Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

The application of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies
provides powerful tools when used to investigate wildlife and its habitat for an analysis or …

Land-use and climate change are among the greatest threats facing biodiversity, but
understanding their combined effects has been hampered by modelling and data limitations …

Human domination of the biosphere has greatly altered ecosystems, often overwhelming
their capacity to provide ecosystem services critical to our survival. Yet ecological …

Aim Planted forests are becoming increasingly common world‐wide for a variety of reasons,
including water conservation and carbon sequestration, although the effects of tree …

Managing ecosystem services is critical to human survival, yet we do not know how large
natural areas must be to support these services. We investigated how crop pollination …

Southeast Asia is a hotspot of imperilled biodiversity, owing to extensive logging and forest
conversion to oil palm agriculture. The degraded forests that remain after multiple rounds of …

Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Summary 1 There is a long‐term trend of depopulation of rural areas and pasture
abandonment throughout the Alps. This trend peaked after the Second World War and is …

Anthropogenic habitat disturbance is a major threat to tropical forests and understanding the
ecological consequences of this disturbance is crucial for the conservation of biodiversity …