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Can conservation tillage and reduced irrigation promote sustainability in agroecosystems through lowering nitrous oxide emissions? A synthesis
The agriculture sector is a major producer of greenhouse gases. To successfully transition to a green economy, we should further optimise agriculture practices so that we offset emissions while preserving crop...
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Open AccessNature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan grassland ecosystems possess significant carbon sink potential and have room for improved carbon sequestration processes. There is a need to uncover more ambitious and coherent solutions (e.g., Nat...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the social impacts of enforcement activities on illegal wildlife trade in China
Illegal wildlife trade enforcement is a cornerstone conservation strategy worldwide, yet we have a limited understanding on its social impacts. Using Chinese online wildlife seizure news (2003–2018), we evalua...
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Possible negative consequences of a wildlife trade ban
The COVID-19 outbreak has stimulated calls for a global wildlife trade ban. Such actions may only partially curb pandemic risk while negatively affecting people who depend on wildlife. More worryingly, they ma...
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Build up conservation research capacity in China for biodiversity governance
To achieve the grand vision of ‘Ecological Civilization’ and to build a more sustainable Belt and Road Initiative, China’s conservation policies must be underpinned by research. However, recent institutional a...
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Building sustainability into the Belt and Road Initiative’s Traditional Chinese Medicine trade
A little-known aim of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is ‘people-to-people cultural exchange’, including active promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in BRI countries. On a global scale, this ...
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Greening peace in Colombia
As peace consolidates in Colombia, can biodiversity survive development? We discuss challenges and opportunities for integrating forest biodiversity conservation into develo**, war-dilapidated economies of p...
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Open AccessAvian responses to an extreme ice storm are determined by a combination of functional traits, behavioural adaptations and habitat modifications
The extent to which species’ traits, behavior and habitat synergistically determine their response to extreme weather events (EWE) remains poorly understood. By quantifying bird and vegetation assemblages befo...
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Open AccessMeta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects
Land use science has traditionally used case-study approaches for in-depth investigation of land use change processes and impacts. Meta-studies synthesize findings across case-study evidence to identify genera...
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Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world
Climate change is a threat to human societies and natural ecosystems, yet public opinion research finds that public awareness and concern vary greatly. Here, using an unprecedented survey of 119 countries, we ...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
Nature 478, 378–381 (2011); doi:10.1038/nature10425 We identified a conversion error in some of the biodiversity values used in our meta-analysis. The meta-analysis requires both mean and standard deviation va...
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Global perceptions of local temperature change
Research based on a survey across 89 countries demonstrates that individuals who live in places with rising average temperatures are more likely than others to perceive local warming. The study also suggests t...
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Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
Primary tropical forests sustain the majority of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity, but they have faced considerable degradation, and in many locations have been replaced by agriculture, plantations and seconda...
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Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks
Garnering support from local people is critical for maintaining ecologically viable and functional protected areas. However, empirical data illustrating local people’s awareness of the importance of nature’s s...
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The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity
Southeast Asia is a region of conservation concern due to heavy losses of its native habitats. In this overview, we highlight the conservation importance of Southeast Asia by comparing its degree of species en...
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Insect extinctions on a small denuded Bornean island
We report odonate and butterfly extinctions on Pulau Mengalum (Sabah) between 1928 and 2007. Pulau Mengalum has lost all of its closed-canopy forest; 55.5% of the odonates and 40% of the butterflies present in...
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Artificial nest and seed predation experiments on tropical southeast Asian islands
Southeast Asia is rapidly losing native habitats and the consequences of this are poorly understood. Because habitat loss and disturbance can affect avian and seed survivorship, we conducted artificial nest an...
