We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and
population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly …

Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

Humans have inadvertently changed global ecosystems and triggered the dawn of a new
geological epoch, the Anthropocene. While some organisms can tolerate human activities …

The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in
natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an …

Ecosystem services are the benefits obtained from the environment that increase human
well‐being. Economic valuation is conducted by measuring the human welfare gains or …

Fall armyworm (FAW), a voracious agricultural pest native to North and South America, was
first detected on the African continent in 2016 and has subsequently spread throughout the …

Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the
health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

In a world beset by environmental disasters and anthropogenic disturbances, resilience
might be the key to the persistence of natural systems. Yet, the 'measurement'of resilience is …

In this chapter, today's situation is summarized in comparison with that in 1968, when The
Population Bomb (Ehrlich, 1968) was published. The human predicament is now much more …