Plastic waste and debris have caused substantial environmental pollution globally in the
past decades, and they have been accumulated in hundreds of terrestrial and aquatic avian …

Global biodiversity change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Here, we review current scientific knowledge on global biodiversity change and identify the …

El área de distribución de las especies es un concepto importante en la biología, sin
embargo, existen casos en los que no se ha interpretado adecuadamente. Se considera …

Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

Quantifying the abundance of species is essential to ecology, evolution, and conservation.
The distribution of species abundances is fundamental to numerous longstanding questions …

Newly discovered species are often threatened with extinction but in many cases have
received limited conservation effort. To guide future conservation, it is important to determine …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through
time, the properties of the species that increase or decrease their spatial occupancy …

Aim Global‐scale studies are required to identify broad‐scale patterns in the distributions of
species, to evaluate the processes that determine diversity and to determine how similar or …

Identifying priority areas for biodiversity is essential for directing conservation resources.
Fundamentally, we must know where individual species live, which ones are vulnerable …