Originally conceived to conserve iconic landscapes and wildlife, protected areas are now
expected to achieve an increasingly diverse set of conservation, social and economic …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 365–377 Abstract Many studies in recent years have investigated
the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the …

Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

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 …

Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure,
composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well‐being. We examine …

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 …

There is an increasing recognition that, although the climate change and biodiversity crises
are fundamentally connected, they have been primarily addressed independently and a …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly proposed to support conservation
decision making. However, evidence of SDMs supporting solutions for on‐ground …

The environmental impacts of artificial light at night have been a rapidly growing field of
global change science in recent years. Yet, light pollution has not achieved parity with other …

In tropical regions, particularly in Central and South America (CSA), the projections of
climate seasonality under climate change are still uncertain. This is especially true for …