Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

Half of all plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds. Seed dispersal interactions
lost through defaunation and gained during novel community assembly influence whether …

Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available
for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to compare species with very …

Over a million species face extinction, highlighting the urgent need for conservation policies
that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people's …

Madagascar's unique biota is heavily affected by human activity and is under intense threat.
Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the conservation status of Madagascar's …

Seed dispersal is key to the persistence and spread of plant populations. Because the
majority of plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds, global change drivers that …

A diverse range of mammals once roamed the planet. This changed quickly and
dramatically with the arrival of humans. Since the rise of humans, wild land mammal …