Quantitative scenarios are coming of age as a tool for evaluating the impact of future
socioeconomic development pathways on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze …

Some people despair that most species will go extinct before they are discovered. However,
such worries result from overestimates of how many species may exist, beliefs that the …

Human-driven land-use changes increasingly threaten biodiversity, particularly in tropical
forests where both species diversity and human pressures on natural environments are …

Forests managed for timber have an important role to play in conserving global biodiversity.
We evaluated the most common timber production systems worldwide in terms of their …

Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and
the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary …

Global biodiversity change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Here, we review current scientific knowledge on global biodiversity change and identify the …

Soil microorganisms play important roles in nitrogen cycling within forest ecosystems.
Current research has revealed that a wider variety of microorganisms, with unexpected …

In tropical regions, the extent of agricultural land is rapidly increasing at the expense of
natural forest with associated losses of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agroforestry …

We found that trends in the rate of description of 580,000 marine and terrestrial species, in
the taxonomically authoritative World Register of Marine Species and Catalogue of Life …

Abstract During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, the dominant mammoth steppe
ecosystem across northern Eurasia vanished, in parallel with megafauna extinctions …