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Meeting fundamental human needs while also maintaining ecosystem function and services is the central challenge of sustainability science. In the dens...

Historical contamination continues to pose a serious ecological threat to many ecosystems across the world. Marine sediments have long acted as sinks ...

Widespread hunting throughout Amazonia threatens the persistence of large primates and other vertebrates. Most studies have used models of limited val...

Hybridization seems possible for many crop species after pollen transfer from crops to wild relatives in the surrounding vegetation. Subsequent introg...

1. Across Europe, farmland bird populations have continued to decline since the 1970s owing to the intensification of farming practices. Studies of su...

Altered global climates in the 21st century pose serious threats for biological systems and practical actions are needed to mount a response for speci...

Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. PAs, however, are not equally effective for all threatened taxa, and it is ...

There is an urgent need to understand the impacts of anthropogenic habitat disturbance on biodiversity in tropical forests, but no consensus has yet e...

Attempts to control natural systems through management have often met with success but have also led to unexpected and often undesirable outcomes. Unf...

The values associated with nature are a central component of human-nature interactions, but their assessment remains a challenge. In this exploratory ...