Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Habitat loss has been, and still is, the greatest threat to biodiversity (Brooks et al. 2002;
Hanski 2005; Groom et al. 2006). According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment …

The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range
contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However …

Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of the world that represent
outstanding examples of ecological integrity and aim to restore ecological integrity to a much …

Ecological understanding of the role of consumer–resource interactions in natural food webs
is limited by the difficulty of accurately and efficiently determining the complex variety of food …

The 1995/1996 reintroduction of gray wolves (Canis lupus) into Yellowstone National Park
after a 70year absence has allowed for studies of tri-trophic cascades involving wolves, elk …

Late in summer 2003, extensive mass mortality of at least 25 rocky benthic macro‐
invertebrate species (mainly gorgonians and sponges) was observed in the entire …

Stopping declines in biodiversity is critically important, but it is only a first step toward
achieving more ambitious conservation goals. The absence of an objective and practical …

Ecologists have long recognized that some species, by virtue of the key roles they play in the
overall structure and functioning of an ecosystem, are essential to its integrity; these are …

Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012
the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a …