Contemporary rates of biodiversity decline emphasize the need for reliable ecological
forecasting, but current methods vary in their ability to predict the declines of real-world …

Ecologists routinely use statistical models to detect and explain interactions among
ecological drivers, with a goal to evaluate whether an effect of interest changes in sign or …

International policy is focused on increasing the proportion of the Earth's surface that is
protected for nature,. Although studies show that protected areas prevent habitat loss …

Protected areas (PAs) are the primary strategy for slowing terrestrial biodiversity loss.
Although expansion of PA coverage is prioritized under the Convention on Biological …

Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise
lost to agricultural expansion. Yet which conditions enable such sparing or whether …

Protected areas are a key conservation tool, yet their effectiveness at maintaining
biodiversity through time is rarely quantified. Here, we assess protected area effectiveness …

In spite of their small global area and restricted distributions, tropical montane forests (TMFs)
are biodiversity hotspots and important ecosystem services providers, but are also highly …

Causal inferences from experimental data are often justified based on treatment
randomization. However, inferring causality from data also requires complementary causal …

Protected areas are considered fundamental to counter biodiversity loss. However, evidence
for their effectiveness in averting local extinctions remains scarce and taxonomically biased …

Controlling lake eutrophication is a challenge. A case-specific diagnostics driven approach
is recommended that will guide to a suite of measures most promising in restoration of …