The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

Climate change and other human-driven (anthropogenic) environmental changes will continue to cause biodiversity loss in the coming decades (Sala et al. 2000), in addition to the high rates of ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

“This is definitely a situation where the precautionary principle needs to be applied: we can’t afford to wait to see the long-term consequences of degradation of natural ecosystems,” ecologist Owen ...

“This paper resolves a half-century old debate about how to conserve biodiversity in natural areas, one started by scientific ...

Introduction Biodiversity, the abundance of life on the planet, is crucial for the stability, resilience, and sustainability ...

Now, Belitz has coined a term for this work: assemblage-level conservation. In a newly published perspective article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Belitz and his colleagues advocate for the ...