Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has emerged as a transformative tool for applied
ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring, but its potential contribution to …

Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, impacting ecosystem services necessary
to ensure food, water, and human health and well-being. Understanding the distribution of …

Sustainable management of forest ecosystems requires the use of reliable and easy to
implement biodiversity and naturalness indicators. Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) can …

Citizen science is filling important monitoring gaps and thus contributing to the conservation
of rare or threatened animals. However, most researchers have used peer‐reviewed …

Aim Citizen science is a cost‐effective potential source of invasive species occurrence data.
However, data quality issues due to unstructured sampling approaches may discourage the …

Rapidly increasing resources of citizen science databases (CS) collecting information on
species occurrence are increasingly useful as a data source for global biodiversity research …

In the face of the global biodiversity crisis, collecting comprehensive data and making the
best use of existing data are becoming increasingly important to understand patterns and …

Aim Groundwater ecosystems harbour a unique biodiversity, but remain poorly studied,
mainly due to difficulties in accessibility and imperfect species detection. Consequently …

As urbanization progresses globally, there is a growing concern regarding the diminishing
connection between humans and nature. Informal green spaces (IGS) have been identified …