Biodiversity threats are one of the major concerns of today's intellectuals. These threats arise
due to environmental problems that appear both due to natural processes as well as …

Infectious diseases affect people, domestic animals and wildlife alike, with many pathogens
being able to infect multiple species. Fifty years ago, following the wide-scale manufacture …

A number of studies indicate that tropical arthropods should be particularly vulnerable to
climate warming. If these predictions are realized, climate warming may have a more …

Causal attribution of recent biological trends to climate change is complicated because non-
climatic influences dominate local, short-term biological changes. Any underlying signal …

The first global assessment of amphibians provides new context for the well-publicized
phenomenon of amphibian declines. Amphibians are more threatened and are declining …

As the Earth warms, many species are likely to disappear, often because of changing
disease dynamics. Here we show that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen …

Reports of malformed amphibians and global amphibian declines have led to public
concern, particularly because amphibians are thought to be indicator species of overall …

Abstract The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is responsible for ecosystem services
(pollination) worth US $215 billion annually worldwide and the number of managed colonies …

As part of an overall “biodiversity crisis” many amphibian populations are in decline
throughout the world. Numerous causes have been invoked to explain these declines …

Huge areas of diverse tropical forest are lost or degraded every year with dramatic
consequences for biodiversity. Deforestation and fragmentation, over-exploitation, invasive …