As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

Large wild herbivores are crucial to ecosystems and human societies. We highlight the 74
largest terrestrial herbivore species on Earth (body mass≥ 100 kg), the threats they face …

The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

For hundreds of millions of years, large vertebrates (megafauna) have inhabited most of the
ecosystems on our planet. During the late Quaternary, notably during the Late P leistocene …

A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

African forest elephants–taxonomically and functionally unique–are being poached at
accelerating rates, but we lack range-wide information on the repercussions. Analysis of the …

As the largest frugivores on Earth, elephants have unique ecological properties. Found in
deserts, savannahs, and forests, they are the last remnants of a diverse lineage. Among the …

Humans have hunted wildlife in Central Africa for millennia. Today, however, many species
are being rapidly extirpated and sanctuaries for wildlife are dwindling. Almost all Central …

Wildlife trade is a key driver of extinction risk, affecting at least 24% of terrestrial vertebrates.
The persistent removal of species can have profound impacts on species extinction risk and …

Geographic range size has long fascinated ecologists and evolutionary biologists, yet our
understanding of the factors that cause variation in range size among species and across …