Despite broad scientific interest in harnessing the power of Earth's microbiomes, knowledge
gaps hinder their efficient use for addressing urgent societal and environmental challenges …

Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

Land cover information plays a vital role in many aspects of life, from scientific and economic
to political. Accurate information about land cover affects the accuracy of all subsequent …

Here we build on the manifesto 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, issued by the
Alliance of World Scientists. As a group of conservation biologists deeply concerned about …

A good understanding of dynamics involved in food production is critical for the improvement
of food security. It has been demonstrated that an increase in crop yields significantly …

Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and their
social and cultural values. However, their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services …

Causal effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions can be estimated using experimental
or observational designs—designs that pose a tradeoff between drawing credible causal …

Agriculturally degraded and abandoned lands can remove atmospheric CO2 and sequester
it as soil organic matter during natural succession. However, this process may be slow …

Soil microorganisms are key to biological diversity and many ecosystem processes in
terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the current alarming loss of plant diversity, it is unclear how …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …