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  • Ecosystem Services: the Role of Pollinators

    Pollinator Lesser Long-nosed Bats (Leptonycteris curasoae). Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, other insects, birds and mammals such as bats, play a fundamental role in maintaining ecosystem functionality and biodiversity. They facilitate…

  • Habitat Restoration

    Overview of a coastal restoration approach, as discussed in Waltham et al., 2020. Human activities such as urbanization, intensive agriculture, deforestation, overgrazing, pollution and climate change are the major drivers…

  • Urban Ecology and Green Infrastructure Planning

    Urban areas profoundly transform landscapes and ecological processes. Cities present unique ecological challenges, including habitat fragmentation, pollution, heat islands, and altered hydrology. Urban ecology, the study of interactions between living…

  • Bridging policy and practice: The ISO Biodiversity standard is here!

    After decades of advocacy for biodiversity and ecosystem protection, driven by growing awareness of their critical role in sustaining life, economies, and climate stability, there is now a unifying technical…

  • The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

    Biodiversity loss has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. The continued degradation of ecosystems, the accelerated extinction of species, and the disruption of ecological…