Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

High numbers of threatened species might be expected to occur where overall species
richness is also high; however, this explains only a proportion of the global variation in …

Abstract Aim The Red List (RL) from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature is
the most comprehensive global quantification of extinction risk, and widely used in applied …

Human activities are altering the structure of ecosystems, compromising the benefits they
provide to nature and people. Effective conservation actions and management under …

Spatial and temporal associations between sympatric species underpin biotic interactions,
structure ecological assemblages, and sustain ecosystem functioning and stability …

Tens of thousands of species are increasingly confronted with habitat degradation and
threatened with local extirpation and global extinction as a result of human activities …

Rare and endangered species have narrow geographical distributions and are vulnerable to
environmental changes. Studying the impact of future climate change on their distributions …

Multiple environmental factors are known to shape species distributions at the global scale,
including climate and topography, but understanding current extents of occurrence and …

Understanding wildlife distribution patterns in relation to human disturbance and
environmental variables across varying spatial and temporal dimensions is crucial for …