Abstract Target 11 of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets established in 2010 by the Convention
on Biological Diversity aims to conserve at least 17% of terrestrial areas by 2020. Although …

Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the Post-2020 Global
Biodiversity Framework requires each country to fulfill the conservation targets in biodiversity …

Abstract The Natura 2000 (N2k) is a network of protected areas, established to implement
the Birds and the Habitats Directives of the European Union (EU) with the goal of …

Aim Global conservation policies, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
decision to aim for the protection of 17% of the area of terrestrial ecosystems by 2020, are …

Climate change is one of the most significant causes of species range shift and extinction.
Based on a citizen science dataset of birds in China, the Bird Report, we developed a high …

Based on spatial distribution maps for 495 breeding bird species inhabiting mainland
Europe, we examined whether bird richness is well represented by the protected areas …

The key biodiversity areas (KBA) approach aims to identify globally important areas for
species conservation. Although a similar methodology has been used successfully to …

Taiwan has 145 breeding bird species, but so far no comprehensive attempt has been made
to model their distributions. For the first time, we bring together various datasets to model the …

We developed distributional models for 90 threatened bird species in China, and used
heuristic complementarity algorithms to prioritize areas for conservation. The pixel-based …

A high proportion of threatened and near-threatened species in the world now inhabit
farmland. Although much data regarding the impact of agriculture on farmland biodiversity …