Integrative and proactive conservation approaches are critical to the long-term persistence
of biodiversity. Molecular data can provide important information on evolutionary processes …

Freshwater biodiversity is under great threat across the globe as evidenced by more severe
declines relative to other types of ecosystems. Some of the main stressors responsible for …

To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and …

Funds to combat biodiversity loss are insufficient, requiring conservation managers to make
trade-offs between costs for actions to avoid further loss and costs for research and …

Marine species are moving rapidly in response to warming, often in different directions and
with variations dependent on location and depth. Given the current impetus to increase the …

Direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity and ecosystems are expected to
lower the provided ecosystem services (ES) in the near future. To limit these impacts …

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 …

Background Spatial information about the location and suitability of areas for native plant
and animal species under different climate futures is an important input to land use and …

Land cover change is the largest direct driver of global biodiversity loss but often the
relationships between habitats and species occurrence are unknown. The conservation …

Spatial optimization approaches that were originally developed to help conservation
organizations determine protection decisions over small spatial scales are now used to …