A new perspective published in Biological Diversity links plant functional traits to ecological resilience, offering a more ...

How do we decide which species to favor and which to spurn? The law protects dwindling populations of snail darters, but does it apply to nature's creatures that we consider pests, like weeds, or ...

image: A study led by Princeton University illustrates this challenge by using several different approaches to solve the same puzzle: Given a target amount of food, where should new croplands be put ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --Scientists in South Africa have identified an effective way to accurately measure biodiversity on a global scale. Biodiversity is prized by ecologists and conservationists, but global ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

Life above ground depends on the soil and its countless inhabitants. Yet, global strategies to protect biodiversity have so far paid little attention to this habitat. Researchers call for greater ...

Pension funds and other investors representing €6 trillion ($6.5 trillion) in assets have called for the creation of a framework to measure biodiversity impact. The 128.4 billion Danish kroner ($18.6 ...

Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

A new article shows how Essential Biodiversity Variables can be produced to measure biodiversity change at a global scale. A new paper co-authored by a group of international scientists, among them ...

This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. Katie Critchlow, CEO NatureMetrics Ltd, talks about how the collection of ...

Deadwood is a key indicator for measuring forest biodiversity. This will be one of the possible sub-indicators to be used in the BioMonitor data platform and model toolbox to measure biodiversity in ...