A new study published in Science reveals that conservation works, with conservation actions improving or slowing the decline of biodiversity in two-thirds of the cases analyzed. The study highlights ...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) and metabarcoding are transforming biodiversity monitoring by enabling rapid, non-invasive assessments of community composition ...
Researchers have announced three major plant science advances: a stress-response mechanism that shifts plants from photosynthesis to protein repair, the first signaling pathway for cell wall formation ...
DNA-based taxonomy is exposing hidden species, forcing reset of biodiversity baselines before conservation priorities fall behind.
Conservation biology is the application of science to conserve the earth's imperiled species and ecosystems. The field is growing rapidly and ever increasing in importance in response to the ...
Ch. 1. What is conservation biology? -- Ch. 2. Global biodiversity : patterns and processes -- Ch. 3. Threats to biodiversity -- Ch. 4. Conservation values and ethics -- Ch. 5. Ecological economics ...
The spate of furious wildfires around the world during the past decade has revealed to ecologists how much biodiversity and “pyrodiversity” go hand in hand. I met up with Jay Roberts in what had been ...
What is biodiversity? / Kevin J. Gaston -- The Genetics of biological diversity: from varieties to species / James Mallet -- Comparing character diversity among biotas / Paul H. Williams and Chris J.