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 idea of 'nature'is at the very core of science, considered as its flagship and deepest link
with human societies. However, while nature preservation has become a major social …

Animals and plants worldwide are structured in global biogeographic regions, which were
shaped by major geologic forces during Earth history. Recently, humans have changed the …

Multiple large-scale restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract ecosystem
degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restoration often remains insufficient to offset …

Due to our intensive subsistence and habitat-modification strategies—including broad-
spectrum harvesting and predation, widespread landscape burning, settlement construction …

We are failing to protect the biosphere. Novel views of conservation, preservation, and
sustainability are surfacing in the wake of consensus about our failures to prevent extinction …

Temporal baselines are needed for biodiversity, in order for the change in biodiversity to be
measured over time, the targets for biodiversity conservation to be defined and conservation …

Formerly domesticated organisms and artificially selected genes often escape controlled
cultivation, but their subsequent evolution is not well studied. In this review, we examine …

The bioeconomy is steadily becoming more important to regional, national and European
public policy. As it encompasses the transformation of agricultural, marine and organic …

Protecting nature has become a global concern. However, the very idea of nature is
problematic. We examined the etymological and semantic diversity of the word used to …