Cities represent considerable opportunities for forwarding global biodiversity and
sustainability goals. We developed key attributes for conserving biodiversity and for …

Adaptive management (AM) is widely promoted to improve management of natural
resources, yet its implementation is challenging. We show that obstacles to the …

Abstract Information on where species occur is an important component of conservation and
management decisions, but knowledge of distributions is often coarse or incomplete …

The challenges that face humanity today differ from the past because as the scale of human
influence has increased, our biggest challenges have become global in nature, and formerly …

Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in continued
permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased wildfire …

Despite their ecological, economic and social importance, grasslands in areas with
Mediterranean climates continue to receive limited scientific, political and media attention …

Adaptive management (AM) and evidence-based conservation (EBC) have emerged as
major decision-making frameworks for conservation management. AM deals with complexity …

Maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing environment requires a
temporal perspective that informs realistic restoration and management targets. Such targets …

Fire management around the world is now undergoing extensive review, with a move toward
fire management plans that maintain biodiversity and other ecosystems services, while at …

The wildlife management institution has been transforming to ensure relevance and positive
conservation outcomes into the future. Continuous improvement of decision making is one …