The current loss of biodiversity has been broadly acknowledged as the main cause of
ecosystem change. To halt this trend, several international agreements have been made …

Bioindicators, as taxa or functional groups, are widely used as indicators of environmental
change, specific ecological factors or taxonomic diversity. The use of ecological …

The impacts of agricultural land use are far-reaching and extend to areas outside
production. This paper provides an overview of the ecological status of agricultural systems …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Aim To assess the effectiveness of protected areas in preventing biodiversity decline. We
first test whether species richness of butterfly assemblages is higher within European Natura …

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …

Analyses of species' population losses typically show a dichotomy between strongly
affected, rare, and localized species and apparently unaffected, common, and widespread …

The concept of ecosystem services introduced a new view on the relationship between
biodiversity and human well being. But are both concepts, biodiversity and ecosystem …

Widespread degradation of the sagebrush ecosystem in the western United States,
including the invasion of cheatgrass, has prompted resource managers to consider a variety …

Species-level conservation activities tend to be focused on those species that are highly
threatened with global or regional extinction in the near future. This is broadly logical, if one …