Biological invasions threaten biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems,
requiring substantial conservation and management efforts. To examine how the …

Through the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and the financial investments of the LIFE
projects, Europe has become an experimental arena for biological conservation. With an …

Abstract Purpose of Review Umbrella, flagship and keystone species are among the most
widely employed surrogate species concepts. We explored whether these concepts are …

Land use intensification has led to conspicuous changes in plant and animal communities
across the world. Shifts in trait‐based functional composition have recently been …

Abstract Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) is an urban mosquito involved in the
transmission of numerous viruses, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika. In Argentina …

Given the multiple stressors affecting freshwater ecosystems and the limited resources
devoted to their management, effective conservation of freshwater biodiversity requires …

Although freshwater ecosystems support a disproportionately large number of species,
decision-support tools for prioritizing protected area efforts have mostly been implemented …

In large-scale aquatic ecological studies, direct habitat descriptors (eg water temperature,
hydraulics in river reaches) are often approximated by coarse-grain surrogates (eg air …

Rarity and life history traits inform multiple dimensions of intrinsic risk to climate and
environmental change and can help systematically identify at-risk species. We quantified …

Available information on diadromous fish species historical occurrences is generally biased
and incomplete across species distribution range and spatial scales. This work aims to …