Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

Protected areas are considered key to conserving ecosystems and safeguarding biodiversity
worldwide. Local stakeholders' involvement in decision-making in area-based conservation …

Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation [PeerJ] Related research Download …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

If the world stays on its current development path, the state of biodiversity will continue to
decline. This is due to projected further increases in pressures, most prominently habitat loss …

We applied a participatory mapping approach supported by very high-resolution satellite
imagery to reconstruct spatially explicit, year-to-year land use transitions in two highly …

The debate on land-sparing versus land-sharing has continued for decades regarding which
of the two approaches can optimize the yield-conservation tradeoff. Current opinions are …

The concept of green infrastructure (GI) seeks to identify and prioritize areas of high
ecological value for wildlife and people, to improve the integration of natural values in …

As cornerstones for biodiversity conservation, protected areas (PAs) are critical to safeguard
biodiversity. However, PAs are criticized for their limited ecological effectiveness and their …

The sustainability of society hinges on the future of agriculture. Though alternatives to
unsustainable, high-input industrial agriculture are available, agricultural systems have …