One of the biggest challenges for conservation biology is to provide conservation planners
with ways to prioritize effort. Much attention has been focused on biodiversity hotspots …

The biodiversity measure, phylogenetic diversity (PD), links evolutionary history to the
conservation of feature-diversity (broadly, the different evolutionary features of species), and …

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 …

Article 8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity obliges contracting parties to establish
protected areas for conservation. This can be achieved in smaller networks of reserves if …

The term 'biodiversity'is a simple contraction of 'biological diversity', and at first sight the
concept is simple too: biodiversity is the sum total of all biotic variation from the level of …

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Environmental change is rapidly accelerating, and many species will need to adapt to
survive. Ensuring that protected areas cover populations across a broad range of …

Climate's effect on global biodiversity is typically viewed through the lens of temperature,
humidity and resulting ecosystem productivity,,,,–. However, it is not known whether …

Different facets of biodiversity other than species numbers are increasingly appreciated as
critical for maintaining the function of ecosystems and their services to humans,. While new …

Sir—Myers et al. 1, in their new analysis of global biodiversity hotspots, recommend areas
where conservation actions should be focused to minimize losses in the imminent extinction …