CONTEXT An artificial oasis is a desert area suitable for human occupation and agriculture
by human management. Agricultural reclamation in artificial oases provides a means for …

Emerging evidence suggests that insect populations may be declining at local and global
scales, threatening the sustainability of the ecosystem services that insects provide. Insect …

Ambitious international targets are being developed to protect and restore biodiversity under
the Convention on Biological Diversity's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the …

Building conservation research capacity (CRC), especially in develo** countries, has long
been proposed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Yet, a global evaluation of CRC and its …

Agricultural expansion and intensification are threatening biodiversity worldwide, and future
expansion of agricultural land will exacerbate this trend. One of the main drivers of this …

Diets lower in meat could reduce agricultural expansion and intensification thereby reducing
biodiversity impacts. However, land use requirements, associated with alternate diets, in …

Land-use changes have severely degraded natural landscapes around the world,
constituting the primary driver of biodiversity loss. In recent decades, agriculture expansion …

Gradients of agricultural intensification in agroecosystems may determine uneven resource
availability for predators relying on these man-made habitats. In turn, these variations in …

Edaphic fauna is a major determinant of agricultural soil quality, but few studies have
investigated soil fauna in different agroforestry systems. The objective of this study was to …

CONTEXT Cropland intensification promises additional food supply without further
expanding croplands into natural ecosystems. Cropland use intensity measures the degree …