After more than 50-years of armed conflict, Colombia is now transitioning to a more stable
social and political climate due to a series of peace agreements between the government …

The impact of human activities on biodiversity is increasingly putting at risk the capacity of
nature to support human well-being (IPBES 2019). The recent Global Assessment of the …

Land-use change can raise the risk of human exposure to zoonotic diseases by increasing
abundance of reservoir hosts. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis on the …

To support the assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the IPBES Expert Group on Scenarios and …

Biodiversity models make an important contribution to our understanding of global
biodiversity changes. The effects of different land uses vary across ecosystem types, yet …

Deforestation for agriculture in the tropics, followed by abandonment, has resulted in large
areas of secondary forest. Some authors have suggested that this secondary regrowth could …

Ecosystems are under multiple stressors, and impacts can be measured with multiple
variables. Humans have altered mass and energy flows of basically all ecosystems on Earth …

Global environmental change is increasingly recognized to influence risk of numerous
zoonotic (animal-borne) infectious diseases. There is a fast-growing body of research into …

Microbial community analysis of aquatic environments showed that an important component
of its microbial diversity consists of bacteria with cell sizes of; 0.1 mm. Such small bacteria …