Bioindicators, as taxa or functional groups, are widely used as indicators of environmental
change, specific ecological factors or taxonomic diversity. The use of ecological …

The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is
essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation …

MAXENT is now a common species distribution modeling (SDM) tool used by conservation
practitioners for predicting the distribution of a species from a set of records and …

Urban heat island (UHI) is a major anthropogenic alteration on Earth environments and its
geospatial pattern remains poorly understood over large areas. Using MODIS data from …

Impervious surface area (ISA) from the Landsat TM-based NLCD 2001 dataset and land
surface temperature (LST) from MODIS averaged over three annual cycles (2003–2005) are …

Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding.
This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

The invasion of ecosystems by exotic species is currently viewed as one of the most
important sources of biodiversity loss. The largest part of this loss occurs on islands, where …

This analysis of the information contained in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
provides an insight into the status and trends of the world's species of plants and animals …

Due to the current species extinction crisis, there is an urgent need to identify the most
threatened areas of exceptionally high biodiversity and rates of endemism (ie," hotspots"; …