In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds
the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of …

The total freshwater biodiversity is not fully known. In particular, freshwater invertebrates and
microbes are poorly studied groups, and in tropical latitudes, that support most of the …

Global mapping of forest height is an extremely important task for estimating habitat quality
and modeling biodiversity. Recently, three global canopy height maps have been released …

This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's
global food crisis. By contributing more to feeding themselves, cities can allow breathing …

The utilisation of the ecospace and the change in diversity through time has been suggested
to be due to the effect of niche partitioning, as a global long-term pattern in the fossil record …

A central question about biodiversity is how so many species can coexist within the same
ecosystem. The idea that ecological niches are critical for the maintenance of species …

A relatively small number of broad-scale patterns describe the distribution of biodiversity
across the earth. All of them explore biodiversity focusing on a mono or bi-dimensional …

A broad understanding of food systems includes a complex web of activities, outcomes and
drivers, encompassing not only the food and agriculture sectors, but also the social norms …

For a long time ecologists have questioned on the variations of biodiversity across the
latitudinal gradient. Recently, it has emerged that the changes in β-diversity are caused …

The general latitudinal trend is that species diversity declines as latitude increases [1]. This
appears to be the case for almost all terrestrial plants and animals [2, 3]. It is also usually …