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 …

BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

BACKGROUND The extent of urban areas is increasing around the world, and most humans
now live in cities. Urbanization results in dramatic environmental change, including …

Humans have dramatically altered the planet over the course of a century, from the acidity of
our oceans to the fragmentation of our landscapes and the temperature of our climate …

Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

Human–wildlife interactions, including human–wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as
expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter …

Evidence is growing that human modification of landscapes has dramatically altered
evolutionary processes. In urban population genetic studies, urbanization is typically …

In the context of global changes, fish are increasingly exposed to multiple stressors that
have cascading effects from molecules to the whole individual, thereby affecting wild fish …

The northern house mosquito Culex pipiens sensu stricto is one of the most important
disease vector mosquitoes in temperate zones across the northern hemisphere, responsible …

Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …