Executive summary Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support
environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a …

The word'climate'refers to the long-term weather patterns within a defined region including
temperature, humidity, rainfalls and wind amount. Weather refers to daily or weekly changes …

Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat
destruction, and pollution. The cumulative effect of these impacts on global capacity of coral …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Global concern about human impact on biological diversity has triggered an intense
research agenda on drivers and consequences of biodiversity change in parallel with …

Aim The number of studies investigating the nestedness and turnover components of beta
diversity has increased substantially, but our general understanding of the drivers of …

Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with
massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the …

Habitat degradation and subsequent biodiversity damage often take place far from the place
of consumption because of globalization and the increasing level of international trade …

Relationships between traits of organisms and the structure of their metacommunities have
so far mainly been explored with meta‐analyses. We compared metacommunities of a wide …

Agricultural land use to meet the demands of a growing population, changing diets, lifestyles
and biofuel production is a significant driver of biodiversity loss. Globally applicable methods …