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 …

The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer
ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are affected by global environmental
change because they directly rely on their immediate environment for meeting basic …

This article introduces a Special Issue on biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands and
provides a synthesis of the current knowledge on this topic. Four major categories of …

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples
around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing …

Ecologists and conservationists increasingly acknowledge that traditional ecological
knowledge (TEK) is vital for a better understanding and conservation of biodiversity; for …

A large proportion of European biodiversity today depends on habitat provided by low‐
intensity farming practices, yet this resource is declining as European agriculture intensifies …

Invasive and expansive plant species are considered a threat to natural biodiversity
because of their high adaptability and low habitat requirements. Species investigated in this …

Worldwide reforestation has been recommended as a landscape restoration strategy to
mitigate climate change in areas where the climate can sustain forest. This approach may …

Agroforestry offers proven strategies as an environmentally benign and ecologically
sustainable land management practice to promote ecosystem services. In this literature …