With climate, biodiversity and inequity crises squarely upon us, never has there been a more
pressing time to rethink how we conceptualize, understand and manage our relationship …

This issue addresses the multifaceted problems of understanding biodiversity change to
meet emerging international development and conservation goals, national economic …

Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we
need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological …

Feedbacks are an essential feature of resilient socio-economic systems, yet the feedbacks
between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing are not fully accounted for …

News on the state of the environment does not seem to be improving. Despite some holding
on to “conservation optimism,” 1 the general conclusion in the academic and policy literature …

In a world of increasing demands for biodiversity information, participatory biodiversity
assessment and monitoring is becoming more significant. Whilst other books have focused …

As interest in natural capital grows and society increasingly recognizes the value of
biodiversity, we must discuss how ecosystem observations to detect changes in biodiversity …

The losses that are being incurred of the Earth's biological diversity, at all levels, are now
staggering. The trend lines for future loss are steeply upward as new adverse drivers of …