Context Forest–grassland ecotones, the transitional zones between forests and grasslands,
often harbor high levels of biodiversity. According to the portfolio theory, communities with …

The degradation of ecosystems and their services is threatening human wellbeing, making
ecosystem service (ES) conservation an urgent necessity. In ES conservation planning …

One of the key purposes of conservation selection strategies is to design a network of sites
to support relevant biodiversity components and, therefore, decrease the risk of populations …

In this study, a grid-based network environ analysis (FEM-NEA) framework was developed
to identify the ecological risks of the internal components within a landscape scale mining …

In China, especially in countries with state-owned land use rights, the loss of urban bird
diversity due to rapid urbanisation can't be contained or ameliorated by equitably weighing …

The Amazon is renowned worldwide for its biological significance, but it also harbors
substantial mineral reserves. Among these, the ferruginous geosystems of the region are …

Arthropod decline has been globally and locally documented, yet they are still not sufficiently
protected. Crete (Greece), a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, is a continental island …

Oceanic islands are particularly vulnerable to the global decline of biological diversity,
suffering disproportionally large losses of endemic species. A primary tool for mitigating …

Conservation planning has focused extensively on representation of species in protected
areas (PAs), rather than achieving the persistence of these species in PAs. Consequently …

The development of England's new Nature Recovery Network has been piloted in several
counties in the country, but few have systematically mapped connectivity based on species …