Identifying efficient biodiversity indicators is a key pillar of the global conservation strategy.
Top predators have been proposed as reliable biodiversity signposts, but their role is …

During periods of strong environmental change, some areas may serve as refugia, where
components of biodiversity can find protection, persist and potentially expand from should …

The global network of terrestrial protected areas (PAs) has experienced a fourfold expansion
since the 1970s. Yet, there is increasing debate around the role of the global PA estate in …

Wildlife reintroduction projects are required to account for social and economic factors.
Wildlife tourism is often cited as a benefit of reintroduction, so an understanding of whether …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

The charisma of species, ie, their popularity among people, influences how much we are
willing to invest in seeing, studying, and protecting them. Previous studies have investigated …

Inclusion of local, expert, or Indigenous knowledge about wildlife populations and their
habitats can inform wildlife research, while also increasing knowledge holder engagement …

Historical biodiversity occurrence records are often discarded in spatial modeling analyses
because of a lack of a method to quantify their sampling bias. Here we propose a new …

Reference conditions are necessary to assess the conservation status of species,
understand their declines, and manage their recovery. Historical documents offer large …

Despite the ecological importance of the four extant species of Hyaenidae, and the threats
they face globally, there has been no review of the nearly 100 years of published research …