The contributions of species to ecosystem functions or services depend not only on their
presence but also on their local abundance. Progress in predictive spatial modelling has …

Bycatch in marine fisheries is the leading source of human-caused mortality for marine
mammals, has contributed to substantial declines of many marine mammal populations and …

Identifying hotspots of species threat has been a successful approach for setting
conservation priorities. One important challenge in conservation is that, in many hotspots …

In recent decades, many marine populations have experienced major declines in
abundance, but we still know little about where management interventions may help protect …

The assessment of patterns in macroecology, including those most relevant to global
biodiversity conservation, has been hampered by a lack of quantitative data collected in a …

Deciding where to implement conservation actions in order to meet conservation targets
efficiently is an important component of systematic conservation planning. Mathematical …

Predicting and explaining the distribution and density of species is one of the oldest
concerns in ecology. Species distributions can be estimated using geostatistical methods …

Despite increasing interest in deep-sea mining, there are long-standing concerns about
environmental impacts on vulnerable and poorly understood ecosystems (–). These …

To understand the scope and scale of the loss of biodiversity, tools are required that can be
applied in a standardized manner to all species globally, spanning realms from land to the …

The establishment of protected corridors linking the breeding and foraging grounds of many
migratory species remains deficient, particularly in the world's oceans. For example …