Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Predicting which nonnative species become invasive is critical for their successful
management, and Charles Darwin provided predictions based on species' relatedness …

Monitoring the impacts of anthropogenic threats and interventions to mitigate these threats is
key to understanding how to best conserve biodiversity. Ecologists use many different study …

Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten
biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the …

Understanding global patterns of biodiversity change is crucial for conservation research,
policies and practices. However, for most ecosystems, the lack of systematically collected …

How are rainforest birds faring in the Anthropocene? We use bird captures spanning> 35
years from 55 sites within a vast area of intact Amazonian rainforest to reveal reduced …

Building trust in science and evidence-based decision-making depends heavily on the
credibility of studies and their findings. Researchers employ many different study designs …

Aim Urbanization broadly affects the phylogenetic and functional diversity of natural
communities through a variety of processes including habitat loss and the introduction of …

Blooms of cyanobacteria are a current threat to global water security that is expected to
increase in the future because of increasing nutrient enrichment, increasing temperature …

Human impacts contribute to the reduction of biodiversity. To describe biodiversity loss and
identify its causes, biologists (in particular ecologists) use a wide range of models …