The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature
of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi …

Ecosystems worldwide are rapidly losing taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic, and functional
diversity as a result of human appropriation of natural resources, modification of habitats and …

Evidence is mounting that extinctions are altering key processes important to the productivity
and sustainability of Earth's ecosystems,,,. Further species loss will accelerate change in …

ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of biodiversity for
ecosystem stability and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem functionality. Conservation …

One of the basic purposes of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation
interventions is to achieve conservation impact, the sum of avoided biodiversity loss and …

Despite growing interest and investment in ecosystem services across global science and
policy arenas, it remains unclear how ecosystem services–and particularly changes in those …

The circulation of seed among farmers is central to agrobiodiversity conservation and
dynamics. Agrobiodiversity, the diversity of agricultural systems from genes to varieties and …

Traditional agroforestry systems across South Asia have historically supported millions of
smallholding farmers. Since, 2007 agroforestry has received attention in global climate …

The conservation of biodiversity from the genetic to the community levels is fundamental for
the continual provision of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to …

General principles from coexistence theory are often invoked to explain how and why
mixtures of species outperform monocultures. However, the complementarity and selection …