Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in
English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines …

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical
Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical …

How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question receiving renewed
interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of global warming on biodiversity. Is climate …

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a complex zoonosis that is highly virulent in humans. The
largest recorded outbreak of EVD is ongoing in West Africa, outside of its previously reported …

Invasive species can have severe impacts on ecosystems, economies, and human health.
Though the economic impacts of invasions provide important foundations for management …

The pervasive idea that species should be most abundant in the centre of their geographic
range or centre of their climatic niche is a key assumption in many existing ecological …

Globally, plants display enormous variation in life‐history strategies and trait combinations.
However, evidence suggests that evolutionary and physiological constraints limit the …

Peptide-derived cyclophanes inhabit a unique niche in the chemical space of macrocyclic
peptides with several examples of pharmaceutical importance. Although both synthetic and …