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Achieving the convention on biological diversity's goals for plant conservation

scientific article

Africa: still the "dark continent".

scientific article published in June 2007

An American tale

scientific article published in Nature

Assembling Ecological Communities in Time and Space

scientific article published in 1997

Avian conservation priorities in a top-ranked biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2010

Backyard jungles

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-11-07

Batch-produced, GIS-informed range maps for birds based on provenanced, crowd-sourced data inform conservation assessments

scientific article

Beyond the forest primaeval

scientific article published in Nature

Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen

scientific article

Biodiversity as Everything<i>Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Mammals.</i>Don E. Wilson , F. Russell Cole , James D. Nichols , Rasanayagam Rudran , Mercedes S. Foster<i>Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Cau

scientific article published in 1998

Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species

scientific article

Biodiversity: England's green and well-known land

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-05-11

Biodiversity: Managing nature when there are no ‘ill winds’ ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

Biodiversity: Not Just Lots of Fish in the Sea ⬇️

scientific article published on December 4, 2012

Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species?

scientific article

Biological diversity: where is it?

scientific article published on February 21, 1992

Biological extinction at the Vatican

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Biology: The love of pit vipers

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-10-23

Biopiracy: conservationists have to rebuild lost trust

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Bird Species' Tolerance of Secondary Forest Habitats and Its Effects on Extinction

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Bird Species' Tolerance of Secondary Forest Habitats and Its Effects on Extinction

scientific article published on 19 March 2004

Bird conservation would complement landslide prevention in the Central Andes of Colombia

scientific article

Bird extinctions in the central Pacific

article by Stuart L. Pimm et al published 29 April 1994 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Bird extirpations and community dynamics in an Andean cloud forest over 100 years of land-use change

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Bird population densities

Birds, montane forest, state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2009

Body Sizes of Animal Predators and Animal Prey in Food Webs

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Boreal forests' carbon stores need better management

scientific article published in Nature

Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging?

scientific article published in March 2006

Brown fables, green wit

scientific article published in Nature

Careers: A guide to the life scientific

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-04-17

Cassandra versus Pangloss

journal article; published in Nature on 1994-12-01

China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda.

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Climate change, disease range shifts, and the future of the Africa lion

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Climate disruption and biodiversity

scientific article

Communities oceans apart?

scientific article published in Nature

Conservation policy and the measurement of forests

article

Conservation: Glass half full

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-03-09

Conservation: The commonness of rarity

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-01-16

Conservation: forest fragments, facts, and fallacies

scientific article

Conserving large populations of lions - the argument for fences has holes.

scientific article

Constraints to species' elevational range shifts as climate changes

scientific article

Counting India's wild tigers reliably

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Crying wolf in North America

scientific article published in Nature

Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants

scientific article

Deforestation Predicts the Number of Threatened Birds in Insular Southeast Asia. La Extension de las Deforestaciones Predice el Numero de Aves Amenazadas de Extincion en las Islas del Sureste de Asia

article

Demonstrating the destruction of the habitat of the Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis)

article

Designer ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

Determining the effects of introduced species

article

Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest

scientific article published on March 2007

ECOLOGY: Planning for Biodiversity

scientific article published in Science

Ecological networks and their fragility

scientific article published on July 2006

Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Ecology. Domains of diversity

scientific article

Ecology. Protecting China's biodiversity

scientific article

Ecology: Wilson in Africa

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-04-09

Ecosystem dynamics: nature's short, sharp shocks

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds.

scientific article published on 09 June 2008

Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia

scientific article

Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Entrepreneurial insects

scientific article published in May 2001

Environment: Hero of local conservation

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

article

Erratum to: “What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity”

article

Estimating competition coefficients from census data

scientific article

Estimating extinction risk with metapopulation models of large-scale fragmentation.

scientific article

Estimating the cultural value of the oceans

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

scientific article

Expiry dates

scientific article published in November 2003

Extinction Rates: Modern extinctions in the kilo-death range ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1995

Falling victim to politics

scientific article published in Nature

Food Web Design and the Effect of Species Deletion

scientific article published in 1980

Food web patterns and their consequences

scientific article published in Nature

Frog ponds and ocean iron

scientific article published in Nature

Funding and delivering the routine testing of management interventions to improve conservation effectiveness

scientific article published in June 2022

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation.

scientific article

Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

article

Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

How Big Is the Global Weed Patch?

scientific article published in 2003

How China expanded its protected areas to conserve biodiversity

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

How Conservation GIS Leads to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

article

How Many Endangered Species Remain to be Discovered in Brazil?

article

How many species of flowering plants are there?

article

How to protect half of Earth to ensure it protects sufficient biodiversity

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions

scientific article

Imagine a better world

scientific article published in Nature

Importance of estimating dispersal for endangered bird management

article

In search of perennial solutions

scientific article published in Nature

Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List

scientific article

It's A New Century: Do You Know Where Your Orchids Are? ⬇️

article by Stuart L Pimm published 2005 in Selbyana

Life on an intermittent edge

scientific article published on 01 February 1993

Lion populations may be declining in Africa but not as Bauer et al. suggest

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Mapping and exploring the distribution of the Vulnerable grey-winged cotinga Tijuca condita

article by Maria Alice S. Alves et al published October 2008 in Oryx

Mapping potential connections between Southern Africa’s elephant populations

scientific article published on 11 October 2022

Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Measuring resilience is essential if we are to understand it

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Morphological assortment in introduced Hawaiian passerines

article published in 1987

Nature lovers and other villains

scientific article published in Nature

Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

scientific article

No more moa

scientific article published in Nature

No need to worry about the future

scientific article published in Nature

Norman Myers (1934-2019)

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples

scientific article

On population growth near protected areas

scientific article

On the Risk of Extinction

article published in 1988

On the nature of population extremes

article published in 1995

On the protection of "protected areas".

scholarly article

Ornithology: All eyes on the 10,000 species

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-10-05

Ornithology: World wide wings

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-11-13

Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity

scientific article

Planetary Boundaries for Biodiversity: Implausible Science, Pernicious Policies

scientific article

Planting Flowers and Assembling Complex Systems

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Plausible alternatives to bottlenecks to explain reduced genetic diversity

article

Population Variability and Polyphagy in Herbivorous Insect Communities

scientific article published in 1988

Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities

scientific article

Properties of Food Webs

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Quantitative analysis of forest fragmentation in the atlantic forest reveals more threatened bird species than the current red list.

scientific article

Range size and extinction risk in forest birds

scientific article

Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments

scientific article

Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks

scientific article

Refining Biodiversity Conservation Priorities

article published in 2005

Regional scientific research benefits threatened species conservation

scientific article published on 07 July 2019

Relative risk of extinction of passerine birds on continents and islands

scientific article published in Nature

Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia

scientific article

Reply to Brown et al.: Species and places are the priorities for conservation, not economic efficiency

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Reply to Nic Lughadha et al.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon

scientific article

Satellites miss environmental priorities

scientific article published on 09 November 2007

Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values

scientific article

Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks

Seeing both the woods and the trees

scientific article published in Nature

Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia

scientific article

Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) survival, oil spills, shrimp fisheries, and hurricanes

scientific article

Species, extinct before we know them? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2015

Statistical Model for Predicting Range Expansion of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta , 1 in Texas 2

article

Stuart Pimm

scientific article published in March 2010

Summer books

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-07-10

Sustaining the variety of life

scientific article

Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

The Assembly of Ecological Communities: A Minimalist Approach

scientific article published in 1993

The Dodo Went Extinct (And Other Ecological Myths)

scientific article published in 2002

The Dynamic Hypercube as a Niche Community Model

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

The Fate of the World's Plants

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

The Future of Biodiversity

scientific article

The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss.

scientific article

The Introduced Hawaiian Avifauna: Biogeographic Evidence for Competition

article

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

scientific article

The checkered history of checkerboard distributions: comment

scientific article published in December 2015

The complexity and stability of ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics

scientific article published on 04 February 2022

The distribution and numbers of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in southern Africa

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

The dynamics of multispecies, multi-life-stage models of aquatic food webs

scientific article published on 19 December 2004

The effect of hydrological patterns and breeding-season flooding on the numbers and distribution of wading birds in Everglades National Park

scientific article

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

article

The forest fragment classic

scientific article published in Nature

The genetic rescue of the Florida panther

The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview

scientific article published on 23 February 2021

The implications of Cape Sable seaside sparrow demography for Everglades restoration

scientific article published on 27 July 2002

The importance of watching birds from airplanes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

The lonely earth

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

The origin of helping: the role of variability in reproductive potential

scientific article published on 01 February 1985

The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

The size of savannah Africa: a lion’s (Panthera leo) view

article

The snake that ate Guam

scientific article published on 14 November 2003

The structure of food webs ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1979

The value of everything

scientific article published in Nature

The variability of population densities

scientific article published in Nature

Threat from deforestation to montane and lowland birds and mammals in insular South-east Asia

article

Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments

Transforming Protected Area Management in China

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

Unfulfilled promise of data-driven approaches: response to Peterson et al

scientific article

Using metapopulation theory for practical conservation of mangrove endemic birds

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds

scientific article published in 2022

We can have biodiversity and eat too

scientific article published on 12 May 2022

What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

What we need to know to prevent a mass extinction of plant species

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

When feathers flew at a natural-history archive

scientific article

Why a Planetary Boundary, If It Is Not Planetary, and the Boundary Is Undefined? A Reply to Rockström et al.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

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