Understanding threatened species diversity is important for long‐term conservation
planning. Geodiversity—the diversity of Earth surface materials, forms, and processes—may …

Artificial ponds are increasingly created for the services they provide to humans. While they
have the potential to offer habitats for freshwater biodiversity, their contribution to regional …

Tens of thousands of species are increasingly confronted with habitat degradation and
threatened with local extirpation and global extinction as a result of human activities …

Maps of environmental characteristics are needed to improve our understanding of species
distributions and ecosystem dynamics. Despite the growing demand for digital …

Identifying the spatio-temporal distribution hotspots of fishes and allocating priority
conservation areas could facilitate the spatial planning and efficient management. As a …

Many conservation actions are justified on the basis of managing biodiversity. Biodiversity,
in terms of species richness, is largely the product of rare species. This is problematic …

Defining the optimal placement of areas for biodiversity conservation in developing nations
remains a significant challenge. Our best methods for spatially targeting potential locations …

To solve the minimum-set coverage problem in conservation planning (representing the
greatest number of species in the least number of sites), several metrics can be used to …

Species richness has been largely used for determining site conservation values, but this
has not been assessed in the context of marine mammal conservation. In our study, we …

Lack of biodiversity data is a major impediment to prioritizing sites for species
representation. Because comprehensive species data are not available in any planning …