Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems – such as communities – through …

To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how …

A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare.
Nonetheless, at global scales, we do not know what fraction of biodiversity consists of rare …

Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin 1 , 2 , but
is increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire 3 , 4 . Here we quantify these impacts …

The maximum information entropy (MaxEnt) principle is a successful method of statistical
inference that has recently been applied to ecology. Here, we show how MaxEnt can …

Limiting climate change to less than 2C is the focus of international policy under the climate
convention (UNFCCC), and is essential to preventing extinctions, a focus of the Convention …

With the accumulating evidence of changing disturbance regimes becoming increasingly
obvious, there is potential for disturbance ecology to become the most valuable lens through …

Landscapes and the ecological processes they support are inherently complex systems, in
that they have large numbers of heterogeneous components that interact in multiple ways, …

Phenology, or the timing of life history events, can be heterogeneous across biological
communities and landscapes and can vary across a wide variety of spatiotemporal scales. Here, …

Aim Addressing global environmental challenges requires access to biodiversity data
across wide spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales. Availability of such data has increased …