Humanity's impact on the environment is increasing, as are strategies to conserve
biodiversity, but a lack of understanding about how interventions affect ecological and …

Soil microbiota are important components of healthy ecosystems. Greater consideration of
soil microbiota in the restoration of biodiverse, functional, and resilient ecosystems is …

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The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in
English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines …

Ecosystem-based management is costly. Therefore, without rigorously showing that it can
outperform traditional species-focused alternatives, its broad-scale adoption in conservation …

Building trust in science and evidence-based decision-making depends heavily on the
credibility of studies and their findings. Researchers employ many different study designs …

Efforts to tackle the current biodiversity crisis need to be as efficient and effective as possible
given chronic underfunding. To inform decision‐makers of the most effective conservation …

Both the number and the extent of protected areas have grown considerably in recent years,
but evaluations of their effectiveness remain partial and are hard to compare across cases …

Background Ecological research now deals increasingly with the effects of noise pollution
on biodiversity. Indeed, many studies have shown the impacts of anthropogenic noise and …

Artificial refuges are human‐made structures that aim to create safe places for animals to
breed, hibernate, or take shelter in lieu of natural refuges. Artificial refuges are used across …