Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Some people despair that most species will go extinct before they are discovered. However,
such worries result from overestimates of how many species may exist, beliefs that the …

Rates of biodiversity loss are higher in freshwater ecosystems than in most terrestrial or
marine ecosystems, making freshwater conservation a priority. However, prioritization …

Ecophylogenetics can be viewed as an emerging fusion of ecology, biogeography and
macroevolution. This new and fast‐growing field is promoting the incorporation of evolution …

Geographic range size has long fascinated ecologists and evolutionary biologists, yet our
understanding of the factors that cause variation in range size among species and across …

Predicting how biodiversity will be affected and will respond to human‐induced
environmental changes is one of the most critical challenges facing ecologists today. Here …

Plant–pathogens and insect pests, hereafter pests, play an important role in structuring
ecological communities, yet both native and introduced pests impose significant pressure on …

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 …

Societal Impact Statement Plants are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and
are key to human livelihoods. To protect plant diversity, systematic approaches to …

It is often claimed that conserving evolutionary history is more efficient than species‐based
approaches for capturing the attributes of biodiversity that benefit people. This claim …