There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

The science of taxonomy, albeit being fundamental for all organismic research, has been
underfunded and undervalued for about two generations. We analyze how this could …

Biological invasions have become a defining feature of marine Mediterranean ecosystems
with significant impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. We …

Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature | Nature Ecology & Evolution
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The global surge in demand for metals such as cobalt and nickel has created
unprecedented interest in deep-sea habitats with mineral resources. The largest area of …

Earth's biodiversity is still so poorly known that only about two million (Bánki et al., 2021) of
the estimated nine million or more eukaryotic species (Larsen et al., 2017; Mora et al., 2011) …

There is a contemporary trend in many major research institutions to de‐emphasize the
importance of natural history education in favor of theoretical, laboratory, or simulation …

Highlights•Insect biodiversity is the highest in the tropics. Yet the responses of tropical
insects to environmental change are understudied.•More data is needed for the tropics to …

Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new
organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of …