Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

The strategic goals of the United Nations and the Aichi Targets for biodiversity conservation
have not been met. Instead, biodiversity has continued to rapidly decrease, especially in …

Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to
understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for other taxa …

Current conservation policy has been shaped by the expectation that, for many species,
places with suitable climate will lie outside their current range, thus leading to predictions of …

In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline
seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global …

Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these
biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also the …

Orchidaceae show remarkable diversity in pollination strategies, but how these strategies
vary globally is not entirely clear. To identify regions and taxa that are data-rich and lend …

Although species are being lost at alarming rates, previous research has provided
conflicting results on the extent and even direction of global biodiversity change at the local …

Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental
conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the …

Thousands of insect species have been introduced outside of their native ranges, and some
of them strongly impact ecosystems and human societies. Because a large fraction of insects …