Wildlife’s contributions to people
Nature’s contributions to people (NCP) are increasingly incorporated in modern conservation policy and management frameworks; however, the contri…
Tag: Conservation biology
Pathogens and planetary change
Emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and anthropogenic environmental change are interconnected crises with massive social and ecologica…
Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation
Coastal wetlands, including tidal marshes, mangrove forests and tidal flats, support the livelihoods of millions of people. Understanding the resil…
The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity
Implications for conservation Worryingly, 16% of wild bird species and 27% of mammal species with known H5N1 infections as of 2024 are already of conservation…
Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats
Mapping and counting global change factors Both pathways towards integrating global change factors with climate refugia require maps of global change variables at sufficiently high…
Successes and failures of conservation actions to halt global river biodiversity loss
To address the losses of river biodiversity worldwide, various conservation actions have been implemented to promote recovery of species and ecosys…
A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis
Traditional conservation efforts have centred on safeguarding individual species, but these strategies have limitations in a world where entire eco…
Status, trends and conservation of global sea turtle populations
Sea turtles experienced myriad human impacts during the twentieth century that caused extreme mortality across all seven species. Extensive conserv…