Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 365–377 Abstract Many studies in recent years have investigated
the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the …

Farmland abandonment is changing rural landscapes worldwide, but its impacts on
biodiversity are still being debated in the scientific literature. While some researchers see it …

Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as
the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global food crisis of enormous proportions …

Freshwater fauna are particularly sensitive to environmental change and disturbance.
Management agencies frequently use fish and amphibian biodiversity as indicators of …

Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the
importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management …

Forest ecosystems are critical to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through carbon
sequestration. However, climate change has affected forest ecosystem functioning in both …

Projected changes in biodiversity are likely inadequately estimated when climate and land-
use change effects are examined in isolation. A review of studies of the effects of these …

Governments have set the ambitious target of reducing biodiversity loss by the year 2010.
The scientific community now faces the challenge of assessing the progress made towards …

Background As the global human population grows and its consumption patterns change,
additional land will be needed for living space and agricultural production. A critical question …

Managed relocation is defined as the movement of species, populations, or genotypes to
places outside the areas of their historical distributions to maintain biological diversity or …