Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

The distributions of amphibians, birds and mammals have underpinned global and local
conservation priorities, and have been fundamental to our understanding of the …

All around the globe, humans have greatly altered the abiotic and biotic environment with
ever-increasing speed. One defining feature of the Anthropocene epoch, is the erosion of …

Background A principal function of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to “perform regular and timely assessments …

The global distribution patterns of most vertebrate groups and several plant groups have
been described and analyzed over the past few years, a development facilitated by the …

The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that
drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us. There are …

It is theoretically possible to protect large fractions of species in relatively small regions. For
plants, 85% of species occur entirely within just over a third of the Earth's land surface …

International agreements mandate the expansion of Earth's protected-area network as a
bulwark against the continued extinction of wild populations, species, and ecosystems. Yet …