Climate change and land‐use/cover change (LUCC) are two major types of global
environmental change. They are increasingly challenging the main objectives of ecosystem …

Aim Megafires are increasing in intensity and frequency globally. The impacts of megafires
on biodiversity can be severe, so conservation managers must be able to respond rapidly to …

Conservation efforts often focus on umbrella species whose distributions overlap with many
other flora and fauna. However, because biodiversity is affected by different threats that are …

Over the last two decades, systematic conservation planning has been increasingly applied
in terrestrial and marine systems. The approach has traditionally been lagging in freshwater …

Raptors are emblematic of the global biodiversity crisis because one out of five species are
threatened with extinction and over half have declining populations due to human threats …

A key challenge in conservation is the efficient allocation of limited resources to maximise
benefits for biodiversity. Decision-support tools that account for landscape heterogeneity are …

Most biodiversity monitoring globally tends to concentrate on trends in species' populations
and ranges rather than on threats and their management. Here we review the estimated …

The last report on the State of the Nature in the European Union (EU), a periodic monitoring
exercise at continental scale, shows that biodiversity continues to decline, despite the efforts …

Freshwater ecosystems are declining under climate change and land-use change. To
maximize the return on investment in freshwater conservation with limited financial …

Conservation triage seems to be at a stalemate between those who accept triage based on
utilitarian rationalization, and those that reject it based on a number of ethical principles. We …