earth's biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change …

In 2002, world leaders committed, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, to achieve
a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. We compiled 31 indicators to …