Rebuilding overexploited marine populations is an important step to achieve the United
Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 14—Life Below Water. Mitigating major human …

Soil microbial communities are essential in regulating ecosystem functions and services.
However, the importance of bacterial and fungal communities as predictors of multiple soil …

Addressing climate change and biodiversity loss will be the defining ecological, political,
and humanitarian challenge of our time. Alarmingly, policymakers face a narrowing window …

Natural ecosystems store large amounts of carbon globally, as organisms absorb carbon
from the atmosphere to build large, long-lasting, or slow-decaying structures such as tree …

Coastal seascapes are productive and diverse land-sea systems that provide many valuable
benefits yet are increasingly threatened by human activity. Scaling up of nature-based …

The unlimited economic growth that fuels capitalism's metabolism has profoundly
transformed a large portion of Earth. The resulting environmental destruction has led to an …

Although decades of research suggest that higher species richness improves ecosystem
functioning and stability, planted forests are predominantly monocultures. To determine …

Abstract “Action situations”—events, venues, or physically interdependent instances of
decision-making—have become a central unit of analysis in the social–environmental …

Biodiversity is the measure of the variation of lifeforms in a given ecological system.
Biodiversity provides ecosystems with the robustness, stability, and resilience that sustains …

Human impacts such as habitat loss, climate change and biological invasions are radically
altering biodiversity, with greater effects projected into the future. Evidence suggests human …