Protected areas (including other effective area-based conservation measures) are a
cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Many countries are increasingly committed to …

Globally, the conversion of natural forest into agricultural land and human settlement has
altered avian diversity and structure often leading to functional and/or phylogenetic …

Urban expansion is a pervasive driver of biodiversity loss. To understand the effects of
urbanization on diversity, we investigated the response of bird taxonomic, phylogenetic, and …

Agriculture expansion and development have caused a biodiversity decline including birds.
China has extensive agricultural lands and high farmland biodiversity; however, how …

Tropical rainforest trees host a diverse arthropod fauna that can be characterised by their
functional diversity (FD) and phylogenetic diversity (PD). Human disturbance degrades …

To understand how certain types of agroecosystem management provide resources for
biodiversity and conservation opportunities beyond protected areas, it is necessary to …

Agricultural habitats are assumed to be biodiversity refuges. However, some studies treat
agricultural land management as a cause of the biodiversity decline, to which habitat loss …

Resolving trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation needs
is crucial in currently developing countries and in particularly sensitive systems harboring …

Understanding the process underlying the spatial gradients in biodiversity is a fundamental
issue in ecology. Altitudinal gradients are ideal systems for examining the community …

With agricultural demands increasing globally, determining the nature of impacts of different
forms of agriculture on biodiversity, especially for threatened vertebrates and habitats, is …