Climate change will worsen the high levels of urban vulnerability in Latin American cities
due to specific environmental stressors. Some impacts of climate change, such as high …

Tourism is an important economic and social activity with distinct characteristics of human-
land interaction, which creates increasingly pronounced ecological and environmental …

Wilderness areas, defined as areas free of industrial scale activities and other human
pressures which result in significant biophysical disturbance, are important for biodiversity …

Dryland ecosystems are highly vulnerable to environmental changes. Monitoring is vital in
order to evaluate their response to fluctuating rainfall and temperature patterns for long-term …

This chapter analyzes the available information regarding the main drivers of global change
operating in Patagonia, including climate change and its impact on biodiversity, the …

Closing the research-implementation gap is key for advancing biodiversity conservation.
One approach is to generate ecologically relevant spatial datasets that integrate easily with …

The establishment of protected areas (PAs) is a key strategy to conserve declining forests
and biodiversity worldwide. Due to poor infrastructure and a limited capacity of PA …

Mechanisms that reliably and efficiently guide practitioners to find relevant evidence are
urgent for conservation decision‐making in Chilean Patagonia. The objective of this study …

Mankind's quest for well-being results in continuous pressure to transform landscapes, with
said transformation driven by land use changes, urbanization, production activity, and …

Urbanisation is transforming landscapes across the world. As the urban matrix is extending
across all landscape types, new spatial configurations have blurred the former contrast …