The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our
society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the …

Holistic insect monitoring needs scalable techniques to overcome taxon biases, determine
species abundances, and gather functional traits for all species. This requires that we …

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to produce reference genomes for all~ 1.8 million known
eukaryotic species over the next decade 1–4. Achieving this goal will require the current …

Environmental DNA studies have proliferated over the last decade, with promising data
describing the diversity of organisms inhabiting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The …

A key action of the new Global Biodiversity Framework is the maintenance of genetic
diversity in all species to safeguard their adaptive potential. To achieve this goal, a …

Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as mapping the molecular …

Due to environmental change and anthropogenic activities, global biodiversity has suffered
an unprecedented loss, and the world is now heading toward the sixth mass extinction …

Mass coral bleaching is one of the clearest threats of climate change to the persistence of
marine biodiversity. Despite the negative impacts of bleaching on coral health and survival …

Abstract Patella caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) is a mollusc limpet species of the class
Gastropoda. Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, it is considered a keystone species due to …

The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis L.) is a critically endangered species historically
distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Hunting and habitat disturbance have diminished …