Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some
highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net …

Species reintroductions are a core component of conservation but require critical
assessment of past baselines. The Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus formerly occurred …

Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due
to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe …

As a result of rapid economic development, urban expansion reduced the cropland in China.
To secure the food supply, cropland displacement to maintain the quantity and quality of …

Reliable metrics to monitor human impacts on biodiversity are essential for informing
conservation policy. As insects are indicators of global change, whose declines profoundly …

The diversity of terrestrial vascular plants plays a key role in maintaining the stability and
productivity of ecosystems. Monitoring species compositional diversity across large spatial …

To combat climate change, bioenergy is expected to play a more substantial role in the
global energy mix, necessitating the expansion of energy crop plantations during the 21st …

The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity in the evolution of
humans. It continues to be an essential source of food and a generator of income for millions …

Biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation require understanding of the potential
trade-offs from possible future cropland expansion. Here we apply an interdisciplinary …

We develop a new model of a “featureful” city in which locations are differentiated by two
attributes, that is, the distance to employment centers and the accessibility to given …