The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of
climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic …

The present study investigates the impact of climate change on biodiversity loss using global
data consisting of 115 countries. In this study, we measure biodiversity loss using data on …

Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in
areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta …

Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet
rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they …

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In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al.(2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater
ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and …

Agriculture and the exploitation of natural resources have transformed tropical mountain
ecosystems across the world, and the consequences of these transformations for …