Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is the variation of life at all levels of biological organization, referring not only to the sum total of life forms across an area, but also to ...

are predicted to promote biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and ecosystem functioning (Figure 3). Previous studies have found that stabilizing species interactions can promote biodiversity ...

Biodiversity science investigates levels of biodiversity, its functional effects, and how and why it changes over time. A global analysis of altered species compositions and climate change reveals ...

The ecological decline was most dramatic in grasslands and biodiversity hotspots such as the Amazon rainforest and sub-Saharan Africa, the researchers reported. The 10 percent safe-level cutoff is ...

Now, Belitz has coined a term for this work: assemblage-level conservation. In a newly published perspective article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Belitz and his colleagues advocate for the ...