Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

Human domination of the Earth has resulted in dramatic changes to global and local
patterns of biodiversity. Biodiversity is critical to human sustainability because it drives the …

Global biodiversity change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Here, we review current scientific knowledge on global biodiversity change and identify the …

Biodiversity has become a buzzword in the environmental movement and in science, and is
increasingly being taught in university degree courses. This new text is designed as a …

From genes to micro-organisms to top predators and even whole ecosystems, we depend
on biodiversity for everything from clean air and water to medicines and secure food …

Science, as both a body of knowledge and a process of acquiring new knowledge, is widely
regarded as playing a central role in biodiversity conservation. Science undoubtedly …

The threats to the future of biodiversity are many and well known. They include habitat
conversion, environmental toxification, climate change, and direct exploitation of wildlife …

The lack of progress in reversing the declining global trend in biodiversity is partly due to a
mismatch between how living nature is conceived and valued by the conservation …

This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent
global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing …

Conservation managers and policy makers must often justify the need for protection of
biodiversity. However, results of scientific studies testing for a positive value of biodiversity in …